Memory Pegging with Stories Exercise
This exercise helps delegates improve memory retention by using the memory pegging technique, where they associate unrelated words or concepts with vivid images or short stories. The goal is to cre...
Six-Word Stories: A Creative Writing Exercise
This exercise is designed to cultivate delegates’ creativity, emotional intelligence, and reflective thinking through the challenge of expressing experiences, emotions, or insights in just six word...
Acting and Improvisation Exercises
Practicing improvisation exercises can greatly help with communication skills and help reduce fear of being on stage. In a controlled environment of a class, you can easily get delegates to practic...
The advent of “Fake News” means that we are currently going through a major phase in history. Fake news has come to dominate the news, literally. It is sometimes amusing, but most often frightening...
This classic game was popularised in 80s. It is fun to play and helps to generate a lot of positives and negatives for a given topic. Delegates go through a series of statements that start with ‘fo...
This is a fun exercise focusing on word play where the delegates need to converge on a common word based on previously suggested words. When convergence happens, it is immensely enjoyable. The pair...
In this exercise delegates put themselves in the medieval era and try to look at the world from a new point of view. Their view is then compared to modern times. In the medieval era, people didn’t ...
Storytelling Exercise: Form a Line
This is a creativity exercise that encourages delegates to create a story together as a group. It is ideal for team building, acting and creativity. You can also modify the exercise to limit its sc...
Teamwork Exercise: Broadcast News
This is an entertaining and educational activity designed to test a group of people on their creativity as well as teamwork. The task involves producing a video. However, the video production is on...
Free Speaking: Avoiding Speaker’s Block
This is a technical exercise to help avoiding speaker’s block while presenting. The aim is to follow a systematic approach in practicing over and over again until delegates are confident enough tha...
Personal Impact Exercise: Just a Minute
This is technical exercise to practice public speaking. It is designed to focus a presenter’s mind on a specific goal when giving a speech so it is delivered without pause. The exercise also helps ...
Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story with Three Images
This exercise helps to test the creativity of delegates on their ability to make stories based on a series of images. Each delegate sees a series of images and needs to make an interesting story th...
Icebreaker: This Reminds Me of…
This exercise helps with creative storytelling and impromptu delivery. It can also be used as an icebreaker to help delegates learn about each other. The choice of objects dictates what kinds of ar...
Storytelling: Impromptu Delivery with Image
This is entertaining exercise on getting delegates to quickly think of a story to tell based on a visual prompt. The options allow you to bias the exercise based on what you want delegates to pract...
Acting Exercise: Impromptu Delivery
This entertaining exercise helps delegates practice their acting in front of an audience. Each person will be required to deliver a speech about a given topic. You can vary the exercise by expectin...
Google Ngram: Ever Wondered When a Given Word Became Popular?
Modern tools can provide a great insight on how certain terms have been used in the past. With the advent of search engines and in particular the ever more useful tools released by Google we can ex...
Story Design Exercise: The Alternative
In this exercise delegates practice designing a story. Story design can be quite challenging so this exercise helps to break it up to a simpler task by giving delegates a helpful starting point. Yo...
Storytelling Exercise: Make a Story from an Image
Use this exercise to get the delegates design a story based on a single image. The choice of these images can greatly influence the exercise, so use this much like a template to craft a training ex...
