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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 — reconnecting the team as people before it works as a function. From five-minute openers to a 90-minute deep version.
- 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)
Instructions
- Where
- transitionmakers.nl/tool/team-check-in — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Maike Verhagen via Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA), built on Rosenberg's NVC; team adaptation by Thomas Jordan — Nonviolent Communication / team ritual
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