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Creative Stations

Creative Stations is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Explain the overall objective of the activity and how each station will address the topic from a different perspective.
  2. Briefly describe the activities at each station and their purpose.
  3. Divide participants into small groups and assign a starting point for each group.
  4. Groups work at each station for the assigned time.
  5. At each station, participants document their ideas, reflections, or progress using provided materials or digital tools.
  6. After completing the rotation, gather all participants to share the outcomes from each station.
  7. Facilitate a final discussion to evaluate the experience:
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Prompts to use +

Explain the overall objective of the activity and how each station will address the topic from a different perspective.

After completing the rotation, gather all participants to share the outcomes from each station.

Facilitate a final discussion to evaluate the experience:

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Creative Stations. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Explain the overall objective of the activity and how each station will address the topic from a different perspective.; After completing the rotation, gather all participants to share the outcomes from each station.; Facilitate a final discussion to evaluate the experience:. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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  • Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from Participatory Methods; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Participatory Methods.)
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  • 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.

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