Library of facilitation techniques

This exercise can be used as a warm-up for project and other planning processes. It can also be used in team building.

Organize the day's meeting by co-creating and assigning roles among participants.

Open your workshop / session / meeting with a visual check-in that enables people to be there as who they are and what's on their mind:

• Every participant selects a picture representing how they are
• Take turns sharing how this cards represents them/their mood/situation

Encourage team reflection in a fun and expressive way!

One person speaks gibberish and the other interprets

Use this method if you would like to show the participants the importance of collaboration, team strategy and team effectiveness.

A fun energizer that uses multiple senses.

Easy and fun way to review content or atmosphere at the end of a group activity (or in between) in 5 minutes.

Because a checklist is a focusing object, it demands that the team discuss the order and importance of certain tasks. Team members are likely to have different perspectives on these things, and the checklist is a means to bring these issues to the surface and work with them.

This is a modification of an interactive lecture activity that is transformed into a textra game. This activity can be inserted after participants finish reading a handout. It involves a poster preparation contest that taps into the listeners' linguistic and visual intelligences.

While it is admirable to share our gratitude and good feelings with others, we rarely stop to think about what giving others our gratitude can do for us. As it turns out, it does quite a lot for our brains, resilience, and mental well-being.