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Plus/Delta
Just as we “check-in” with group members at the beginning of each day of a workshop or meeting, ...

Flash Cards
This exercise helps workshop participants share ideas about an issue. It invites input from 100% of ...

Paired Walk
We often underestimate the power of walking and talking. Most of our meetings are sitting meetings. ...

Voices from the Field
A post-learning journey sensing exercise The main purpose of this exercise is to practice redirectin...

Paired Poem
It is a simple tool that works well at the end of a course, learning journey, or workshop, as it pro...

Design Studio – An exercise to prototype new realities
The Design Studio enables stakeholder teams to rapidly prototype their ideas for initiatives through...

The Switch Game
This exercise arose out of a game I learned from Philip Beaven in an improvisation workshop. The ori...

Seeing the System–The Soft Shoe Shuffle
In the last Toolkit, we looked at a basic card system (green, yellow, red) for collecting data aroun...

Seeing the Opinions in the Group—Green, Yellow, Red
Having the correct information about how the people in a system think is critical in developing effe...

Sharing Stories of Connection
Bringing diverse stakeholders together in a way that enables them to work effectively on their “st...

The Systems Game Module
One of the outcomes that we try to create through our Change Lab work is systemic change. While quic...