International Association of Facilitators

This method helps groups to avoid awkward silence at the beginning of the session and instantly start a conversation. Ideal for large groups.

A Focused Conversation to begin to process traumatic situations for use with colleagues, friends and family, and how to respond to them productively. Often traumatic events become undiscussable and this enables persons to talk about them

It has been used as a part of training of facilitators and as part of team building.

Easy and fun way to review content or atmosphere at the end of a group activity (or in between) in 1 minute.

The sequential building of ideas without evaluation.

A light way to encourage punctuality in any group event or meeting in which there are breaks

Use of Active Listening to slow down a discussion, or manage dominant participants

Using the Social Process Triangles created by the Institute of Cultural Affairs to identify a broad range of issues faced by a community, followed by the Consensus Workshop Method to see larger patterns of issues.

This process is used to prioritize certain factors among others. It is also referred to as identifying the "critical few" that play a significant role in whatever issue is being examined.

Team energiser for a virtual classroom or web conference meeting

This is a simple method to prioritize actions as part of an action planning workshop, after a list of actions has been generated.