Tools

Game to engage, recharge, and move during a digital meeting (Zoom or other platforms).

Active listening involves listening intentionally, attentively and without judgment. It's all about listening to understand, not to respond. It's an essential and highly effective communication technique, but it's sometimes difficult to know exactly how to put it into practice. This tool provides guidelines for better understanding and application of this principle.

To enable participants to collectively return to the present and a place of calm, to regain concentration and clarity in moments of transition, dispersion, loss of energy or before the weather forecast (see “weather forecast” tool).

Experiment with being in a position within a group that is different to the one you're used to being in, work on listening and building trust between members.

The aim of this tool is to downplay  failure within a group and enable participants to free themselves from the desire to “do well” and the injunctions to succeed.

The aim of this tool is to downplay  failure within a group and enable participants to free themselves from the desire to “do well” and the injunctions to succeed.

Helps you find out how the members of your group are doing. The aim of this quick round is to bring everyone's emotional states to the surface, without getting into psychodramas, so that you can take them into account during the rest of the meeting/day.

At the end of a work session or a particularly intense day offer a moment of recognition and/or conclusion.

Find solutions, advance group thinking.

This protocol is used to structure feedback on current or completed artistic projects or works, or on teaching courses and workshops. It provides an overall view of the feedback received from participants, who can express themselves, within a precise framework, with kindness and constructive criticism.

The collective reading technique was developed in union struggles, then in militant culture, to compensate for the lack of time available for political education. Chapters are torn out of books and shared, then read aloud. Here, the idea is to share a common reading of one or more selected texts.

A game to get to know each other by sharing common and divergent points in pairs.

Make the needs and desires of project members visible and see if a consensus is possible. This tool helps to put everyone's issues into perspective, and to measure their potential for conciliation. It is just as useful for setting up a group and defining a project as it is for evaluating intentions and redefining objectives during the process.

When a group needs to make a decision on a complex topic or a controversial proposal, the consensus process can help lead to a harmonious agreement.

The council is a session organization tool. It provides a framework for carrying out a discussion according to four categories: I inform, I propose, I question/criticize, I thank.

During tensions or conflicts, this protocol proposes a levelling of perspectives through the voicing of each opinion — without going into responses.

To set the framework, ethical and practical rules for living and working together, expressing viewpoints and listening to each other.

This simple game is a breath of fresh air that lets you move on and have fun at the same time. It also helps to bind the group together, and to get to know each member better.

A game to increase the sense of cohesion and bring lightness to the group. Ideal for changing energy levels, or when attention spans wane.

Increase the sense of cohesion and bring lightness to the group. Ideal for shifting energy or addressing a drop in attention.

This game is a highly dynamic and spectacular variation on hide-and-seek, which increases the sense of cohesion and brings lightness to the group. It's ideal as a warm-up, to change energy levels, or when attention wanes.

Getting to know each other in pairs, breaking the ice at the very beginning of a collaboration or workshop, and building a connection between two participants.

Quickly alleviate incipient tensions, dilute skewed interpretations of reality, dismantle anxieties, thus promoting a sense of security and trust within a group. In the event of feeling attacked, excluded, mocked or unease, the Left Side Column can be invoked.

Creating a mind map on paper is an excellent way to visually organize ideas and stimulate creativity. The mind map enables everybody to visualize at any given moment the richness and complexities of a situation.

To use signs and gestures to structure and facilitate communication between several people.

Learn to better understand oneself by making visible the behavior and the role each person tends to take up within groups.

To facilitate the organizational work of a group by assigning specific roles.

To make the connections between individuals in a group visible, highlighting the power of these connections. This visibility allows the group to realize who has strong ties within the group and who has fewer (and therefore less power). This awareness then enables the group to strengthen connections with those who have the fewest.

To break the ice during the first meeting of a group by introducing oneself with a short anecdote related to one's first name.

To break the ice at the start of a collaboration and get to know everyone in the group.

Increase the sense of cohesion, bring energy to the group. Ideal for shifting the atmosphere when attention wanes.

In an emerging group connected to a political cause, improve decision-making, discussion, and organizational structures.

Shaded voting allows a more balanced expression of different opinions, reducing the risk of majority domination with the traditional yes/no vote.

This protocol enables the structuring of cleaning in a collaborative manner, thereby fostering collective responsibility (for a class in a higher education setting, a shared workshop, or cohabitation).

Have a different participant lead the warm-up in turn, to strengthen the group and discover each other's skills

The six thinking hats allow us to move away from the argumentative model of a debate, to work collaboratively on the different facets of a problem or question.

Collectivize resources and ideas, create a collective brain to come up with an idea, make a decision or define a solution.

Social myths are made up of ideals, dominant values, beliefs, as well as taboos and unwritten norms that are not to be transgressed. In other words, they are the founding myths and beliefs that underlie the expectations and desires of those participating in group work. Sharing them allows us to name the expectations and desires of each person and create a shared landscape.

This tool enables you to prepare and conduct a presentation or online conference with kindness and efficiency.

This tool helps to highlight and understand the nature and stakes of active power within a group or collective.

This tool enables you to dance together, to get to know each other by sharing music for a moment without objective or judgment. It can be used to energize or warm up, and to connect in ways other than words.

Learn each other's first name and pronoun. Learn to perceive the group spatially.

Have a different participant lead the daily warm-up each day, to strengthen the group and discover each other's skills.

Game to engage, recharge, and move during a digital meeting (Zoom or other platforms).

To enable participants to collectively return to the present and a place of calm, to regain concentration and clarity in moments of transition, dispersion, loss of energy or before the weather forecast (see “weather forecast” tool).

The aim of this tool is to downplay  failure within a group and enable participants to free themselves from the desire to “do well” and the injunctions to succeed.

Helps you find out how the members of your group are doing. The aim of this quick round is to bring everyone's emotional states to the surface, without getting into psychodramas, so that you can take them into account during the rest of the meeting/day.

Find solutions, advance group thinking.

The collective reading technique was developed in union struggles, then in militant culture, to compensate for the lack of time available for political education. Chapters are torn out of books and shared, then read aloud. Here, the idea is to share a common reading of one or more selected texts.

Make the needs and desires of project members visible and see if a consensus is possible. This tool helps to put everyone's issues into perspective, and to measure their potential for conciliation. It is just as useful for setting up a group and defining a project as it is for evaluating intentions and redefining objectives during the process.

The council is a session organization tool. It provides a framework for carrying out a discussion according to four categories: I inform, I propose, I question/criticize, I thank.

To set the framework, ethical and practical rules for living and working together, expressing viewpoints and listening to each other.

A game to increase the sense of cohesion and bring lightness to the group. Ideal for changing energy levels, or when attention spans wane.

This game is a highly dynamic and spectacular variation on hide-and-seek, which increases the sense of cohesion and brings lightness to the group. It's ideal as a warm-up, to change energy levels, or when attention wanes.

Quickly alleviate incipient tensions, dilute skewed interpretations of reality, dismantle anxieties, thus promoting a sense of security and trust within a group. In the event of feeling attacked, excluded, mocked or unease, the Left Side Column can be invoked.

To use signs and gestures to structure and facilitate communication between several people.

To facilitate the organizational work of a group by assigning specific roles.

To break the ice during the first meeting of a group by introducing oneself with a short anecdote related to one's first name.

Increase the sense of cohesion, bring energy to the group. Ideal for shifting the atmosphere when attention wanes.

Shaded voting allows a more balanced expression of different opinions, reducing the risk of majority domination with the traditional yes/no vote.

Have a different participant lead the warm-up in turn, to strengthen the group and discover each other's skills

Collectivize resources and ideas, create a collective brain to come up with an idea, make a decision or define a solution.

This tool enables you to prepare and conduct a presentation or online conference with kindness and efficiency.

This tool enables you to dance together, to get to know each other by sharing music for a moment without objective or judgment. It can be used to energize or warm up, and to connect in ways other than words.

Have a different participant lead the daily warm-up each day, to strengthen the group and discover each other's skills.

Active listening involves listening intentionally, attentively and without judgment. It's all about listening to understand, not to respond. It's an essential and highly effective communication technique, but it's sometimes difficult to know exactly how to put it into practice. This tool provides guidelines for better understanding and application of this principle.

Experiment with being in a position within a group that is different to the one you're used to being in, work on listening and building trust between members.

The aim of this tool is to downplay  failure within a group and enable participants to free themselves from the desire to “do well” and the injunctions to succeed.

At the end of a work session or a particularly intense day offer a moment of recognition and/or conclusion.

This protocol is used to structure feedback on current or completed artistic projects or works, or on teaching courses and workshops. It provides an overall view of the feedback received from participants, who can express themselves, within a precise framework, with kindness and constructive criticism.

A game to get to know each other by sharing common and divergent points in pairs.

When a group needs to make a decision on a complex topic or a controversial proposal, the consensus process can help lead to a harmonious agreement.

During tensions or conflicts, this protocol proposes a levelling of perspectives through the voicing of each opinion — without going into responses.

This simple game is a breath of fresh air that lets you move on and have fun at the same time. It also helps to bind the group together, and to get to know each member better.

Increase the sense of cohesion and bring lightness to the group. Ideal for shifting energy or addressing a drop in attention.

Getting to know each other in pairs, breaking the ice at the very beginning of a collaboration or workshop, and building a connection between two participants.

Creating a mind map on paper is an excellent way to visually organize ideas and stimulate creativity. The mind map enables everybody to visualize at any given moment the richness and complexities of a situation.

Learn to better understand oneself by making visible the behavior and the role each person tends to take up within groups.

To make the connections between individuals in a group visible, highlighting the power of these connections. This visibility allows the group to realize who has strong ties within the group and who has fewer (and therefore less power). This awareness then enables the group to strengthen connections with those who have the fewest.

To break the ice at the start of a collaboration and get to know everyone in the group.

In an emerging group connected to a political cause, improve decision-making, discussion, and organizational structures.

This protocol enables the structuring of cleaning in a collaborative manner, thereby fostering collective responsibility (for a class in a higher education setting, a shared workshop, or cohabitation).

The six thinking hats allow us to move away from the argumentative model of a debate, to work collaboratively on the different facets of a problem or question.

Social myths are made up of ideals, dominant values, beliefs, as well as taboos and unwritten norms that are not to be transgressed. In other words, they are the founding myths and beliefs that underlie the expectations and desires of those participating in group work. Sharing them allows us to name the expectations and desires of each person and create a shared landscape.

This tool helps to highlight and understand the nature and stakes of active power within a group or collective.

Learn each other's first name and pronoun. Learn to perceive the group spatially.

Game to engage, recharge, and move during a digital meeting (Zoom or other platforms).

Experiment with being in a position within a group that is different to the one you're used to being in, work on listening and building trust between members.

Helps you find out how the members of your group are doing. The aim of this quick round is to bring everyone's emotional states to the surface, without getting into psychodramas, so that you can take them into account during the rest of the meeting/day.

This protocol is used to structure feedback on current or completed artistic projects or works, or on teaching courses and workshops. It provides an overall view of the feedback received from participants, who can express themselves, within a precise framework, with kindness and constructive criticism.

Make the needs and desires of project members visible and see if a consensus is possible. This tool helps to put everyone's issues into perspective, and to measure their potential for conciliation. It is just as useful for setting up a group and defining a project as it is for evaluating intentions and redefining objectives during the process.

During tensions or conflicts, this protocol proposes a levelling of perspectives through the voicing of each opinion — without going into responses.

A game to increase the sense of cohesion and bring lightness to the group. Ideal for changing energy levels, or when attention spans wane.

Getting to know each other in pairs, breaking the ice at the very beginning of a collaboration or workshop, and building a connection between two participants.

To use signs and gestures to structure and facilitate communication between several people.

To make the connections between individuals in a group visible, highlighting the power of these connections. This visibility allows the group to realize who has strong ties within the group and who has fewer (and therefore less power). This awareness then enables the group to strengthen connections with those who have the fewest.

Increase the sense of cohesion, bring energy to the group. Ideal for shifting the atmosphere when attention wanes.

This protocol enables the structuring of cleaning in a collaborative manner, thereby fostering collective responsibility (for a class in a higher education setting, a shared workshop, or cohabitation).

Collectivize resources and ideas, create a collective brain to come up with an idea, make a decision or define a solution.

This tool helps to highlight and understand the nature and stakes of active power within a group or collective.

Have a different participant lead the daily warm-up each day, to strengthen the group and discover each other's skills.

Active listening involves listening intentionally, attentively and without judgment. It's all about listening to understand, not to respond. It's an essential and highly effective communication technique, but it's sometimes difficult to know exactly how to put it into practice. This tool provides guidelines for better understanding and application of this principle.

The aim of this tool is to downplay  failure within a group and enable participants to free themselves from the desire to “do well” and the injunctions to succeed.

At the end of a work session or a particularly intense day offer a moment of recognition and/or conclusion.

The collective reading technique was developed in union struggles, then in militant culture, to compensate for the lack of time available for political education. Chapters are torn out of books and shared, then read aloud. Here, the idea is to share a common reading of one or more selected texts.

When a group needs to make a decision on a complex topic or a controversial proposal, the consensus process can help lead to a harmonious agreement.

To set the framework, ethical and practical rules for living and working together, expressing viewpoints and listening to each other.

Increase the sense of cohesion and bring lightness to the group. Ideal for shifting energy or addressing a drop in attention.

Quickly alleviate incipient tensions, dilute skewed interpretations of reality, dismantle anxieties, thus promoting a sense of security and trust within a group. In the event of feeling attacked, excluded, mocked or unease, the Left Side Column can be invoked.

Learn to better understand oneself by making visible the behavior and the role each person tends to take up within groups.

To break the ice during the first meeting of a group by introducing oneself with a short anecdote related to one's first name.

In an emerging group connected to a political cause, improve decision-making, discussion, and organizational structures.

Have a different participant lead the warm-up in turn, to strengthen the group and discover each other's skills

Social myths are made up of ideals, dominant values, beliefs, as well as taboos and unwritten norms that are not to be transgressed. In other words, they are the founding myths and beliefs that underlie the expectations and desires of those participating in group work. Sharing them allows us to name the expectations and desires of each person and create a shared landscape.

This tool enables you to dance together, to get to know each other by sharing music for a moment without objective or judgment. It can be used to energize or warm up, and to connect in ways other than words.

To enable participants to collectively return to the present and a place of calm, to regain concentration and clarity in moments of transition, dispersion, loss of energy or before the weather forecast (see “weather forecast” tool).

The aim of this tool is to downplay  failure within a group and enable participants to free themselves from the desire to “do well” and the injunctions to succeed.

Find solutions, advance group thinking.

A game to get to know each other by sharing common and divergent points in pairs.

The council is a session organization tool. It provides a framework for carrying out a discussion according to four categories: I inform, I propose, I question/criticize, I thank.

This simple game is a breath of fresh air that lets you move on and have fun at the same time. It also helps to bind the group together, and to get to know each member better.

This game is a highly dynamic and spectacular variation on hide-and-seek, which increases the sense of cohesion and brings lightness to the group. It's ideal as a warm-up, to change energy levels, or when attention wanes.

Creating a mind map on paper is an excellent way to visually organize ideas and stimulate creativity. The mind map enables everybody to visualize at any given moment the richness and complexities of a situation.

To facilitate the organizational work of a group by assigning specific roles.

To break the ice at the start of a collaboration and get to know everyone in the group.

Shaded voting allows a more balanced expression of different opinions, reducing the risk of majority domination with the traditional yes/no vote.

The six thinking hats allow us to move away from the argumentative model of a debate, to work collaboratively on the different facets of a problem or question.

This tool enables you to prepare and conduct a presentation or online conference with kindness and efficiency.

Learn each other's first name and pronoun. Learn to perceive the group spatially.

Game to engage, recharge, and move during a digital meeting (Zoom or other platforms).

The aim of this tool is to downplay  failure within a group and enable participants to free themselves from the desire to “do well” and the injunctions to succeed.

Find solutions, advance group thinking.

Make the needs and desires of project members visible and see if a consensus is possible. This tool helps to put everyone's issues into perspective, and to measure their potential for conciliation. It is just as useful for setting up a group and defining a project as it is for evaluating intentions and redefining objectives during the process.

To set the framework, ethical and practical rules for living and working together, expressing viewpoints and listening to each other.

This game is a highly dynamic and spectacular variation on hide-and-seek, which increases the sense of cohesion and brings lightness to the group. It's ideal as a warm-up, to change energy levels, or when attention wanes.

To use signs and gestures to structure and facilitate communication between several people.

To break the ice during the first meeting of a group by introducing oneself with a short anecdote related to one's first name.

Shaded voting allows a more balanced expression of different opinions, reducing the risk of majority domination with the traditional yes/no vote.

Collectivize resources and ideas, create a collective brain to come up with an idea, make a decision or define a solution.

This tool enables you to dance together, to get to know each other by sharing music for a moment without objective or judgment. It can be used to energize or warm up, and to connect in ways other than words.

Active listening involves listening intentionally, attentively and without judgment. It's all about listening to understand, not to respond. It's an essential and highly effective communication technique, but it's sometimes difficult to know exactly how to put it into practice. This tool provides guidelines for better understanding and application of this principle.

The aim of this tool is to downplay  failure within a group and enable participants to free themselves from the desire to “do well” and the injunctions to succeed.

This protocol is used to structure feedback on current or completed artistic projects or works, or on teaching courses and workshops. It provides an overall view of the feedback received from participants, who can express themselves, within a precise framework, with kindness and constructive criticism.

When a group needs to make a decision on a complex topic or a controversial proposal, the consensus process can help lead to a harmonious agreement.

This simple game is a breath of fresh air that lets you move on and have fun at the same time. It also helps to bind the group together, and to get to know each member better.

Getting to know each other in pairs, breaking the ice at the very beginning of a collaboration or workshop, and building a connection between two participants.

Learn to better understand oneself by making visible the behavior and the role each person tends to take up within groups.

To break the ice at the start of a collaboration and get to know everyone in the group.

This protocol enables the structuring of cleaning in a collaborative manner, thereby fostering collective responsibility (for a class in a higher education setting, a shared workshop, or cohabitation).

Social myths are made up of ideals, dominant values, beliefs, as well as taboos and unwritten norms that are not to be transgressed. In other words, they are the founding myths and beliefs that underlie the expectations and desires of those participating in group work. Sharing them allows us to name the expectations and desires of each person and create a shared landscape.

Learn each other's first name and pronoun. Learn to perceive the group spatially.

To enable participants to collectively return to the present and a place of calm, to regain concentration and clarity in moments of transition, dispersion, loss of energy or before the weather forecast (see “weather forecast” tool).

Helps you find out how the members of your group are doing. The aim of this quick round is to bring everyone's emotional states to the surface, without getting into psychodramas, so that you can take them into account during the rest of the meeting/day.

The collective reading technique was developed in union struggles, then in militant culture, to compensate for the lack of time available for political education. Chapters are torn out of books and shared, then read aloud. Here, the idea is to share a common reading of one or more selected texts.

The council is a session organization tool. It provides a framework for carrying out a discussion according to four categories: I inform, I propose, I question/criticize, I thank.

A game to increase the sense of cohesion and bring lightness to the group. Ideal for changing energy levels, or when attention spans wane.

Quickly alleviate incipient tensions, dilute skewed interpretations of reality, dismantle anxieties, thus promoting a sense of security and trust within a group. In the event of feeling attacked, excluded, mocked or unease, the Left Side Column can be invoked.

To facilitate the organizational work of a group by assigning specific roles.

Increase the sense of cohesion, bring energy to the group. Ideal for shifting the atmosphere when attention wanes.

Have a different participant lead the warm-up in turn, to strengthen the group and discover each other's skills

This tool enables you to prepare and conduct a presentation or online conference with kindness and efficiency.

Have a different participant lead the daily warm-up each day, to strengthen the group and discover each other's skills.

Experiment with being in a position within a group that is different to the one you're used to being in, work on listening and building trust between members.

At the end of a work session or a particularly intense day offer a moment of recognition and/or conclusion.

A game to get to know each other by sharing common and divergent points in pairs.

During tensions or conflicts, this protocol proposes a levelling of perspectives through the voicing of each opinion — without going into responses.

Increase the sense of cohesion and bring lightness to the group. Ideal for shifting energy or addressing a drop in attention.

Creating a mind map on paper is an excellent way to visually organize ideas and stimulate creativity. The mind map enables everybody to visualize at any given moment the richness and complexities of a situation.

To make the connections between individuals in a group visible, highlighting the power of these connections. This visibility allows the group to realize who has strong ties within the group and who has fewer (and therefore less power). This awareness then enables the group to strengthen connections with those who have the fewest.

In an emerging group connected to a political cause, improve decision-making, discussion, and organizational structures.

The six thinking hats allow us to move away from the argumentative model of a debate, to work collaboratively on the different facets of a problem or question.

This tool helps to highlight and understand the nature and stakes of active power within a group or collective.