Our strategic team building activities to work on inclusion

Sport for All – Breaking Barriers Together

“In May 2026, our team travelled to Szigetszentmárton, Hungary, to take part in the Erasmus+ Youth Exchange “Sport for All – Breaking Barriers Together”, hosted by the Budapest Association for International Sports.

Together with 44 young people from Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Romania and Spain, we spent 9 days exploring inclusive and adaptive sport, discussing diversity and equal access, and learning how to make physical activity truly available to everyone.

One of the highlights of the exchange was a game design challenge — participants worked in international groups to create their own team-building activities around themes like communication, trust, inclusion and diversity. Each game was designed to work for mixed abilities, with no special equipment needed, and tested live with the whole group.

Below you will find some inclusion activities created during the project. We encourage you to try them, share them and adapt them for your own community.“

ADVENTURE CHALLENGE

The “Adventure challenge” activity is a mix between a treasure hunt and teamwork.

The groups must complete the proposed sports and inclusion-themed tasks. Points are earned through photos and videos, and the team with the highest score wins.

Teams are formed, and tasks are completed in any order, respecting the timer and the other teams. For each task, a photo or video is taken, and when the time is up, these are shown to the judges to determine who got the highest score.

The required materials are a phone for each team, a timer, speaker, score tracker, different objects for the tasks (ball, paper, pens etc).

An example of a task could be recreating an iconic movie scene.

At the end of the game, there is a reflection session to understand how to bring more inclusion into everyday life, along with other questions about the activity.

Here you can find the more detailed version of this diversity team building game. 

WAKA WAKA GAME

The “Waka Waka” activity is a game of strategy, sense of initiative, entrepreneurial spirit, team cohesion, and inclusion efforts.

The required materials are a ball, chairs, paper, and string, and, usually,  small groups of five people are formed.

The game promotes cooperation and inclusion and can enhance team dynamics, as teamwork is required to complete all the tasks and win the final prize. Three groups follow a circular path with physical games: the chair game, the rope game, the string game, and the bomb game. Each game provides a clue, and all the clues together reveal a final message. The message leads the players to a hidden prize chest.

• The chair game involves transporting the ball using chairs like a chain, but without touching the ball with your hands. If it drops, you start over from the beginning. Once this is done, participants have to match countries with their corresponding sports, such as Japan and Judo.

• The rope game features a maze made of obstacles like chairs, furniture, and ropes. After completing this, participants must find the letters that correspond to numbers to find the clue.

• The bomba game requires players to take turns passing through a minefield of squares. Every time someone steps on the wrong square, they start over from the beginning. The game ends when everyone has successfully crossed.

• Finally, there is the string game. Each team receives a set of scrambled letters, and the goal is to rearrange them to create words describing qualities and behaviors that a team should not have. This is how you get the last clue and solve the game to win the final prize.

This game strongly encourages cooperation and helps participants better promote diversity and inclusion and understand the importance of working as a team.

Here you can find a more detailed version of this diversity team building game. 

Andrea Oliveri