Library of facilitation techniques

Participants at a training session are often preoccupied with other important things in their life. Here's a simple jolt to wake them up.

The Team Purpose Canvas is a simple and effective way to design your team purpose.

The Starfish can be used wherever you want to get an overview over how people perceive the status quo. It can be used as a gather data exercise in retrospectives or as feedback tool after events.

A fast and loud method to enhance brainstorming within a team. Since this activity has more than round ideas that are repetitive can be ruled out leaving more creative and innovative answers to the challenge.

A problem tree is a tool to clarify the hierarchy of problems addressed by the team within a design project; it represents high level problems or related sublevel problems.

For use with a team, organization or any peer group forum.

Can be done in person or virtual

This is designed to create a conversation that brings Core Values alive. This is great for a team that knows what values they stand for. Through this exercise they will celebrate their values in action and therefore be energized to magnify them further.

It will also help bring along anyone that is new so they can understand that the group really walks the talk

This game helps participants to get information on each other in a fun, competitive way.

A mind map is a diagram used to represent a number of ideas or things. Mind maps are methods for analyzing information and relationships.

Paper Telephone is a mix of two methods, "Telephone" and "Pictionary". It is a creative game aiming to fasten the get-to-know each other phase of the team while having a good time.

The 4Cs game is a quick way to gather and organize information about any subject using four common key concepts.

One person shares a goal, other players offer obstacles. Main player delightfully overcomes those obstacles.

This is intended as an icebreaker before a training, but can also work as a  general icebreaker with 3 or more people.