Icebreaker Workshop Activities

This is a fun icebreaker or energizer! Great for laughs and energy, the shedding of stress, status and roles.

Quick icebreaker to find commonalities among a group. Many facilitators from different organizations have contributed to this exercise as written.

This is a fun icebreaker or energizer where participants are asked “What's in the bag?” It's a simple way to engage people and have fun getting to know each other, it gets participants to step into the space together. Each team gets points for any items that are called out that they have with them.

If you like playing Charades (Guess the word) in a live setting, there is no reason to hold you back playing it online with your team. Here is a handy Mural board and detailed instruction of how to play Charades with your team, using the words and expressions YOU come up with.

Help get people into the mindset of exploring non-obvious futures

Get to know each other by sharing your personal universe

An icebreaker game to empower people to be more opened and start a conversation with the others.

Help people to share their individual way of navigating an activity - such as doing their work, or attending an event - by combining the revealing power of metaphor with a series of simple interactions.

When people are hesitant to engage with each other, for example at the beginning of an event, you can help them to actively feel heard, and create a space where discovering and sharing rarely-noticed personal talents and insights becomes straightforward.

Once participants feel heard and have begun to share, they will be more inclined to trust, to work together, and to take interpersonal risks. And each person will have created an enduring personal image to carry with them and to share with others.

I've been using this for years as a Clean Language introduction, and recently submitted it as a candidate Liberating Structure because I'd love to see loads of other people trying it out.

Works in person or online, with six to 600+ people.

A deep-dive method to reveal the subconscious reason why you are in a workshop. Facilitator goes first and by doing so invites the other participants to incorporate the

SHARE WITH US WHAT OCCUPIES YOUR MIND AT THIS VERY MOMENT BEFORE STARTING THE SESSION TOGETHER

Basic Rules

1. Sharing what occupies your mind is absolutely voluntary
2. Everyone listens and perceives the message someone wants to share with the group
3. No comments, no reaction but recognition

Time estimation: Allow 1 min per participant who wants to share what occupies their mind.