Facilitation Techniques and Workshop Activities | Library

Conversation Café

remote-friendly liberating structures active listening problem solving

The format of the Conversation Café helps people have calm and profound conversations in which there is less debating and arguing, and more listening. Sitting in a circle with a simple set of agreements and a talking object, small groups will engage in rounds of dialogue with little or no unproductive conflict. As the meaning of their challenge pops into focus, a consensual hunch is formed that will release their capacity for new action.

Creating Inclusive Prototypes

design thinking

Entrepreneurship and Northern Indigenous Histories

intro to entrepreneurial leadership

Goal Setting Gifts

entrepreneurial mindset

Icebreaker: Original

get-to-know remote-friendly icebreaker

Ask participants to create or come up with a ice-breaker question. The icebreaker question must not be a cliché question and or commonly used.

Leadership Pizza

leadership team remote-friendly skill building

This leadership development activity offers a self-assessment framework for people to first identify what skills, attributes and attitudes they find important for effective leadership, and then assess their own development and initiate goal setting.

Local Innovations

intro to entrepreneurial leadership

NUF Test

gamestorming decision making action

As a group is developing ideas in a brainstorming session, it may be useful to do a quick “reality check” on proposed ideas. In the NUF Test, participants rate an idea on three criteria: to what degree is it New, Useful, and Feasible?