Knowledge Generation
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 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.
Brainstorming
Brainstorming fosters collective creativity and collaboration by generating multiple proposals to address a specific challenge.
Circle of gratitude
The Circle of gratitude promotes gratitude and mutual recognition among participants, strengthening group bonds and fostering a positive environment.
Circular Conversations
Circular Conversations is a group activity that combines movement and interaction to foster meaningful connections among participants.
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 mind map
The Collaborative mind map is a visual tool that allows groups to explore, organize, and connect ideas on a topic in a creative and participatory way.
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 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.
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.
Connecting People
Connecting People is a collaborative activity where participants interact based on observable descriptions, encouraging interaction, mutual understanding, and group fun.
Creation of instructional resources
The Creation of instructional resources is a participatory activity that allows participants to design educational tools while consolidating their learning and developing creative skills.
Creative Stations
Creative Stations combine rotating and participatory activities to explore a topic from multiple perspectives, fostering creativity and active learning.
Customer Journey Mapping
Visualize a person's complete experience with your service step by step, uncovering emotions, pain points, and improvement opportunities at every touchpoint.
Daily Standup Meeting
Daily Standup Meeting is a short recurring group session where participants share progress, current focus, and blockers to keep the team aligned and moving forward together.
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.
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.
Design Sprint
Five-day method for going from a complex problem to a tested prototype — compressing months of design iteration into one focused week with real user feedback on day five.
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.
Emotion Journal
Emotion Journal is a reflective practice that helps track emotional patterns, promote self-regulation, and foster empathy.
Emotional map
The Emotional map allows for the identification and visual analysis of emotions, helping to understand their impact on projects, spaces, or experiences.
Empathy Map
The Empathy Map helps to better understand people's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to design more human-centered and effective solutions.
Evaluation wheel
The Evaluation wheel is a visual and participatory tool that allows for the evaluation and reflection on different aspects of a project or activity, facilitating collective analysis and improvement planning.
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.
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.
Flowchart
Flowchart is a collaborative technique that allows participants to analyze cause-effect relationships within a central topic, identify “critical knots,” and assign responsibilities for strategic planning.
Focus Group
Qualitative research method: moderated small-group discussion to explore participants' perceptions, attitudes, and lived experiences on a specific topic in depth.
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.
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.
Idea boxes
Idea boxes is a participatory activity designed to foster creativity and collaboration by collecting, sharing, and discussing ideas in a group setting.
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.
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.
Impact and feasibility scale
The Impact and feasibility scale is a participatory tool for evaluating proposals based on their potential benefit and ease of implementation, promoting strategic and consensus-driven decisions.
Impromptu Speech
Impromptu Speech develops communication skills, quick thinking, and creativity through brief and spontaneous presentations on various topics.
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.
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 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.
Local Connections Map
The Local Connections Map is a participatory tool for identifying and analyzing existing networks within an environment, promoting collaboration and strengthening key relationships.
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.
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.
Now, Next, Later
Now, Next, Later organizes tasks based on their temporal priority to promote clarity, focus, and efficiency in planning.
OKR Workshop
A facilitated session where teams co-create their Objectives and Key Results — ambitious, measurable goals that align each person's work with organizational strategy.
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 Infographic
Participatory Infographic transforms key information into collaborative visual representations, fostering creativity and active learning.
Participatory Scenario Planning
Method for thinking under uncertainty: diverse stakeholders build four plausible futures, then identify strategies robust enough to hold regardless of which scenario unfolds.
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.
Participatory SWOT Analysis
Participatory SWOT Analysis is a collaborative tool used to identify and connect strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats to design collective strategies.
Photo Storytelling
Photo Storytelling is an activity where participants select random images and use them to construct a story, fostering creativity and group engagement.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shelling Corn
Shelling Corn is a collaborative activity where participants shell corn to reflect on community, teamwork, and the value of individual contributions.
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.
Skills Mosaic
Skills Mosaic is a participatory activity that helps teams identify and visualize their collective strengths, fostering collaboration, trust, and mutual recognition.
Stars
Las estrellas es una dinámica colaborativa donde los participantes reflejan sus fortalezas y contribuciones en un cielo colectivo, promoviendo la autovaloración, el sentido de pertenencia y la unidad grupal.
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.
Stories of change
Stories of change are a participatory tool for capturing and analyzing real experiences that showcase significant transformations and deep learning.
Technology of Participation (ToP)
ICA facilitation system with three core methods — ORID Focused Conversation, Consensus Workshop, and Action Planning — to move groups from reflection to committed action.
The Clothing Chain
The Clothing Chain is a creative and collaborative activity where teams build chains using clothing items or personal objects to foster creativity and group cohesion.
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 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.
Theory of Change
A participatory framework that maps how a group's activities generate real change. Connects actions, outputs, outcomes, and impact — and makes visible the assumptions that must hold at every link.
Timeline
Create a collaborative timeline activity to visually analyze key events, foster reflection, and generate insights. Ideal for planning, evaluation, and team building.
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.
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.
Urban Sketching
Urban Sketching is a participatory activity where individuals draw real-life urban or community spaces through direct observation. It encourages artistic expression, fosters a deeper connection with the environment, and transforms everyday places into sources of inspiration and shared reflection.
Visual Inspiration Workshop
The Visual Inspiration Workshop uses images, colors, and symbols to explore ideas, emotions, and concepts in a creative and collaborative way.
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.
What If
What if fosters creativity and critical analysis by exploring hypothetical scenarios in a team setting.
Wheel of common interests
The Common Interests Wheel connects participants through hobbies and affinities, promoting interaction and establishing foundations for future group collaborations.
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.
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.