Collaborative Learning
After Action Review (AAR)
Structured debrief with four questions for learning immediately after any project: what was planned, what happened, why the gap, and what to do differently next time.
Art Trail
Art Trail is a collaborative activity in which participants intervene in a public or community space through collective artistic actions, aiming to reframe and transform it into a unique, meaningful, and shared place for the community.
Ball Sliding
Ball Sliding fosters teamwork and creativity by challenging participants to move a ball collaboratively without touching it.
Chronological Review
The Chronological Review is a participatory activity that analyzes progress by comparing it to the planned timeline, promoting adjustments and reflections to ensure the project's success.
Circle of gratitude
The Circle of gratitude promotes gratitude and mutual recognition among participants, strengthening group bonds and fostering a positive environment.
Collaborative Competition
Collaborative Competition is an activity that combines teamwork with problem-solving in a friendly, competitive format to foster creativity and learning.
Collaborative Life Drawing
Collaborative Live Drawing is an artistic and group-based activity where participants take turns drawing on each other's sheets, based on observation sessions with live models or objects. The constant rotation promotes collaboration, the exploration of multiple styles, and a collective reflection on perception, the body, and shared creation.
Collaborative Oracle Card Creation
Collaborative Oracle Card Creation is a participatory activity where participants co-design a deck of oracle cards with meaningful symbols and messages, fostering creativity and collective reflection.
Collective DIY Mascot
Collective DIY Mascot is a participatory activity in which a group builds a symbolic mascot together, adding one element at a time across weeks. The result is a creative, emotional representation of their collective identity.
Collective Journal
The Collective Journal is a participatory activity that allows groups to record daily progress, reflections, and learnings, fostering continuous improvement and collaborative documentation.
Collective Questionnaire
The Collective Questionnaire is a participatory dynamic that enables the collaborative design of key questions, ensuring their relevance and usefulness for the project's or research’s purpose.
Collective Rube Goldberg Machine
Collective Rube Goldberg Machine is a participatory activity where teams collaboratively build a whimsical chain reaction device to perform a simple task, using creativity, problem-solving, and everyday materials to spark teamwork and fun experimentation.
Community Garden
Community garden is a participatory activity in which neighbors, students, or community groups come together to create and care for a garden in a shared space. Through collaborative work, they grow food, exchange knowledge, and strengthen their connection with the environment and the community.
Comparative Photography
Comparative Photography is a visual and participatory tool for documenting and analyzing changes before and after an intervention, fostering collective reflection on the impact achieved.
Concept Route
The Concept Route organizes and connects key ideas through a collaborative visual journey, facilitating learning and the communication of complex topics.
Creative Stations
Creative Stations combine rotating and participatory activities to explore a topic from multiple perspectives, fostering creativity and active learning.
Decision maze
The Decision maze guides participants through paths and challenges that simulate real decision-making processes, promoting critical and collaborative learning.
Design Thinking Workshop
Innovation methodology in 5 phases: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype, Test. Learn to facilitate Design Thinking workshops centered on people's real needs.
Empathy Map
The Empathy Map helps to better understand people's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to design more human-centered and effective solutions.
Epic Failure
Epic Failure is a participatory activity that invites people to reframe and share failures as valuable learning experiences, turning setbacks into collective strength and resilience.
Film Society
Film Society is a participatory activity that combines a collective film screening with a facilitated critical discussion to foster empathy, reflection, and shared meaning-making.
First Impressions
First Impressions is a participatory activity that explores initial perceptions through the exchange of descriptive words related to communication and leadership styles.
Fishbowl discussion
Fishbowl is a participatory dynamic where a small group dialogues in the center while others observe, promoting active listening, multiple perspectives and deep reflection on complex topics.
Four Corners
Four Corners encourages dialogue and the exploration of perspectives by allowing participants to choose and analyze different positions within a group setting.
Future scenarios
The Future Scenarios activity allows participants to imagine different development possibilities to anticipate risks, seize opportunities, and generate innovative ideas.
Guess the Drawing
Guess the Drawing is a participatory activity in which participants represent words or concepts through drawings for their team to guess, promoting creativity and teamwork.
Hangman
Hangman is a classic collaborative activity that reinforces knowledge, fosters teamwork, and stimulates learning through fun and creativity.
How Might We (HMW)
How Might We is a Design Sprint methodology that transforms pain points into positive, collaborative questions, guiding the team toward creative solutions.
I Like, I Wish, I Wonder
I Like, I Wish, I Wonder is a participatory activity where people reflect on a shared experience by expressing what they appreciated, what they would improve, and what questions they are left with, creating a space for honest feedback, learning, and connection.
Idea Storm
Idea Storm is a collaborative activity inspired by Round Robin that fosters co-creation and innovation through the development and improvement of collective ideas.
Informative Capsules
Informative Capsules are brief and dynamic presentations that deliver key information to prepare participants for subsequent activities.
Inquiry Workshop
Discover how the Inquiry Workshop fosters critical thinking and collective exploration by generating key questions that guide research, project design, and problem analysis.
Insight Exchange
Insight Exchange allows for the collection of rich perspectives as participants exchange ideas and reflect on shared experiences.
Interaction map
The Interaction map is a visual activity that enables participants to identify and analyze key relationships within a system to make informed decisions.
Learning Contract
A co-designed agreement between learner and facilitator that defines goals, strategies, resources, and evidence of achievement. Builds metacognitive awareness, intrinsic motivation, and accountability.
Learning puzzle
The Learning puzzle is an activity where participants learn and teach parts of a topic to collectively build a comprehensive understanding.
Liberating Structures
33 interaction microstructures that replace conventional meetings, distributing participation equally so every voice contributes — not just the loudest.
Make a Wish
Make a Wish is a participatory dynamic in which a community identifies meaningful wishes or needs that can be addressed collectively, votes on one of them, and organizes collaborative actions to make it come true, gathering support from individuals, organizations, and local businesses.
Mask Making
Mask Making is a creative and participatory activity where individuals design and create their own masks as a form of symbolic, artistic, or emotional expression. It is ideal for exploring identity, emotions, and cultural themes in educational, community, or therapeutic settings.
Mysterious Objects
Mysterious Objects is a participatory activity where participants guess hidden objects based on clues, promoting teamwork and critical thinking.
Ordering the sequence
Ordering the Sequence helps organize milestones or events within a process, promoting collaborative analysis and visual understanding.
Participatory Action Research (PAR)
A cyclical methodology where communities investigate their own problems, generate knowledge collectively, and take transformative action. Research done by communities, not on them.
Participatory Infographic
Participatory Infographic transforms key information into collaborative visual representations, fostering creativity and active learning.
Phillips 6/6
The Phillips 6/6 method enables the generation of multiple perspectives in small groups through fast and structured discussions.
Photo Storytelling
Photo Storytelling is an activity where participants select random images and use them to construct a story, fostering creativity and group engagement.
Reading Club
Reading Club is a participatory activity where a group of people gathers to share impressions, ideas, and reflections based on a common text, fostering conversation, active listening, and collective learning.
Role Simulation
Role Simulation is a participatory activity in which participants work in teams to create and act out different scenarios, exploring possible outcomes, dialogues, and decisions.
Safety Stories
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Sandwich
The Sandwich dynamic is inspired by visual and collaborative techniques used to structure information in a creative and understandable way.
Socratic debate
The Socratic debate is a participatory activity that promotes critical thinking and collective learning through open-ended and reflective questions.
Stories of change
Stories of change are a participatory tool for capturing and analyzing real experiences that showcase significant transformations and deep learning.
Tandem Drawing
Tandem Drawing is a collaborative activity that promotes creativity and communication, where participants work together to create synchronized and unique drawings.
Team Puzzle
Team Puzzle is a fast-paced group activity where participants form teams by finding others who hold matching puzzle pieces. It encourages communication, collaboration, and energizes the group right from the start.
The Coin
The Coin facilitates the exchange of positive and challenging experiences, promoting reflection and group learning in a dynamic way.
The Iceberg Model
The Iceberg Model is a mindful methodology that analyzes both visible and hidden aspects of products and services to foster sustainable and strategic design.
The Name Game
The Name Game is an interactive activity where participants throw a ball while saying the name of the person receiving it, promoting name memorization and group interaction.
The Question Ball
The Question Ball is a playful and reflective activity where participants answer questions read by the facilitator upon receiving a ball, fostering group interaction in a fun and meaningful way.
Think – Pair – Share: Individual Reflection, Pair Dialogue, Group Sharing
A 3-step dynamic that activates everyone's participation: think alone, talk in pairs, share with the group. Guarantees equitable engagement in education, training, and facilitation at any scale.
Treasure Hunt
The Treasure Hunt combines teamwork and challenge-solving to promote active learning and collaboration in an engaging, game-based format.
Tutti Frutti
Tutti Frutti is a fun and participatory activity where participants compete to write words that match different categories, all starting with a specific letter, promoting creativity and group interaction.
Until the day I die
Until the day I die is a collaborative activity where each participant shares a curious or memorable fact about themselves, fostering group connection and fun.
Visual Inspiration Workshop
The Visual Inspiration Workshop uses images, colors, and symbols to explore ideas, emotions, and concepts in a creative and collaborative way.
Wheel of common interests
The Common Interests Wheel connects participants through hobbies and affinities, promoting interaction and establishing foundations for future group collaborations.
Wishes
Wishes is an icebreaker activity where participants share three wishes related to their expectations for the event, fostering group connection and helping the facilitator align the activity’s purpose with participants’ goals.
Word Search
Word Search is a collaborative activity where participants work in teams to find hidden words in a letter grid, promoting teamwork and observation skills.
World Café
A structured conversational process where small groups rotate between tables and layer ideas collectively. Surfaces shared intelligence and consensus in groups of 20 to 100+ people.
Yes, but...
Yes, but... is a brainstorming activity where participants explore creative reasons to avoid taking a specific action, using avoidance as a tool to analyze barriers and encourage critical thinking.
Zine Creation
Zine Creation is an artistic and collaborative activity where participants design and assemble a small handmade publication, exploring a topic from multiple creative perspectives.