Library of facilitation techniques

Vision Workshop Activities

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Gamestorming methods

Make A World

The Make a World game appeals to visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners because of its layers of interaction. It’s useful (and downright fun) because it lets players imagine the future and take action to create a first version of it. All successful ventures start with a vision and some small, initial effort toward crystallization. Alexander Graham Bell’s vision for the telephone started as highly rudimentary sketches.

Erica Marx

Guardian Angel

In small groups people transform into their own Guardian Angels and share how they will be taking care of their 'client' during an upcoming situation. 

Suzanne  Whitby

Futures Wheel

The Futures Wheel is a structured tool that helps groups explore the ripple effects of change. Starting from one event or trend, participants map out first-order consequences, and then expand outward into second- and third-order impacts. It encourages systems thinking and helps uncover both obvious and unexpected outcomes.

Mirna Smidt  from Trainers Toolbox

Best Possible Self

Best Possible Self is a reflective visualization and journaling exercise coming from positive psychology that puts in the spotlight participants' positive orientation towards themselves and their best characteristics.
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invites participants to imagine themselves in the future, living their most fulfilling and meaningful life; a life aligned with their values, strengths, and passions.

This activity helps boost optimism, motivation, positive perspective towards self and clarity on values.
It is great in the context of personal development, coaching, goal-setting, personal strengths or wellbeing workshops, as it encourages participants to make a vivid and inspiring picture of their ideal self and to consider what daily actions might help bring that vision closer to reality.
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can be followed by e.g. step-by-step plan towards that future, or goal-setting exercise.

Mirna Smidt  from Trainers Toolbox

Ideal Day - Design Your Perfect Average Day

Perfect Day is a reflective writing exercise that helps participants visualize and design their ideal future lifestyle.
By imagining a single “perfect average day” five years from now, they explore what truly makes them happy & what is important to them across work, relationships, health, and adventures.

This activity guides participants to dream big without limitations.
The outcome is a vivid, detailed description of a day that reflects their most authentic, joyful life.

Mirna Smidt  from Trainers Toolbox

Rocking Chair Exercise to discover your life goals, values and purpose

The Rocking Chair Exercise is a guided visualization activity that is designed for deep life reflection and thinking about what truly matters to oneself, through future-oriented thinking.
Participants imagine themselves at the age of 90, sitting peacefully on a porch in a rocking chair, reflecting back on a meaningful and fulfilling life.
They are prompted to explore the people, achievements, strengths, and moments that brought them joy and purpose, and to identify what they want their legacy to be.
The exercise then can be taken into diverse directions: What are your life goals/missing? What can you start doing today to make this future a reality? But also what are your values based on the insights from the exercise, or what truly matters to you in life.
This powerful tool focuses on long-term visioning and values-based goal setting, making it ideal for coaching, leadership development, or personal growth workshops.