Virtual Workshop Activities

"ice melter" to connect participants in small groups around something unusual they have in common (created by Jan Keck, of Ask Deep Questions)

Everyone covers their camera and one person makes a statement that is true about themselves. If it is true for others on the call, they show their face to the camera as well. The initiation for the next prompt is passed to another person in the group.

Quick icebreaker to find commonalities among a group. Many facilitators from different organizations have contributed to this exercise as written.

In pairs, each person gives a "magical" gift to their partner that relates to what their partner has shared with them. 

People take turns sharing how they feel and stating what they do when they feel the way someone else is feeling. 

With a partner, find the 3 most unlikely / unusual / unique things you have in common with each other.  Each pair chooses one to share with the group. 

One person is designated as the leader.  Others copy exactly how the leader moves.  The leader calls on a new person to be the leader, and so on. Follow the follower variation is when the leading gets passed to the entire group and no single person is leading.

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

Everyone plays tag, using breakout rooms in Zoom

Brief active response during a presentation or (shudder) lecture, can take 2 minutes or 10, can be silent or voiced.

People compare something (e.g. themselves, their company, their team) to an object.  

Using the chat in zoom, participants share ideas / challenges and then additions / solutions.