Library of facilitation techniques

Any creative endeavour can generate a certain amount of anxiety. The first step is always the hardest… has anyone not heard that before?

In his book ‘Being Creative’, Michael Avatar suggests that we draw inspiration from the Zen Buddhist idea of the 'beginner's mind' - where everything is beginning. In a beginner's mind there is possibility, openness, curiosity: all qualities that are useful for an exploration of creativity. This activity is a short, grounding ideation and exploration that taps into the beginner's mind.

This exercise can be used as a warm-up for project and other planning processes. It can also be used in team building.

Fun energiser to create energy and fun. Great to use after breaks such as lunch or coffee breaks.

Images have the ability to spark insights and to create new associations and possible connections. That is why pictures help generate new ideas, which is exactly the point of this exercise.

Creating a sentence relating to a specific topic or problem with each person contributing one word at a time.

Teams of 3. (See strategy section for discussion of different team sizes.) No limit to the number of teams other than what the organizer wants.

high energy partner activity

group game where one person sings in the middle and is tagged out 

Help get people into the mindset of exploring non-obvious futures

Players create a slide with their bodies and someone else explains what it is