Trident Submarine Sharing
Trident Submarine Sharing is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- for Breakout Groups at a Gathering Collect a list of all the different divisions or companies or skill sets or roles participants play
- Have participants grouped by their day-to-day division/role or any other typical variation you can think
- Identify from the list one or more 'Trident" to sit in the other groups" breakout if you have a total of
- groups, there should be 4 'Tridents" - one in each of the other groups Encourage the 'Trident" to listen and share and then Close the Triangle with anything they think they■ can support
- Each group describe what they do in their day-to-day divisions■ Because this is a short gathering you are conducting, have the 'Trident V " return to their home group and
- share their learnings
- for within Organizations If this is voluntary, ask for volunteers
- conduct a People Science survey for full application, or just simply ask for opt-in people who want to develop more relationships and learn a lot!
- Gather a list of current/regularly planned meetings AND/OR find the list of open desks/chairs that could be
- used by your Trident volunteers Run a PS engine through all the people to strategically be able to place them on different teams/seating
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Prompts to use +
for Breakout Groups at a Gathering Collect a list of all the different divisions or companies or skill sets or roles participants play
Have participants grouped by their day-to-day division/role or any other typical variation you can think
Identify from the list one or more 'Trident" to sit in the other groups" breakout if you have a total of
groups, there should be 4 'Tridents" - one in each of the other groups Encourage the 'Trident" to listen and share and then Close the Triangle with anything they think they■ can support
Each group describe what they do in their day-to-day divisions■ Because this is a short gathering you are conducting, have the 'Trident V " return to their home group and
for within Organizations If this is voluntary, ask for volunteers
Run this with your AI assistant +
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: Trident Submarine Sharing. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: for Breakout Groups at a Gathering Collect a list of all the different divisions or companies or skill sets or roles participants play; Have participants grouped by their day-to-day division/role or any other typical variation you can think; Identify from the list one or more 'Trident" to sit in the other groups" breakout if you have a total of; groups, there should be 4 'Tridents" - one in each of the other groups Encourage the 'Trident" to listen and share and then Close the Triangle with anything they think they■ can support. 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.