2 Brains: Tell it & Sell It
2 Brains: Tell it & Sell It is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Provide your players with post-its and markers. We recommend using four different colors for the four thought topics:
- Right-brain post-its are for purely emotional.
- Left-brain post-its are for purely practical.
- brain post-its are for emotional and practical.
- Other post-its are for other types of ideas.
- Collaborate to form as many 2-brain messages as you can by combining the right- and left-brain messages. Write these new messages on sticky notes and place them in appropriate (likely upper-right) squares.
- . Provide your players with post-its and markers. We recommend using four different colors for the four thought topics:
- . Collaborate to form as many 2-brain messages as you can by combining the right- and left-brain messages. Write these new messages on sticky notes and place them in appropriate (likely upper-right) squares.
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Prompts to use +
Provide your players with post-its and markers. We recommend using four different colors for the four thought topics:
Collaborate to form as many 2-brain messages as you can by combining the right- and left-brain messages. Write these new messages on sticky notes and place them in appropriate (likely upper-right) squares.
. Provide your players with post-its and markers. We recommend using four different colors for the four thought topics:
. Collaborate to form as many 2-brain messages as you can by combining the right- and left-brain messages. Write these new messages on sticky notes and place them in appropriate (likely upper-right) squares.
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: 2 Brains: Tell it & Sell It. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Provide your players with post-its and markers. We recommend using four different colors for the four thought topics:; Collaborate to form as many 2-brain messages as you can by combining the right- and left-brain messages. Write these new messages on sticky notes and place them in appropriate (likely upper-right) squares.; . Provide your players with post-its and markers. We recommend using four different colors for the four thought topics:; . Collaborate to form as many 2-brain messages as you can by combining the right- and left-brain messages. Write these new messages on sticky notes and place them in appropriate (likely upper-right) squares.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
Origin unverified
- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Gamestorming; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Gamestorming.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.