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Heike Roettgers

Zauberstab Übung

Bringt neuen Schwung in die Gruppe. Teilnehmer lernen auf spiele- rische Art gruppendynamische Prozesse kennen

Die Teilnehmer müssen den Stab gemeinsam balancierend auf den Zeigefingern auf dem Boden ablegen

  • Die Aufgabe scheint einfach, bald zeigen sich jedoch die Tücken.Der Stab geht wie von Zauberhand statt nach unten nach oben
  • Anschließend kurze Reflexion über die Zusammenarbeit in der Gruppe
Melissa Abecassis

The Relationship Scan

This is a simple exercise to provide you and your partner (romantic or work) with an opportunity to interact in a contained place. The container:
  • Remove any distractions (no phones, tablets, laptops)
  • If you are parents (no kids allowed)
  • Choose a place where you will not be interrupted
  • Set a time - (non-negotiable) 30 min is a good amount of time and doable even for busy people and a place.
Ideally, you will find the same time and day every week.
If you can make it a ritual:
  • Go to your favourite coffee shop together
  • Have a morning meeting over a hot chocolate
  • Open a really good wine

This is a time for you and your partner to talk about how you both are doing, your relationship, any unfinished conversations or arguments or things that are unsaid, or any needs that are not being met.

Deborah Rim Moiso

Hybrid checkpoint

Punctuate any hybrid event with moments in which participants joining remotely and in-person briefly get together to discuss their experiences at the gathering.

Tech tasks

Send all the people participating in person a link to join the online call.

Tech host create as many breakout rooms as the number of attendees in the smallest cohort, pairing each with one or, if necessary, two, participants from the other group.

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Zhulieta Ivanova

Get the Job

This activity aims to help the target group get better understanding on the basics of writing a professional CV. It is important for participants to know how to acknowledge and extract different aspects of their personality and experience and put it in their CV in the form of skills and competencies, so they are relevant for the desired position.

This can support you to track your successes, your

development and thus, help you to write meaningful cv and hopefully present yourself well on an interview.

Bring out the unconscious experience to a conscious level, and shape it in the form of specific skills and competencies, so you can build on them.


Tomass Briedis

Out of comfort zone

This workshop is intended for a big group of people to let them discover the benefits of stepping out of the comfort zone by practical activities

Vojta Žák

Apples & Pairs

An Educational Game about Discrimination and Privilege

Each player randomly receives a card. Each card contains specific restrictions representing metaphorically the different obstacles people face in the labor market when trying to look for a job or when trying to reach their life goals.

FRANCOIS FAVIER

Induction is key

Plan induction for newcomers in order to provide them all the necessary information for them to be equipped and to feel part of the team. It has to be done by a team member (a tutor) and be prepared. It may concern activities, inputs, stakeholders, ways of working, values, rituals, governance, tools, frameworks, ...