"How we work together" dialogues
To create space for explicit discussion of team dynamics. Periodically dedicate time to dialogue focused on how the team works together. Topics might include: • How do we typica…
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Self-Awareness
Ability to be in reflective contact with thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions; to maintain a realistic self-image and to regulate oneself.
Tools for this skill (74)
Adapting Response Patterns
Using Albert Ellis's ABC model (Activating event – Belief – Consequence), participants analyse their own automatic, self-sabotaging reactions under pressure, identify the unhelp…
Biopsychosocial Model
Maps how external influences and internal factors together shape the day-to-day self — body, mind and social context taken as one system rather than three competing explanations…
Body Awareness
Across multiple sessions, participants train attention to their bodily and affective responses inside real learning and work situations — where concentration lives, how tension…
Body Part Leads
The leader names a body part that will lead the person around the room, and the group works with direction, strength, tempo, level and form. What does the leading part look like…
Body Scan Meditation
A guided practice of moving attention slowly and systematically through the body, noticing sensation without trying to change it. Usually done lying down with audio guidance, 20…
Climate Emotions Wheel
A color wheel of climate-related emotions (anger, fear, sadness, positivity and their finer shades) used as a check-in and vocabulary tool: participants locate and name what the…
Cognitive Defusion Practice
The core ACT move of stepping back from a thought so it becomes something you HAVE rather than something you ARE: rephrasing "I don't matter to anyone" as "I am having the thoug…
Complain Game
Two minutes complaining about something in your life you want different — as a bad mood, or all-out as a victim — then, after swapping, speak to your usual self in the voice of…
Context Conversation
A conversation held entirely in the stem 'Right now, I would ___ because ___' — the thing you would do, and the motive under it, which can go several 'because's down: 'I would a…
Different Places, Different Feelings
The stage is divided into four squares and each is assigned a feeling. For as long as a character stands in a square they carry that square's feeling, so moving changes what the…
Distinguish Your Shadow
In a group of four to seven, each person in turn introduces their shadow — the part they hide or are ashamed of — and answers the group's questions as that part: how it most lik…
Emotion Sculpture
One person chooses an emotion they struggle with and sculpts their partner into it — shoulders, brows, posture — adjusting like a director until it is right, walks around it, an…
Face Massage
Each person massages their own face, sitting comfortably: fingers stroked over the whole face, circles at the chin and cheeks, light pressure at the temples, the forehead and sc…
Far Away, So Close
Two lines at opposite ends of the room; one line directs the other with three hand signals — come closer, go back, stop — for a minute or two, in silence, then partners talk and…
Gradual Change
One at a time, people cross the room while gradually transforming their character from one pole to another — good to evil, young to old, ashamed to proud, beautiful to ugly, afr…
Guided Journaling (Theory U)
Writing through a scripted sequence of questions that walk the U: from current challenges and frustrations, through looking at your journey and self from outside, to the deeper…
Hot Seat
A volunteer takes the chair and names the intensity they want — mild, medium or spicy — and the group asks probing questions to match, 'interested, not interesting' ones that ke…
If I Were a Tree
Lying with their own working space and eyes closed, participants are asked what tree they would be, and then led around it — how it would feel to be that tree, where you are, wh…
Immunity to Change Map
A four-column mapping process that surfaces why sincere improvement goals stall: (1) the commitment to improve, (2) what I do/don't do instead, (3) hidden competing commitments…
Inception ("What's that like?")
One person says what they are feeling right now; the other may only ask 'what's that like?' — or 'what's it like to feel sad and be smiling at the same time?' — for two to five…
Inner Monologue
A scene is played, and beside it — or in it — stand the players' angels and devils: alter egos who say aloud what each character is 'really' thinking or up to as the scene runs.
Keeping the Head Still
Walk and talk to each other, some of you keeping the head completely still while speaking, others letting it move and tilt. For some people the still head is impossible; others…
Kind and Unkind
Ask people to say something kind to their neighbour, and then something unkind. The source's whole commentary is one sentence: the wrong effect is often achieved.
Kingdom
Someone takes the throne; the room becomes their subjects, and a facilitator asks them how it would feel to be ruled by this person — kind? just? able to make hard decisions? de…
Listing Exercise
Worked alone with paper and pen: the leader asks a question and each person lists every answer they have to it. The sheet's examples are what it means to be a good friend, and a…
Manage Your Inner Drivers
A self-reflection for coaches before they ever sit down with a politician: interrogate your own opinions and assumptions about people in public office — where they came from, wh…
Meditation on Meeting Needs
A ten-minute guided meditation on the machinery underneath consumption: resting with the breath, participants observe moods and feelings as they shift, and notice the subtle sen…
Meet My Essence
Mill and introduce yourself as the self you first show people — and say how and why you show up that way: 'I'm really loving and warm and soft when I meet people, so you HAVE to…
Mirror of Perception
The group names qualities it sees in one person, popcorn-style, and that person holds up one to five fingers for how true each feels from inside; then they name qualities they s…
Myself — My Friend
An opening self-attention exercise for people used to defining themselves by their roles. Participants say the first thing that comes to mind when asked to think about themselve…
Noticing and naming team patterns in real-time
To develop the team's capacity to notice what is happening in the moment. Cultivate the habit of pausing to name what is happening: • 'I notice the energy dropped when we starte…
Owning Our Judgments
Round one: everyone voices an unowned judgment that is true for them right now — 'I feel like this game is stupid.' Round two: each repeats it and says what is more true underne…
P.I.E.S.
Each person gives a one-to-ten number for how they are, then says how they are doing physically, intellectually, emotionally and socially or spiritually, thirty to sixty seconds…
Pandora's Box
Four rounds of stems, twice round the circle each: 'inside of me, I notice…', 'outside of me, I notice…', 'if you really knew me, you would be curious about…', and 'to really kn…
Periodic team health assessment
To create structured opportunity for the team to assess its own functioning. Use questions that team members respond to individually, followed by collective discussion. Dimensio…
Personal Behavior Change (five-step process)
A repeatable five-question process for a behaviour or emotional pattern someone wants to shift: Awareness (what am I actually doing), Meaning (why does changing it matter to me)…
Process-focused debriefs
To build the habit of reflecting not just on outcomes but on processes. After significant meetings, decisions, or interactions, take 5-10 minutes to debrief not just what was de…
RAIN Meditation
A four-step mindfulness practice for meeting difficult emotion where it stands: Recognize what is happening, Allow it to be here, Investigate with gentle curiosity (in the body,…
Ranking Exercise
Participants are given a theme or question and rank options — freely or from a given set — by which is most important, most common, most dangerous. The sheet's own example build…
Rooms Of The Heart
'If my heart had different rooms, the one I use the most is…' — one person describes a room in themselves, a playful room or a work room, and how it is to have the others in it…
Rose, Bud, Thorn
Each person names a rose (something going well), a bud (something new or full of possibility) and a thorn (something hard), then picks who goes next. Simple enough for a company…
Seeds Collecting
A small companion practice to journaling: capture the resonant notations — a phrase, an image, a half-thought — that carry a charge of possible deep change; protect them, return…
Self-Massage
Sitting apart with room to work, each person massages themselves, guided by the leader: rub the hands warm first, then knead the hands and draw gently on each finger, the arms,…
Shadow Criticism
Voice a criticism of the event, its presentation or its facilitators, and let the others inquire into what in you the criticism might also be about — a wish to push yourself reg…
Sitting Meditation (Breath-Anchored)
The core formal mindfulness practice: sitting upright, resting attention on a chosen anchor — usually the breath — and each time the mind wanders, gently returning it, without j…
Social Identity
Surfaces the implicit assumptions driving your actions and responses, and how they assemble into a social identity — age, life context, the groups you belong to and the ones you…
Spiral Journal
A quiet opener: each person draws a spiral and, guided by four prompts read slowly aloud, writes brief reflections into its quadrants — arriving, noticing, remembering, intendin…
Split Brain
After a short meditation, one person finds two parts of themselves that are at odds, describes how each speaks, and assigns one to each of two partners — who then hold the conve…
Status Cards on Foreheads
Everyone draws a playing card and wears it on their forehead without seeing it, then plays a scene. Everybody can read everyone else's status but not their own, and you learn wh…
Status Mingle
A cocktail party where half the room plays high status and half plays low, then they swap. The source supplies the physical vocabulary for both — toes turned in, head tilted, ha…
Stretching
A set of stretches used as relaxation, worked through the whole body, which a capable group can do on its own. The sheet's example is the neck: tip the head slowly toward one sh…
Subject-Object Interview
Kegan's research-grade developmental interview: ~60–90 minutes of structured conversation around prompts (angry, anxious, success, torn…) through which a trained interviewer ass…
Tension and Release
Teaching the muscles what relaxed feels like by tensing first and then letting go, noticing the difference. Hands clenched as hard as you can, held seven seconds, released, rest…
Tension and Release, Lying
Lying on the back, breathing in through the nose and out through the mouth, working up the body — feet, calves, thighs pressed to the floor, glutes, belly, ribcage, hands — tens…
The Feeling Row
Groups of about four sit in a row facing the same way. The first person mimes a feeling at about a quarter of its strength, the next takes it to half, the third to three quarter…
The Fireman
Lying on their backs and breathing slowly, participants are led through a sequence of imagined sensations and asked how each feels — sand, then shingle; a snowball, then a bead…
The Head & The Heart
Mill while tuning in to the conversation in your own head — its pace, volume, content — then pair up and complete 'Something my head is saying right now is…', repeat with new pa…
The Inner Weather Report
A seconds-scale daily micro-practice for Self-Awareness (VCoL collection): Pause for 5-10 seconds and direct attention inward. Notice: What emotion am I feeling right now? What…
The Letter
Worked alone, as a study in status shift. The circumstances are fixed: you are in your flat waiting for an important letter, you hear the post arrive, fetch it, sort it, find th…
The Reaction Pause
A seconds-scale daily micro-practice for Self-Awareness (VCoL collection): When you notice a strong reaction forming, pause before acting or speaking. Observe: 'I notice I am ha…
The Silent Teddy Bear
A solo improvised monologue directed at a teddy bear, which of course never answers. You can accuse the bear of anything. The source suggests playing a dramatic scene — some kin…
The Stuck Exercise
A Social Presencing Theater practice: one person embodies a real stuck situation from their life or work as a physical shape ("sculpture 1"), stays with it, and lets the body —…
The Superhero in Me
Through a superhero framing, participants explore their capabilities and challenges by casting them: strengths as a superhero, compensated weaknesses as a sidekick, and challeng…
The Trigger Map
A seconds-scale daily micro-practice for Self-Awareness (VCoL collection): When you notice a strong reaction, pause and name it: 'I notice I'm feeling...' Then ask: 'What trigge…
Through the Wrong Door
Walk in through a door as if you had come through the wrong one by mistake. How do you react, how do you leave? Is the reaction natural or is the entrance contrived? The source'…
Time-out signal for process awareness
To enable any team member to pause interaction when communication patterns have become unproductive. Establish an agreed signal (such as forming a 'T' with hands) that any team…
Trading Faces
In silence, imagine seeing your own face, words and movements from where your partner sits — then say 'I must seem…' and describe it, for a few minutes, before the partner answe…
Tree of Life
Participants label a drawn tree as their own life: ROOTS for history and formative experience, TRUNK for life as it is now, FRUITS for what they have accomplished, BUDS for hope…
Understanding & Overcoming Limiting Beliefs
Builds directly on the Tree of Life: hopes are shaped by what a person believes they can be, and those beliefs come from their roots. The group names the doubting thoughts that…
Understanding Our Core Beliefs
A guided group examination of six beliefs the handbook treats as underpinning growth: self-responsibility, self-esteem, trust in a higher purpose, positive attitude, continual g…
Unfinished Sentences
Sitting in a ring, the leader reads the first of a set of prepared unfinished sentences and the first person completes it immediately with whatever comes into their head. Anyone…
VIA Character Strengths Survey
A free, psychometrically validated self-assessment (~15 minutes, after registration) ranking 24 character strengths across six virtues. The ranked profile becomes material for r…
Who Are You?
Three questions, two minutes each: 'Who are you?', 'Who do you pretend to be?', and — asked back — 'Who do you think I am?', then a debrief and a swap. The manual calls it one o…
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Acting in Alignment
Participants surface and rank their core values through imagination and ordering tasks, then examine honestly where recent actions expressed or contradicted them, and commit to…
Addressing & Overcoming Fear
A guided inward exercise on a personal fear. Participants breathe, place their hands over the heart, close their eyes, and identify what they are afraid of — the handbook names…
After-action reviews
To extract learning from completed projects while experience is still fresh. Following completion of a project or significant event, gather involved team members. Address four q…
Angels In The Closet
For three to five minutes each, talk about the angels in your closet — what you are proudest of, as boastfully as you can bear and a little more — and hear back what struck the…
Appreciative framing in team discourse
To balance attention to problems with attention to what is working. When discussing team performance or reviewing work, deliberately include appreciative questions alongside pro…
Asking For Support
Say what you are struggling with; close your eyes and feel for the unmet need under it — significance, love, certainty — and for one concrete thing the other person could do; th…
Awkward Situations
Practising the creation of painfully awkward situations: how do you draw the uncomfortable atmosphere out in time and space? Practise both putting yourself into awkward situatio…
Being Proactive
A short talk and two sorting exercises on the difference between acting and being acted upon. The handbook defines proactive as taking responsibility for your life, choices and…
Blind Desire
Eyes closed, attend to sensation, then to what the body wants, and let it move — first in place, then through the room, moving away from any contact and following your own pleas…
Body Dialogue
Movement first — fifteen minutes of dance or active play with music, enough to raise the heart rate — then participants lie down, still breathing hard, and hold a conversation w…
Circling
A conversation about what is actually happening for you and between you, right now — sensations, emotions, relationship, 'vibes' — with curiosity about others' experience and no…
Clap the Body Awake
Standing with a bit of room and feet apart for balance, everyone claps their own body awake with an open hand: from the fingers up to the shoulder and back down, both sides of t…
Climate Circles / Climate Cafés
Hosted talking circles where participants voluntarily share what the climate crisis stirs in them — fear, anger, guilt, hope — in a confidential, non-judgmental space with no fi…
Cognitive Reframing — Negative to Positive
A discussion and practice on shifting attention from what is wrong to what is wanted, framed as a choice available in any moment rather than a personality trait. Concrete techni…
Constellations
In a large circle, on each prompt everyone finds the one person for whom it is most true — the person you respect most, feel least connected to, would most like to work with, ha…
Contexter
After a short grounding meditation, the group completes the stem 'What's happening right now is…' popcorn-style, with no rebuttals, while the facilitator occasionally asks where…
Creating unconditional space for emergence
To create opportunities to explore without pressure to reach conclusions. Periodically create protected time for a different quality of conversation: • No agenda or predetermine…
Dance Warm-Up
Everyone spreads out with room to move to driving music, and the leader names body parts that are to dance — either swapping one for the next, or accumulating them until the who…
Dancing in the Dark
Everyone takes their own space in the room, the lights go out, soft music plays, and people move however they like. The sheet's reasoning is the point: with the lights fully off…
Don't Laugh
A scene on a very serious subject — death, illness, addiction are the source's examples — and any player who laughs or giggles is replaced by another. A variation turns it aroun…
Drawing Together
Participants tell the story of a challenge and their journey through it using only five symbols — circle, rectangle, triangle, spiral, star-person — drawn, not spoken. Drawings…
DTF Cognitive Assessment & Coaching
A structured interview with a trained DTF analyst that maps a person's current patterns of dialectical thinking — which thought forms (structure, process, relation, transformati…
Emotional Manipulation
A two-player scene opens with a line designed to move the other character's emotional state — a compliment or an insult — and the second player accepts it and lets it land. The…
Emotional Volume Knob
One partner talks; the other conducts with a hand — fist at the hip for stop, pointing forward for go, down for dry and rational, up for pure emotion, anywhere between for that…
Fly on the Wall
A volunteer chooses mild, medium or spicy, then sits to the side with their back to the group and listens while everyone talks about them as if they were not there — noticings,…
Fostering Resilience
Participants share real setback experiences and the strategies that got them through — first alone in writing, then in pairs, then harvested with the group — building both a per…
Gratitude Journal
Write three things you are truly grateful for right now — not to play the game, the manual insists, but because they are true — and then, in a group of three to five, take seven…
Guided Presence
People mill, stop in front of someone, and hold eye contact while the facilitator reads a series of noticing prompts — let go of your story about this person, where is your atte…
Higher Self-Talk
One person stands behind their chair as their higher self, and the group interviews it about them: how do you feel about Rob, does Rob listen to you, what do you want to tell hi…
Impression Spectrum
One person takes the hot seat and closes their eyes; one end of the room is — in the manual's own words — 'I fucking love this person', the other 'I really don't like how this p…
In Groups Of…
The facilitator calls the manual's template — 'In groups of ___ make a ___' — with a number and a thing (its examples: a car, a human body, a crane, a house, a wedding set), and…
Inside-Outside Presence
Training simultaneous attentiveness: staying in contact with one's own inner state while remaining fully attentive to the surroundings and other people — practiced in exercises…
Insults
Two groups each write a list of insults. Then pairs play a plain shop scene — buying and selling, nothing else — and run it again adding an insult to the end of every line, and…
Intentional pauses
To slow down habitual autopilot responses and create space for more considered engagement. Introduce intentional pauses at key moments: • Before an important discussion, take 30…
Interrelational Meditation
Mindfulness extended into relationship: in pairs, participants alternate between eyes-closed contact with their own present experience and open-eyed, non-judgmental seeing of th…
Intervision on Inner Development
Recurring peer-coaching sessions where participants bring their own inner-development questions — a skill they're working on, a pattern they've noticed — and coach each other wi…
Ladder of Inference
Argyris's classic made practical: walk a charged conclusion back down the ladder — from the action taken, through beliefs, interpretations, and selected data, to the observable…
Learning Mindset Moment
Sustainability work involves learning and adaptation. An openness to learning helps teams adjust approaches rather than defending unsuccessful ones, strengthening the effectiven…
Lens of Attention
The group answers the stem 'When I put my attention on ___, I notice ___' — first on objects the leader picks (breath, body, heart, the connection), then on anything anyone prop…
Like, Like, GOOSE!
Duck-duck-goose with a twist: the walker touches each head with a one-word appreciation instead of 'duck', then says 'goose' and runs. The manual is clear the game lies in the t…
Listening Assessment
A daily solo tracking practice: at day's end, estimate how much of your listening happened at each of Scharmer's four levels — downloading (reconfirming what you know), factual,…
Listening Into the Room
Everyone lies down in their own place and listens outward to sounds beyond the room, then to sounds in the room, then to sounds in themselves. The sheet offers the reverse order…
Listening to the Surroundings
Everyone sits in silence and listens to the surroundings for about five minutes. Afterwards they compare what they heard — the ventilation, people outside, distant cars, the win…
Maintaining momentum through difficulty
Difficult periods can stall team momentum. Resilient teams maintain momentum even through difficulty. During difficult periods, focus on maintaining forward motion: • Identify s…
Meet Yourself at 90
A guided values visualization from the ACT tradition: after settling into body and breath, participants imagine themselves at their 90th birthday, visited by someone who matters…
Mindful Pause (Informal Practice)
The informal half of mindfulness training: bringing awareness deliberately into everyday activities — pausing before responding where one would otherwise act through habit or im…
Minis
Three minutes to say or do whatever helps you arrive, while your partner witnesses in silence; then they ask a presencing question — what colour are your socks, how does your le…
Mirror, Mirror
Describe a situation you would ask advice about; your partner repeats it back verbatim — same pronouns, as much of the same feeling as they can honestly carry — as if it were ha…
Multi-horizon tracking
To make visible the team's progress and impact across multiple time horizons. Create a simple tracking tool that includes indicators across at least three time horizons: Operati…
My Best Qualities
Three questions answered privately — what am I proud of, what was my most courageous act, what do I most value about myself — then one of them spoken around the whole circle. Th…
My Natural Next Step
A two-hour workshop for the values–behaviour gap: each participant identifies a small sustainability-related change they keep avoiding because it is uncomfortable, explores with…
Network Relationship Patterns
Quartets use a shared vocabulary of ten recurring work-relationship patterns to name how they actually interact — where energy flows, where it drains — and pick one pattern to s…
Next…
Around the circle, each person tells the one on their left something they themselves would like to hear — 'you're not going to fall apart', 'your mother loves you', 'you don't h…
Noting
In pairs, holding eye contact, one person speaks a single word for whatever passes through awareness — thought, sensation, itch, fear, blankness — for three minutes or more, the…
NVC Dialogue Practice
Practicing Marshall Rosenberg's core sequence on a real tension, in pairs or triads: state the observation without evaluation, name the feeling, connect it to the underlying nee…
One Too Many
Three to seven players, and as the name says, one actor is surplus — one player has to be excluded from the group. Naturally everyone wants to belong and not be the one left out…
Open Sentences
Pairs sit face to face; one speaks, completing a sentence-stem read aloud by the facilitator ("When I see what's happening to the natural world, what breaks my heart is…"), whil…
Overwhelm versus Overload
Distinguishes overload — too much to do, a scheduling problem — from overwhelm, which is a state one is in and cannot schedule away. Participants learn to tell which they are in…
Pattern identification discussions
To build the team's ability to notice recurring patterns across situations. Periodically hold a discussion specifically focused on patterns: Internal patterns: What situations k…
Periodic values-behavior alignment review
To examine whether actual behavior aligns with stated values. Review the team's stated values. For each value, discuss: 1. Where have we lived this value well recently? What are…
Personal Polarity Map
Barry Johnson's polarity mapping applied to personal growth: an eight-step paper exercise that reframes a stuck self-improvement wish ("be clearer") as one pole of a polarity wh…
Presence Pause
Presence helps us notice when automatic reactions or convenience are pulling us away from sustainability commitments. It creates space for more considered responses aligned with…
Regular team retrospectives
To create ongoing opportunities to reflect on how the team is working. Hold a retrospective every two to four weeks with a simple format: What has been going well that we should…
Relaxation: Breathing
Participants lie or stand apart from each other and breathe to a square: in through the nose, down into the belly and up through the ribs to the collarbones; hold; out through t…
Requests Training
One partner asks the other for a die, or a sweet, over and over for a couple of minutes; the holder gives it only when the asking feels genuine — and it is handed straight back…
Secret Identity
The room is secretly split into a Friendly group, who answer 'how are you' with pleasantries, and a Raw group, who answer with one true sentence about their life; people mill an…
See and Be Seen
Mill, stop, close your eyes; on opening, one partner silently sees while the other is seen, then swap, then both at once, closing the eyes in between to return to yourself — all…
Semi-Circling
Stand in front of a semicircle of six to eight and say three to five physical sensations you feel right now, with their flavours, then three to five emotions, with theirs — no s…
Sentence Stems
A sentence stem is a deconstructed question — 'If you really knew me, you would know…', 'Something I really love about myself is…', 'What scares me most is…' — completed around…
Sneak Up on Someone
Everyone walks the room, then is told to sneak up on somebody — walking directly behind them, hoping not to be noticed — while watching their own back for whoever is doing the s…
Socially Inclusive Research
Using the Wheel of Power and embodied exercises, participants examine power, privilege, and intersectionality in community research — locating themselves on the wheel, feeling w…
Spiral Sentence Stems
Sentence stems written for the altitudes of development — 'my instincts protect me when…', 'I'm awed by the magical mystery of existence when…', 'I'm proud to be part of ___ bec…
Spoon of Water
Everyone imagines they are carrying a spoonful of water and balances it as they walk the room. If that is hard, the source suggests trying it with a real spoon first, to feel th…
Status Photos
Four people decide what the photograph shows. Two have high status and two low. Then they make a slow transformation and swap status, without leaving the photograph.
Status Scenes
Scenes built on four movements of status: both players lower theirs, both raise theirs, one raises while the other lowers gradually, and status switches abruptly mid-scene. The…
Status Swap
Two people play a pair with assigned characters — child and adult, thief and police, doctor and patient, boss and employee, groupie and star, devil and angel — one high status a…
Story → Headline
Tell the same story three times — a minute, thirty seconds, ten seconds — each shorter and closer to what is alive in it, then hear the listener's impact. For people who tell lo…
T-Group
Four to eight people hold a forty-minute conversation entirely about what they notice in themselves, in each other and in the group, right now, using four hand signals — agreeme…
Talking with Pixies
A playful externalization of competing inner voices: in quartets, one person describes a stalled ambition while two others voice the "pixies" — contrasting inner voices, one urg…
Team Check-in
An NVC-grounded ritual for teams: unhurried rounds in which each person expresses honestly how they are and what they need, received with empathic listening and no fixing — reco…
The Leader Game
One person on a higher chair has full control of the space for five to ten minutes and may do anything with it — spend it deciding, seek consensus, issue orders. Whatever happen…
The Noticing Game
Two people take turns completing the sentences "Being with you, I notice…" (or "Hearing that, I notice…"), naming present-moment sensations, feelings, and impulses as they arise…
The Receiving Game ("Would I?")
Two people each make a request of the third, who says aloud how each lands in the body and the feelings as it arrives, then weighs them out loud and chooses one — or counter-off…
The Repeating Question
In pairs, walking: one person asks the same question again and again — "What do I find enjoyable and important in life?" — receiving each answer in silence and asking once more.…
The Reverse Bus
Chairs are set out as a bus. One person leaves the room and the rest agree on something odd or wrong about them — the source's examples run from an unzipped fly to looking like…
The Seems
Popcorn-style stems that move through four positions: 'I seem…', then 'you seem…' (choosing a person to project onto), 'we seem…', and 'the context is…' — with 'my context is…'…
The Shield
Each participant draws a large shield divided into four fields and fills them with PICTURES (no words) on personal themes — "this describes me…", "a difficulty I got over…", "I…
The Yes/No Game
One partner may only say yes, the other only no, back and forth for a minute — then swap. Can you hold a no while the other presses? Can you say yes to someone saying no to you?…
Threshold Walk
A miniature quest: carrying one real question, each person walks alone in nature for about an hour, stepping deliberately over a chosen threshold — a stick, a stream, a gate — t…
Translator
Two people converse and each has a translator who says, after every line, what is really behind it: 'What I notice about you is that your shirt is tight' becomes 'You're hot and…
Try Me On
Answer 'Who am I? I am…' in a circle, then take off as much clothing as feels comfortable and pass it to the person on your left, put on what you are handed, move around the roo…
Understanding Identities
A four-part coaching conversation for leaders whose pro-environment values collide with their professional identity. Explore environmental identity, starting from the coach's ow…
Value Clarification
From a printed list of roughly fifty values, pick the ten you are most drawn to without analysing why, then cut to three in five minutes on instinct alone. The guide's framing i…
Values emergence through decision-making
Discover actual values through examining decisions and patterns. Try monthly reviews of recent significant decisions, asking: What did we actually prioritize in this decision? W…
Values Mapping
A team maps what matters to it and why: individual values surfaced, clustered into the team's shared landscape, tensions between values named, and the map kept for decisions und…
Visual Narratives
Groups build a collective narrative about stress and translate it into object-based art installations — working with creative constraints, a scent, found objects, and feedback f…
Walking the Room
Participants walk the room without making contact, to raise the pulse a little and, above all, to focus on being here and now. The leader develops it — vary the tempo down to sl…
What I Mean by That Is…
'I love you, and what I mean by that is…' — each partner completes the phrase with what it means between them right now, then the same for 'I understand you', 'I respect you', b…
What's Here Now?
One person lies down and places their partner's hand somewhere on their own body; the hand stays exactly there, relaxed, in pure witness, while the partner asks 'what's here now…
Working through collective resentments and divisions
To address patterns of division that limit the team's capacity. Periodically create space to examine whether the team is carrying resentments or grievances: Are there other team…