Library of facilitation techniques

Add bowls full of questions to the coffee break or lunch tables during your event to encourage people to deepen their connections.

Tsunami Monkeys is a team-building game designed to enhance communication, trust, and problem-solving skills. It simulates a survival scenario where groups with different abilities—speaking, blind, and mute—must collaborate to overcome a common challenge: crossing an "ocean" to reach safety.

warm-up activity from Rachel Davis via AJ&Smart

If you are working with a team or company that already has a list of values, and are looking for a dynamic activity to refresh participants' knowledge and understanding of those values, look no further. By using embodied and spatial knowledge, this activity will make values basically unforgettable for all involved.

This activity opens up the conversation and makes visible the need to gain a broader perspective of issues in order to effectively explore and address them. What we individually know and experience is important, what we can’t see is just as important in understanding a complex issue.

Empathy is a concept that many people understand in broad strokes, but it can be confusing or daunting to use empathy with others. Participants will be able to identify how empathy shows up in the body and the mind, become more familiar and comfortable with what it looks like to practice empathy, and explore a creative medium as a way of connecting and relating to others with empathy.

The Way of Council

This exercise will help develop 'systems intelligence' with a view to being able to influence people in the right direction and in the right way.

In order to understand influencing, we have to better understand how organisations and ‘change’ really works. Otherwise we may be influencing for the wrong outcomes.

Stakeholder Interviews are conducted by practitioners with key stakeholders in their ecosystem, such as decision makers, team members, peers, or customers both within and outside an organization. The interviews allow you to step into the shoes of the interviewees and see their role through their eyes.

Container Building is the process of creating a safe space for a group or a team by establishing both trust and ground rules for engagement.

With this energizer the idea is to introduce the topic of listening in a group that is going to work together.