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Ideation Warm-Up ยท Relationship Mapping

Pecha Kucha

Pecha Kucha is an ideation warm-up exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
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. Before your event, have your team prepare a PechaKucha in advance
  2. The key to a great presentation is to present something you love
  3. Some Pecha Kuchas tell
  4. Pecha Kucha or 20 X 20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds.
  5. Use this simple 20x presentation format to put an end to boring PowerPoint presentations and visually engage your audience.
  6. 50 by IAF Admin for IAF Library Use Method Goal For a group to create together a series of visual images that tell their story quickly and in relevant detail Materials Instructions Before Setting: One or more laptops, beam
  7. CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.
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Prompts to use +

Before your event, have your team prepare a PechaKucha in advance

The key to a great presentation is to present something you love

Use this simple 20x presentation format to put an end to boring PowerPoint presentations and visually engage your audience.

50 by IAF Admin for IAF Library Use Method Goal For a group to create together a series of visual images that tell their story quickly and in relevant detail Materials Instructions Before Setting: One or more laptops, beam

CollaborationCollaboratively create agendas in real-time.

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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: Pecha Kucha. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Before your event, have your team prepare a PechaKucha in advance; The key to a great presentation is to present something you love; Use this simple 20x presentation format to put an end to boring PowerPoint presentations and visually engage your audience.; 50 by IAF Admin for IAF Library Use Method Goal For a group to create together a series of visual images that tell their story quickly and in relevant detail Materials Instructions Before Setting: One or more laptops, beam. 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. (2 sources observed, including Relationship Makers Handbook, SessionLab.)
  • 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.

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