Critical Thinking

Anticipating Challenges

Anticipating Challenges is a participatory activity in which teams imagine that their project has failed and analyze the possible reasons behind this scenario.

Back-to-Back Drawing

Back-to-Back Drawing is a participatory activity in which participants work in pairs to describe and reproduce an image without seeing it, fostering communication and active listening skills.

Backward Planning

La Planificación retroactiva ayuda a identificar los pasos necesarios para lograr un objetivo trabajando desde el resultado final hacia el presente, promoviendo la estrategia y la claridad grupal.

Challenge-Based Learning

Challenge-Based Learning connects learning with action by engaging participants in concrete problems that they must collaboratively solve.

Circle of gratitude

The Circle of gratitude promotes gratitude and mutual recognition among participants, strengthening group bonds and fostering a positive environment.

Concept Route

The Concept Route organizes and connects key ideas through a collaborative visual journey, facilitating learning and the communication of complex topics.

Confidence Vote

Confidence Vote is a fast participatory dynamic that lets groups gauge consensus, commitment levels, or uncertainty on a proposal by voting with hand signals or visual cues.

Data-driven decisions

Data-driven decisions is a collaborative activity designed to help teams classify key questions, explore research methods, and balance qualitative and quantitative insights to drive better decision-making.

Decision maze

The Decision maze guides participants through paths and challenges that simulate real decision-making processes, promoting critical and collaborative learning.

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.

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.

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.

Insight Exchange

Insight Exchange allows for the collection of rich perspectives as participants exchange ideas and reflect on shared experiences.

Model Building

Model Building is an activity that allows participants to represent ideas or solutions using simple materials, fostering creativity and hands-on learning.

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.

Oxford Debate

Two teams argue opposing sides of a motion while the audience votes before and after. Measures each side's persuasion power and builds critical thinking and argumentation skills in any group.

Paper Airplanes

Paper Airplane Creation is a collaborative activity that simulates strategic decision-making through building and launching paper airplanes, illustrating how choices impact collective outcomes.

Phillips 6/6

The Phillips 6/6 method enables the generation of multiple perspectives in small groups through fast and structured discussions.

Pre-mortem

A risk analysis technique where the group imagines the project has already failed and works backwards. Surfaces blind spots, hidden risks, and unspoken concerns while there's still time to act.

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.

Safety Stories

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Shared Book Boxes

Shared Book Boxes is a participatory activity that promotes free access to reading through the installation of small community libraries in public spaces. Through collective decoration, book exchange, and shared care, this activity strengthens social bonds, fosters culture, and creatively and collaboratively transforms the environment. It can also be developed in digital form by creating open, themed virtual libraries.

Six Thinking Hats

Edward de Bono's parallel thinking method: 6 structured perspectives — facts, emotions, caution, optimism, creativity, and process — for more complete group decisions with less conflict and cognitive bias.

Socratic debate

The Socratic debate is a participatory activity that promotes critical thinking and collective learning through open-ended and reflective questions.

Stereotypes

Stereotypes is a reflective activity that uses photographs to explore how prejudices and stereotypes influence our perceptions, fostering greater awareness about diversity and inclusion.

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 Ideal Leader

The Ideal Leader allows for the collective construction of an effective leadership profile, fostering reflection and group alignment.

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.

The Strongest Bridge

The Strongest Bridge is a collaborative activity where teams design and build bridges that must withstand progressively heavier weights, reflecting on resource optimization, collaboration, and creativity in practical scenarios.

The Sunset

The Sunset is a participatory activity that invites participants to reflect on the importance of questions in the creative process.

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.

True or False

The True or False activity challenges concepts and promotes critical learning through the evaluation and discussion of relevant statements.

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.