Heads Up
Heads Up is an applied improv exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- All of them force the groups to share and learn with each other
- Have one smartphone per People Science group preloaded with Heads Up
- Laughs are guaranteed to follow $QGURLG L26 :LQGRZV Alternatively, using a few experts in the content of your gathering, create cards of content exactly like
- Pass out the cards to each PS team and have them play
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Prompts to use +
All of them force the groups to share and learn with each other
Have one smartphone per People Science group preloaded with Heads Up
Laughs are guaranteed to follow $QGURLG L26 :LQGRZV Alternatively, using a few experts in the content of your gathering, create cards of content exactly like
Pass out the cards to each PS team and have them play
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: Heads Up. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: All of them force the groups to share and learn with each other; Have one smartphone per People Science group preloaded with Heads Up; Laughs are guaranteed to follow $QGURLG L26 :LQGRZV Alternatively, using a few experts in the content of your gathering, create cards of content exactly like; Pass out the cards to each PS team and have them play. 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 Relationship Makers Handbook; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Relationship Makers Handbook.)
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- 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.
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