Library of facilitation techniques

A quick and effective activity to energize your group at a virtual meeting by adapting the Mexican Wave to an online setting.

A method to create transparency around team roles and issues

The "Release & Recharge" activity effectively combines physical movement, stress reduction, creativity enhancement, inclusivity, mindfulness, personal connection, and joy—all crucial elements for an impactful icebreaker in various workshop settings.

To collectively produce the team Vision in image(s)

Invite participants to identify and reflect on which parts of their identities they bring into regular interactions.

Sometimes it can be difficult to keep a meeting on track when people have a hard time staying focused at the right level. People can find themselves “down in the weeds” or operational details when the meeting is supposed to be strategic, or, conversely, they can find themselves being too abstract and strategic when operational detail is exactly what’s needed.

Dragon Dreaming is a process for creating and achieving collective dreams, which involves four phases: dreaming, planning, doing, and celebrating.

Quick icebreaker to find commonalities among a group. Many facilitators from different organizations have contributed to this exercise as written.

In pairs in front of the class to demonstrate, then everyone.

Offers insights into the needs that different team members have for information and detail, how people like to work in either a structured or unstructured approach to problem solving and change, and how quickly and slowly people are willing to move ahead with a plan based on how much they know and understand about the solution.

This is a quick final closing activity that leaves a group with a quick adrenelin boost. You could use it at any time as an energiser, although I usually use it to close an event.

An activity to get to know each other- from a different perspective, as children