Library of facilitation techniques

The whole group imagines it is walking around on a plate balancing on a single fulcrum. Each person is partnered with another and must keep the plate balanced.

Director calls out a scene location (ie. movie theater) and everyone assumes a non-human item in the scene (ie. wad of bubble gum on the floor)

play tug of war with imaginary rope with partners (or whole team)

Players get in groups of three and form a “house” with the end players raising their arms in a “roof” above the inside players. There are three commands that cause the players to move:

facilitation short cuts
list of ways to instruct how to pair / group up
quickly decide which partner goes first

In 2 groups: One group is clay, and they close their eyes. The other group are sculptors.The sculptors build one sculpture out of all the `clay` players.

One player 'sculpts' another player like clay

One player creates obstacles that a second player must navigate

Whole group forms silent sculpture and then steps out with their takeaways

Partners give gifts to each other. Receiver is delighted to receive the gift.

Stand in circle. Each person gives a SCES around the circle.  

in pairs people enthusiastically create new idioms