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Method

A playful and reflective storytelling tool that helps participants recognise and challenge stereotypes and other preconceived ideas, connect through personal ...

Challenging Stereotypes

Challenging Stereotypes

Method

What we think about a situation, about ourselves and about how the world works, significantly influences our feelings and our ...

Supportive Inner Beliefs

Supportive Inner Beliefs

Method

Active listening is listening and being present with full attention and without judgments. The attention goes primarily to the speaker ...

Active Listening

Active Listening

Method

When past misdeeds are forgiven, the main beneficiary is the forgiver, who experiences a relief of pressure and a release ...

Unconditional Forgiveness

Unconditional Forgiveness

Method

The Path of Four Elements method leads the participants through the four natural elements: earth, water, fire and air on ...

The Path of the Four Elements

The Path of the Four Elements

Basic Tool

Singing easy songs as a group can be a transformational activity. Here's a collection of songs you can learn and ...

Easy Songs

Easy Songs

Method

Guided abundance meditation is a practice that cultivates an open, spacious awareness, and employs visualization to enter into a state ...

Guided Abundance Meditation

Guided Abundance Meditation

Method

This method helps participants identify what they'd like to change in their lives and reorient their minds by constructing a ...

The Power of Yet

The Power of Yet

Method

Assess the totality of your life to clarify what you might like to improve by using a graphic representation to ...

Wheel of Life Tool

Wheel of Life Tool

Method

When people set intentions at the beginning of a session, day, workshop, or project, powerful potential is unleashed. Participants simply ...

Setting your Intention

Setting your Intention

Method

Connection meditation is a practice that cultivates a sense of connectedness by finding a memory of a specific moment of ...

Connection Meditation

Connection Meditation

Method

A powerful way of reconnecting with your deep inner wisdom about nature and about life. A profound approach for story ...

Medicine Walk

Medicine Walk

Method

Dreaming circle can be used to connect personal intentions into a shared dream of a whole group that will work ...

Dreaming Circle

Dreaming Circle

Method

We all have an inner critic, sometimes helpful but often damaging. Stopping negative self talk, facing the inner critic and ...

The Inner Critic: Stopping Negative Self Talk

The Inner Critic: Stopping Negative Self Talk

Method

Gratefulness means perceiving the given moment and every given opportunity as a gift. This is empowering and gives us countless ...

Round of Gratefulness

Round of Gratefulness

Method

With the Garden of Relationships we take a bird's eye view on our relationships and life fields. Through this we ...

Garden of Relationships

Garden of Relationships

Method

This is a trust game, when someone experiences how it feels to lead another person who gives their trust to ...

The tuk-tuk game

The tuk-tuk game

Basic Tool

A person asks a question (typically about advancing a project). They get 3 minutes to explain it, then the group ...

Group Input

Group Input

Method

This is a powerful meditation / reflection practice for being with difficult emotions, building self-compassion, and ultimately shifting your identity.

RAIN Meditation

RAIN Meditation

Method

A classic, easy and effective creativity technique that helps you think outside the box.

Upside down technique

Upside down technique

Method

Stakeholder Interviews are conducted by practitioners with their key stakeholders. The interviews allow you to step into the shoes of ...

Stakeholder Interview

Stakeholder Interview

Method

The Pyramid Lite is a way to accelerate planning for sustainable development, guiding your group through discussion exercises, moving from ...

Pyramid Lite

Pyramid Lite

Method

The object of the money exercise is to create an experiential field for people to observe themselves and gain consciousness, ...

Money Game

Money Game

Basic Tool

Cards stimulate creativity and communication. They can be used as a co-creative, co-operative game designed to enhance communications, encourage expression, ...

Metaphoric Cards

Metaphoric Cards

Method

Deep Listening is intended to help participants access their inner wisdom or intuition. Each of us has knowledge that we ...

Deep Listening

Deep Listening

Basic Tool

Freewriting is similar to brainstorming but is written in sentence and paragraph form without stopping. It is used for reflection ...

Freewriting

Freewriting

Method

Tonglen is a powerful meditation practice central to Tibetan Buddhism. In this practice, one visualizes taking into oneself the suffering ...

Tonglen Meditation

Tonglen Meditation

Method

After a program, course, or project, the organizing team can use this method to reflect on each person’s role and ...

Reflection Fishbowl

Reflection Fishbowl

Method

Tinspirations are little tins or boxes that stimulate your creativity in a problemsolving or ideation process. Tinspirations are based on ...

Tinspiration

Tinspiration

Method

This method uses systems analysis and systems thinking approach to improve a group’s understanding of the relationships between various aspects ...

System map

System map

Method

Systemic Consensus is a way of joint decision making. Its is a creative process for finding the greatest possible consensus ...

Systemic Consensus

Systemic Consensus

Method

Prototyping translates an idea or a concept into experimental action. It is a way to create a microcosm that allows ...

Prototyping

Prototyping

Method

Sensing Journeys pull participants out of their daily routine and allow them to experience the challenge through the lens of ...

Sensing Journeys

Sensing Journeys

Method

A classic, effective ideation technique, best used if you already have something to build on: a situation, product, process you ...

Osborn’s Checklist

Osborn’s Checklist

Method

This technique has the power to completely relax your mind and body while energising it, leaving you in a state ...

Wellbeing Meditation Technique

Wellbeing Meditation Technique

Method

Each participant tells their life story to the rest of the group in 15 minutes or less.

Life Share

Method

Risk Assessment is used to evaluate and quantify the potential risks of a project/action, and to come up with ideas ...

Risk assessment

Risk assessment

Method

A powerful way of sharing wisdom, processing emotions, resolving conflicts, and forming a deeper sense of community through non-hierarchical communication

Way of Council

Way of Council

Method

This is a creativity technique that reveals aspects that can easily slip your attention.

Pro Action Café

Pro Action Café

Method

This fun and contemplative ideation technique helps generate ideas with depth. The Perspective Carousel is a holistic ideation approach that ...

Perspective Carousel

Perspective Carousel

Method

This method is about opening up and daring to ask any kind of questions concerning your project/enterprise. You present your ...

Dare to Ask

Dare to Ask

Method

This is a creativity technique that reveals aspects that can easily slip your attention.

Blindspotting

Blindspotting

Method

Backcasting is an approach to planning innovation that is based on moving backwards from the vision to the present to ...

Backcasting

Backcasting

Method

The Business Model Canvas is a template for developing new or existing business models. It is a visual chart with ...

Business Model Canvas

Business Model Canvas

Method

This is a facilitation method that serves to deepen the ideas or understanding of a certain issue by a group ...

Carousel

Carousel

Method

Case Clinics guide a team or a group of peers through a process in which a case giver presents a ...

Case Clinic

Case Clinic

Method

In Coaching Dialogue, your partner asks you questions. By answering these questions you form a strategy of implementing solutions to ...

Coaching Dialogue

Coaching Dialogue

Method

The Creative Uncommons is a fun exercise that generates a pool of ideas that can be used to support a ...

Creative Uncommons

Creative Uncommons

Method

A cyclic creative process in 3-4 phases to dream up new ideas, make them realistic and evaluate them by using ...

Disney Method

Disney Method

Method

A contemplative movement exercise inspired by the Cherokee prayer dance called the Dance of the Directions and by certain Tai ...

Directions Practice

Directions Practice

Method

Dialogue interviews engage the interviewee in a reflective and generative conversation. This tool can be used to prepare for innovative ...

Dialogue Interview

Dialogue Interview

Method

An experiencial exercise to overcome self-limitations and discover new sides and habits of oneself. Especially suitable if you want to ...

Dressed in White

Dressed in White

Method

The Dyade is a very structured conversation between two persons using pre-defined questions. The same questions are asked again in ...

Dyade

Dyade

Method

This meditation is a fast and thorough way to break old patterns in the body memory that keep one imprisoned ...

Dynamic Meditation

Dynamic Meditation

Method

In order to really understand a situation including the thoughts, needs, problems and hopes of the people you are innovating ...

Empathic Interview

Empathic Interview

Method

“Open Sentences” is an easy-to-lead interactive process in pairs. It is a structure for spontaneous expression and attentive listening. The ...

Open Sentences

Open Sentences

Method

This is a multisensual facilitation method that helps you understand complex patterns in a process flow. It helps you understand ...

Evolution Lines

Evolution Lines

Method

In groups of three, participants draw each other’s eyes without looking at the paper.

Eye Gazing Portraits

Eye Gazing Portraits

Method

Participants share specific appreciations and gratitude for other participants in the group. This practice can seriously transform the energy of ...

Gratitude Circle

Gratitude Circle

Method

Guided journaling leads participants through a self-reflective process. This practice allows participants to access deeper levels of (self)knowledge, and to ...

Guided Journaling

Guided Journaling

Method

The act of group remembering, looking back over a just-completed workshop or project, can be a bonding way of synthesizing ...

Highlights Reel

Highlights Reel

Method

When people set intentions at the beginning of a session, day, workshop, or project, powerful potential is unleashed. Participants simply ...

Intention Setting

Intention Setting

Basic Tool

At the first meal that the group is together, each person answers a series of questions about themselves.

Intro Circle

Intro Circle

Method

A multi sensual process in 6 steps to generate good ideas with ease. This process emphasizes the value of relaxation ...

Eureka Footbath

Eureka Footbath

Method

Jar or box contains a collection of daily inspirational quotes. The quotes are printed on hand rolled, hand tied scrolls. ...

Jar with Inspirational Quotes

Jar with Inspirational Quotes

Method

Shadowing means that a person accompanies someone for a defined period of time to observe him/her during work and learn ...

Job Shadowing

Job Shadowing

Method

A step-by-step creative process adapted from ancient monastic practices for deepening your relationship with a particular text.

Lectio Divina

Lectio Divina

Method

This is an incredible exercise to do no matter how old you are. Writing a letter to yourself gives you ...

Letter to Myself

Letter to Myself

Method

“A Promise is a Promise” is a group method that helps turn ideas into concrete action. With this process everyone ...

A Promise is a Promise

A Promise is a Promise

Method

An empathy cafe is a facilitation method which allows each individual to speak and be heard for whatever is alive ...

Empathy Cafe

Empathy Cafe

Method

An energiser is an umbrella term used for any short activity that breaks up a long meeting by getting participants ...

Energizers

Energizers

Method

A useful way to begin any workshop, meeting, or event is to start with a check-in: giving each participant the ...

Check-Ins

Check-Ins

Basic Tool

Shared agreements ensure that participants decide on the forms of communication, boundaries, and culture that is appropriate for their group, ...

Participating Agreements

Participating Agreements

Basic Tool

Hand signals are facilitation tools that can be introduced to participants to convey information to the facilitator and other participants. ...

Hand Signals

Method

A symbolic line is drawn across a room representing a spectrum of ideas. Participants move to the point on the ...

Spectrum Line

Spectrum Line

Basic Tool

Reflective listening involves actively listening, then repeating back the essence of what someone has said so that they feel heard ...

Reflective Listening

Reflective Listening

Basic Tool

Consent is a facilitated method for making quick decisions in groups, which allows all members to voice concerns, and work ...

Consent Decision Making

Consent Decision Making

Basic Tool

Three Horizons is a simple, intuitive method for working with change. The dominant paradigm is identified, along with emerging trends ...

Three Horizons

Three Horizons

Basic Tool

A basic introduction to Non-Violent Communication that can be used for any group. This method explains the basic concepts, as ...

Introducing Non-Violent Communication

Introducing Non-Violent Communication

Basic Tool

Open Space (Technology) is a simple tool to empower participants to simultaneously host conversations on diverse topics no matter the ...

Open Space Technology

Open Space Technology

Method

Forming principles that embody shared values and agreements in a group is foundational, and ensures the group’s culture remains true ...

Guiding Principles & Shared Agreements

Guiding Principles & Shared Agreements

Basic Tool

A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning framework to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. It can be employed in ...

SWOT Analysis

SWOT Analysis

Basic Tool

SCALE 3D is a tool for strategy and evaluation of networks seeking to scale social impact, in terms of contributing ...

Scale 3D

Scale 3D

Pathway

The Work That Reconnects is a four-stage experiential approach to inspire and empower participants to take part in the healing ...

The Work That Reconnects

The Work That Reconnects

Method

This technique from Wolfgang and Eberhard Schnelle can be used as a facilitation method for groups and as a communication ...

Metaplan

Metaplan

Method

A restorative circle is a systemic approach to resolving conflict that is used to restore trust, dignity and respect within ...

Restorative Circles

Restorative Circles

Method

Drawing, painting and writing a vision/idea landscape on a big map using the analogies of geography and topology to intuitively ...

Vision Map

Vision Map

Method

Soft shoe shuffle is is an effective and energizing method for group discussions. It is a group conversation in motion. ...

Soft Shoe Shuffle

Soft Shoe Shuffle

Method

A Synergy meeting engages all participants in agenda-building and time-keeping. For each agenda item it focuses attention on the ‘topic ...

Fleck’s Synergy

Fleck’s Synergy

Method

Normally each participant defines her/his focus and is then coached by one or two other participants. The main role of ...

Why Why Why

Why Why Why

Method

When does neighbourly concern become interference? Or respect for rules prevent achieving results? Or flexibility lead to chaos? When does ...

Work with Values

Work with Values

Pathway

This structured, iterative, 7-step process supports innovation teams to develop ideas, products or services that are based on users' needs, ...

Design Sensing

Pathway

Go Deep combines the Elos Philosophy, Processwork and Non Formal Education, to create an asset-based community development process, which is ...

Go Deep Game

Go Deep Game

Method

Three steps: Create a list, vote and count the votes. The voting has the particular characteristic that each person is ...

Fast Prioritization

Fast Prioritization

Method

This is a guided visualisation or meditation on creativity.

Meet Your Muse: a meditation on creativity

Meet Your Muse: a meditation on creativity

Method

When you need to co-create a significant amount of content (in the first place documentation, but it could also be ...

Co-Creation Sprint

Co-Creation Sprint

Pathway

Learning for Change developed from the need to accelerate the building of sustainable societies. Based on 2 decades of action ...

Learning for Change

Learning for Change

Method

This method consists of finding all the reasons why a project as a whole or an action you are considering ...

Devil’s Advocate

Devil’s Advocate

Method

The project tree is a method to structure an innovation project, get a good overview and clarify it on all ...

Project Tree

Project Tree

Method

This flexible non-religious guided meditation can be a powerful attitude changer, sending well wishes to all beings.

Lovingkindness Meditation

Lovingkindness Meditation

Method

For introductions or for any other 'all inclusive' plenary exercise. Builds a positive group dynamic. Theoretical background: Martin Buber: in ...

Throw The Ball

Throw The Ball

Method

We previously used Lego in schools, face-to-face, to enable pupils to bypass rational thinking and access their emotions and intuition, ...

Lego Online

Lego Online

Method

This method is useful whenever you need to quickly gather and synthesize input (facts, opinions, evaluations) from a group of ...

Nominal Group Technique

Nominal Group Technique

Method

Appreciative Dialogue offers a simple way to share information and create trust at the start of a change process.

Appreciative Dialogue

Appreciative Dialogue

Basic Tool

If you work with or care about contentious issues like climate, sustainability, or social justice, you have no doubt found ...

Meaningful Conversation

Meaningful Conversation

Basic Tool

The Focused Conversation offers participants a clear structure for effective communication, conversation and decision making around a topic, problem or ...

Focused Conversation

Focused Conversation