A Promise is a Promise
What is A Promise is a Promise about ?
A typical moment to host “A Promise is a Promise” is after an ideation session in order to ease the transition from visioning, thinking, planning and talking to a new phase of concrete steps: prototyping, action and doing. It helps to prevent people getting overwhelmed by the many things that could or should be done in order to realize a project. It is a great grounding exercise that supports the participants in achieving the goals they set themselves. It is also very helpful to consolidate supportive habits and transfer workshop outcomes to everyday life. We love to do it towards the end of a workshop.
Audience
Is participant experience relevant for A Promise is a Promise ?
Audience description for A Promise is a Promise
It can be done with anyone who wants to turn their ideas into action and get things done. It is especially valuable for groups that like talking about ideas and find it difficult to take action.
Requirements
A larger room or open air space where you can put chairs and tables aside and have some space between the participants standing in the room.
Online
Yes. In the section materials you find a template which you can use to visualize the movement from start to goal on a digital whiteboard, as you see it in the picture here. Let everyone write their name and their next step on a post-it and place it in between the two poles of “I have just started” and “I have implemented my project”, according to where they see themselves in their project. We love to do it with photos of the participants and comments, that makes it extra personal, but it also works very well with post-its. Then instead of moving in the room one by one they speak out loud their vision/project, their goal and their next step and move their post-it one step towards “implemented vision or project”. You can also ask them to make a real step in their room to embody their resolution. To arrange the sponsorships organize two rounds of breakout sessions in pairs. In round 1: Let the pair decide which of them is being sponsored and when/how they want their check-up. After some minutes send a note to all breakout rooms that the one who has no sponsor yet comes back to the plenum while the other remains in the breakout room. Redistribute your participants to the breakout rooms for round 2 in which the second person and their sponsorship is the center of attention.
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