Choose a workshop method

One Minute Mindfulness

Offer a brief pause with a choice of an eyes-open visual point, natural breathing, feet sensations, or passing.

2–100 people · 1 minute

Shake down 5-4-3-2-1

Use for a short shared rhythm with movement, imagined movement, counting aloud and stillness treated as equal choices.

1–40 people · 4 minutes

Check-out

Close a meeting with a brief indication of each person's current state, allowing everyone to speak or pass.

5–100 people · 5 minutes

Check-in

Briefly hear each person's present state at the start, with an equally available choice to pass and no record kept.

4–100 people · 5 minutes

Shake all hands

Use for brief greetings with three different people, while allowing non-contact, stationary and pass choices.

10–20 people · 5 minutes

Rain making

Build and reduce a four-stage wave across three groups through small sounds or equivalent visual signals, with shared silence on request.

3–100 people · 5 minutes

Confidence Voting

Show confidence in one proposal simultaneously, then use concerns and the distribution to proceed, revise, or defer.

2–120 people · 5 minutes

Creativity Warmups

Draw four different responses before choosing the one that surprises you most, without evaluating skill or feasibility.

2–120 people · 5 minutes

Next-Person Receipt

Turn a learning point into a sentence for a real next practitioner, then check whether a future recipient can act on it.

2–4 people · 5 minutes

Go-round

Use when everyone should have a brief turn on one topic with a predictable order and a later chance for those who passed.

5–100 people · 5 minutes

Dot Voting

Identify options attracting interest with equal dot allocations, keeping ties and serious concerns for further consideration.

2–120 people · 5 minutes

Pronoun rounds

Allow voluntary sharing of how people wish to be referred to, with passing, no reasons required, and a route for later correction.

2–30 people · 6 minutes

Name labels

Use at the start so people can write the name they want used and choose whether to wear or place their label.

2–30 people · 8 minutes

One-word Story

Build an improvised story by listening and adding one word at a time, with passing and optional word-recording.

2–20 people · 10 minutes

Personal take-aways

Privately connect a learning point to a usable first action and timing, without submission, group sharing, appraisal, or tracking.

2–100 people · 10 minutes

Lower a bamboo cane to the ground

Coordinate gentle movement of a light cane, with seated alternatives, non-holding roles, passing, and an immediate shared stop.

6–14 people · 10 minutes

Hand-signals

Use to agree a small set of local signals and accessible alternatives before using them during conversation.

3–40 people · 10 minutes

Count to ten

Coordinate an unplanned count through voice or personal number cards without scoring success, blaming overlap, or recording results.

5–20 people · 10 minutes

People map

Show only a region people may safely share through relative positions or seated cards, with passing and no location records.

5–40 people · 10 minutes

Bombs and shields

Use to experience interdependent positions through private reference choices and safe, non-contact walking.

6–30 people · 10 minutes

Keeping a speakers list

Use to make the speaking queue visible while keeping urgent safety information and factual corrections outside the ordinary queue.

3–40 people · 10 minutes

Wizards, pixies, giants

Use for two teams’ simultaneous choices with a circular win relationship, card-only participation and no-contact play.

10–40 people · 10 minutes

Returning a Question to the Group

Return a facilitator-directed question to the group only with the questioner's consent, while keeping formal answers with accountable responders.

3–40 people · 10 minutes

Parking Lot

Set aside an off-topic issue without losing it, then decide how it leaves the holding area before closing.

3–30 people · 10 minutes

1-2-4-All

Give everyone time to think before the conversation expands.

4–100 people · 12 minutes

Confirming Summary

Use to check a brief summary in participants’ actual words while keeping common understanding, differences and unresolved matters separate.

3–40 people · 12 minutes

Group Weather Check

Offer a correctable, provisional reading of observable group changes and choose a next way of proceeding without diagnosing individuals.

3–30 people · 12 minutes

Timing and Pacing Checkpoint

Choose the next pace from remaining time and anonymous readiness, reducing outputs rather than protected requirements or extending the meeting.

3–50 people · 12 minutes

What worked well / less well

Use to receive points to continue, points to improve and other feedback under an explicit access and disposal arrangement.

2–100 people · 12 minutes

Bedsheet Ball Rally

Move a soft ball together on light fabric, using small tilts, role choices, and a shared stop rather than scoring rallies.

6–20 people · 15 minutes

Spiral Journal

Reflect individually on 4 questions before listening to one another in small groups.

2–120 people · 15 minutes

Workshop gifts

Use for a short closing reflection through an imaginary gift or a concrete learning, without evaluating anyone’s interpretation.

5–20 people · 15 minutes

Positive Gossip

Describe observed actions and the help they provided so each person receives concrete observations of their strengths.

12–100 people · 15 minutes

Reading Group Signals as Hypotheses

Keep several interpretations of one observable signal provisional, confirm without pressure, and test a small change without diagnosing or monitoring individuals.

3–40 people · 15 minutes

Two truths and a lie

Use to get acquainted through three self-chosen stories, with ordinary introductions, passing and ending always available.

3–12 people · 15 minutes

What would make it easier for you to participate

Let people communicate only the accommodations they need through public sharing, a private card, or passing, with clear response limits.

2–20 people · 15 minutes

Support and Action Ballot

Count support for a proposal separately from willingness to carry out its first task.

2–120 people · 15 minutes

Reflecting and Replanning in Action

Replan only the next stage from observed participation, understanding, and time while protecting safety, consent, access, and the agreed end time.

3–50 people · 15 minutes

Facilitator Feeling Signal Check

Use with co-facilitator or experienced support to separate a facilitator’s internal reaction from observed events and tentative group-related hypotheses.

3–30 people · 15 minutes

Daily Standup

Briefly synchronise progress, plans, dependencies, and blockers around a shared team goal, parking detailed discussion.

3–12 people · 15 minutes

Mirroring

Use for non-contact paired movement with role changes, equal acceptance of passing and accessible participation alternatives.

2–30 people · 15 minutes

Paired listening

Use when people need uninterrupted time to put thoughts into words without recording them or reporting them to the whole group.

2–30 people · 15 minutes

Ice Breakers

Create a small point of connection before the main topic, allowing people to choose a manageable subject or not speak.

2–50 people · 15 minutes

Ranking

Order option cards against one criterion while retaining ties, unresolved positions, and options that fail mandatory conditions.

5–20 people · 20 minutes

Realtime Retrospective

Use when reactions should be captured during an activity rather than reconstructed only from memory afterwards.

5–100 people · 20 minutes

Mandala Chart

Expand a question in several directions without forcing every cell to be filled.

1–6 people · 20 minutes

Hopes and Fears

Choose what to share about hopes and concerns, then identify support without requiring equal self-disclosure.

3–20 people · 20 minutes

Permission Frontier

Compare how people place the same three actions under autonomy, consultation, or approval, and clarify where their understanding differs.

4–50 people · 20 minutes

Urgent/Important grid

Use to show differences in urgency and importance judgements without negotiating away mandatory immediate action.

3–50 people · 20 minutes

Nine Whys

Start from the work people actually do and use repeated questions about its importance to refine a statement of purpose.

2–30 people · 20 minutes

Missing Sentence

Add missing facts, perspectives, or conditions without repeating or rewriting the shared statement.

3–18 people · 20 minutes

Action Steps

Close a discussion with a named first action, completion time, and requested support rather than an unsupported promise.

2–30 people · 20 minutes

Evidence Turnstile

Identify whether a claim rests on observation, experience, or inference before deciding how to use it.

4–20 people · 20 minutes

Visualisation of Work

Use when work status is scattered across people and tools and needs a shared, regularly updated view.

3–30 people · 20 minutes

Evaluation form

Use short anonymous forms to choose one thing to continue and one to change next time, with declared access, retention, and non-response choices.

2–30 people · 20 minutes

15% Solutions

Find a small action you can start within your own discretion, without making an individual responsible for structural obstacles.

2–40 people · 20 minutes

People bingo

Broaden opening conversations with one optional question per person, without competing over completion or collecting private answer sheets.

5–40 people · 20 minutes

Impromptu Networking

Connect the challenges, expectations, and offers of help that people bring through three short partner conversations.

4–100 people · 20 minutes

Pause and Parse

Pause conflicting statements and separate facts, interpretations, and requests before returning to the conversation.

3–16 people · 20 minutes

Shared Definition Wall

Compare a word’s meaning, exclusions, and examples without forcing different uses into one definition.

4–40 people · 20 minutes

Two-turn Witness

Hear another person’s summary of an experience, then let its speaker correct the meaning before the group uses it.

4–20 people · 20 minutes

Pair introductions

Use to introduce people through uninterrupted paired speaking, while leaving the choice of wider sharing with the person concerned.

10–30 people · 20 minutes

Talking sticks

Use a shared object or equivalent card to indicate a speaking turn without favouring people who can reach the object fastest.

3–20 people · 20 minutes

Turning Facilitator Kick-back into Data

Pause to separate the preceding intervention, personal attacks, and group issues, acknowledge the facilitator's impact, and choose correction or formal support.

3–30 people · 20 minutes

Writing a letter to yourself

Use to write learning and a first next action to your future self, with personal custody as the default.

2–50 people · 20 minutes

Silent Brainstorming / Brainwriting

Use when everyone needs time to develop ideas before the first or fastest voice steers the discussion.

3–30 people · 20 minutes

Question Baton

Make questions more concrete through successive handoffs without proposing answers.

4–24 people · 20 minutes

Wicked Questions

Keep two necessary but competing realities together in a question for further exploration.

4–40 people · 20 minutes

Excitement sharing

Enter a meeting by receiving brief positive updates, with passing, breaks, ending, and a declared support route instead of forced positivity.

3–20 people · 23 minutes

25/10 Crowdsourcing

Narrow a large set of bold ideas through randomly exchanged, independently scored cards.

15–100 people · 25 minutes

What, So What, Now What

Separate observed facts, interpretations, and next actions when reflecting on an event.

4–70 people · 25 minutes

Smallest Commitment Chain

Link actions people can complete themselves, with completion evidence and an item to pass to the next person.

3–16 people · 25 minutes

Fast Pair Exchange and Pause

Explore a range of responses through brief pair exchanges and a quiet writing pause.

6–60 people · 25 minutes

Reversible Choice Board

Separate reversible choices from costly reversals and plan time-limited trials with a clear way back.

3–20 people · 25 minutes

Dropped Ask Catcher

Recover requests overlooked during a meeting without silently turning unanswered requests into assignments.

3–20 people · 25 minutes

Moving from Positions to Interests and Needs

Explore reasons, interests, and speakable needs in people's own words without forced disclosure or treating violence and rights violations as symmetrical needs.

2–20 people · 25 minutes

Multipartial Facilitation Check

Understand each confirmed position while making unequal power and risk visible, without treating harm or rights violations as symmetrical opinions.

3–24 people · 25 minutes

Personal object game

Trace an optional personal object's outline and hear only the owner's chosen meaning, with explicit control over retaining the shared paper.

5–20 people · 27 minutes

Ideastorms

Use to collect an unevaluated list of ideas while keeping criticism and feasibility discussion for a later stage.

5–15 people · 30 minutes

Quote Wall

Use when a team wants to retain memorable encouragement or praise and agree how to keep adding to it.

3–50 people · 30 minutes

Team Success Beacon

Use when a team needs recurring records of mood and indicators that can be compared over time.

3–15 people · 30 minutes

Comparing Concept Maps

Compare relationships in individual maps without merging them into one correct map or scoring knowledge.

3–20 people · 30 minutes

Observation Contract

Agree who will observe an action, what facts they will look for, and how the results will be returned to the person trying it.

3–16 people · 30 minutes

Agenda

Build a shared agenda with timings, background, order, and a destination for items that cannot be handled now.

2–30 people · 30 minutes

Decision Debt Ledger

Manage deferred decisions by recording the cost of waiting, information needed, and conditions for resuming.

3–20 people · 30 minutes

Wise Crowds

Let several advisers build on each other's ideas while the client listens and chooses which advice to use.

5–100 people · 30 minutes

Celebrity Interview

Explore a person's concrete experience through a host's interview and the group's questions.

8–100 people · 30 minutes

Evidence Gap Board

Identify missing evidence by the decision it will support, rather than collecting more information without a clear use.

3–20 people · 30 minutes

Stop, Start, Continue

Use when reflection needs to produce concrete next-cycle actions while reducing burdens and retaining practices that already work.

2–30 people · 30 minutes

Actual Effort Tally

Understand the range of total effort on completed work without displaying individual time values.

6–12 people · 30 minutes

Reviewing Mainstream and Margins

Review participation conditions treated as normal for a specific issue, redesign mainstream-side practice, and retain several participation routes without fixed identity labels.

4–30 people · 30 minutes

Roving ideastorms

Use when small groups can build on earlier groups’ ideas by rotating among related questions or passing the papers instead.

8–40 people · 30 minutes

Helping Heuristics

Try four ways of responding to a request for help and observe which ones expand or narrow the help-seeker's options.

3–30 people · 30 minutes

Small groups and pairs

Run small groups in parallel from the same instructions and return one point each without erasing differences between records.

4–60 people · 30 minutes

Arrival Board

Keep different routes of reasoning visible even when people reach the same conclusion.

6–50 people · 30 minutes

Matchstick discussion

Use when equal speaking-token allocations can make imbalances in speaking opportunities visible without recording contributions.

4–20 people · 30 minutes

Counterexample Minute

Check where a proposal would not work and record the conditions needed before using it.

4–20 people · 30 minutes

Benefit / Burden Pair

Compare who benefits and who bears burdens, then consider how each burden could be reduced, shared, or compensated.

4–24 people · 30 minutes

Blind-spot Gallery

Collect anonymous missing perspectives on proposals, then assign the next observations before judging the proposals.

6–50 people · 30 minutes

Pros and cons

Compare benefits, drawbacks, and other points while preserving whose evaluation differs and excluding non-negotiable mandatory conditions from trade-offs.

3–20 people · 30 minutes

Min Specs

Remove rules that are not needed for the shared purpose and retain only indispensable conditions.

4–40 people · 35 minutes

Owner Deadline Collision Sort

Place agreed work within each person's available half-day slots and separate work that still cannot fit for an authorised decision.

2–12 people · 35 minutes

Heard, Seen, Respected

Listen to experiences of respect and identify the conditions that made people feel respected, without recording their personal stories.

2–40 people · 35 minutes

Partial Agreement Grid

Separate agreement, conditional agreement, and disagreement, making clear what can proceed and what still needs checking.

4–30 people · 35 minutes

Gallery Report-back

Use to compare small-group work at each person’s own pace and identify cross-cutting issues without treating them as formal decisions.

8–60 people · 40 minutes

Trade-off Bridge

Identify losses on both sides and develop exchange conditions only with people who actually chose each position.

6–40 people · 40 minutes

Undocumented Decision Sweep

Compare documented decisions with actions already taken and route unmatched starts, stops, and changes for formal handling.

3–16 people · 40 minutes

Sharing withholds

Use only with a pre-established trusted group, non-retaliation and support arrangements to hear concerns without rebuttal.

5–20 people · 40 minutes

Picture yourself

Represent one aspect of oneself in a chosen form, check its meaning with a partner, and control whether and how it is shared.

6–20 people · 40 minutes

Handoff Stations

Walk through actual handoffs to locate waiting, returns, and unclear receipt rather than blaming individual attention.

4–30 people · 45 minutes

Rose Thorn Bud

Use when reflection needs to distinguish positives, problems and possibilities rather than stop at a list of good and bad points.

3–20 people · 45 minutes

Observed Response Practice

Use for voluntary practice with fictional or generalised situations, behaviour-only feedback and explicit stop and support choices.

4–16 people · 45 minutes

Rescue Route

Build a recovery route backwards from a safe state, then test withdrawal signs and return destinations.

4–30 people · 45 minutes

Boundary Case Grid

Use uncertain cases to clarify a principle's scope while retaining its original wording and revision history.

4–20 people · 45 minutes

Decision Rehearsal

Rehearse the first actions after a provisional decision to expose missing handoffs before implementation.

4–20 people · 45 minutes

Principle Stations

Explore the gap between stated principles and daily behaviour through three different questions and self-selected groups.

6–40 people · 45 minutes

Contribution Before Introduction

Build initial connections through a small shared task before optionally introducing affiliations or titles.

2–32 people · 45 minutes

Evidence Market

Carry evidence to other claim tables so it can challenge or support positions beyond your own.

8–60 people · 45 minutes

Personal User Manuals

Let people describe their own conditions for collaboration and control what is shared, withdrawn, and updated.

2–20 people · 45 minutes

Folded Opinion Line

Fold a line of positions in half to listen across different perspectives.

6–50 people · 45 minutes

Loss Support Walk

Offer companionship and silence to someone speaking about loss or change, with participation and safety arrangements chosen in advance.

2–20 people · 45 minutes

Counterpart Lexicon Map

Test whether someone else can reconstruct the intended situation from a proposed term and minimal context.

4–16 people · 45 minutes

Troika Consulting

Receive peer advice without having to answer throughout the discussion.

3–60 people · 30–46 minutes

Standard groups of 3 take 30 minutes. Allow 38 minutes if any group has 4 people, or 46 minutes when there are only 5 participants.

Affinity Diagramming (KJ Method)

Make sense of many observations without forcing outliers into a group.

3–8 people · 50 minutes

TRIZ Stop-Doing Scan

Identify what to stop by comparing behaviours that would create the worst outcome with current habits.

4–50 people · 50 minutes

Drawing Together

Draw an experience with five symbols and receive another person's reading before explaining your intent.

2–40 people · 50 minutes

Agreement and Certainty Matrix

Compare the nature of a challenge with the way it is currently being handled.

4–40 people · 50 minutes

Idea Cyclone

Generate ideas through expansion, reversal, and combination, then retain priority ideas and reasons for votes.

4–30 people · 60 minutes

Mentorship

Begin a one-to-one learning relationship with an explicit purpose, boundaries, and a way to review it, separate from performance appraisal.

2–2 people · 60 minutes

Risk Radar

Use for a regular review of existing risks, their changes and the responses assigned to them.

3–20 people · 60 minutes

Proto-Persona

Use when an early-stage team needs a shared, provisional picture of its users before deciding which needs to address.

3–12 people · 60 minutes

Appreciative Interviews

Learn from concrete experiences of success, with the storyteller controlling what is shared.

2–40 people · 60 minutes

Conversation Cafe

Explore a deep question together without rushing to a conclusion.

4–20 people · 60 minutes

School and Community Deliberation

Use to develop proposal candidates and the next dialogue on a shared school/community issue, not to replace formal decisions.

6–36 people · 60 minutes

Social Network Webbing

Map existing relationships and choose a new connection that serves a shared purpose.

2–40 people · 60 minutes

SWOT Workshop

Separate internal and external factors, then combine them into an action with evidence and responsibility.

3–20 people · 60 minutes

Elephant in the Room

Raise a difficult unspoken issue through anonymous collection, safety choices, and appropriate formal referral.

3–15 people · 60 minutes

Controlled dialogue

Check that two willing parties have received one another's words through three response stages, with an agreed observer and freedom to stop.

3–3 people · 60 minutes

4Ls Retrospective

Separate what went well, was learned, was missing, and is wanted, then choose observable improvements with owners.

3–15 people · 60 minutes

Rotating Table Dialogue Planning

Use to align a rotating-table dialogue’s purpose, questions, access, records and safety arrangements before considering it ready to run.

3–12 people · 60 minutes

Design Storyboards

Connect a meeting's purpose, participation, activities, and records in a storyboard of up to six scenes.

1–8 people · 60 minutes

Plan Your Trip

Use contrasting trips to judge how much checking and approval a real decision requires.

3–12 people · 60 minutes

Options Place

Let people propose topics and choose where to participate, while retaining minority interests and freedom to move.

10–200 people · 60 minutes

Improv Prototyping

Try new responses to a persistent challenge through short acted scenes.

4–30 people · 60 minutes

Knowledge Sharing

Make teaching knowledge and learning questions visible together, then choose the next topic by interest.

3–30 people · 60 minutes

District Profile Analysis

Use to distinguish comparable district statistics from causal hypotheses and the additional checks needed to test them.

4–20 people · 60 minutes

Map-Based Audit

Use to organise sourced community information by verification status while keeping sensitive locations restricted and conflicting data unresolved.

4–24 people · 60 minutes

Design the Box

Describe a proposed value promise in users’ words by designing a fictional product box.

4–20 people · 60 minutes

Discovery and Action Dialogue

Find practices that work locally and turn them into a small next step with the people closest to the problem.

5–40 people · 60 minutes

What I Need from You

Turn requests for support into explicit acceptance, conditional acceptance, or refusal between roles.

6–50 people · 60 minutes

Non-Functional Requirements Map

Make non-functional quality requirements explicit and assign each to a future-work list, completion criteria, or user-acceptance criteria.

3–15 people · 60 minutes

Futurespective

Look back from an imagined successful future to identify supporting events, obstacles, and a first action now.

3–20 people · 60 minutes

Seven Questions

Compare views of the future through reciprocal interviews covering seven perspectives.

2–20 people · 60 minutes

Futures Wheel

Explore first, second, and more distant consequences of one change, making causal leaps and missing conditions visible.

4–30 people · 60 minutes

Goal Experiment Measure Loop

Connect an influenceable goal to a reversible experiment, ethical measurement, and short learning cycles.

3–16 people · 60 minutes

Priority Sliders

Show the relative priority of competing values and discuss their trade-offs without negotiating down law or safety.

3–15 people · 60 minutes

User Experience Fishbowl

Listen to people's own accounts of using a service before adding outside interpretations.

15–100 people · 60 minutes

Integration and Autonomy Balance

Find actions that strengthen necessary consistency and local discretion together.

4–32 people · 70 minutes

Shift & Share

Visit practice stations in six rounds, using questions and proposals to refine examples and identify what to take back.

12–100 people · 75 minutes

Simple Ethnography

Observe what happens in practice and distinguish those observations from interpretations.

2–30 people · 75 minutes

Relationship Pattern Shift

Compare outward descriptions, actual relationships, and desired relationships to form a hypothesis for a small change.

4–24 people · 75 minutes

Diary Prompt Co-design Workshop

Design diary prompts and accessible formats with young people, with consent, resources, data handling, and safeguarding in place first.

4–20 people · 75 minutes

Settlement Countermeasure PDCA Review

Use to separate implementation from observations and develop a small improvement candidate without making unsupported causal or regulatory decisions.

4–20 people · 75 minutes

First-Day Contact Loop Trial

Try two contact routes on the first day, including responses and acknowledgements, with a genuine option to stop.

4–48 people · 75 minutes

Community Activity Inventory

Use to make activities’ value and workload visible and prepare review candidates without deciding to abolish required work.

4–30 people · 75 minutes

Horizon Scanning

Gather signals of change and prioritise further observation using sources, novelty, impact, and uncertainty.

4–30 people · 90 minutes

Ecocycle Planning

Map activities across four lifecycle stages to find where resources are stuck or lacking.

4–40 people · 90 minutes

Generative Relationships STAR

Compare how people see four aspects of a relationship and choose a first action to improve it.

4–40 people · 90 minutes

Feelings meeting

Listen to first-person feelings without decisions, advice, or diagnosis, in a voluntary and confidential session with exit and support choices.

3–12 people · 90 minutes

Agile Health Check

Describe good and poor collaboration states in observable actions, compare experiences, and select one improvement to try.

3–15 people · 90 minutes

Social Contract

Use when a team needs explicit, revisable working norms and a way to record consent, objections and reservations.

3–25 people · 90 minutes

Three Horizons

Connect present functions, transition experiments, and future states without discarding what must be preserved now.

4–30 people · 90 minutes

Strategy Experiment Knot

Connect small, reversible experiments and choose the first one to try, with stopping conditions and a learning cycle.

6–40 people · 90 minutes

Youth Recruitment Input Workshop

Design job-related recruitment questions and evaluation with young people, practising only on fictional answers under adult supervision.

4–12 people · 90 minutes

Youth Commissioner Authority Workshop

Agree real decision authority and supporting resources with young commissioners, including reasons, responses, and adult accountability.

4–16 people · 90 minutes

Youth Advisory Board Charter Workshop

Agree the board's role, real decision rights, support, and organisational response duties with young people instead of seeking a rubber stamp.

10–15 people · 90 minutes

Youth Evaluator Criteria Workshop

Develop observable service-evaluation criteria with young evaluators while keeping safeguarding and final decisions with adults.

4–16 people · 90 minutes

Settlement Issue Visualisation

Use to map settlement issues from permitted site observation and consented, anonymous listening while keeping causes tentative and sensitive locations restricted.

4–18 people · 90 minutes

Rotating Table Dialogue

Use to connect experiences and ideas across tables with equal stationary participation and a tightly bounded route for sensitive information.

12–48 people · 90 minutes

Community Walk Audit

Use to observe public-space resources and issues along a safe route, with indoor participation and tightly limited photo handling.

4–30 people · 90 minutes

Driver Mapping

Map directional relationships between drivers and distinguish influence from uncertainty when choosing what to explore next.

4–30 people · 90 minutes

Policy Stress-testing

Test policies against several future conditions to distinguish robust elements, failure conditions, and changes to trigger.

4–30 people · 90 minutes

Desired-Future Image Workshop

Build a desired future from observable evidence while retaining both common ground and differences.

4–40 people · 90 minutes

Backcasting

Work backwards from a desired future to necessary conditions and identify first actions within your influence.

4–30 people · 90 minutes

Roadmapping

Arrange milestones, capabilities, and external conditions over time, then use dependencies to decide where to start.

4–30 people · 90 minutes

Group Launch Facilitation

Jointly design shared purpose, workflow, decision authority, and essential coordination points across teams.

5–25 people · 120 minutes

Scenario Matrix

Cross two independent, high-impact uncertainties to describe and challenge four distinct futures.

6–30 people · 120 minutes

Leadership Launch

Make leaders' implicit arrangements for time, decisions, conduct, and communication explicit after organisational change.

3–15 people · 120 minutes

Leadership Map

Surface difficult leadership issues across four areas and prioritise improvement themes by impact and effort.

3–15 people · 120 minutes

Rapid Value Stream Mapping

Use when a team needs a shared picture of actual work, waiting and dependencies, especially across remote work.

4–15 people · 120 minutes

Flood Evacuation Action Sequence

Use in normal times to organise personal flood-response options around changing official information, not fixed clock times or a safety guarantee.

6–36 people · 120 minutes

Peer Research Question Design Workshop

Design answerable, analysable questions with young peer researchers while separating researcher and respondent consent and retaining adult responsibility.

4–16 people · 120 minutes

Youth Grant Panel Criteria Workshop

Design fair grant-review criteria with young people, using fictional applications before supported multi-day formal review.

6–18 people · 120 minutes

Outcome Mapping

Connect a goal to expected effects, obstacles, and named next actions rather than pursuing disconnected measures.

3–15 people · 120 minutes

Draft Merge Tree

Merge independent drafts without losing paragraph functions, conditional differences, or reasons for deletion.

2–32 people · 120 minutes

Regional Disaster Map Exercise

Use in normal times to explore disaster-response issues on a map, not to provide safety guarantees or live evacuation guidance.

6–30 people · 120 minutes

Anonymous Iterative Forecast Round

Use two anonymous response rounds to examine how views change, why they change, and where differences remain.

6–30 people · 120 minutes

Iteration Planning

Agree a period goal and workload using acceptance conditions, available time, past results, and capacity margin.

3–12 people · 120 minutes

Purpose to Practice

Connect purpose, principles, participants, structure, and practices, then check and revise inconsistencies across the design.

4–20 people · 120 minutes

Cross-Scale System Map

Explore opportunities for action by connecting factors at different scales.

8–40 people · 130 minutes