Alien Tiger Cow
Alien Tiger Cow is a personal disclosure exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Goal be for everyone to become the SAME character.
- Facilitation Pair up with 2 people you don't work with / don't know well Tell people to take a breath first, then 1-2-3 After a couple rounds tell people to consider not what you want, but what the group needs.
- CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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Prompts to use +
Facilitation Pair up with 2 people you don't work with / don't know well Tell people to take a breath first, then 1-2-3 After a couple rounds tell people to consider not what you want, but what the group needs.
CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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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: Alien Tiger Cow. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Facilitation Pair up with 2 people you don't work with / don't know well Tell people to take a breath first, then 1-2-3 After a couple rounds tell people to consider not what you want, but what the group needs.; CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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