Library of facilitation techniques

Get to know your group with a fun, physical game where teams take turns being human puppets and puppeteers.

establish pattern of passing within the group
pass a category of items on that pattern. 
Then establish a new pattern, add new categories, run both at the same time.

A simple game that will have everyone running within minutes. Very effective to fight the "after-lunch" dip.

Easy and fun ways to review content or atmosphere at the end or in between group activity, in 2 minutes.

A fun, physical activity designed to help a group work on communication, problem solving, to understand roles of leader and follower within the group.

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.

In eighteen minutes, teams must build the tallest free-standing structure out of 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The marshmallow needs to be on top.

The Marshmallow Challenge was developed by Tom Wujec, who has done the activity with hundreds of groups around the world. Visit the Marshmallow Challenge website for more information. This version has an extra debriefing question added with sample questions focusing on roles within the team.

Participants at a training session are often preoccupied with other important things in their life. Here's a simple jolt to wake them up.