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Relationship Mapping

Innovation Workshop

Innovation Workshop is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25)GROUP SIZE
QuietENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
High cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Network Design This relationship mapping exercise strengthens Network Design, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Explain the workshop’s objective and its importance in addressing the chosen challenge or topic.
  2. Set basic rules: respect ideas, encourage participation, and maintain a creative mindset.
  3. Outline the workshop’s central theme, highlighting key aspects to address.
  4. Provide relevant context, such as background information, constraints, and expected goals.
  5. Facilitate one or more creative activities to stimulate innovative thinking. Examples:
  6. Brainstorming: Generate a large number of ideas without judgment.
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Prompts to use +

Explain the workshop’s objective and its importance in addressing the chosen challenge or topic.

Set basic rules: respect ideas, encourage participation, and maintain a creative mindset.

Provide relevant context, such as background information, constraints, and expected goals.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Innovation Workshop. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Explain the workshop’s objective and its importance in addressing the chosen challenge or topic.; Set basic rules: respect ideas, encourage participation, and maintain a creative mindset.; Provide relevant context, such as background information, constraints, and expected goals.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

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