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Exercises for Context Sharing

Context sharing exercises help a room surface who is here, what they bring, and what they need before deeper work begins. They strengthen Personalization, one of the six Gathering Effectiveness pillars this library is organized by. Use them early, when people do not yet know how to read the room or what others are carrying into it.

This category groups exercises by relationship stage, one of the eight purposes the library is organized around.

63 exercises

Journey Mapping • WorkshopBank

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Group Energiser & Perspective-Changing Exercise - Paradigm Shift

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

Photo Storytelling

Collaborative Story Building · 5 to 15 minutes

Assume Beginner’s Mindset

Workspace Ritual · 5 to 15 minutes

The Faces

Visual Thinking · 5 to 15 minutes

Synesthesia

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Social Capital Sentence

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Build-A-House

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Discovery & Action Dialogue • WorkshopBank

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

3 Awareness of Context, Bias, & Assumptions

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Show and Tell

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Scenario Slider

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Empathy Mapping • WorkshopBank

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Rich Pictures • WorkshopBank

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Agreement-Certainty Matching Matrix

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Last Ones at the Bar

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Situationist Drift

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Memory Wall

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Stereotypes

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Stories of change

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Helping Behavior

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Urban Sketching

Visual Thinking · 5 to 15 minutes

Emotional map

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Mission Impossible

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Identity sliders

Personal Disclosure · 5 to 15 minutes

Building partnerships

General Collaboration Exercise · 60+ minutes

feedback - Project of How

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

Fishbone Diagram • WorkshopBank

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Action Learning • WorkshopBank

General Collaboration Exercise · 15 to 30 minutes

stop with - Project of How

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

Feedback for dummies - Project of How

General Collaboration Exercise · 30 to 60 minutes

staircase - Project of How

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

evaluation - Project of How

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

continue with - Project of How

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

Risk mapping

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Liberating Structures Overview • WorkshopBank

Ideation Warm-Up · 60+ minutes

Gamestorming for Distributed Teams

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Sounds & Atmosphere exercises

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

TGL: February 2010

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

TGL: December 2011

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

Fishbowl discussion

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

15 Top Small Group Games for Employees

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Data-driven decisions

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Role Simulation

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

TGL: November 2007

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

Critical Collaboration

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Mind Mapping (facilitated) Workshop • WorkshopBank

Visual Thinking · 15 to 30 minutes

Storyboarding • WorkshopBank

Collaborative Story Building · 5 to 15 minutes

Context Map (Gamestorming) - Facilitation Method

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

World Cafe Workshop • WorkshopBank

General Collaboration Exercise · 15 to 30 minutes

Masterpiece

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

How to Create a Team Purpose Quickly • WorkshopBank

General Collaboration Exercise · 15 to 30 minutes

Personal & Team Values Workshop • WorkshopBank

General Collaboration Exercise · 15 to 30 minutes

Elevator Pitch

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

TGL: August 2011

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

Spectogram/Human Barometer Workshop • WorkshopBank

General Collaboration Exercise · 15 to 30 minutes

MethodKit - MethodKit

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

SALTO-YOUTH - What are support activities organised by the network of Erasmus+: Youth in Action National Agencies and

Youth Group Game · 5 to 15 minutes

What We Do • Interactivity Foundation

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Agile UX Sketching and Scrum

Visual Thinking · 5 to 15 minutes

Apple, Orange and Banana!

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

PFP: May 2004

General Collaboration Exercise · Under 5 minutes

Icebreaker Bingo Generator: Free Custom Cards (2026)

Youth Group Game · 5 to 15 minutes

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