dance - Project of How
dance - Project of How is an ideation warm-up exercise for divergent ideation: it helps participants open up more possible ideas before choosing a direction.
How to run it
- Stand up. You need to have your group gathered in a place with a lot of space. Dancy music played out loud is also needed! One person now has to lead the dance, and the others follow. Send around the lead dance task until everyone has been the leader of the dancer.
- Choose a good dance song to dance to
- You need to have your group gathered in a place with a lot of space.
- Do: Let everyone lead the dance Choose a good dance song to dance to Crazy moves Have fun!
- Don’t: Stay to long on each lead dancer Facilitator role: Start up the session, check up that you have what you need for the session, and most important: join in, lead by example!
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Prompts to use +
Stand up. You need to have your group gathered in a place with a lot of space. Dancy music played out loud is also needed! One person now has to lead the dance, and the others follow. Send around the lead dance task until everyone has been the leader of the dancer.
Choose a good dance song to dance to
You need to have your group gathered in a place with a lot of space.
Do: Let everyone lead the dance Choose a good dance song to dance to Crazy moves Have fun!
Don’t: Stay to long on each lead dancer Facilitator role: Start up the session, check up that you have what you need for the session, and most important: join in, lead by example!
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: dance - Project of How. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Stand up. You need to have your group gathered in a place with a lot of space. Dancy music played out loud is also needed! One person now has to lead the dance, and the others follow. Send around the lead dance task until everyone has been the leader of the dancer.; Choose a good dance song to dance to; You need to have your group gathered in a place with a lot of space.; Do: Let everyone lead the dance Choose a good dance song to dance to Crazy moves Have fun!. 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 Project of How; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Project of How.)
- 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.
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