Library of facilitation techniques

A scale upon which to measure participants' levels of agreement with a given statement or course of action.

The purpose of a retrospective is to reflect on the process of the team’s collaboration, rather than on the content of work itself. This opening icebreaker helps participants to get in a reflective mood and share their thoughts and feelings.

1. Remain a victim 
2. Reframe it / change perspective 
3. Change it
4. Accept it
5. Leave it 

Understand your users day-to-day. To better design for people, try shadowing them for a day. By observing someone in their own context, you'll notice details about their life - the way they engage with people, pr their routine - that you'd otherwise never see.

The group tells made-up fortunes inspired by a random gif

A quick and effective activity to energize your group at a virtual meeting by adapting the Mexican Wave to an online setting.

A method to create transparency around team roles and issues

Invite participants to identify and reflect on which parts of their identities they bring into regular interactions.

Sometimes it can be difficult to keep a meeting on track when people have a hard time staying focused at the right level. People can find themselves “down in the weeds” or operational details when the meeting is supposed to be strategic, or, conversely, they can find themselves being too abstract and strategic when operational detail is exactly what’s needed.

Dragon Dreaming is a process for creating and achieving collective dreams, which involves four phases: dreaming, planning, doing, and celebrating.