Creative Workshop Exercises: Easy and Engaging Exercises for Change
Creative Conversations about Change
This exercise is designed to help groups that need to initiate some change, or where change has become stuck, to have creative conversations that open up possibilities. This might be when they are subject to planned change as well as when they are self-initiating change.
Creating a Resilience Plan in Testing Times
This exercise is designed to help boost the resilience of groups that feel under pressure or unable to cope. For example, when feeling overwhelmed by a forthcoming challenge or by present circumstances. It’s for people who want to better understand what supports their resilience and how to become more resilience when facing difficult circumstances.
Using the Positive Organisational Development Cards to Create Flourishing Organisations
This exercise is designed for anyone who wants to, or is in a position to, help their organization become a place where people can flourish. Based on the science of positive organisational psychology, the exercise introduces key concepts, questions to stimulate discussion and ideas for action.
Discovering Strengths Using Appreciative Inquiry and Strengths Cards to Boost Mood, Self-Awareness and Confidence
This exercise is designed to help people discover their key strengths through the Appreciative Inquiry discovery interview. The aim of the exercise is to bring each person’s strengths-in-action to light through their sharing of an account of themselves at their best in a particular context. The cards are used to help identify possible strengths, and as stimuli to further discussion and exploration of strengths.
Use Tell Your Story Cards to Create Optimism, Hope and Possibility
This exercise is designed to help anyone who has become stuck in a downward cycle of despair or hopelessness and feels stuck. The aim of the exercise is to change the story being told about the situation to one that offers scope for positive and pro-active ways forward.
Using Positive Emotions Cards to increase learning and wellbeing for individuals and groups
This exercise is designed for use with anyone who needs to expand their understanding of, and ability to feel, positive emotions. For example people experiencing persistent low mood or those stressed and anxious.
