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Exercises for Participation Architecture

Participation architecture exercises make sure people do something instead of just watching: contribute, practice, discuss, or decide out loud. This is one of the six Gathering Effectiveness pillars this library is organized by. Choose these exercises when a room needs an alternative to passive broadcast.

This category groups exercises by the Gathering Effectiveness pillar they strengthen.

248 exercises

Make a World

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Awestruck 3 Minutes

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Spectrum Mapping

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

How Might We

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Carousel

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Skill Will Matrix

Team Reflection · 30 to 60 minutes

Image Brainstorming

Prompted Conversation · 15 to 30 minutes

Experience Quotes

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

SCAMPER Idea Generation

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Personal Buzzfeed

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

3-12-3 Brainstorm

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Random Words

Prompted Conversation · 15 to 30 minutes

Idea Boxes

General Collaboration Exercise · 15 to 30 minutes

Bodystorming

Applied Improv · 30 to 60 minutes

Power Position

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Creative Problem Solving Suite

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Idea Speed Dating

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Individual Perspectives

Circle Dialogue · 30 to 60 minutes

50 Word Epiphany

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Silly Dancing

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Southwest Model Draw

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Use Your Amygdala

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

The Emperor's Thumb

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

What If

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Responses to No

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Create Your One-Line Bio Together

Applied Improv · 5 to 15 minutes

Phone Stacking

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Tableau

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Pre-Mortem Workshop

Psychological Safety Opener · 30 to 60 minutes

Time Wasters

Personal Disclosure · 30 to 60 minutes

Place Your Bets

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

The Blind Side

Psychological Safety Opener · 30 to 60 minutes

Divergent Thinking Mind Map Style

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

Argue It Out

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Hot Potato Tags

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Up And Down

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Brain Shifter

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

Q Test

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Business Books

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Twenty-Two Habits for Better Creativity

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Generations

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Structured Sticky Note Brainstorming

Prompted Conversation · 30 to 60 minutes

Googlism

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Storyboard

Collaborative Story Building · 30 to 60 minutes

Team Role Development Matrix

Ideation Warm-Up · 60+ minutes

Image-ination

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

People to People

Psychological Safety Opener · 5 to 15 minutes

Concerns in a Hat

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Movie Name Tags

Name Learning · 15 to 30 minutes

Design Your Hierarchy

Applied Improv · 15 to 30 minutes

One Word Whip

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Who and Why

Psychological Safety Opener · 15 to 30 minutes

Fishbowl

Circle Dialogue · 30 to 60 minutes

1-2-4-All

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Brainwriting

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Idea Volume Brainstorming

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Phone-a-Friend Resource Mapping

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Building and Shifting the Discourse

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Practicing Deliberation with Others: Legislative Jury

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Phillips 6/6

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Elephant in the Room

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Balloon Propulsion Greetings

Psychological Safety Opener · 5 to 15 minutes

Back of the Napkin

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Plus/Delta

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Sex Ed Cards

Prompted Conversation · 15 to 30 minutes

4 Markers for Your Odds

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Yellow Pages Mashup

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Yes, But...

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Build the Checklist

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

Leadership Advice from Your Role Model

Psychological Safety Opener · 15 to 30 minutes

Too Fast Too Slow

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Braindrawing

Visual Thinking · 15 to 30 minutes

Pie Chart Agenda

Circle Dialogue · 5 to 15 minutes

Nippon

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Jeffersonian Dinner Discussion

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Social Loafing Discussion

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Nothing Fails Like Success

Psychological Safety Opener · 30 to 60 minutes

Sound for the Source

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

NUF Test

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

How Might We (HMW)

Personal Disclosure · 15 to 30 minutes

Random Inputs

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

The Pitch

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Triangles

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

New Personality Research

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Time Capsule

Psychological Safety Opener · 30 to 60 minutes

Zoom Problem Ladder

Prompted Conversation · 30 to 60 minutes

Deepening Table Top Conversations

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Affinity Map

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

Walk in the Door Big Share

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Stars

Psychological Safety Opener · 15 to 30 minutes

Affinity Diagram

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Rain Maker

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Bring Your Own Dashboard

Ideation Warm-Up · 60+ minutes

Cover Story

Workspace Ritual · 30 to 60 minutes

System Sculpting

Applied Improv · 30 to 60 minutes

Plus Delta Feedback

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Luck in an Envelope

Adventure Initiative · 60+ minutes

Team Puzzle

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

One Simple Post-It for Success

Arrival Check-In · 5 to 15 minutes

The Anti-Problem

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Triads

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Feel or Be in AWE

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Mandela Strategies: UWT Reading Discussion

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Asynchronous Reciprocity

Asynchronous Remote Game · 5 to 15 minutes

Crazy 8s

Visual Thinking · 15 to 30 minutes

Big Solutions in a Box Walk

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Action Needed

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Code of Conduct Mind Map

Personal Disclosure · 30 to 60 minutes

Mount Rushmore

Collaborative Story Building · 5 to 15 minutes

Air Time Mastermind

Name Learning · 15 to 30 minutes

Force Field Analysis

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Time Savers

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Who Are We?

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Point to Present

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Mapping Business Models

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

WhoDo

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Six-Second Greeting

Psychological Safety Opener · 5 to 15 minutes

Matthew, Mark, Luke, John

Youth Group Game · 5 to 15 minutes

The Kipling Method

Prompted Conversation · 15 to 30 minutes

I've Got Questions

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Product Pinocchio

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Curiosity Quotient

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

The Empty Chair

Arrival Check-In · 5 to 15 minutes

Brainstorming

Prompted Conversation · 30 to 60 minutes

Ten-Question Personality Questionnaire

General Collaboration Exercise · 5 to 15 minutes

Whose Line Is It Anyway

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

35 Prioritization

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Pixar Critique Sessions

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Nurturing Intentional Empathy

Psychological Safety Opener · 30 to 60 minutes

Fill-in-the-Blank Reward System

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

SAFE-BOLD Framework

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Whip Around

Prompted Conversation · 5 to 15 minutes

Altitude

Relationship Mapping · 5 to 15 minutes

Brainwriting

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

The Sunset

Visual Thinking · 5 to 15 minutes

Reaction Envelopes

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Community Garden Planning and Action

Ideation Warm-Up · 60+ minutes

Peacock Focus

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Charades Relay

Applied Improv · 5 to 15 minutes

Walk About

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

5-3-1 Summarizing Technique

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Saturate and Group

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Mask Making

Visual Thinking · 30 to 60 minutes

Mapping Design Operations

Relationship Mapping · 30 to 60 minutes

Walking Backwards

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

Prune the Future

Ideation Warm-Up · 15 to 30 minutes

Switch It Brainstorm

Ideation Warm-Up · 30 to 60 minutes

Post-Up

Relationship Mapping · 15 to 30 minutes

Collaborative Life Drawing

Visual Thinking · 15 to 30 minutes

Teaching Procedures

Ideation Warm-Up · 5 to 15 minutes

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