Library of facilitation techniques

This fun activity allows participants to follow instructions on a MURAL whiteboard to perform a variety of activities and eventually share their name and location. You can use this as a short ice-breaker or energiser (remove some of the activities) or as either pre-work or an opening activity to make sure that everyone knows how to use MURAL before an online session begins.

A MURAL template is included for you to use and modify as you wish (at the bottom of this method).

create an empathy map

Players perform a scene based on an audience suggestion. At any point during the scene, the Host may blow a whistle and call for a “New Choice,” (or "Change!") at which point the previous line of dialogue and/or action is replaced with a new line of dialogue and/or action.

Story is told one word or one sentence at a time

In this group game, players stand in a circle and perform a series of loud physical moves, passing from one person to the next. When a player hesitates or makes a mistake, he or she is eliminated and the game continues. The game generates laughter and playfulness in the group.

This fun activity could be used as an icebreaker for people who have just met but it can be framed as a method that shows and fosters team communication, collaboration and strategic thinking as well.

This method gives goal setting or vision sharing into a more creative, associative frame, making participants move out of their comfort zones.

Have your group stand up in a close circle (10 to 16 people is best). They close their eyes put their hands into the circle and find two hands and hold on. Then they open their eyes and the group has to try to get back into a circle without letting go, though they can change their grip, of course.

A brainstorming and prioritizing method that places emphasis on the most important ideas and actions.

This meeting icebreaker is a great energizer to do right before a break or coming back from a break, especially if you have stragglers

Here's a quick jolt that helps participants discover basic psychological facts about our memory.

This is an active team building game and requires participants to move about a lot and so can be also used as an energiser.