Library of facilitation techniques

A quick drawing activity to better understand neurodiversity.

This activity is a perfect holiday-themed icebreaker or energizer that combines creativity, quick thinking, and festive cheer. It encourages engagement, collaboration, and lighthearted fun, making it ideal for team-building, holiday parties, or virtual gatherings. By using emojis, it taps into visual problem-solving skills while keeping the atmosphere playful and inclusive.

Use Craig Raine's poem A Martian Sends a Postcard Home to spur creative thinking and encourage perspective shifting in a group. After a warm-up, you can then use this martian perspective to describe your product or service and gain new insights and ideas.

Draw circles up in the air with the index finger and observe the way the direction of the circles changes, as we change the vantage point.

This activity supports participants to reflect on a question and generate their own solutions using simple principles of active listening and peer coaching. It’s an excellent introduction to active listening but can also be used with groups that are already familiar with it. Participants work in groups of three and take turns being: “the subject”, the listener, and the observer.

Door deze activiteit maken studenten kennis met andermans discipline en de bijbehorende sterke en zwakke punten.

Wise Crowds make it possible to instantly engage a small or large group of people in helping one another. You can set up a Wise Crowds consultation with one small group of four or five people or with many small groups simultaneously or, during a larger gathering, with a group as big as one hundred or more people. Individuals, referred to as “clients,” can ask for help and get it in a short time from all the other group members. Each individual consultation taps the expertise and inventiveness of everyone in the group simultaneously. Individuals gain more clarity and increase their capacity for self-correction and self-understanding. Wise Crowds develop people’s ability to ask for help. They deepen inquiry and consulting skills. Supportive relationships form very quickly. During a Wise Crowds session, the series of individual consultations makes the learning cumulative as each participant benefits not only from being a client but also from being a consultant several times in a row. Wise Crowds consultations make it easy to achieve transparency. Together, a group can outperform the expert!

Team energiser for a virtual classroom or web conference meeting