Tools on Inner DevelopmentAn unofficial prototype

For the inner work behind the outer work

Tools for inner development, gathered with care

Public exercises, practices, and methods from the commons — Liberating Structures to Work That Reconnects to Theory U — mapped to the 25 skills of the Inner Development Guide. Every tool keeps its origin and its makers' names, and carries the three things a facilitator needs to feel for a room: what it can open (depth), what it takes to hold (facilitation), and what a group must already have (trust).

A Pen, a Paper — depth 1Alphabet Circle — depth 1Ball Tag — depth 1Bibberi Bibberi Bo — depth 1Big and Small Fish — depth 1Body Part Leads — depth 1Bomb and shield — depth 1Call the Wrong Name — depth 1Chair Rhythm — depth 1Clap the Body Awake — depth 1Copy Circle — depth 1Counting one, two, three — depth 1Cross Circle — depth 1Dance Warm-Up — depth 1Dancing in the Dark — depth 1Different Places, Different Feelings — depth 1Elephant, palm tree, jelly — depth 1Exactly One Walks — depth 1Face Massage — depth 1Follow the Finger — depth 1Foot Touch Tag — depth 1Gingerbread Tag — depth 1Gradual Change — depth 1Honey, I love you, but I can’t smile — depth 1Humming Gates — depth 1I Say — depth 1Join In and Finish — depth 1Keeper of the Keys — depth 1King Lizard — depth 1Knee Tag — depth 1Knife Baby Angry Cat — depth 1Land, Sea, Shore — depth 1Leadership 101 — depth 1Letter Number Name — depth 1Listening Into the Room — depth 1Listening to a Story — depth 1Listening to Music — depth 1Listening to the Surroundings — depth 1Listing Exercise — depth 1Look up, look down — depth 1Mind Your Tail — depth 1Mindful Pause (Informal Practice) — depth 1Mirror in Circle — depth 1Mirror Sessions — depth 1One Stops, All Stop — depth 1Order With Topics — depth 1Peep Tag — depth 1Rhythmic Story — depth 1Running Round and Round — depth 1Russian Concentration Exercise — depth 1Self-Massage — depth 1Shootout — depth 1Sigh Deeply — depth 1Simultaneous Clap — depth 1Smart Fellas — depth 1Sneak Up on Someone — depth 1Splat! — depth 1Spoon of Water — depth 1Start–Stop — depth 1Stop, go, jump, clap! — depth 1Strange Neighbour — depth 1Stretching — depth 1The director’s theatre — depth 1The Feeling Row — depth 1The Handshake — depth 1The Imaginary Ball — depth 1The Jungle Telegraph — depth 1The Movement Game — depth 1The Old Pike — depth 1Throw the Ball — depth 1Throw the Coloured Ball — depth 1Toe Disco — depth 1Torpedoes — depth 1Travelling Concepts — depth 1Understand Different Modes of Support — depth 1Walking the Room — depth 1Who’s changing the movement? — depth 1Yee-haw! — depth 1Zip, zap, boing — depth 1Zombie Name Game — depth 1"How we work together" dialogues — depth 29 Whys — depth 2After-action reviews — depth 2Biopsychosocial Model — depth 2Blind Association Ring — depth 2Blindfolded Scene — depth 2Body Awareness — depth 2Body Dialogue — depth 2Body Scan Meditation — depth 2Bumblebee — depth 2Cartography — depth 2Climate Emotions Wheel — depth 2Cognitive Defusion Practice — depth 2Color Echo — depth 2Contexter — depth 2Creating norms that welcome vulnerability — depth 2Creating unconditional space for emergence — depth 2Crowdsource Meditation — depth 2Curiosity — depth 2Don't Laugh — depth 2Exchanging Perspectives — depth 2Far Away, So Close — depth 2Feng Shui — depth 2Frame — depth 2Guru Game — depth 2I Don't Know About You — depth 2If I Were a Tree — depth 2Inner Monologue — depth 2Inside-Outside Presence — depth 2Integrity, Accountability, Responsibility — depth 2Intentional pauses — depth 2Keeping the Head Still — depth 2Kind and Unkind — depth 2Know Your Theory of Change — depth 2Learning from external perspectives and critical voices — depth 2Learning Mindset Moment — depth 2Mad Tea and Calm Tea — depth 2Manage Your Inner Drivers — depth 2Meditation on Meeting Needs — depth 2Meeting check-ins — depth 2Minis — depth 2Mountain Meditation — depth 2Myself — My Friend — depth 2No, Oh Really, Yes — depth 2Noticing and naming team patterns in real-time — depth 2Noting — depth 2P.I.E.S. — depth 2Peer learning forums — depth 2Periodic team health assessment — depth 2Periodic values-behavior alignment review — depth 2Personal Behavior Change (five-step process) — depth 2Presence Pause — depth 2Principles Walk-Around — depth 2Process-focused debriefs — depth 2Protected time for genuine dialogue — depth 2Purpose connection moments — depth 2Purposeful Storytelling — depth 2Quarterly purpose reflection dialogue — depth 2Question Ambassador — depth 2Ranking Exercise — depth 2Regular team retrospectives — depth 2Relaxation: Breathing — depth 2Rooms Of The Heart — depth 2Rose, Bud, Thorn — depth 2Run To Center — depth 2Secret Identity — depth 2Seeds Collecting — depth 2Sitting Meditation (Breath-Anchored) — depth 2Social Identity — depth 2Spiral Journal — depth 2Standing on the Line — depth 2Status Mingle — depth 2Storytelling about lessons learned — depth 2Talking with Pixies — depth 2Tension and Release — depth 2Tension and Release, Lying — depth 2Thanks, or Continue? — depth 2The "Google" Game — depth 2The Alignment Moment — depth 2The Beginner's Moment — depth 2The Commitment Check — depth 2The Congruence Check — depth 2The Contribution Question — depth 2The Curiosity Switch — depth 2The Fireman — depth 2The Head & The Heart — depth 2The Hot Chair — depth 2The Hot Seat — depth 2The Inner Weather Report — depth 2The Letter — depth 2The Magnet — depth 2The Meeting Arrival — depth 2The Mistake Welcome — depth 2The No Game — depth 2The Purpose Anchor — depth 2The Reaction Pause — depth 2The Silent Teddy Bear — depth 2The Single-Task Moment — depth 2The Superhero in Me — depth 2The Traffic Light — depth 2The Transition Breath — depth 2The Trigger Map — depth 2The Values Check-In — depth 2The Yes/No Game — depth 2Through the Wrong Door — depth 2Time-out signal for process awareness — depth 2Understanding Identities — depth 2Unfinished Sentences — depth 2Value Clarification — depth 2Values Check-in — depth 2Values emergence through decision-making — depth 2Values Mapping — depth 2VIA Character Strengths Survey — depth 2Yes, No, Maybe — depth 2Acting in Alignment — depth 3Adapting Response Patterns — depth 3B.G.D.V.F. Connection — depth 3Be Your Own Angel — depth 3Blind Desire — depth 3Circling — depth 3Complain Game — depth 3Context Conversation — depth 3Core Exploration — depth 3Emotion Sculpture — depth 3Guided Journaling (Theory U) — depth 3Guided Presence — depth 3Higher Self-Talk — depth 3Hot Seat — depth 3Immunity to Change Map — depth 3Inception ("What's that like?") — depth 3Interrelational Meditation — depth 3Intervision on Inner Development — depth 3Kingdom — depth 3Lens of Attention — depth 3Meet My Essence — depth 3Meet Yourself at 90 — depth 3Mirror of Perception — depth 3Mudra Theatre — depth 3Owning Our Judgments — depth 3Pandora's Box — depth 3Poetic Motivations — depth 3Prolonged Eye Contact — depth 3RAIN Meditation — depth 3See and Be Seen — depth 3Semi-Circling — depth 3Shadow Criticism — depth 3Spin The Bottle Topical Circling — depth 3Split Brain — depth 3Status Cards on Foreheads — depth 3Story Sharing — depth 3Subject-Object Interview — depth 3The Noticing Game — depth 3The Receiving Game ("Would I?") — depth 3The Repeating Question — depth 3The Stuck Exercise — depth 3Threshold Walk — depth 3Touch My Elbow — depth 3Trading Faces — depth 3Tree of Life — depth 3Understanding & Overcoming Limiting Beliefs — depth 3Understanding Our Core Beliefs — depth 3What's Here Now? — depth 3Who Are You? — depth 3Withholds — depth 3Witnessed Movement — depth 3Distinguish Your Shadow — depth 4Being · 24625/10 Crowd Sourcing — depth 1Acting Everyday Chores — depth 1Adjective Scenes — depth 1Adventure Walk — depth 1Aerobics — depth 1Affirm the Denial — depth 1Agreement & Certainty Matrix — depth 1Animal stories — depth 1At the Cinema — depth 1Björn Kellman — depth 1Boris — depth 1Brainstorming with Eureka — depth 1Change the Protagonist — depth 1Click Bang you`re dead — depth 1Connections Web — depth 1Costume Bag — depth 1Create Obstacles — depth 1Creating New Metaphors — depth 1Critical Uncertainties — depth 1Ecocycle Planning — depth 1Experiencing Interdisciplinarity — depth 1Film Posters — depth 1Flash back, flash forward — depth 1Four Lines — depth 1Freeze — depth 1Future Impact Question — depth 1Future~Present — depth 1Get the Other To — depth 1Greetings — depth 1Headline — depth 1How's Yours? — depth 1I'm a Tree! — depth 1I’ve got some news... — depth 1Idea Generation — depth 1Integrated ~ Autonomy — depth 1Introductions on One Letter — depth 1Living Things — depth 1Mapping the Maze — depth 1Meanwhile — depth 1Monster and Fairy Tag — depth 1Multi-horizon tracking — depth 1Object in a circle — depth 1Obstacle Tag — depth 1On the bus — depth 1One Scene Affects Another — depth 1Panarchy — depth 1Pictures — depth 1Portrait Pictures — depth 1Pre-Mortem Analysis — depth 1Progressive assumption testing — depth 1Props — depth 1Radio Theatre — depth 1Renew Yourself Tag — depth 1Results Chain — depth 1Scribing (Visual Practice) — depth 1Self Guided Assessment — depth 1Servant, Master, Catastrophe — depth 1Setting, Character, Object, Feeling — depth 1Shift the Genre — depth 1Shift the Period — depth 1Socio-Spatial Mapping — depth 1Statue Tag — depth 1Story Bag — depth 1Story from A to Z — depth 1The Absent Character — depth 1The Behaviour Researcher — depth 1The Chase — depth 1The Pocket — depth 1The Spectators — depth 1The Systems Game — depth 1The Transforming Pen — depth 1Thief and Police Tag — depth 1Three Horizons — depth 1Titles — depth 1Using a stimulus — depth 1Visual Offers — depth 1Walk As If — depth 1What, So What, Now What? (W³) — depth 1What’s my line? — depth 1Whatcha Doin'? — depth 1Wicked Questions — depth 1Word Association — depth 1Building norms that welcome constructive challenge — depth 2Building perspective awareness into ongoing practice — depth 2Change — depth 2Collaborative mapping of interconnections — depth 2Columbian Hypnosis — depth 2Connecting with Climate Science — depth 2Conscious Consumption Quest — depth 2Corridor Encounters — depth 2Creating permission for productive failure — depth 2Creative Destruction (aka TRIZ) — depth 2Critical Thinking Deep Dive — depth 2Cross-boundary exposure — depth 2Daily-to-long-term connection practices — depth 2Dedicated exploration time — depth 2Designated challenger role — depth 2Dialectical Self-Reflection — depth 2DTF Cognitive Assessment & Coaching — depth 2Envisioning a Sustainable Future — depth 2Establishing a Clear Vision — depth 2Everyday Creative Practice — depth 2Expanding the system boundary — depth 2Five Minutes With Structure — depth 2Folding Spectrogram — depth 2Four Corners — depth 2Future Folktales — depth 2Future generations perspective — depth 2Guru of the Altitudes — depth 2Hot seating — depth 2I like your hat — depth 2Iceberg Model — depth 2Imagining the Future — depth 2Improv Prototyping — depth 2Into The Magic Shop — depth 2Ladder of Inference — depth 2Letter from the Future — depth 2Long-term scenario exploration — depth 2Mirror, Mirror — depth 2Multiple Perspectives Round — depth 2My life story — depth 2Navigating Uncertainty — depth 2Pattern identification discussions — depth 2Personal Polarity Map — depth 2Perspective contrast exercises — depth 2Perspective mapping dialogues — depth 2Perspective rotation in problem analysis — depth 2Perspective Yoga — depth 2Prototyping (Theory U) — depth 2Regular long-term reflection sessions — depth 2Second-order effects questioning — depth 2Sensemaking Session — depth 2Sensing Journey — depth 2Shadowing — depth 2Shared Problem Definition — depth 2Simple Ethnography — depth 2SMART Goals for a Vision — depth 2Spectrum — depth 2Spiral Sentence Stems — depth 2Stakeholder Interview — depth 2Status bridge — depth 2Status Photos — depth 2Status Scenes — depth 2Status Swap — depth 2Strange Bedfellow — depth 2Structured ideation sessions — depth 2Systems Thinking Practice — depth 2The 4E Model — depth 2The Analogy Bridge — depth 2The Assumption Surface — depth 2The Combination Experiment — depth 2The Connection Trace — depth 2The Difficult Job Interview — depth 2The Dissent Invitation — depth 2The Emotional Meeting — depth 2The Evidence Question — depth 2The Feedback Loop Hunt — depth 2The Future Pull — depth 2The Legacy Lens — depth 2The Other Chair — depth 2The Reframe Game — depth 2The Seven Generation Question — depth 2The Source Consideration — depth 2The Stakeholder Scan — depth 2The Time Delay Check — depth 2The Volcano of Change — depth 2The What If Disruption — depth 2Troika Consulting — depth 2User Experience Fishbowl — depth 2Vision Creation — depth 2Vision Webs — depth 2Visual Narratives — depth 2Waited Long? — depth 2Wise Crowds — depth 23D Mapping (Sculpting the Current Reality) — depth 34D Mapping (Social Presencing Theater) — depth 3Case Clinic — depth 3Congregation of Believers — depth 3Drawing Together — depth 3Ducklings — depth 3Seventh Generation — depth 3The Reverse Bus — depth 3The Seems — depth 3Translator — depth 3Try Me On — depth 3Widening Circles — depth 3Thinking · 186Applause — depth 1Compliment Tag — depth 1Feeling Scenes — depth 1Laughter Circle — depth 1Loser Ball — depth 1Acts of Kindness in Daily Life — depth 2Advice — depth 2African Massage — depth 2Anybody Else? — depth 2Appreciation Dyads — depth 2Appreciation Hot Seat — depth 2Appreciative framing in team discourse — depth 2Appreciative Interviews — depth 2Ball Massage — depth 2Becoming the Water Body — depth 2Being Grateful — depth 2Building and maintaining psychological safety — depth 2Care Ethics Mapping — depth 2Coaching with Compassion — depth 2Community Appreciations — depth 2Compassionate accountability — depth 2Connectedness in decision-making — depth 2Connection to Impact — depth 2Cultivating Awe — depth 2Deliberate learning from others — depth 2Ending Appreciations — depth 2Enhancing Sensorial Connectedness — depth 2Extending the circle of care — depth 2Finding Your Story of Climate Justice — depth 2Focus on contribution over credit — depth 2Freeze Frame — depth 2Getting Presents — depth 2Gratitude Journal — depth 2Gratitude Practice — depth 2Handshake Game — depth 2Hug Tag — depth 2Humility Check — depth 2I Love Myself! — depth 2Imitation Introduction — depth 2Inviting Non-Human Stakeholders — depth 2Like, Like, GOOSE! — depth 2Love Blaster — depth 2Loving-Kindness / Compassion Meditation — depth 2Magical Moments — depth 2Making connections vivid and real — depth 2Massage Story — depth 2Milestone celebrations and pausing to appreciate — depth 2Mindful Nature Walk — depth 2Mirrored Feelings — depth 2Moving Interaction — depth 2My Best Qualities — depth 2Normalizing acknowledgment of limitations and uncertainty — depth 2Norms for addressing harm directly — depth 2Noticing and responding to struggles — depth 2Onboarding in Transdisciplinary Collaboration — depth 2One Time… — depth 2Participate as a Pro — depth 2Positive Gossip — depth 2Rain Massage — depth 2Reflecting on belonging to larger wholes — depth 2Regular appreciation rounds — depth 2Relay Massage — depth 2Shower of Love — depth 2Sit Spot Practice — depth 2The Appreciation Expression — depth 2The Bartender — depth 2The Credit Distribution — depth 2The Difficulty Gift — depth 2The Emotional Family — depth 2The Feeling Partner — depth 2The Fresh Start — depth 2The Gratitude Notice — depth 2The Hitchhiker — depth 2The Humble Mindset — depth 2The Interdependence Trace — depth 2The Kind Response — depth 2The Letting Go Moment — depth 2The Not-Knowing Practice — depth 2The Ripple Recognition — depth 2The Self-Compassion Pause — depth 2The Situation Focus — depth 2The Story Loosening — depth 2The Symbiosis Meditation — depth 2The Understanding Attempt — depth 2The Web Awareness — depth 2Walk With Me — depth 2Watermelon — depth 2...AND... — depth 3Apology Process — depth 3Body Love — depth 3Choose Your Own Adventure — depth 3Clearness Committee — depth 3Climate Circles / Climate Cafés — depth 3Constellations — depth 3Council of All Beings — depth 3Distillation — depth 3Emotional Manipulation — depth 3Empathy — depth 3Frustration Station — depth 3Grief Walking — depth 3Heard, Seen, Respected — depth 3I've Felt That — depth 3Kiss Kiss Diss — depth 3Love and Self-Love — depth 3Nature Quest — depth 3Next… — depth 3Open Sentences — depth 3Reach Out, Touch Me — depth 3Restorative Circles — depth 3Sketch Appreciation — depth 3Storytelling Reflection — depth 3Structured approach to repair — depth 3Terminator — depth 3The Milling — depth 3Tonglen Meditation — depth 3Unconditional Forgiveness Practice — depth 3Unconditional Hugs — depth 3Whispered Belongings — depth 3Working through collective resentments and divisions — depth 3Angel Walk — depth 4Anonymous Confessions — depth 4Authentic Goodbye — depth 4Despair Ritual — depth 4Doom Circle — depth 4Fly on the Wall — depth 4If I Were You… — depth 4Impression Spectrum — depth 4Letting Go — depth 4Progressive Touch — depth 4Truth Mandala — depth 4Relating · 1301-2-4-All — depth 110 Fingers — depth 1Action Syllables — depth 1Active and Passive — depth 1Alliteration Introduction — depth 1Alphabet Letters — depth 1Anatomy of a Good Climate Story — depth 1Anyone who... — depth 1Back Dancing — depth 1Ball Cooperation Tag — depth 1Bandaid Tag — depth 1Be a Part — depth 1Best Friends / Mortal Enemies — depth 1Blind Line Up — depth 1Blind Statue — depth 1Bobsledding Bodies — depth 1Building and maintaining relationships across team boundaries — depth 1Bumpity Bump — depth 1Catch the Audience With Your Story — depth 1Changing Statue — depth 1Co-creation Prompt — depth 1Co-Designing Transition Experiments — depth 1Coordination across team boundaries — depth 1Count to 20 — depth 1Dance with Impulses — depth 1Dancing in Levels — depth 1Design StoryBoards — depth 1Emotions in Numbers — depth 1EPIC Communication — depth 1Everyone Does the Same — depth 1Family Photo — depth 1Feeling Meter — depth 1Fingertips — depth 1Flock Dance — depth 1Foot Tag — depth 1Fortune Cookie — depth 1Fostering Collaborative Creativity — depth 1Four Leave the Bench — depth 1Give the Other Focus — depth 1Greeting Each Other — depth 1Group juggling — depth 1Half-Sentence Storytelling — depth 1Head to Head — depth 1Here We Come — depth 1House, Creature, Flood — depth 1Human Clay — depth 1Human Knot — depth 1Human machine — depth 1Impromptu Networking — depth 1Improvised Proverbs — depth 1In Groups Of… — depth 1Mimic Tag — depth 1Min Specs — depth 1Molecule Tag — depth 1Name Round — depth 1Name Volley — depth 1Norms for effective information sharing — depth 1One Voices Everyone — depth 1One-Word Performance — depth 1One-Word Story in Pairs — depth 1One-Word Storytelling — depth 1Open Space Technology — depth 1Operational Strategies — depth 1Options Place — depth 1Pair Introductions — depth 1Pair Tag — depth 1Parts of a Thing — depth 1Performance in a Minute — depth 1Poem Reading — depth 1Postcard Storytelling — depth 1Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament — depth 1Rolling Statues — depth 1Shift & Share — depth 1Simultaneous Speech — depth 1Social Diffusion — depth 1Social Network Webbing — depth 1Sound Effects — depth 1Sound Mat — depth 1Stakeholder Mapping — depth 1Stick Together — depth 1Stone Tag — depth 1Subtitles — depth 1The 3Cs (Coalitions, Collaboration, Consensus) — depth 1The Activity — depth 1The Double Expert — depth 1The Double Take — depth 1The empty chair — depth 1The Improvised Sign Interpreter — depth 1The Interpreter — depth 1The Jump — depth 1The Line-Up — depth 1The Omniscient Panel — depth 1The Picture — depth 1The Washing Machine — depth 1Three Noses — depth 1Three-Party Conversation — depth 1Tug of War Without a Rope — depth 1Tunnel Tag — depth 1Weaving Stories — depth 1Who stole the Cookies — depth 1Yes, let’s... — depth 1Active inclusion practices in meetings and discussions — depth 2Active Listening — depth 2Addressing cultural differences constructively — depth 2Agency and Communion — depth 2Ambulance Tag — depth 2Analyzing and addressing power dynamics in collaboration — depth 2Articulating and co-developing shared purpose — depth 2Blind Dance — depth 2Blind Lead — depth 2Body Hide — depth 2Building capability for co-creation with external actors — depth 2Building Psychological Safety — depth 2Celebrity Interview — depth 2Changing Emotion — depth 2Circle Sitting — depth 2Collaborative working sessions — depth 2Communication across organizational and cultural boundaries — depth 2Conductor — depth 2Constructive disagreement practices — depth 2Container Building — depth 2Conversation Café — depth 2Creating genuinely inclusive engagement with external actors — depth 2Cultural Awareness — depth 2Cultural Dimensions Reflection — depth 2Dance with Eyes Closed — depth 2Death and Retriever — depth 2Dedicated time for relationship-building — depth 2Dialogue Interview — depth 2Discovery & Action Dialogue (DAD) — depth 2Emotional Volume Knob — depth 2Enabling Co-Creation — depth 2Ensuring diverse perspectives shape decisions — depth 2Facilitation for generative collaboration — depth 2Future Search — depth 2Generative Relationships STAR — depth 2Group Giving Game (Would Y'all?) — depth 2Heave Ho — depth 2Helping Heuristics — depth 2I Know That Hand — depth 2Inclusive Decision-Making — depth 2Inclusive Listening Round — depth 2Interrupting and Following Aliveness — depth 2Janus Dance — depth 2Leadership in Action — depth 2Lighthouses and Boats — depth 2Listening Assessment — depth 2Listening to Pause — depth 2Massage — depth 2Network Relationship Patterns — depth 2Persson to Karlsson — depth 2Practices for genuine dialogue — depth 2Psychological Safety Micro-Behaviours — depth 2Purpose-To-Practice (P2P) — depth 2Race Cars — depth 2Requests Training — depth 2Reverse Chair Dance — depth 2Sandwich Tag — depth 2Sculptors in a Ring — depth 2Sentence Stems — depth 2Stakeholder engagement practices — depth 2Stick Game — depth 2Stop — depth 2Story → Headline — depth 2Strategy Knotworking (SKW) — depth 2Swedish Sculptors — depth 2Team Check-in — depth 2Team Dynamics — depth 2Team Psychological Safety Scan — depth 2The Arms — depth 2The Assumption Suspension — depth 2The Build Upon — depth 2The Capacity Trust — depth 2The Clean Expression — depth 2The Comfort Zone Stretch — depth 2The Connection Investment — depth 2The Enrollment Game — depth 2The Full Listen — depth 2The King — depth 2The Map — depth 2The Marriage War — depth 2The Meaning Connection — depth 2The Missing Voice — depth 2The Opened Letter — depth 2The Ownership Invitation — depth 2The Power Check — depth 2The Power of Storytelling — depth 2The Puppets — depth 2The Remembering Practice — depth 2The Repair Initiation — depth 2The Space Making — depth 2The Understanding Check — depth 2What I Mean by That Is… — depth 2What I Need From You (WINFY) — depth 2Asking For Support — depth 3Bacon — depth 3Constellations of Concern — depth 3Constructive Conversations — depth 3Council (Circle with Talking Piece) — depth 3Deep Democracy (Facilitated Group Process) — depth 3Deep Listening — depth 3Empathy Walk — depth 3Exclusion — depth 3Intimacies — depth 3Kabuki Circling — depth 3NVC Dialogue Practice — depth 3One Too Many — depth 3Public Narrative (Self / Us / Now) — depth 3Restorative Dialogue — depth 3Socially Inclusive Research — depth 3T-Group — depth 3The Giving Game ("Would You?") — depth 3The Leader Game — depth 3The Shield — depth 3Triggering Team Trust — depth 3Truths — depth 3Dyad Circling (Wedding Circle) — depth 4Collaborating · 217Anticipating and addressing emerging issues — depth 1Dance in the Middle — depth 1Next Step Commitment — depth 1Progress Celebration — depth 1The Square — depth 115% Solutions — depth 2Angels In The Closet — depth 2Awkward Situations — depth 2Being Proactive — depth 2Bloody Potato — depth 2Breakdowns to Breakthroughs — depth 2Calculated risk-taking practices — depth 2Celebrating progress and successes — depth 2Challenge your Beliefs — depth 2Circle of Influence — depth 2Clothes Check — depth 2Cognitive Reframing — Negative to Positive — depth 2Connecting to larger purpose and movement — depth 2Courage Prompt — depth 2Creating permission for courageous voice — depth 2Cultivating a mindful relationship to consumption and resources — depth 2Embracing Uncertainty — depth 2Examining and reducing the team's environmental footprint — depth 2Free Falling — depth 2Insult Each Other — depth 2Insults — depth 2Integrating resource consciousness into the team's work outputs — depth 2Jeans Journey — depth 2Learning from setbacks rather than being defeated by them — depth 2Maintaining momentum through difficulty — depth 2Overwhelm versus Overload — depth 2Owning outcomes rather than just completing tasks — depth 2Positive Reframing — depth 2Scorpion — depth 2Solitaire — depth 2Standing firm on principles under pressure — depth 2Step Up Your Courage — depth 2Taking initiative without waiting for permission — depth 2The Agency Reminder — depth 2The Anticipation Look — depth 2The Disrupters — depth 2The Enough Question — depth 2The Five Rs — depth 2The Initiation Practice — depth 2The Necessity Question — depth 2The Persistence Renewal — depth 2The Perspective Shift — depth 2The Possibility Expansion — depth 2The Progress Notice — depth 2The Recovery Moment — depth 2The Resource Awareness — depth 2The Small Stand — depth 2The Sphere of Influence Focus — depth 2The Voice Despite Fear — depth 2Tossing — depth 2Toward the Wall — depth 2What If… — depth 2What's My Plan of Action — depth 2WOOP — depth 2Addressing & Overcoming Fear — depth 3Fostering Resilience — depth 3Maintaining perspective through difficulty — depth 3Making Courageous Decisions — depth 3My Natural Next Step — depth 3Recovering and rebuilding after significant setbacks — depth 3The Difficult Conversation Initiation — depth 3Fight Lab — depth 4Great Guru Game — depth 4Acting · 68

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Same shelf, three temperaments

An icebreaker any group can run, a reflective model that runs itself, and a grief ritual that asks for an experienced space-holder and established trust. The labels tell them apart before the workshop — notice the dots warming as depth grows.

1-2-4-All

●○○○1hold 1★12-20 minexercise

A participation structure that lets everyone contribute to a question in ~12–20 minutes: one minute of silent reflection alone, two minutes in pairs, four minutes in foursomes, then each foursome shares one standout i…

Co-Creation Skills

Iceberg Model

●●○○2hold 0★15-45 minexercise

The systems-thinking staple: start from a visible event and dig down through the layers beneath it — patterns and trends, systemic structures, and the mental models and paradigms that hold the structures in place — th…

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Truth Mandala

●●●●4hold 3★★★60-120 minexercise

A ritual structure for honoring pain for the world. The circle is divided into quadrants holding symbolic objects — a stone (fear), dead leaves (sorrow), a stick (anger), an empty bowl (emptiness/deprivation). One at…

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Cultivating Our Inner Life

Inner Compass (21)Integrity and Authenticity (19)Openness and Learning Mindset (26)Self-Awareness (74)Presence (109)

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Understanding Our Complex World

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Relating

Caring for Others and the World

Appreciation (30)Connectedness (35)Humility (13)Empathy and Compassion (45)Forgiveness (11)

Collaborating

Building Trust and Working Together

Relationship-Building Skills (41)Inclusive Mindset and Intercultural Competence (18)Co-Creation Skills (90)Communication Skills (52)Mobilization Skills (17)

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Leading and Enabling Change

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●●●○ depth (1 informational → 4 transformational edge; the dots warm as it deepens) · holding 0–4 (self-guided → specialist) · ★★★ trust (any group → established) · disclosure (none / optional / required). This is a directory, not a certification — and deep is not better. The labels exist so the mismatch between an exercise and a room becomes visible before the workshop. The model, explained →