Library of facilitation techniques

Exercise to show that thinking in categories and principles is helpful and necessary and at the same time, these categories and principles should be checked on a regular basis.

Use this method if you would like to show the participants the importance of collaboration, team strategy and team effectiveness.

Dixit Braamcamp. Turning a boardgame into a co-design tool for citizen participation in local development

Stakeholder Interviews are conducted by practitioners with key stakeholders in their ecosystem, such as decision makers, team members, peers, or customers both within and outside an organization. The interviews allow you to step into the shoes of the interviewees and see their role through their eyes.

n a reflective teamwork activity (RTA), the process and the content merge with each other. Participants work through an activity and use the outcomes to evaluate the process they used. Here's an RTA that explores challenges associated with losing and gaining team members in the midst of a project.

Close eyes, then everyone looks across circle at another player and if they make eye contact they scream dramatically and leave the game.

Your Values is an exercise for participants to explore what their most important values are. It’s done in an intuitive and rapid way to encourage participants to follow their intuitive feeling rather than over-thinking and finding the “correct” values. It is a good exercise to use to initiate reflection and dialogue around personal values.

A person is in charge during a meeting to make cymbals sing when people deviate from the objective and the purpose of the meeting.