Collective DIY Mascot
Collective DIY Mascot is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Encourage shared identity building through creativity.
- Foster emotional connection and collaboration among group members.
- Transform individual input into a collective creation.
- Use or create a blank cloth doll with no facial features or accessories.
- Ensure it is lightweight and easy to transport and modify.
- Create a timeline so each participant has the mascot for one week.
- Choose a final date to unveil the completed mascot.
- The process ends with a final gathering to present and celebrate what was created together.
- Digitally archive the process to share with others or future groups.
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Prompts to use +
Use or create a blank cloth doll with no facial features or accessories.
Create a timeline so each participant has the mascot for one week.
Choose a final date to unveil the completed mascot.
The process ends with a final gathering to present and celebrate what was created together.
Digitally archive the process to share with others or future groups.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Collective DIY Mascot. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Use or create a blank cloth doll with no facial features or accessories.; Create a timeline so each participant has the mascot for one week.; Choose a final date to unveil the completed mascot.; The process ends with a final gathering to present and celebrate what was created together.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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