Drawing for Success - Superheroes
Drawing for Success - Superheroes is a visual thinking exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Share your superpowers!
- Give each person a sheet of paper and a pencil
- Draw a picture of themselves using their work "superpower"
- Have them introduce themselves to a colleague they don't know using their drawing
- Process Everyone has a work superpower it might be keeping a group focused, supporting team members, or working with complex spreadsheets.
- Logistics Paper and pen for each participant Cool Possibilities/Options Have them identify what superpower they WISH they had or had access to and make those.
- People Science Data Capture Photograph everyone's picture and record their micro-niche into the PS database.
- Provide a copy of this data to everyone in the room as a take-away.
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Prompts to use +
Give each person a sheet of paper and a pencil
Draw a picture of themselves using their work "superpower"
Have them introduce themselves to a colleague they don't know using their drawing
Process Everyone has a work superpower it might be keeping a group focused, supporting team members, or working with complex spreadsheets.
Logistics Paper and pen for each participant Cool Possibilities/Options Have them identify what superpower they WISH they had or had access to and make those.
People Science Data Capture Photograph everyone's picture and record their micro-niche into the PS database.
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: Drawing for Success - Superheroes. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Give each person a sheet of paper and a pencil; Draw a picture of themselves using their work "superpower"; Have them introduce themselves to a colleague they don't know using their drawing; Process Everyone has a work superpower it might be keeping a group focused, supporting team members, or working with complex spreadsheets.. 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 Relationship Makers Handbook; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Relationship Makers Handbook.)
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