Library of facilitation techniques

A teamwork focused spin on the classic game, Musical Chairs. Participants must come up with creative ways to keep everybody "in" as chairs are removed!

A simple, quick-thinking energizer played in a circle where players must respond with the correct hand gestures to stay in the game!

If curiosity and empathy can be a driver of creativity, there is no reason why they need be restricted to the observation of others. A range of technologies increasingly allow us to track, monitor and in doing so discover things about our own behaviours. Much of creativity is centred on making visible the invisible and for this reason spending time experimenting tools which allow us to do this may help us reflect on the potential for digital tools to be part of our creative toolbox.

• All participants build a circle sitting on a chair, one chair is missing and this person stands in the middle of the circle.
  

A fun way to discover the ingredients of an effective team

The activity is aimed to get in touch with our own body, inner rhythm as well as rise awareness of people around us.

Diese Übung ist gut geeignet, um Empathie zwischen den Teammitgliedern aufzubauen und jedem Teilnehmer ein tieferes Verständnis für die Hintergründe seiner Kollegen zu vermitteln (besonders geeignet für internationale Teams oder Remote-Teams). Sie schafft auch eine lockere Atmosphäre für den bevorstehenden Workshop.

Do It Yourself Pottery activity

The pottery offers a chance to meditate in a way that many people find easier than sitting still in a room and focusing on the breath. It is a relaxing, repetitive craft that can be done as a means of mindfulness. The combination of gentle recurrent hand motions and focus on the work is a stress-reducer and a path to being present in the here-and-now.

This writing activity has the purpose to look inside oneself, to connect with who've been, who we are and who we want to be in a future. It also brings the opportunity to change some aspects of that or how we experience things, changing completely the perspective of the first written text or poem.