Drawing Together • WorkshopBank
Drawing Together • WorkshopBank 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
- You are working with a multilingual or cross-cultural group where verbal fluency varies.
- You want to create deeper connection between group members by revealing how each person sees the same challenge differently.
- A vision or strategy needs to come alive beyond bullet points and slide decks.
- Drawing Together is a visual sense-making technique where participants use five simple symbols to tell a story about a challenge, journey, or experience without using any words.
- Participants draw individually and in silence, then swap their drawings with a partner or small group who interprets the story they see.
- This creates a powerful feedback loop where others reflect back meaning the drawer may not have seen in their own picture.
- Space: Enough table or wall space for every participant to draw on a large sheet of paper Wall space or easels if you want participants to post their drawings for a gallery-style debrief
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Prompts to use +
You want to create deeper connection between group members by revealing how each person sees the same challenge differently.
Drawing Together is a visual sense-making technique where participants use five simple symbols to tell a story about a challenge, journey, or experience without using any words.
Participants draw individually and in silence, then swap their drawings with a partner or small group who interprets the story they see.
This creates a powerful feedback loop where others reflect back meaning the drawer may not have seen in their own picture.
Space: Enough table or wall space for every participant to draw on a large sheet of paper Wall space or easels if you want participants to post their drawings for a gallery-style debrief
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Drawing Together • WorkshopBank. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: You want to create deeper connection between group members by revealing how each person sees the same challenge differently.; Drawing Together is a visual sense-making technique where participants use five simple symbols to tell a story about a challenge, journey, or experience without using any words.; Participants draw individually and in silence, then swap their drawings with a partner or small group who interprets the story they see.; This creates a powerful feedback loop where others reflect back meaning the drawer may not have seen in their own picture.. 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 WorkshopBank; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including WorkshopBank.)
- 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.
- Method lineage: this exercise shares its method name with work attributed to Amy Lenzo in our people index. That is a name match, not an origin claim.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.