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Team Reflection · Reflection and Learning

Ideas marketplace

Ideas marketplace is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Tokens or symbolic coins to represent the available budget for each participant.
  2. Posters or cards to identify the ideas at the marketplace stalls.
  3. Spaces or tables for each idea to have its own “stall.”
  4. Explain the purpose of the activity and how the marketplace works.
  5. Define the rules: each participant will have a fixed amount of symbolic coins to “purchase” the ideas they prefer.
  6. Sellers prepare a brief description or presentation of their ideas (this may include images, charts, or text on posters).
  7. Each idea is organized into a stall within the marketplace.
  8. Buyers visit the stalls, interact with sellers, and evaluate the ideas.
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Prompts to use +

Posters or cards to identify the ideas at the marketplace stalls.

Spaces or tables for each idea to have its own “stall.”

Explain the purpose of the activity and how the marketplace works.

Define the rules: each participant will have a fixed amount of symbolic coins to “purchase” the ideas they prefer.

Sellers prepare a brief description or presentation of their ideas (this may include images, charts, or text on posters).

Buyers visit the stalls, interact with sellers, and evaluate the ideas.

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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: Ideas marketplace. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Posters or cards to identify the ideas at the marketplace stalls.; Spaces or tables for each idea to have its own “stall.”; Explain the purpose of the activity and how the marketplace works.; Define the rules: each participant will have a fixed amount of symbolic coins to “purchase” the ideas they prefer.. 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 Participatory Methods; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including Participatory Methods.)
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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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