Hello friends,
Many thanks for reading The Quest, your weekly round-up of tips and insights to help you design and lead exceptional online sessions that your group members will love.❤️
Welcome to week 3 of our 4-week series, where I’m sharing my all-time favorite resources for session design and facilitation!
Whether you’re leading team meetings, online courses, group coaching sessions, or training, I’ve got some gems that will spark fresh ideas and inspire your work with groups.
So far I’ve shared:
Week 1: 🎙️10 facilitation podcasts that will accelerate your growth.
Week 2: 📚10 books that will help you become an exceptional facilitator (and an all-around wiser person).
This week I’m excited to share 🧰 10 Free Toolkits I Can’t Live Without.
Let’s dive right in!
Have you ever come up blank when looking for the perfect activity?
You need some ideas for a quick icebreaker but you don’t know where to look or who to ask? I know that feeling. That’s why a few years ago I started collecting toolkits.
I discovered that there are hundreds of toolkits out there.
I’ve spent hours pouring through warm-ups, activities, prompt questions, and closings. But it felt like I was trying to sip water from a firehose. I was drowning in options.
I now have my go-to toolkits.
They are expertly curated by seasoned facilitators. Dedicated people who have spent countless hours collecting, creating, and sharing tools.
In these toolkits, you will find ideas that help spark creativity, build community, and boost innovation. And they make working and learning in groups more playful and fun.
I’ve used these toolkits to come up with activities for my course Breakthrough Facilitation. And I consult them when I am looking for a little creative inspiration.
You’ll see that many of the tools focus on leading live online sessions. But you’ll also find lots of ideas for in-person and hybrid sessions.
Here is the list of 10 toolkits that I can’t live without👇
1/ 🧈 Butter Facilitation for All GPT
Meet the future of toolkits! A curated searchable resources toolkit by the incredible Butter team and community. Perfect for, well, everything!
Check out 👉 The Sunset Activity
2/ ⚙️IDEO’s Creative Tips + Tools.
Practical resources for bringing creativity into your life and putting it to work. Perfect for sparking innovation and creative thinking.
Check out 👉 6 Ways to Kick Off Creative Meetings
3/ 🔧Session Lab Library of Facilitation Techniques.
A bank of 900 facilitation activities and methods that boost engagement, productivity, and participation. Ideal for virtual meetings and teams.
Check out 👉 Fortunate Me
4/ ⛏️Hyper Island Toolbox.
100 activities that cover energizers, innovation, leadership, team-building, well-being, and diversity-equity-inclusion-and belonging. You’ll find something for any kind of group here.
Check out 👉 I Like, I Wish, I Wonder
5/ 🪛Liberating Structures Methods Menu
A menu of 33 methods that tap the collective intelligence and wisdom of groups. If you don’t know Liberating Structures it’s worth getting to know their game-changing work.
Check out 👉 1-2-4-All
6/ 🔩Mischief Makers Facilipedia
A curation of facilitation techniques and activities to support teamwork and create better-aligned and more effective teams.
Check out 👉 Counting Game
7/ 💡Gamestorming
A curated set of hundreds of co-creation tools used by innovators around the world based on the popular book. Good for fresh thinking, idea selection, team building, vision, and strategy.
Check out 👉 How Now Wow
A workshop resource built for teams, by teams proven to foster team connection and improve performance. Good for teamwork, creative thinking, and innovation.
Check out 👉 Icebreaker Activities
9/ 🧮Shadow Playground Games & Activities
A new toolkit curated by seasoned facilitator Ez Bridgman. It helps organizations and individuals connect to their playful vitality in their most important and challenging moments.
Check out 👉 Turn your camera off if…
10/ 🔨Changemakers x Change Virtual Toolkit.
A compilation of resources for virtual sessions to help you create social impact. Brilliant for social entrepreneurs, innovators, and changemakers.
Check out 👉 Check-in Questions
Bonus toolkit –> 11/ 🛠️Collective Impact Methods Kit
Over 450 tools expertly curated by networks facilitator Brendon Johnson. Brendon has sifted through 40+ toolkits and meticulously tagged and rated each one. This is the toolkit of all toolkits!
Check out 👉 Group Agreements for Networks
Coming up in our 4-week resource series:
Week 4 –> 🎥Click-worthy YouTube videos
Stay tuned!
(P.S. I’ve got 9 out of 10 YouTube videos – I’m looking for 1 more:) Please let me know by hitting reply to this email).
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