Restart Your Morning
Restart Your Morning is a collaborative story building exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- Possible wording "When we meet new people and start a new gathering, we all try to be warm and kind
- There is a reason we always ask about others' kids too
- Next "so let's start our day to kick us off to the best possible outcome"
- Give the final instruction options pick one
- Greet them and tell them a story about■ the best thing that has happened to you in the last year
- Ask everyone to go and get warm tea or coffee and sit down next to someone they don't know very■ well
- Ask participants to tell their new neighbor a story about the best cup of coffee or tea they have ever had Start the + 6 Second Handshake People Science exercise ■ Continue on with the gathering
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Prompts to use +
Possible wording "When we meet new people and start a new gathering, we all try to be warm and kind
There is a reason we always ask about others' kids too
Next "so let's start our day to kick us off to the best possible outcome"
Give the final instruction options pick one
Greet them and tell them a story about■ the best thing that has happened to you in the last year
Ask everyone to go and get warm tea or coffee and sit down next to someone they don't know very■ well
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Restart Your Morning. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Possible wording "When we meet new people and start a new gathering, we all try to be warm and kind; There is a reason we always ask about others' kids too; Next "so let's start our day to kick us off to the best possible outcome"; Give the final instruction options pick one. 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 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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