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Undergraduates at Liverpool University playing Planit-Sustainability learning simulation

Purpose: Ice breaker or getting the groups feelings out in the open. Animal Planet is a deceptively simple exercise in which a group of individuals are asked to choose an animal that represents say, “How they currently view themselves” or “How they would like to be viewed” and so on. Using an animal as a simile enables a group to build a narrative.

 

 

 

Purpose: Grouping, sorting and ranking ideas, issues or questions. Brainstorm topics to generate ideas, issues or questions. Put ideas on post-Its, cluster them on on flip chart, getting the whole group to agree. Clusters are named and linked causally. The clusters or themes can be used for further action. This process can be the starting point for modelling.

 

 

 

Purpose: Ice breaker, analysis of local area, or sustainability analysis. Write good and bad things about the area on green and red post-Its, and place them on a Venn diagram (three circles titled social, environment, and economic). The facilitator asks questions like “Is congestion just an environmental issue”. This generates a discussion about the cost of traffic jams / health impacts of pollution. The post-It is moved to the centre (sustainable development).

Tips
Make your exercises:
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Relate to the delegates experience.
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Fun and engaging - Pike’s Laws.
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Cater for learning styles.
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Build to a conclusion - the story arc.
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Give learners the chance to reflect on the learning.
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Get the delegates to commit to doing something and follow them up.

You can never have enough feedback. Without feedback we would never have been able to develop our simulation-based workshops, as we were inventing the rule book!

Storytelling is a powerful learning tool that can be used to create a compelling vision of the future, or a non-threatening way to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Exercises can encourage storytelling and on-line tools enable the story to be disseminated.

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Workshop Exercises

Free exercises and activities that you can use to enhance your workshops, training, coaching and meetings.

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Workshop Exercise Examples (used alongside our learning simulations)
Animal Planet
Affinity / Delphi
Local Issues