No Look Portrait
No Look Portrait is a visual thinking exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Ask all participants to introduce themselves to someone in the room they don't know
- Pass out markers and a sheet of 8x paper to each participant
- Ask them to turn away from their partner
- and draw a portrait of them without looking
- Have participants label the artwork with the subject's name, sign it with their name, role, and region
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Prompts to use +
Ask all participants to introduce themselves to someone in the room they don't know
Pass out markers and a sheet of 8x paper to each participant
Ask them to turn away from their partner
and draw a portrait of them without looking
Have participants label the artwork with the subject's name, sign it with their name, role, and region
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: No Look Portrait. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Ask all participants to introduce themselves to someone in the room they don't know; Pass out markers and a sheet of 8x paper to each participant; Ask them to turn away from their partner; and draw a portrait of them without looking. 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.