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Purpose: To energise participants and help them win the “post-lunch syndrome”.
Time: 5/10 minutes.

Participants:		 Any number; works better with at least seven/eight participants.

Materials:		 - seven to fifteen (or more) Paper balls, depends on the number of trainees. (to prepare a paper ball use waste paper, like old newspapers. make balls out of it (10-15 cm diameter). Then, cover each ball with abundant tape. Alternatively, if you have balls you don’t need to make them.
Process:
I) Invite all participants to stand and form a circle.

II) Tell them that we are going to play a game that will help us to fight a terrible virus: the “post-lunch syndrome”. In order to save ourselves we will have to pass a ball one-another and say the name of the person we pass the ball to, while we do it.

III) You, as a trainer, demonstrate how to do it: take one ball, focus on one person in the circle, call his/her name and throw the ball at him/her. Ask him/her to do the same with another person in the circle. And so on.

IV) StatStart the play and let in increase in speed.

IV) Introduce a second ball into the circle and follow the same procedure. Gradually, introduce as many balls as possible into the circle. Let there be confusion (many balls circulating fast and everybody calling names).

V) End the game when you feel that trainees have recovered their energy and are ready for the following sessions.
Source: This activity has been taught me by Zlatko Malic, a terrific trainer from Sarajevo. Zlatko should still be working in Caritas Bosna i Hercegovina