One - Two - Four Dialogue
This is a structured discussion activity for exploring a topic by answering questions in three different set-ups: individually, in pairs and in teams.
Library of facilitation techniques
Workshop activities to Analyse, Understand and Innovate
Tools and techniques to analyse and understand complex situations, to unleash creativity and to discover new insights. Make sure your group explores the situation at hand and all participants get a thorough understanding before moving on to make decisions.
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Open Space Technology
Open Space is a methodology for large groups to create their agenda discerning important topics for discussion, suitable for conferences, community gatherings and whole system facilitation
Brick Wall and Starry Heavens
The closing evaluation of a program.
Journalists
This is an exercise to use when the group gets stuck in details and struggles to see the big picture. Also good for defining a vision.
3D Modelling – Personal
3D Modelling is a physical process. Participants create a sculpture that represents their current situation and the emerging possibilities of their work and life.
The process prompts questions from four vantage points, allowing for 360-degree seeing and sensing of an emerging future. The power of the practice lies in participants relying on their hands, rather than on habitual ways of thinking, to discover new insights.
Free Time
To explore how it feels to be excluded—and to be excluding.
The Thing from the Future
Help a group to time-travel and tap their imagination by fictional objects.
With tangible objects and the stories your participants make up w/ them you'll get so much richer inputs and context to inform joint visioning / strategizing:
The future doesn't look that far away when you can pick it off the shelf.
Force Field Analysis
Evaluate the factors that will either support or hinder a change in an organisation or entity.
Stakeholder Interviews
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.
Back to Back
This is an energetic improv game that can be used anytime during a training session. My favourite time to use it is at the end of a session for debriefing.
Participants pair up and stand back-to-back. The facilitator asks a question. The participants turn around and face each other and take turns sharing their responses.
Participants from Hell
This is a structured sharing activity that enables us to explore techniques for handling participants who disrupt interactive training sessions.
Different teams receive envelopes labeled with different types of disruptive participants. Participants brainstorm guidelines for handling disruptive behaviours, record the guidelines on a card, and place the card inside the envelope.
Teams rotate the envelopes and generate guideline cards for handling other types of disruptive participants. During the evaluation round, team members review the guideline cards generated by other teams and identify the top five suggestions.
Breaking News
De Breaking News oefening laat studenten reflecteren op de aannames en implicaties van een bepaalde theorie.
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