Inclusive Participation
Art of Hosting
A facilitation framework for hosting meaningful conversations at scale. Integrates World Café, Open Space, and Circle practice to harvest collective wisdom from groups of 20 to 150.
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.
Ball of thread
Ball of thread is a collaborative activity where participants build a symbolic thread network to reflect their connections, fostering group cohesion and teamwork.
Body map
Body mapping is a participatory visual research method in which participants create a life-size representation of their own body to explore their experiences, emotions, identities, and stories through drawing, color, and symbol.
Circle of gratitude
The Circle of gratitude promotes gratitude and mutual recognition among participants, strengthening group bonds and fostering a positive environment.
Citizens Assembly
Randomly selected citizens who deliberate on a complex policy question over weeks or months, producing evidence-based recommendations free from organized interests.
Civic Dialogues
Structured conversations between citizens and institutions on specific policy issues, with explicit mechanisms for public input to influence concrete decisions.
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.
Community Planting Day
Community Planting Day is a participatory dynamic where a group comes together to plant vegetation in a shared space, promoting environmental awareness, social connection, and collective responsibility.
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.
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.
Connecting People
Connecting People is a collaborative activity where participants interact based on observable descriptions, encouraging interaction, mutual understanding, and group fun.
Creative Stations
Creative Stations combine rotating and participatory activities to explore a topic from multiple perspectives, fostering creativity and active learning.
Deliberative Poll
Combines a scientific survey with facilitated deliberation to measure how public opinion shifts when citizens engage with balanced information and genuine peer dialogue.
Delphi method
The Delphi method is a structured consultation technique that collects and synthesizes the judgment of a group of people through successive rounds of questionnaires and anonymous feedback, progressively converging toward an informed consensus.
Emotion Journal
Emotion Journal is a reflective practice that helps track emotional patterns, promote self-regulation, and foster empathy.
Empathy Map
The Empathy Map helps to better understand people's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to design more human-centered and effective solutions.
Favorite Little Things
Favorite Little Things is a warm participatory activity that invites people to share the small everyday moments that bring them joy, building connection and appreciation within the group.
Feature prioritization
Feature prioritization is a participatory exercise designed to identify and organize the key elements of a project or design, ensuring a focus on the most relevant and viable aspects.
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.
Focus Group
Qualitative research method: moderated small-group discussion to explore participants' perceptions, attitudes, and lived experiences on a specific topic in depth.
Forum Theater
Engage in Forum Theater, a participatory method to explore social issues through performance. Empower communities, foster creative solutions, and promote collective action.
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 Search Conference
Conference method that brings all system stakeholders together for 2–3 days to build shared understanding and co-create an actionable common future.
Gallery of results
The Gallery of results is a visual and participatory exhibition that allows achievements and lessons to be shared in a creative and reflective way.
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.
Guess the Number
Guess the Number is a participatory activity that introduces the Delphi prediction method in a simple way through repeated estimations and group analysis of objects in a jar.
Hangman
Hangman is a classic collaborative activity that reinforces knowledge, fosters teamwork, and stimulates learning through fun and creativity.
Human Line
Human Line is a group activity in which participants must line up according to specific criteria, encouraging cooperation and mutual understanding.
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.
Identity sliders
Identity sliders is a participatory and collaborative activity to collectively build the vision and values of a group or project, fostering dialogue and cohesion.
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.
Intergenerational Dialogue
Promote understanding and collaboration across generations with Intergenerational Dialogue, a dynamic activity that fosters empathy, mutual learning, and shared solutions by exploring diverse experiences, values, and perspectives.
Intro Bingo
Intro Bingo es una dinámica rompehielos en la que los participantes completan tarjetas de bingo buscando personas dentro del grupo que cumplan con ciertos atributos. Esta actividad fomenta la interacción, el conocimiento mutuo y la creación de conexiones de manera lúdica y participativa.
Lean Coffee
Self-organized meeting format where participants propose and vote on topics at the start, then use time-boxing to keep the most valued conversations first.
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.
Lifeline
The lifeline is a biographical narrative activity in which participants trace their personal or group history along a timeline, marking key moments, turning points, and the learning that brought them to the present.
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.
Never Have I Ever
Never Have I Ever is a collaborative game where participants share experiences in a relaxed environment, promoting connection and group empathy.
Nominal Group Technique (NGT)
Participatory technique combining silent idea generation and anonymous voting to produce ranked priority lists free from hierarchical influence and social pressure.
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.
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 Budgeting
Democratic process where community members vote directly on how to spend part of the public budget — turning citizens into active co-designers of public investment.
Participatory Service Blueprint
A co-design tool that maps a service's full anatomy — visible interactions and backstage processes — built together by the people who use and deliver it.
Photo Storytelling
Photo Storytelling is an activity where participants select random images and use them to construct a story, fostering creativity and group engagement.
Problem Chain
The Problem Chain is a visual and collaborative tool to identify, analyze, and connect the causes and effects of a problem, building strategic solutions.
Project bank
The Project Bank is a participatory activity for presenting, evaluating, and prioritizing proposals, fostering collaborative resource allocation and the strategic development of ideas.
Public Consultation
Formal process for collecting public input on proposed decisions before they are finalized, with explicit links between what was heard and how it shaped the outcome.
Restorative circle
The restorative circle is a structured community practice developed by Dominic Barter that brings together those who caused harm, those who were affected, and the community around them to build mutual understanding and co-create agreements for repair and forward movement.
Say It with Mime
Say It with Mime is a fun and collaborative activity where participants must act out words or phrases using gestures for their team to guess.
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.
Skills Mosaic
Skills Mosaic is a participatory activity that helps teams identify and visualize their collective strengths, fostering collaboration, trust, and mutual recognition.
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.
Talking stick
The talking stick is a dialogue facilitation practice rooted in Indigenous traditions of North America that grants the right to speak only to the person holding the object, ensuring that every voice in the circle is heard with respect and without interruption.
The Faces
Faces is a participatory activity where participants design faces that symbolize identity, values, or emotions, promoting diversity, empathy, and group creativity.
The Ideal Leader
The Ideal Leader allows for the collective construction of an effective leadership profile, fostering reflection and group alignment.
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.
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.
Treasure Hunt
The Treasure Hunt combines teamwork and challenge-solving to promote active learning and collaboration in an engaging, game-based format.
True or False
The True or False activity challenges concepts and promotes critical learning through the evaluation and discussion of relevant statements.
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.
Two Truths and One Lie
Two Truths and One Lie helps break the ice and foster relationships through fun and interaction.
Uncommon Commonalities
Uncommon Commonalities is a team-based activity where participants discover unusual habits or experiences they share, fostering group connection and creativity.
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.
Voice of Customer (VoC)
Research method for capturing what customers actually need and experience — in their own words — and translating that insight into concrete product and service improvements.
Who Am I?
Who Am I? is an observation and feedback-based activity where teams compete by imitating members of the opposing team, challenging them to guess who is being portrayed. It encourages creativity and strengthens group collaboration.
Who Are We?
Who Are We? is a participatory team-building activity where participants identify their teammates through shared categories on assigned cards, creating groups in a fun and engaging way.
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.
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.