Library of facilitation techniques

A Japanese concept that translates roughly as your reason for being; the sweet spot where four core dimensions of a meaningful life overlap: what you love, what you’re good at, what the world needs, and what you can be paid for.

Note: While the naming for this exercise is a bit off from it’s original meaning, it is the name under which this concept is known.

This exercise guides participants through a structured 4-circle Venn diagram reflection to explore these four life dimensions, identify overlaps, and uncover areas to develop toward a meaningful, purpose-driven life. Ideal for personal development, career coaching, or team wellbeing sessions.

A personal reflection activity designed to help individuals discover their core strengths and intentionally apply them in daily life. Using one's strengths is proven to enhance well-being, boost confidence, and increase motivation.

This short but powerful exercise helps participants reflect on their talents and brainstorm meaningful ways to use them more regularly.

Note: You can also replace the first with a quick brainstorm to name 3-5 their strengths, without the list, and it will make a full exercise very short - 3 minutes or so - yet still effective.

Ideal for self-coaching, wellbeing programs, and strengths-based personal development.

Year Compass is a very well-designed self-reflection and planning tool that helps teams and individuals to review the past year with mindfulness and intention, and set meaningful goals for the year ahead.

The Team Canvas is Business Model Canvas for teamwork. It is an effective technique to facilitate getting teams aligned about their goals, values and purposes, and help team members find their role on the team.

Die Teilnehmenden reflektieren ihre Alltagsaufgaben, ordnen sie nach Wichtigkeit und Dringlichkeit ein und erleben durch körperliche Bewegung im Raum, wie Priorisierung und Perspektivwechsel gemeinsam entstehen können.

1. What did we set out to do?
2. Did we achieve it?

• If yes, what helped us achieve it (people, processes, etc.)
• If not, what would have helped us achieve it?
  
  

3. What did we do well?

4. Opportunities for change?

5. What are we learning?

6. Insights based on this experience.

7. What to take forward?

Wizard's Boon is a quick, energizing activity that encourages group presence and invites participants to consider how they might collaborate more effectively in the session ahead.

A collective witnessing practice where participants anonymously name truths they are carrying and then the group then takes turns physically and verbally “holding” one another’s truths, building shared understanding, acceptance, empathy, and surfacing patterns in the group.

Exercise to help participants introduce themselves in more unique and personal ways

You can tap a deep well of curiosity and talent by helping a group focus attention on problems they want to solve. A productive pattern of engagement is established if used at the beginning of a working session. Loose yet powerful connections are formed in 20 minutes by asking engaging questions. Everyone contributes to shaping the work, noticing patterns together, and discovering local solutions.

De spiegel-oefening

„The Debate“ ist eine strukturierte Methode, bei der ein Thema aus zwei entgegengesetzten Perspektiven (Option A vs. Option B) betrachtet wird. Ziel ist es, die Weisheit beider Seiten zu erkennen, zu lernen, und letztlich eine Entscheidung zu treffen.