Desert Island Questions
Desert Island Questions is a prompted conversation exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Ask your participants to answer the 3 columns, you can give them 5 minutes to answer. After that, you can review one column at a time and read the cards to everyone one card at a time. This activity is nice to break the ice and have a light session with your teammates.
- Start For Free Desert Island Questions Icebreakers What is this activity?
- Template created by: EasyRetro Team Has been used 236 times Create Free Board Desert Island Questions Template Who’s the best person you could be stranded on a desert island with?
- Create Free Board How to conduct this activity Ask your participants to answer the 3 columns, you can give them 5 minutes to answer.
- After that, you can review one column at a time and read the cards to everyone one card at a time.
- This activity is nice to break the ice and have a light session with your teammates.
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Ask your participants to answer the 3 columns, you can give them 5 minutes to answer. After that, you can review one column at a time and read the cards to everyone one card at a time. This activity is nice to break the ice and have a light session with your teammates.
Start For Free Desert Island Questions Icebreakers What is this activity?
Template created by: EasyRetro Team Has been used 236 times Create Free Board Desert Island Questions Template Who’s the best person you could be stranded on a desert island with?
Create Free Board How to conduct this activity Ask your participants to answer the 3 columns, you can give them 5 minutes to answer.
After that, you can review one column at a time and read the cards to everyone one card at a time.
This activity is nice to break the ice and have a light session with your teammates.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Desert Island Questions. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask your participants to answer the 3 columns, you can give them 5 minutes to answer. After that, you can review one column at a time and read the cards to everyone one card at a time. This activity is nice to break the ice and have a light session with your teammates.; Start For Free Desert Island Questions Icebreakers What is this activity?; Template created by: EasyRetro Team Has been used 236 times Create Free Board Desert Island Questions Template Who’s the best person you could be stranded on a desert island with?; Create Free Board How to conduct this activity Ask your participants to answer the 3 columns, you can give them 5 minutes to answer.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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