Facilitation templates

Experiences you can run

Structured activities with timing, group size, steps, and honest notes about what tends to go wrong. Start with something beginner-friendly and short.

30 templates

Beginner

Meaningful Introductions

20 min8–30 people

Move beyond "What do you do?" and help a room discover what people actually care about.

New GroupRelationshipsPairs
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Beginner

Beyond Small Talk

20–30 min6–30 people

A simple question sequence that takes a conversation from polite to genuinely interesting.

StrangersRelationshipsPairs
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Beginner

Three Questions That Matter

20 min4–40 people

Three carefully chosen prompts that let people meet each other at the level of what they care about.

ReflectionSmall GroupsConnection
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Beginner

Connection Carousel

20–30 min10–50 people

Rotating short conversations so everyone meets several people rather than only their neighbour.

StrangersPairsConnection
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Beginner

Common Ground

15–25 min8–40 people

A gentle group exercise that surfaces unexpected shared experiences and interests.

Whole GroupBelongingGame
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Beginner

Needs + Gifts Exchange

25–40 min10–50 people

Everyone names something they can offer and something they need — then the room makes the matches.

Community BuildingWhole GroupNeeds
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Beginner

What I Can Offer

20 min6–30 people

A short practice for helping people name gifts they usually overlook in themselves.

Gift SharingGiftsSmall Groups
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Intermediate

Community Possibilities

30–45 min10–40 people

Turn "someone should do something" into concrete possibilities the group actually wants to try.

PossibilitiesCollective ActionVisioning
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Beginner

Who Should Meet Whom?

20–30 min10–50 people

A matchmaking round where the group deliberately introduces people to each other.

Community BuildingWhole GroupExisting Community
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Intermediate

Community Resource Map

45–60 min10–60 people

Map the skills, spaces, tools, and relationships already present in a community.

Community BuildingSensemakingMapping
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Beginner

Playful Introductions

15–20 min8–40 people

Lower the social threshold fast with a light, laughter-friendly way to meet.

Whole GroupStrangersGame
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Beginner

Human Bingo, Reimagined

20–30 min12–60 people

The classic mixer, rewritten so the prompts lead somewhere real.

Whole GroupGamePlay
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Beginner

Collaborative Story

15–25 min6–30 people

A group builds one story together, one line at a time.

Whole GroupCreativityGame
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Tiny Talent Show

30–60 min8–50 people

Low-stakes sharing of small, strange, and delightful talents.

Whole GroupPlayGift Sharing
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Beginner

Celebrate Something

15–30 min5–40 people

A short ritual for noticing and marking what is going well.

CircleRitualExisting Community
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Beginner

Move Together

20 min8–40 people

A gentle, opt-in movement practice that shifts a room's energy and helps people arrive in their bodies.

Whole GroupEmbodiedPhysical Activity
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Beginner

Mirroring

15–20 min4–30 people

Partners move in silent reflection of each other, building attention and attunement.

EmbodiedMovementPairs
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Intermediate

Embodied Check-In

15–25 min4–30 people

Invite people to notice and share how they are arriving, through the body rather than a story.

CircleReflectionEmbodied
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Beginner

Movement Without Words

20–30 min8–40 people

A wordless group practice where people follow, lead, and respond to each other.

Whole GroupPlayEmbodied
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Beginner

Group Rhythm

15–25 min8–60 people

Build a shared rhythm together — no musical experience needed.

Whole GroupEnergizingMusic
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Beginner

What Is Alive for You?

15–30 min4–30 people

An open check-in question that lets people bring what they are actually carrying.

CircleIntegrationReflection
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Rose, Thorn, Seed

15–25 min4–30 people

A simple three-part reflection: what bloomed, what hurt, what is beginning.

CircleIntegrationReflection
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Intermediate

Stories That Shaped Us

30–45 min6–24 people

Longer-form personal storytelling in small groups, with careful containers.

TrustSmall GroupsRelationship Building
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Intermediate

Values in Motion

30–45 min6–30 people

Move around the room to explore what people value and why — not just declare it.

Whole GroupSensemakingMovement
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Beginner

What I'm Learning

15–30 min4–30 people

A rotating share on what each person is currently practicing or figuring out.

LearningCircleReflection
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Beginner

Question Harvest

20–30 min8–50 people

Collect the group's real questions before rushing to answers.

Whole GroupSensemakingBrainstorming
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What Are We Noticing?

20–30 min6–40 people

A shared observation round that surfaces patterns nobody could see alone.

CircleSensemakingGroup Sensemaking
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Intermediate

Possibility Mapping

30–60 min8–50 people

Cluster ideas and energy into a visible map of what the group could do next.

CollaborationPossibilitiesVisioning
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Intermediate

Small Experiments

30–45 min6–30 people

Shrink big ambitions into experiments small enough to actually start.

CollaborationCollective ActionSmall Groups
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Intermediate

From Idea to First Step

30–45 min4–30 people

Pair up and leave with one specific, scheduled first action.

CollaborationCollective ActionPairs
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