Library of facilitation techniques

using defamiliarzation is one of the best ways of drawing attention of people, posing problems and making them contemplate about the problem in hand. hence this brief activity is a

Reach a consensus by grouping user stories according to scope.

Distribute participants in space (or if online, on a whiteboard) to quickly capture some aspects of the group: where are participants from? How familiar are they with the topic? What are their backgrounds?

Come up with the world's worst way to approach something. Play as a game and/or use to generate productive ideas

Establish pattern to pass in a circle. Create a category that each person has a contribution (ie. breakfast cereals). Add another category. 

A process for understanding a complex problem situation

A brainstorming technique to generation product promotion ideas

The Six Thinking Hats are used by individuals and groups to separate out conflicting styles of thinking. They enable and encourage a group of people to think constructively together in exploring and implementing change, rather than using argument to fight over who is right and who is wrong.

Everyone plays tag, using breakout rooms in Zoom

Participants attempt to count to 20, saying the numbers in a random order without repeating any.