Celebrate the wins in your team
A positive and uplifting icebreaker that encourages team members to reflect on achievements, recognize each other’s contributions, and build a culture of appreciation.
Library of facilitation techniques
Opening Workshop Activities
Tools and techniques activities to effectively kick-off a meeting, workshop or training session.
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Methods (72)
Walkabout
The connection between walking and enhanced creativity has a long history. The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1889) wrote, “All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking”. New research has backed up what many have thought for centuries with data, quantifying the effect of walking on human thought. Researchers at Stanford recently found that walking outside led to almost 3 times as many creative ideas as sitting indoors.
Birthday Roundup!
Birthday Roundup is a get-to-know game in which participants act out simple activities that has to be repeated by other members of the group. It may also be used for learning names.
Container Building
Container Building is the process of creating a safe space for a group or a team by establishing both trust and ground rules for engagement.
Partner choices / Forming Groups / Who goes first
facilitation short cuts
list of ways to instruct how to pair / group up
quickly decide which partner goes first
Let's Count
The goal of the activity is for an entire room to try to count to the number 10—out loud—one number at a time, with one person speaking at a time, without anyone talking over someone else.
Climate Reading
Vote with your feet exercise to set up insightful conversations and activities
Name und was mach ich gerne
Use the exercise at, or very near, the start of a course, workshop or meeting where people don't know each other as it helps to learn names of each other
Name + motion
Say your name + a motion, group repeats
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