Library of facilitation techniques

This is a simple drama game in which participants take turns asking each other “What are you doing?” and acting out the various responses. Though simple, it engages the imagination and gently challenges participants out of their comfort zone by having them mime a range of different actions.

A speculative prompt-based activity that encourages participants to explore alternative futures by asking bold or unexpected "what if" questions. This method invites imaginative thinking and helps loosen assumptions about how the future has to unfold.

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