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.

This game is effectively shows the power and advantages of collaboration and can be a practical demonstration of the Prisoner Dilemma

Here's a jolt that can be conducted within 99 seconds, raising awarness of our automatic stereotyping processes.

With this game you can raise awarness about being more mindful, and aware of the environment we live in.

The ET acronym stands for “Effective Trainer”. We use this activity in our train-the-trainer sessions.

Participants work individually, with a partner, and in teams to prepare a list of suitable techniques for providing effective training. Eventually, each participant selects a technique that he or she wants to use immediately.

It is a great activity to show participants that it is plausible to change our automatic behaviours and reactions to annoying situations.

This ia a 3-minute jolt activity that enables the participants to explore what makes a task highly motivating.

Understanding and analyzing a piece of advice are important activities. Here is a game that requires the participants to analyze the features associated with different pieces of advice.

Hopeful, joyful, peaceful, playful, thankful—these five words are written on the faces of different envelopes to create the five “-ful” envelopes.

According to Barbara Frederickson (and other positive psychologists), these five emotions are among those that contribute to happiness, subjective well-being, and flourishing.

This structured sharing activity helps participants discover how to increase the frequency and intensity of these emotions. This is the first step to increase one's happiness.

Five Ideas is an activity that encourages participants to go beyond what is good for their team or their department and work on cooperatively achieving common goals.

Teambuilding activities create high-performance teams whose members are extremely loyal to each other and to their team. Sometimes, however, the emphasis in teamwork results in reduced collaboration across teams. Similar problems occur when employees become so focused on their departmental goals that they ignore or downplay the strategic goals for the total organization.