PFP: October 2004
PFP: October 2004 is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Debriefing for Six (including task-based debriefs)
- Stones: Make a sequence of five arrangements of stones showing how the group dynamics have developed since the beginning of the program. Create a sixth arrangement that shows how you would like the group dynamics to be over the next few hours.
- Sketch Map: Create a sketch map showing the journey (real or metaphorical) that the group has taken since the start of the day.
- Gifts: In two subgroups create gifts for each individual in the other subgroup. These gifts should reflect the talents of that individual and should include features or items that will be of value to them in the future.
- Replay: Prepare to re-enact five significant events in the development of your team.
- Replay Plus: Prepare to re-enact three events that demonstrate how your team is progressing, and three events that made you wiser. Act out the real and “improved” versions of these events.
- Performance: Write and perform a news report about your team, using interviews, flashbacks, “reading the news” or any other TV inspired method to tell the story in an engaging way that reveals how and what you are learning.
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Prompts to use +
Stones: Make a sequence of five arrangements of stones showing how the group dynamics have developed since the beginning of the program. Create a sixth arrangement that shows how you would like the group dynamics to be over the next few hours.
Sketch Map: Create a sketch map showing the journey (real or metaphorical) that the group has taken since the start of the day.
Gifts: In two subgroups create gifts for each individual in the other subgroup. These gifts should reflect the talents of that individual and should include features or items that will be of value to them in the future.
Replay: Prepare to re-enact five significant events in the development of your team.
Replay Plus: Prepare to re-enact three events that demonstrate how your team is progressing, and three events that made you wiser. Act out the real and “improved” versions of these events.
Performance: Write and perform a news report about your team, using interviews, flashbacks, “reading the news” or any other TV inspired method to tell the story in an engaging way that reveals how and what you are learning.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: PFP: October 2004. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Stones: Make a sequence of five arrangements of stones showing how the group dynamics have developed since the beginning of the program. Create a sixth arrangement that shows how you would like the group dynamics to be over the next few hours.; Sketch Map: Create a sketch map showing the journey (real or metaphorical) that the group has taken since the start of the day.; Gifts: In two subgroups create gifts for each individual in the other subgroup. These gifts should reflect the talents of that individual and should include features or items that will be of value to them in the future.; Replay: Prepare to re-enact five significant events in the development of your team.. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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- Where we observed it: The strongest current observations come from The Thiagi Group; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including The Thiagi Group.)
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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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