What Matters Workshop • WorkshopBank
What Matters Workshop • WorkshopBank is a visual thinking exercise for closure and transfer: it helps participants close the session and carry learning into the next action.
How to run it
- Goal: Surface the current reality of competing demands and help participants see the cost of trying to care about everything equally.
- Welcome the group and explain that this workshop is about making better choices regarding where we put our time and energy, both individually and as a team.
- Ask participants to stick their notes on the wall or a large flip chart, clustering similar items together as they go.
- Once complete, stand back and have the group look at the wall. Ask them to count (roughly) how many items are displayed.
- Facilitate a brief discussion using the debrief questions below.
- What do you notice when you look at all of this?
- How does it feel to see this laid out visually?
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Prompts to use +
Welcome the group and explain that this workshop is about making better choices regarding where we put our time and energy, both individually and as a team.
Ask participants to stick their notes on the wall or a large flip chart, clustering similar items together as they go.
Once complete, stand back and have the group look at the wall. Ask them to count (roughly) how many items are displayed.
Facilitate a brief discussion using the debrief questions below.
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: What Matters Workshop • WorkshopBank. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Welcome the group and explain that this workshop is about making better choices regarding where we put our time and energy, both individually and as a team.; Ask participants to stick their notes on the wall or a large flip chart, clustering similar items together as they go.; Once complete, stand back and have the group look at the wall. Ask them to count (roughly) how many items are displayed.; Facilitate a brief discussion using the debrief questions below.. 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.)
- 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.