New Personality Research
New Personality Research is an ideation warm-up exercise for divergent ideation: it helps participants open up more possible ideas before choosing a direction.
How to run it
- With a big smile, a fun disposition, and positive posture, have your participants shake out their hands, do a little stretch, and then bring their hands together with interlocking fingers
- Briefly reference the Myers- Briggs "Preferences Test" and then reveal that NEW PERSONALITY RESEARCH is now available regarding preferences
- Have people raise their hand if their RIGHT thumb was on top
- Have everyone stretch again or twiddle thumbs, or anything to get them a little refreshed
- Ask everyone to put their hands together again
- Let this group hoop and holler it up Do one last little stretch and ask them to bring their hands together one last time
- have both thumbs next to one another, several always do!!
- Have fun with it !!
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Prompts to use +
With a big smile, a fun disposition, and positive posture, have your participants shake out their hands, do a little stretch, and then bring their hands together with interlocking fingers
Briefly reference the Myers- Briggs "Preferences Test" and then reveal that NEW PERSONALITY RESEARCH is now available regarding preferences
Have people raise their hand if their RIGHT thumb was on top
Have everyone stretch again or twiddle thumbs, or anything to get them a little refreshed
Ask everyone to put their hands together again
Let this group hoop and holler it up Do one last little stretch and ask them to bring their hands together one last time
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: New Personality Research. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: With a big smile, a fun disposition, and positive posture, have your participants shake out their hands, do a little stretch, and then bring their hands together with interlocking fingers; Briefly reference the Myers- Briggs "Preferences Test" and then reveal that NEW PERSONALITY RESEARCH is now available regarding preferences; Have people raise their hand if their RIGHT thumb was on top; Have everyone stretch again or twiddle thumbs, or anything to get them a little refreshed. 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.)
- What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
- 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.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.