Library of facilitation techniques

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.

Team bonding with fun, helps teams move forward through every day challenges. Here is our suggestion. ENJOY!!!

Guided Journaling is a tool for the bottom of the U-process and builds on a completed co-sensing phase. It cannot stand alone! It allows participants to step into a deeper level of self-reflection and is often followed by a solo experience to expand on the insights that arise.

This creative method invites participants to bring a possible future to life by designing or imagining a tangible object from that world. In the same way that we have historical artefacts from the past, this exercise is all about creating a tangible “artefact from the future.” It’s a way to make abstract scenarios feel real, prompting empathy, engagement, and grounded conversation.

Artefacts from the future can be run in a 2D or 3D approach.

When adopting the 3D approach, this method shifts participants into a making mindset. This engages their analytical thinking as well as intuition, improvisation, and embodied creativity. This helps surface insights that might not emerge through discussion or writing alone.

Participants will be split in teams and asked to build a bridge with the given materials.

You might be familiar with Thirty-Five as a structured-sharing activity. Thirty-Five can also be used as an effective debriefing game.

In this version, participants reflect on an earlier experience and identify important lessons they learned. They write one of these lessons as a brief item. The winner in this activity is not the best player, but the best lesson learned.

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.

* weather check-in
* photo card
* one word
* one song
* draw a symbol
* lego tower
* roller coaster drawing
* 1-2-3 with sound & motion replacement

Fill in Sheet (5 minutes)

Pile #1 - People are the people you do not feel valued by

Pile #2 - People that you feel somewhat valued by, but it is not consistent.

Pile #3 - People you feel tremendously valued by

Going through a few scenarios

- How would you respond to a Pile 1 person if they came to you and told you that they had too much work?  How would you respond to a Pile 3 person?

- How would you respond to a Pile 1 person if they came to you and told you that they were having trouble getting one of their ideas adopted by their team?  What would your response be to a Pile 3 person?

Go to the worksheet that you filled out at the beginning of this exercise.  Mark with an X which pile you feel that you are in with these folks - where would they put you?  Next, mark with a Y what pile you feel  you have placed them in (how you regard them).