Overview

Overview

Get to know your peers with these fun icebreaker questions! While you're here, learn more about The LEAD Program and ArgoWell.

2021-2022 Faculty & Staff L.E.A.D.

The L.E.A.D. Program (Leadership, Enhancement, Activities & Development) is a year-long leadership development program designed to help participants enhance their leadership skills, build relationships with people across campus and develop strategies to help them flourish as leaders and team players. 

The Project | For the first time in its history, the Faculty L.E.A.D. and Staff L.E.A.D. classes of 2021-2022 joined forces to participate in a collaborative team project: a Community Chalkboard & the ArgoWell Connection Deck. Their primary goal is to address student loneliness by creating a safe, welcoming space where students can develop a sense of community by accessing resources for meaningful connection.

(blue star) See photos and learn more about our project at the bottom of this page. (green star)

Staff

Amy Brewer
Kathy Butler
Wendi Davis
Zachary Farrington
Sharon Jordan

Staff

Timothy Moore
Jillian Mouser
Chelsea Scott
Grace Tennyson
Jamie Zielinski

Faculty

Pam Benz
David Earle
Keri Fogle
James Mead
Jamin Wells

On this page

Icebreaker Questions

Icebreaker Questions

About You

About You

  1. Are you a die-hard fan of any sports teams?
  2. Are you a good dancer?
  3. Are you an early bird or a night owl?
  4. Did you work this summer? What did you do?
  5. Do you have a hidden talent? What is it?
  6. Do you have any key chains, and if so, what do they mean to you?
  7. Have you ever had five minutes of fame? When? For what?
  8. If I visited your hometown, what local spots would you suggest I see?
  9. If you could change anything about yourself, what would it be?
  10. If you could eliminate one thing from your daily routine, what would it be and why?
  11. What current fact about your life would most impress your five year old self?
  12. What do you love but rarely buy for yourself?
  13. What do you think you were doing this time last year?
  14. What one thing (stuffed animal, blanket, etc.) did you carry around as a baby/young kid?
  15. What was your first job?
  16. What’s something on your bucket list?
  17. When you wake up, what is the very first thing you do?
Animals

Animals

  1. Are pets better than humans?
  2. Do you have any pets?
  3. If animals could talk, which would be the rudest?
  4. If you could shrink any animal to puppy-size, what animal would you own?
  5. What is your pet's name? Why?
  6. What is your spirit animal?
Family

Family

  1. Do you have any siblings?
  2. How many people are in your family?
  3. What is the most amazing story about your family?
  4. What is your favorite family tradition?
  5. What is the coolest thing your family’s ever done together?
Foodstuff

Foodstuff

  1. If you were only allowed to eat one food for the rest of your life, what would it be?
  2. Is a hot dog a sandwich?
  3. Is cereal soup?
  4. What food are you always running out of at home?
  5. What food do you think you can you cook better than anyone else?
  6. What food would you still not eat if it were your only chance of survival?
  7. What is your favorite midnight snack?
  8. What restaurant do you eat at way too often?
  9. What was your least favorite food as a child? Do you still hate it or do you love it now?
  10. What’s the best meal you’ve ever eaten?
  11. What’s the weirdest food you’ve ever eaten?
Globetrotting

Globetrotting

  1. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
  2. In your opinion, what is the prettiest place on Earth?
  3. What is the most bizarre encounter you have had in life (at work, personal, from travel, with friends)?
  4. What is your favorite thing to do when traveling to a new place
  5. What was your favorite vacation?
  6. Where’s the best place you’ve ever gone on vacation?
Digging Deeper

Digging Deeper

  1. On a scale of Eeyore to Tigger, how are you feeling today?
  2. What are you most anxious for this year?
  3. What are you most excited for this year?
  4. What are you passionate about?
  5. What compliment do people give you the most?
  6. What does happiness means to you?
  7. What is something about yourself you could totally brag about, but usually don’t?
  8. What is your biggest fear?
  9. What is your biggest worry?
  10. What thoughts instantly make you feel more relaxed?
  11. What type of people do you want to surround yourself with?
Pet Peeves

Pet Peeves

  1. What is your biggest pet peeve?
  2. What is your pet peeve in traffic?
  3. What's your biggest pet peeve around your apartment/dorm/house?
  4. Which bad habits of other people drive you crazy?
Media and Entertainment

Media and Entertainment

  1. Have you been to any concerts? Which ones?
  2. If you could be a participant in any game show, which would it be?
  3. If you could go on one reality show, what would it be?
  4. If you could have one song play every time you entered a room what would it be, and why?
  5. If you had to live in a fictional family on TV, which one would it be?
  6. If you had your own talk show what would it be about?
  7. If you were stranded on an island, what celebrity would you most want to be stranded there with you? Why?
  8. If you were to be sorted into a Hogwarts house, would you actually be placed in the house you would want to be placed in?
  9. If you were to write a book about yourself, what would you name it?
  10. In which television show’s world would you most want to live in?
  11. What band were you obsessed with in middle school?
  12. What book/movie/show can you watch over and over again without getting bored?
  13. What is the cheesiest movie you’ve ever seen?
  14. What is your all-time favorite song?
  15. What is your favorite book and how has it influenced your life?
  16. What movie do you think everyone should watch?
  17. What song always gets stuck in your head?
  18. What song could you never grow tired of listening to?
  19. What's the last book that you read?
  20. What’s your favorite genre of music?
  21. What’s your favorite show to binge watch?
  22. When scrolling through Instagram, do you prefer celebrity posts or ones from your friends?
  23. Which fictional character would be the most boring to meet in real life?
  24. Who was your childhood actor/actress crush?
Best and Worst

Best and Worst

  1. What do you pretend to hate but secretly love?
  2. What is the most beautiful thing you have ever seen in nature?
  3. What is the nicest thing someone has ever said to you?
  4. What is the worst gift you’ve ever received?
  5. What is the worst job you’ve ever had?
  6. What is your favorite holiday?
  7. What is your favorite ice cream flavor?
  8. What is your favorite kind of candy?
  9. What is your favorite noodle shape?
  10. What is your favorite part about your favorite holiday?

  11. What is your favorite season? Why?
  12. What is your favorite smell?
  13. What is your favorite sport to play? To watch?
  14. What is your favorite thing about yourself?
  15. What is your favorite word? Least favorite?
  16. What is your greatest achievement?
  17. What is your most valuable possession?
  18. What was your favorite Halloween costume growing up?
  19. What was your most embarrassing moment?
  20. What year of your life has been your favorite so far?
  21. What's the worst haircut you've ever had?
  22. What's your favorite type of conversation to have?
  23. What does your ideal weekend look like?
  24. What does your perfect day look like?
  25. What’s something that most people love but you hate? What’s something that you love that most people hate?
  26. What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?
  27. What’s the most interesting thing you’ve read or seen this week?
  28. What’s the most spontaneous thing you’ve ever done?
  29. What’s the silliest thing you’ve ever done as a dared?
  30. What’s your biggest screw up in the kitchen?
  31. What’s your least favorite day of the year?
  32. Which season of the year is your favorite and why?
Would you Rather...

Would you Rather

  1. If you could only meet one, would you rather meet your great-great grandparents or your great-great grandchildren?
  2. Would you rather be 2 feet tall or 20 feet tall?
  3. Would you rather be a master at every musical instrument or fluent in every language in the world?
  4. Would you rather be stranded on an island or in the mountains?
  5. Would you rather give up breakfast, lunch, or dinner…forever?
  6. Would you rather it be super hot all the time or super cold?
  7. Would you rather live forever in a roller coaster park or a zoo?
  8. Would you rather never be able to explain yourself correctly or always have to tell the exact truth?
  9. Would you rather only live in the daytime or nighttime?
  10. You can either leave your hometown forever or never leave your hometown. Which do you choose?
Peer to Peer

Peer to Peer

  1. Besides graduating, what is your number one goal for your remaining time in college?
  2. Describe the best instructor you've had so far.
  3. Name an imaginary college class you wish this school offered.
  4. What is an unwritten rule in the classroom that everyone knows anyway?
  5. What is one thing your peers would never guess about you?
  6. What is your best study tip?
  7. What is your major? If that wasn’t your major, what would your major be?
  8. What most surprised you when you first arrived on campus or first started classes at UWF?
  9. What’s the hardest part about learning virtually for you? The easiest
  10. What’s your number one tip for combating distractions when studying?

Just for Fun

Just for Fun

  1. 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s: Which decade do you love the most and why?
  2. Do you believe in Bigfoot?
  3. Do you put your cereal in the bowl before the milk or the milk in before the cereal?
  4. Do you read reviews before you do anything or go into it blindly?
  5. Does your current car have a name? What is it?
  6. Even numbers or odd numbers?
  7. Have you ever been told you look like someone famous, who was it?
  8. How can you change the course of history?
  9. How long would you last in a zombie apocalypse?
  10. If a movie was made of your life what genre would it be, who would play you?
  11. If aliens landed on earth tomorrow and offered to take you home with them, would you go?
  12. If humans started colonizing Mars, would you volunteer to move there? Why or why not?
  13. If teleportation were possible, where would you teleport first?
  14. If there were 25 hours in a day, what would you spend the 25th hour doing?
  15. If you could bring back any fashion trend what would it be?
  16. If you could go back in time and change history, what would you change? Why?
  17. If you could have an unlimited amount of one item, but only you could use the item, what would you pick?
  18. If you could have someone follow you around all the time, like a personal assistant, what would you have them do?
  19. If you could learn any skill, what would it be?
  20. If you could relive one day of your life, which day would you choose?
  21. If you found out you only had two weeks to live, what would you want to do? (Or cross off your bucket list?)
  22. If you had this week to do over again, what would you do differently?
  23. If you had to eat one meal everyday for the rest of your life what would it be?
  24. If you were a superhero, what would your super-name be? What would your superpower be?
  25. If you were a wrestler what would be your entrance theme song?
  26. If you were famous, what would you be famous for?
  27. If you were given a one-minute ad slot during the Super Bowl that you couldn’t sell, what would you fill it with?
  28. If you were left on a deserted island with either your worst enemy or no one, which would you choose? Why?
  29. If you were running for office what would your campaign slogan be?
  30. If you won the lottery but only had one day to spend the money, what would you buy?
  31. If your house caught on fire, what would be the one thing you’d save?
  32. Is there an app you hate, but you still use it anyway?
  33. Is there anything you absolutely refuse to do under any circumstances?
  34. The zombie apocalypse is coming, who are 3 people you want on your team?
  35. What did you name your first car?
  36. What do you take everywhere with you? (besides your phone and wallet)
  37. What do you think is the greatest invention in your lifetime and why?
  38. What do you think our ancestors expected us to figure out by now?
  39. What five things would you take with you during the zombie apocalypse and why?
  40. What fruit or vegetable would you most want to be?
  41. What is a saying or expression that you probably say too much?
  42. What is a weird habit that you have?
  43. What is one article of clothing that someone could wear that would make you walk out on a date with them?
  44. What is one big problem you've been forced to solve this year?
  45. What is one thing in your life that you couldn’t live without? (besides your phone or computer)
  46. What is something you are secretly very knowledgeable about?
  47. What is the most unusual thing in your wallet, pocket, purse, or backpack right at this moment?
  48. What is the strangest way you’ve been injured?
  49. What is your cellphone wallpaper?
  50. What is your funniest “first world problem?”
  51. What is your go-to in a game of rock, paper, scissors?
  52. What is your guilty pleasure?
  53. What is your most used emoji?
  54. What is your spirit kitchen appliance?
  55. What one invention would you uninvent and why?
  56. What ridiculous thing has someone tricked you into believing?
  57. What season would you be?
  58. What style decisions do you regret from your middle school days?
  59. What talent have you always wished you had, but don’t?
  60. What was the worst haircut you ever had?
  61. What was the worst style choice you ever made?
  62. What was your New Year’s Resolution this year?
  63. What will finally break the internet?
  64. What would be the most surprising scientific discovery imaginable?
  65. What would be your ideal superpower?
  66. What would you go viral for on the Internet?
  67. What would you name your boat if you owned one?
  68. What’s the closest thing to real magic?
  69. What’s the most embarrassing fashion trend you used to rock?
  70. What’s the most out-of-character thing you’ve ever done?
  71. What’s your favorite sandwich and why?
  72. When's the last time you didn't tell the truth?
  73. Who is the most interesting stranger you've ever had the chance to meet?
  74. Would you go with aliens if they beamed down to Earth?
  75. You can have an unlimited supply of one thing for the rest of your life, what is it?
  76. You have to sing karaoke, what song do you pick?
  77. You have your own late night talk show, who do you invite as your first guest?

The Deck

Community Chalkboard & ArgoWell Connection Deck

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Connection deck and community chalkboard

Connection deck

Connection deck

Connection deck tables with conversation prompts

Connection deck tables with conversation prompts

Connection deck tables with conversation prompts

About

A safe, welcoming space where students can develop a sense of community by accessing resources for meaningful connection while discovering multiple dimensions of holistic wellness.

To reserve the ArgoWell Connection Deck, visit EMS Web Reservations through your my.uwf.edu or call 850.474.2809.

Values

Connectedness - Promote a sense of wellbeing, support, and belonging through meaningful connection with fellow students and the University community

Caring - Maintain a safe, student-centered environment that fosters holistic growth and development

Inclusiveness - Welcome, respect, and celebrate the diversity inherent in all people and create an environment where all students can flourish

Collaboration - Promote a culture of supportive interactions and communication to advance and achieve shared expectations and goals

Integrity - Utilize best practices and data sources to prioritize health on our campus

ArgoWell

ArgoWell is a UWF campus-wide initiative that brings student wellness to the forefront. This initiative aims to provide education, resources, tools and programming to enhance vital areas of your well-being such as mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health.

Dimensions of Wellness

Wellness means so much more than physical health, weight management, nutrition and exercise. True wellness is a holistic integration of eight interdependent dimensions of well-being:

  1. Emotional
  2. Environmental
  3. Financial
  4. Intellectual
  5. Occupational
  6. Physical
  7. Social
  8. Spiritual