Participatory Interaction

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.

Secret Santa

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.

Favorite Little Things

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.

My Very First Job

My Very First Job is a participatory activity where people share and listen to personal stories about their first work experiences, creating space for empathy, collective reflection, and recognition of diverse paths and learnings.

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.

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.

Film Society

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Guided Visualizations

Guided Visualizations is a participatory activity where participants co-create a visualization in a chain format, exploring creativity and group connection through collective storytelling. It is ideal for fostering reflection, relaxation, and shared imagination.

Creative Mark Exploration

Creative Mark Exploration is a participatory activity that encourages experimentation with strokes and textures to discover personal styles.

Heat Map Voting

Heat Map Voting is a visual and collaborative technique for prioritizing key aspects within a set of ideas by distributing multiple votes across specific elements.

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.

The Sunset

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

Epic Failure

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.

Photo Storytelling

Photo Storytelling is an activity where participants select random images and use them to construct a story, fostering creativity and group engagement.

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.

Collaborative data portrait

Collaborative Data Portrait is a visual activity where participants create a group portrait using graphically represented data, fostering self-expression and team connection. 

Tandem Drawing

Tandem Drawing is a collaborative activity that promotes creativity and communication, where participants work together to create synchronized and unique drawings.

Crazy 8

Crazy 8 is a fast-paced brainstorming activity designed to spark creativity and generate innovative solutions by sketching eight ideas in eight minutes. Perfect for teams aiming to think outside the box!

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.

Cascade Greeting

Cascade Greeting is a closing activity where participants greet each other progressively, wishing one another well for the future and creating an atmosphere of gratitude and interpersonal connection.

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.

Throw and Catch

Throw and Catch is a collaborative activity where participants must coordinate to keep multiple balls in motion, fostering cooperation, focus, and teamwork.

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.

Circular Conversations

Circular Conversations is a group activity that combines movement and interaction to foster meaningful connections among participants.

Connecting People

Connecting People is a collaborative activity where participants interact based on observable descriptions, encouraging interaction, mutual understanding, and group fun.

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.

5-Minute Ideas

Ideas in 5 Minutes is a rapid presentation activity that facilitates idea generation, knowledge sharing, and agile collaboration to address specific challenges.

GROW Coaching

GROW Coaching is a collaborative activity that uses the GROW model to foster coaching skills and personal reflection, creating meaningful connections among participants.

First Impressions

First Impressions is a participatory activity that explores initial perceptions through the exchange of descriptive words related to communication and leadership styles.

Broken Telephone

Broken Telephone is a collaborative game that demonstrates how messages change when passed along, fostering communication skills, active listening, and creativity.

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.

The Human Knot

The Human Knot is a collaborative exercise in which participants work together to untangle a "knot" created by intertwining their hands, fostering communication skills, teamwork, and problem-solving.

Taboo

Taboo is a participatory activity in which participants must describe words without mentioning specific key terms, promoting creativity and effective communication in a fun environment.

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.

Safety Stories

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Hangman

Hangman is a classic collaborative activity that reinforces knowledge, fosters teamwork, and stimulates learning through fun and creativity.

Mysterious Objects

Mysterious Objects is a participatory activity where participants guess hidden objects based on clues, promoting teamwork and critical thinking.

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.

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.

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.

Human Line

Human Line is a group activity in which participants must line up according to specific criteria, encouraging cooperation and mutual understanding.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 Letter

The Letter is a reflective activity that allows participants to write meaningful messages to explore emotions, thoughts, and personal connections.

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.

Bazaar Bizarro

A creative game to spark imagination: in Bazaar Bizarro, the most ordinary objects become extraordinary products through improvisation, humor, and persuasion. Perfect for energizing groups and boosting self-expression.

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.

Paper Frisbee

Paper Frisbee is a group energizer where participants use paper plates as frisbees, aiming to land them as close as possible to a target plate.

Time Capsule

Time Capsule is a reflective activity that allows participants to capture their current ideas, wishes, and learnings in a symbolic capsule to be opened in the future, fostering introspection and group cohesion.

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.

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.

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.

Puppets

Puppets is a creative dynamic where participants design and manipulate characters to explore themes, solve problems, or tell stories in a playful and reflective way.

The Faces

Faces is a participatory activity where participants design faces that symbolize identity, values, or emotions, promoting diversity, empathy, and group creativity.

Memory Game

Juego de la memoria es una dinámica lúdica y colaborativa donde los participantes emparejan tarjetas relacionadas para explorar conceptos, promover el aprendizaje y fomentar el trabajo en equipo.

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.

Radiodrama

Radiodrama is a collaborative activity where participants create audio narratives using effects, voices, and sounds to convey messages or tell stories in a creative way.

Diaporama

Diaporama is a creative activity where participants collaborate to create and present a series of images or slides that narrate a story or concept, fostering visual communication and critical thinking.

Shelling Corn

Shelling Corn is a collaborative activity where participants shell corn to reflect on community, teamwork, and the value of individual contributions.

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 Spider Web

The Spider Web symbolically connects participants to visualize relationships and foster mutual understanding within a group.

Empathy Map

The Empathy Map helps to better understand people's emotions, thoughts, and behaviors to design more human-centered and effective solutions.

Ball Sliding

Ball Sliding fosters teamwork and creativity by challenging participants to move a ball collaboratively without touching it.

Group Constellations

Group Constellations facilitate reflection and visualization of dynamics, roles, and relationships within a group to enhance understanding and strengthen collaboration.

Human Sculpture

Human Sculpture fosters creativity and group reflection through the bodily representation of concepts or ideas.

Two Truths and One Lie

Two Truths and One Lie helps break the ice and foster relationships through fun and interaction.

Sandwich

The Sandwich dynamic is inspired by visual and collaborative techniques used to structure information in a creative and understandable way.

What If

What if fosters creativity and critical analysis by exploring hypothetical scenarios in a team setting.

Speed Storming

Speed storming accelerates idea generation by fostering quick and dynamic exchanges among participants.

Phillips 6/6

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

Four Corners

Four Corners encourages dialogue and the exploration of perspectives by allowing participants to choose and analyze different positions within a group setting.

The Ideal Leader

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

Now, Next, Later

Now, Next, Later organizes tasks based on their temporal priority to promote clarity, focus, and efficiency in planning.

Impact vs. Effort Matrix

The Impact vs. Effort Matrix helps prioritize actions and decisions by evaluating them based on their impact and required effort, promoting efficiency and effectiveness.

Collaborative Benchmarking

Collaborative Benchmarking promotes continuous improvement through comparative analysis and the adaptation of successful practices to one's own context.

Emotional map

The Emotional map allows for the identification and visual analysis of emotions, helping to understand their impact on projects, spaces, or experiences.

Insight Exchange

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

Ordering the sequence

Ordering the Sequence helps organize milestones or events within a process, promoting collaborative analysis and visual understanding.

True or False

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

Daily Standup Meeting

Decision maze

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

Brainstorming

Brainstorming fosters collective creativity and collaboration by generating multiple proposals to address a specific challenge.

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.​

Treasure Hunt

The Treasure Hunt combines teamwork and challenge-solving to promote active learning and collaboration in an engaging, game-based format.

Circle of gratitude

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

Skills Mosaic

Skills Mosaic is a participatory activity that helps teams identify and visualize their collective strengths, fostering collaboration, trust, and mutual recognition.

Informative Capsules

Informative Capsules are brief and dynamic presentations that deliver key information to prepare participants for subsequent activities.

Impromptu Speech

Impromptu Speech develops communication skills, quick thinking, and creativity through brief and spontaneous presentations on various topics.

Creative Stations

Creative Stations combine rotating and participatory activities to explore a topic from multiple perspectives, fostering creativity and active learning.

Concept Route

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

Innovation Workshop

The Innovation Workshop fosters creativity and collaboration to generate novel solutions to specific challenges in a dynamic and participatory environment.

Collaborative Competition

Collaborative Competition is an activity that combines teamwork with problem-solving in a friendly, competitive format to foster creativity and learning.

Reflection with Images

Reflection with Images is a creative activity that uses visual elements to express emotions, ideas, and learnings.

Model Building

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

Challenge-Based Learning

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

Socratic debate

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

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.

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.

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.

Investment Roulette

Investment Roulette is an activity that assigns proposals to random categories, fostering creativity, strategic analysis, and collective decision-making.

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.

Stories of change

Stories of change are a participatory tool for capturing and analyzing real experiences that showcase significant transformations and deep learning. 

Collaborative sketching

Collaborative sketching is a visual activity that encourages the expression of ideas and the joint development of solutions through quick and simple drawings. 

Investor role-playing

Investor role-playing is a strategic and engaging activity that simulates resource allocation to collectively evaluate and prioritize proposals.

Daily achievements board

The Daily achievements board is a visual and participatory tool for recording and celebrating daily progress, fostering motivation and reflective team analysis.

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.

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.

Ideas marketplace

The Ideas marketplace is a participatory activity that simulates a market where participants collectively decide how to allocate a budget among various ideas or projects.

Participatory SWOT Analysis

Participatory SWOT Analysis is a collaborative tool used to identify and connect strengths, opportunities, weaknesses, and threats to design collective strategies.

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.

Perception Scale

Engage participants with Perception Scales, a dynamic tool to capture and analyze diverse views, fostering reflection and group insights for actionable outcomes.

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.

Forum Theater

Engage in Forum Theater, a participatory method to explore social issues through performance. Empower communities, foster creative solutions, and promote collective action.

Timeline

Create a collaborative timeline activity to visually analyze key events, foster reflection, and generate insights. Ideal for planning, evaluation, and team building.

Idea boxes

Idea boxes is a participatory activity designed to foster creativity and collaboration by collecting, sharing, and discussing ideas in a group setting.