How To Play The Insta-Date Game

Learn How To Play The Insta-Date Game For Events For Singles

The Insta-Date Game
by Frank Kermit

This is yet another group activity I created for one of my weekly workshops. Ideally used with mixed groups of single men and women in dating workshops. This one can be fun, and take time, but very useful for very shy and reluctant singles.


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and other exercises for singles,
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I'm a Man, That's My Job
and
I'm a Woman, It My Time

The Insta-Date Game

Insta-Date Definition:  A 10 minute conversation where the goal is for each person to learn 1 to 3 things about the other person, so that they can introduce the other person to a third person.


Ask the crowd a simple ask a question like,
"Who likes and has a (pet) ?"

Hands go up.

Pair up as many couples as you can.

They are now required to have a 10 minute Insta-date where the goal is to discover 1-3 things about the other person.

Those that did not get paired up,
are asked another simple question.

When hands go up, pair up as many couples as you can.

They start talking; they  already had a topic to start them off
(the topic they already have in common).


You are the organizer and now have a choice:

Your First Choice

 You can have 2 paired couple merge into a group of 4.  Each man has to talk to the other man about the 1-3 things he learned about the woman he spoke to for 10 min.   Each woman has to talk to the other woman about the man she spoke to for 10 min.  

This -Introduction- phase should take no more than 10 min (the same amount of time as an insta-date.

At the end of the -introduction- phase, the group of 4 breaks apart into couples again with the partners swapping from who they were originally speaking too.

Now the new Insta-date couple has already been introduced by a third party and knows a little something about each other.

Repeat this system, for about 1 hour and make sure that everyone gets to insta-date someone new each time.  After the hour is over you can move on to other games, or let the singles mingle.


You Second Choice

If you do not have enough people for everyone to be coupled up, then during the time that some people are insta-dating, give a workshop lesson about conversation tips for dating to the people attending. 

When the original insta-daters are done and re-join the group, ask another simple question and then you pair up a number of couples and send them to a part of the event space where they can insta-date, as you give more conversational tips for dating to those that did not get paired up.

Part of this method is to give specific easy to use conversational tips for dating that the attendees can use during an insta-date.

And if at any point during the workshop, you see a potential insta-date match up, assign them to insta-date immediately and re-join the group in 10 min.

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