Library of facilitation techniques

Energizer

A great get-to-know activity that dives a bit deeper than regular name repeating games.

This is a quick final closing activity that leaves a group with a quick adrenelin boost. You could use it at any time as an energiser, although I usually use it to close an event.

Diese Übung ist leicht umzusetzen und hat einen schnell eintretenden Effekt.

Ein Impuls-Weitergabe-Spiel mit überraschenden Richtungswechseln, Geräuschen und klaren Körperaktionen.

The real name of this jolt is Proactive Planning, but using that name will give away the key point that we want players to discover. Presented as a word game, this jolt lulls lures players to go after immediate gains in a mindless fashion only to regret the action later.

This format for brainstorming compresses the essentials of an ideation session into one short format. The numbers 3-12-3 refer to the amount of time in minutes given to each of three activities: 3 minutes for generating a pool of observations, 12 for combining those observations into rough concepts, and 3 again for presenting the concepts back to a group.

When people want to develop new ideas, they most often think out of the box in the brainstorming or divergent phase. However, when it comes to convergence, people often end up picking ideas that are most familiar to them. This is called a ‘creative paradox’ or a ‘creadox’.

The How-Now-Wow matrix is an idea selection tool that breaks the creadox by forcing people to weigh each idea on 2 parameters.

To explore how it feels to be excluded—and to be excluding.

Group game that plays with the tension between following your desires vs. running away from your fears.