Library of facilitation techniques

By growing our emotional vocabulary, we can better identify our emotions, and check in with ourselves. Doing so can help bring a level of self-awareness, and a better understanding of others.

The Team Purpose Canvas is a simple and effective way to design your team purpose.

Light, energising exercise that helps the group to observe the other people on the call.

A mind map is a diagram used to represent a number of ideas or things. Mind maps are methods for analyzing information and relationships.

A team-building activity in which a group is challenged to physically support one another in an endeavour to move from one end of a space to another. It requires working together creatively and strategically in order to solve a practical, physical problem. It tends to emphasize group communication, cooperation, leadership and membership, patience and problem-solving.

This game helps participants to get information on each other in a fun, competitive way.

The 4Cs game is a quick way to gather and organize information about any subject using four common key concepts.

One person shares a goal, other players offer obstacles. Main player delightfully overcomes those obstacles.

This is intended as an icebreaker before a training, but can also work as a  general icebreaker with 3 or more people.

The Starfish can be used wherever you want to get an overview over how people perceive the status quo. It can be used as a gather data exercise in retrospectives or as feedback tool after events.

This tool helps small and large groups to identify key transformative trends over the next few years, explore their consequences, and begin to look at how they can be met to create business opportunities. By the end of the workshop, participants create a list of most relevant trends; and an elaboration on three most-important trends, including ideas around how their organization/s could act to meet those trends. Can be run both online and face-to-face.

For use with a team, organization or any peer group forum.

Can be done in person or virtual

This is designed to create a conversation that brings Core Values alive. This is great for a team that knows what values they stand for. Through this exercise they will celebrate their values in action and therefore be energized to magnify them further.

It will also help bring along anyone that is new so they can understand that the group really walks the talk