Library of facilitation techniques

How to introduce yourself in a fun, creative way? Build a handshake!

Players get in groups of three and form a “house” with the end players raising their arms in a “roof” above the inside players. There are three commands that cause the players to move:

This format for brainstorming compresses the essentials of an ideation session into one short format. The numbers 3-12-3 refer to the amount of time in minutes given to each of three activities: 3 minutes for generating a pool of observations, 12 for combining those observations into rough concepts, and 3 again for presenting the concepts back to a group.

2 people make eye contact & then jump up and clap (or spin)

With this energizer the idea is to introduce the topic of listening in a group that is going to work together.

Impulse (also known as Pass the Pulse) is a great exercise for teamwork and breaking the ice at the same time.

Mindfulness of body is a foundational skill for Social Presencing Theater. And like any skill, we learn it through practice. The 20-minute Dance is a practice in which we pay attention to the feeling of the body, without thinking about it or judging it. We are not trying to fix or change or accomplish anything. We welcome every moment.

In small groups one person is introduced and their hypeman hypes them up

Fun energiser to create energy and fun. Great to use after breaks such as lunch or coffee breaks.

Each person describes how they are feeling in terms of a weather system.