Library of facilitation techniques

Fun activation with serious background

Writing with empathy is all about inhabiting the shoes (or paws) of something that is not yourself. In this exercise, we ask participants to imagine the perspective of a fox and then write from the point of view of the fox.

The Make a World game appeals to visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners because of its layers of interaction. It’s useful (and downright fun) because it lets players imagine the future and take action to create a first version of it. All successful ventures start with a vision and some small, initial effort toward crystallization. Alexander Graham Bell’s vision for the telephone started as highly rudimentary sketches.

This is a fun icebreaker or energizer! Great for laughs and energy, the shedding of stress, status and roles.

Moonball is a fun challenge to create team-work an encourage strategic thinking and resilience with the participants.

This exercise is ideal for editing written content in a hands-on way. A simple and effective exercise for editing workshop content or presentation text for talks. Use it when you have to write for a specific audience and want them to stay focused on the most important information.

The activity is aimed so that community or group grows closer and forms bonds through listening to each other's hearts.

Film producer and innovator Walt Disney used to think-up and refine ideas by breaking the process into three distinct chunks.

Plan several stations in your area. Each station will present a ethical dilemma. Participants are traveling in groups and falling to smaller groups as they are choosing different answers. In the end, they all arrive to the final. The reflection is focused on their decision-making process.