practice · all tools
Team Check-in
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★★some
Disclosure · what is sharedrequired
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 — reconnecting the team as people before it works as a function. From five-minute openers to a 90-minute deep version.
Hold with care
- The ritual holds only if what is shared is never used later in performance conversations — leaders carry that guarantee
Practical
- Time
- 30-90 min
- Group
- 3–30 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Pen and paper
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, emotional-processing
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (regular team rhythm; Jordan's quick variant runs 5 minutes each meeting)
Origin & where it lives
Maike Verhagen via Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA), built on Rosenberg's NVC; team adaptation by Thomas Jordan — Nonviolent Communication / team ritual
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox · Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Related: nvc dialogue practice (pairs-with)
status: checked · added 2026-08-25