Library of facilitation techniques

Improv Workshop Activities

Featured Author – International Association of Facilitators

IAF is a worldwide community of facilitators promoting excellence in the use of professional group process facilitation to create engagement and impact.

IAF International Association of Facilitators
Learn more Learn more
13 results
Liberating Structures

Mad Tea

Mad Tea quickly provokes a deeper set of reflections and strategic insights among group members. The questions focus attention and produce a fresh understanding of strategic options and next steps. Participants form two circles, one inside the other.

Each person faces one other person and completes an open-ended sentence in less than 30 seconds. When time is up, participants are invited to move to their right so that they are in front of someone else to complete the next sentence, and so on. In a seriously fun way, the unfinished sentences focus attention on every individual and the group answering tough questions together (e.g., If we do nothing, the worst thing that can happen for us is…).

Jacob Noon

Wo, Wer, Wie und Warum-Schlange

Die Teilnehmenden bilden paarweise eine Schlange und improvisieren in Zweierteams eine kurze Szene, in der sie schnell die Fragen „Wo sind wir?“, „Wer sind wir?“, „Wie stehen wir zueinander?“ und „Warum ist das interessant?“ beantworten. Nach jeder Szene wechseln die Teams.