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Veronica Spagna

Into the Spiral

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.

Violeta Moran

Time-Lapse

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.

Silvie  Řmotová

Discover your dream job

Is a dream job an idea or a real thing we take seriously? The best way to check it is to challenge ourselved see a practical result. The activity gives the opportunity to confront ours expectation within practice.

Skye Suttie

Human Device

In this interactive, teams will come together to become a human version of the device listed on their index card. This activity is a means to build team dynamics and also a way to address any challenges a team might be working through as this activity is completely dependent on everyone coming together as a group and playing a part.

Alexandre Plennevaux

Debriefing: To keep / To change

2 columns on a wall, black board or white board. one with Header "To Keep", and the other "To Change".

Distribute post-its and markers.

Ask everyone to take 10 minutes to think about today, and identify What was to keep / To change ?? As many post-its as items.

Then sharing, one by one, explaining when necessary. Celebrate the "to keep", and

For the "what's to change", see if the group can commit to a solution for the next day.


CLAIRE BRUEL

Assign roles in a meeting

You assign some predefined roles to the meeting participants that will support the meeting.

Collaboration Tools

If you use Google Documents (slide, sheet, chat ...) on a shared drive, everybody has the same information at the same time. Modifications are easily notified for all. It then reduces massively the number of exchanges through emails. You just share the link. Use it as a very collaborative tool: ask people for their opinion by letting them to comment the document to really use the collective intelligence.

It is also a good way to capitalise knowledge and for example introduce a new team member. You can also check this Airbus Community: https://sites.google.com/airbus.com/collaborationmadeawesome/home?pli=1