Meeting "Never Have I Ever"

Description

  • Time

    10-30 mins
  • Level

    2 (out of 5)

Our mischievous tweak of ‘never have I ever’: exercise focused on creating empathy as well as an understanding of facilitating and participating the meetings and workshops!

Instructions

At the core, this one works just the same as 'never have I ever' , but you're using the camera to signal your response:

  • All participants indicate whether they have (leave camera on) or haven't (turn camera off) done the named thing/scenario during a meeting

  • Either the facilitator or the participants continue to present the next "never have I ever's"

  • Play a few rounds

  • Round off with a reflection: how was this? how did it feel? what can we learn from it? what can we take forward?

Land with some thoughts around building empathy: the exercise shows we've all experienced being disengaged, we're all guilty of being a 'bad participant' and we know what it's like to be in the shoes of a participant.

As facilitators or meeting leaders this should prompt us to bare that feeling in mind and make sessions that aren't boring or disengaging, while also understanding where participants are coming from if they drift off. At the same time it is also reminder to be good participants: what goes around comes around- be the participant you'd like to see in your session.

Materials // Remarks

Prepare some scenarios and lead as example.

Notes

This could also serve as conversation starter to surface meeting frustrations and setting rules of behavior for your meetings/sessions. Check out i.e. Social Contract for this.

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