Visual Explorer/Photo Cards • WorkshopBank
Visual Explorer/Photo Cards • WorkshopBank is a visual thinking exercise for relationship mapping: it helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- You need to open up a topic that people find hard to discuss directly, such as team culture, leadership style, or organisational change
- You want to hear from quieter participants who struggle with verbal brainstorming
- A group needs to surface the emotional or intuitive dimension of a situation, not just the rational one
- You are working across cultural or language boundaries where images communicate more than words
- You want a reflective opening or closing to a larger workshop
- The group is stuck in surface-level conversation and needs to go deeper
- You are coaching an individual and want to access thinking that sits below conscious awareness
- A team needs to build shared understanding of a complex situation before jumping to solutions
- Participants then share their chosen image with a small group, using it as a springboard for deeper conversation.
- You need to open up a topic that people find hard to discuss directly, such as team culture, leadership style, or organisational change You want to hear from quieter participants who struggle with verbal brainstorming A group needs to surface the emotional or intuitive dimension of a situation, not just the rational one
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Prompts to use +
You need to open up a topic that people find hard to discuss directly, such as team culture, leadership style, or organisational change
The group is stuck in surface-level conversation and needs to go deeper
A team needs to build shared understanding of a complex situation before jumping to solutions
Participants then share their chosen image with a small group, using it as a springboard for deeper conversation.
You need to open up a topic that people find hard to discuss directly, such as team culture, leadership style, or organisational change You want to hear from quieter participants who struggle with verbal brainstorming A group needs to surface the emotional or intuitive dimension of a situation, not just the rational one
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Visual Explorer/Photo Cards • WorkshopBank. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: You need to open up a topic that people find hard to discuss directly, such as team culture, leadership style, or organisational change; The group is stuck in surface-level conversation and needs to go deeper; A team needs to build shared understanding of a complex situation before jumping to solutions; Participants then share their chosen image with a small group, using it as a springboard for deeper conversation.. 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 WorkshopBank; aggregators are listed as additional observations, not origin proof. (1 source observed, including WorkshopBank.)
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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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