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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

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.

Erica Marx

Standard debrief Framework

  1. What did we set out to do?
  2. Did we achieve it?
  • If yes, what helped us achieve it (people, processes, etc.)
  • If not, what would have helped us achieve it?

3. What did we do well?

4. Opportunities for change?

5. What are we learning?

6. Insights based on this experience.

7. What to take forward?

Mirna Smidt  from Trainers Toolbox

Strengths Spotting

Strengths Spotting is a reflective coaching exercise in which participants uncover personal strengths by engaging in deep, meaningful conversation with a partner. Using guiding questions, each person interviews the other and listens for clues about their natural talents, motivations, and flow states.

This coaching-style activity boosts self-awareness and is particularly useful in personal development, team-building, or coaching sessions.

Erica Marx

Truth holding

A collective witnessing practice where participants anonymously name truths they are carrying and then the group then takes turns physically and verbally “holding” one another’s truths, building shared understanding, acceptance, empathy, and surfacing patterns in the group.

Therese Barbato

About Me

Exercise to help participants introduce themselves in more unique and personal ways