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Toxic Positivity Antidote

Toxic Positivity Antidote is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), PairsGROUP SIZE
QuietENERGY
In personSETTING
Medium cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

  1. Start For Free Toxic Positivity Antidote We can be overwhelmed by social pressures to keep a smile and stay positive.
  2. It's time to recognize what's really bothering us and give it some room to breathe.
  3. Create Free Board How to conduct this activity Give 10 minutes for employees to enter examples.
  4. People can up and down vote on unpopular opinions, let's see if it is actually unpopular!
  5. Create Free Board Create Free Board Check the list of templates created by our users
  6. We've helped teams improve in more than 1,000,000 retrospectives Company About Us Pricing Features Contact Us What's New Wall of Love Give Back
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Prompts to use +

Start For Free Toxic Positivity Antidote We can be overwhelmed by social pressures to keep a smile and stay positive.

It's time to recognize what's really bothering us and give it some room to breathe.

Create Free Board How to conduct this activity Give 10 minutes for employees to enter examples.

People can up and down vote on unpopular opinions, let's see if it is actually unpopular!

Create Free Board Create Free Board Check the list of templates created by our users

We've helped teams improve in more than 1,000,000 retrospectives Company About Us Pricing Features Contact Us What's New Wall of Love Give Back

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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: Toxic Positivity Antidote. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Start For Free Toxic Positivity Antidote We can be overwhelmed by social pressures to keep a smile and stay positive.; It's time to recognize what's really bothering us and give it some room to breathe.; Create Free Board How to conduct this activity Give 10 minutes for employees to enter examples.; People can up and down vote on unpopular opinions, let's see if it is actually unpopular!. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

Origin unverified

  • Where we observed it: The current corpus has one observed source organization: EasyRetro. (1 source observed, including EasyRetro.)
  • 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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