Ask the participants to describe their feelings before they leave the room/ online meeting in one word. “Please share with us in one word how you are feeling now, at the end of this activity.” 

Add the words to an open canvas. 

Ask if someone wants to share more about their selected word. 

This activity is very motivational, inspiring people to speak out loud about how they feel at the end of the activity. Typically, it gets highly motivated people to infect other participants right before closing the meeting.                                                

The facilitator will present the participants with 6 objects or subjects to draw on each A4/post-it. It is important to give time to each participant to relate to and reflect upon what it "looks like" for them.

The facilitator asks the participants to first write the word on the top of the A4/post-it and then draw their understanding of the word. Examples: happiness, family, interests, teacher(s), language, and vacation.

The facilitator posts 6 topics (on a wall or virtual whiteboard) with enough spacing in between.      

The participants are now asked to cluster their drawings next to the TOPIC and wait until everyone has finished. Once all the drawings are up, have the participants view all of the drawings. Some drawings in the cluster have similarities and others don’t have any correlation at all. What does this show us? - That we all have a variety of understanding and experiences of things based on our backgrounds.

Reflection
The facilitator asks each group the following questions for their reflection:

• What are the similarities you see?

• What are the differences you see?

• What has surprised you?
  
  

Group Share

The facilitator asks the group members to share any insights or anything they found valuable from this exercise.

Gather a team and develop the problem statement in agreement. This helps bring the group together and focus around the specific challenge. Write it at the top of the paper/whiteboard/flipchart.

Ask the first “why” of the team: why is this or that problem taking place? There will probably be three or four sensible answers: record them all on a flip chart or whiteboard, or use index cards taped to a wall.

Ask four more successive “whys,” repeating the process for every statement on the flip chart, whiteboard, or index cards. Post each answer near its “parent”. Follow up on all plausible answers. You will have identified the root cause when asking “why” yields no further useful information.           

Among the dozen or so answers to the last asked “why” look for systemic causes of the problem. Discuss these and settle on the most likely systemic cause. Follow the team session with a debriefing and show the product to others to confirm that they see logic in the analysis.

Once you have your root problem statement, ask the group how they would like to proceed to solve it.

Start with a concept or central idea

Write the key word of the topic/concept you want to explore in the center of a piece of paper.  

Add related ideas

Next, in a rapid-fire session, have your team members develop related sub topics or concepts around that central one. Write down or draw these ideas by creating branches and adding the new elements on nodes.  You can make the branches thicker to show the strength of relationships within the concepts.

Repeat the process for more subtopics

Generate even lower subtopics and connect them via branches and child nodes. You can group related ideas by using colors.                                                   

Highlight the best ideas

Review your mind map and mark the ideas that resonate the most with you and your team. Think about what is missing and what can be fleshed out or explored even further.

Start by holding a ball and explain the game. 

Throw the ball to a person and ask a question (to be answered by whoever took it) 

Repeat a few times (the person who answered throws the ball to someone else). Below are a few questions to be used:

• If you were a city, which one would you be? Why?

• If you were a flavor, what would you be? Why?

• if you were some fruit, what would you be? Why?

• If you were a type of pasta, what would you be? Why?

• If you were a Disney princess, which one would you be? Why?

• If you were a computer brand, what would you be? Why?

• If you were a sense, what would you be? Why?

• If you were a Marvel hero, which one would you be? Why?

• f you were a fish, what would you be? Why?

• if you were an animal, what would you be? Why?

• if you were a vehicle, what would you be? Why?                                                     

Write the name of the person next to the fun fact.

Ask the participants to think about a fun fact about themselves individually.

Instruct participants to write it on a note, anonymously.             

Make all the fun facts visible to everyone.

Going one by one, let the group guess who the person is who wrote each fun fact.