International Association of Facilitators

Creating a sentence relating to a specific topic or problem with each person contributing one word at a time.

A questioning method for generating, explaining, investigating ideas.

Starting a meeting or after a break in a group where participants don't know each other or don't know much about each other

A Focused Conversation to begin to process traumatic situations for use with colleagues, friends and family, and how to respond to them productively. Often traumatic events become undiscussable and this enables persons to talk about them

This method helps groups to avoid awkward silence at the beginning of the session and instantly start a conversation. Ideal for large groups.

It has been used as a part of training of facilitators and as part of team building.

A process to help identify and understand the origins of problems, issues or observations.

Easy and fun way to review content or atmosphere at the end of a group activity (or in between) in 1 minute.

The sequential building of ideas without evaluation.

A light way to encourage punctuality in any group event or meeting in which there are breaks

Use of Active Listening to slow down a discussion, or manage dominant participants

Using the Social Process Triangles created by the Institute of Cultural Affairs to identify a broad range of issues faced by a community, followed by the Consensus Workshop Method to see larger patterns of issues.