Turn to Your Neighbor
Turn to Your Neighbor is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- Have players stand up, turn to their neighbors, and give them a big warm smile
- Turn to Your Neighbor Timing <5 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Simple as they get and raises a smile on every face Process Have players stand up, turn to their neighbors, and give them a big warm smile.
- Logistics N/A Cool Possibilities/Options If your group is amenable to the idea, have them give each other a warm hug as well after all, hugs are.
- KWWS // Use this exercise as a starter to any of the longer exercises.
- Based on the data or what you know about the participants, give them the habits that they don't do as well at.
- Use feedback with skepticism, craft and deliberation.
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Have players stand up, turn to their neighbors, and give them a big warm smile
Turn to Your Neighbor Timing <5 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Simple as they get and raises a smile on every face Process Have players stand up, turn to their neighbors, and give them a big warm smile.
Logistics N/A Cool Possibilities/Options If your group is amenable to the idea, have them give each other a warm hug as well after all, hugs are.
KWWS // Use this exercise as a starter to any of the longer exercises.
Based on the data or what you know about the participants, give them the habits that they don't do as well at.
Use feedback with skepticism, craft and deliberation.
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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: Turn to Your Neighbor. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Have players stand up, turn to their neighbors, and give them a big warm smile; Turn to Your Neighbor Timing <5 minutes Purpose/Objectives Quick Description Simple as they get and raises a smile on every face Process Have players stand up, turn to their neighbors, and give them a big warm smile.; Logistics N/A Cool Possibilities/Options If your group is amenable to the idea, have them give each other a warm hug as well after all, hugs are.; KWWS // Use this exercise as a starter to any of the longer exercises.. 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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