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Insight Blast

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

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
BalancedENERGY
In personSETTING
Medium 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. The only rules are the amount of time they are given and the requirement driving Insight in any shape and form
  2. Insight Blast Timing <5 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Short talks that discuss some interesting insight/experience/revelation that participants have to share with their fellow gathering participants.
  3. ([DPSOH KWWS // Cool Possibilities/Options Invite someone from outside your organization that could do a quick Insight Blast to get the players.
  4. WKLQNLQJ Play music as you bring the speaker to the front of the room.
  5. Have players draw/visualize their insights.
  6. Break into people science groups and discuss the blasts.
  7. People Science Data Capture Capture presenters content and if people science teams discuss 207 Tags <5 minutes, exercise, front of the room, imagination, Individual perspectives, insight blast, throughout the GD\ Source Unknown 208
  8. Short talks that discuss some interesting insight/experience/revelation that participants have to share with their fellow gathering participants.
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Prompts to use +

The only rules are the amount of time they are given and the requirement driving Insight in any shape and form

Insight Blast Timing <5 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Short talks that discuss some interesting insight/experience/revelation that participants have to share with their fellow gathering participants.

([DPSOH KWWS // Cool Possibilities/Options Invite someone from outside your organization that could do a quick Insight Blast to get the players.

WKLQNLQJ Play music as you bring the speaker to the front of the room.

Have players draw/visualize their insights.

Break into people science groups and discuss the blasts.

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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Insight Blast. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: The only rules are the amount of time they are given and the requirement driving Insight in any shape and form; Insight Blast Timing <5 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Short talks that discuss some interesting insight/experience/revelation that participants have to share with their fellow gathering participants.; ([DPSOH KWWS // Cool Possibilities/Options Invite someone from outside your organization that could do a quick Insight Blast to get the players.; WKLQNLQJ Play music as you bring the speaker to the front of the room.. 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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