Your Stories
Your Stories is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.
How to run it
- 6 Debrief
- Group Size Small Medium Materials none Set Up Directions Ask one person to tell a brief, true story or anecdote from each period of their involvement with the team.
- E.g., Someone who has been on the team for five years could tell five stories, something that happened relevant to the team during each year that person was a member.
- Debrief Is there anything to be learned from the stories shared?
- Are there different versions of the same incident that someone else could tell?
- How could the stories have
- 1 Objectives 2 Group Size 3 Materials 4 Set Up 5 Directions 6 Debrief 7 Alternatives
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Group Size Small Medium Materials none Set Up Directions Ask one person to tell a brief, true story or anecdote from each period of their involvement with the team.
E.g., Someone who has been on the team for five years could tell five stories, something that happened relevant to the team during each year that person was a member.
Debrief Is there anything to be learned from the stories shared?
Are there different versions of the same incident that someone else could tell?
How could the stories have
1 Objectives 2 Group Size 3 Materials 4 Set Up 5 Directions 6 Debrief 7 Alternatives
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Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Your Stories. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: Group Size Small Medium Materials none Set Up Directions Ask one person to tell a brief, true story or anecdote from each period of their involvement with the team.; E.g., Someone who has been on the team for five years could tell five stories, something that happened relevant to the team during each year that person was a member.; Debrief Is there anything to be learned from the stories shared?; Are there different versions of the same incident that someone else could tell?. 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: Teampedia. (1 source observed, including Teampedia.)
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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.
- Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.