Creative Workshop Exercises - Easy and Engaging Exercises for Change

All the workshop exercises are explained in simple step-by-step fully illustrated guides drawing on our carefully selected and curated science-backed training products.

The exercises are suitable for use by coaches, consultants, therapists, facilitators, coaches, workshop leaders, trainers, organisational development and human resources and by team leaders.

While suitable care should always be exercised when undertaking workshop exercises, and the needs, psychological maturity and particular context of the specific audience taken into account, these exercises are carefully designed to achieve a positive outcome.

Each guide clearly explains the tools needed for the exercise, the intended impact, and any necessary preparation before the exercise begins. The guide then takes you through running the exercise in a step-by-step explanation, illustrating at key points how the exercise might look so you’ll always be clear on what you are doing.

Please see the exercises below!

Instant Energiser for any Training or Development Activity

Instant Energiser for any Training or Development Activity

Sarah Lewis
Described below is a quick and easy exercise that you can use As an introductory firelighter to wake people up, get them talking, create connections As an energiser whenever group...
Outdoor Team Coaching for Team Development

Outdoor Team Coaching for Team Development

Sarah Jane Lewis
Creative Workshop Exercises: Easy and Engaging Workshop Activities #25 Outdoor Team Coaching for Team Development  Impact:  This exercise should increase team cohesion and enhance understanding of the team context, opportunities...
Coaching for Inspiring Leadership

Coaching for Inspiring Leadership

Sarah Lewis
Coaching for Inspiring Leadership   Impact:  Greater ability to inspire others as a leader Materials Needed: One pack of Inspiring Leader Cards Remember, should you decide to buy one or more...
Winning attitude cards

Coaching for Goal Achievement

Sarah Jane Lewis
    Impact:  Greater confidence in approaching goal attainment Materials Needed: One pack of Winning Attitude Cards Remember, should you decide to buy one or more packs of cards, you can...
Coaching for Wellbeing with the Squiggly Life Mindfulness Toolkit

Coaching for Wellbeing with the Squiggly Life Mindfulness Toolkit

Sarah Jane Lewis
This exercise is designed to help boost the mental wellbeing of someone reporting low mood, feelings of inadequacy, lack of self-confidence or similar
Leadership Development with the Work Up Card Set

Leadership Development with the Work Up Card Set

Sarah Jane Lewis
This exercise is great for action learning sets, leadership development activities, general organisational problem solving at many different levels. The resource itself is amazing, jam packed with tried and tested ways to implement positive psychology activities to address common organisational challenges.
Bring Two Teams into One, using the River Cards

Bring Two Teams into One, using the River Cards

Sarah Jane Lewis
The exercise is designed to help the teams bring their stories of the past together in a way that recognises the best of what they bring to the future. It is also designed to help them co-create stories of future strength and success and to talk constructive about the challenges of the period of transition. 
positran positive transformation cards

Releasing the HERO within to achieve your goals

Sarah Jane Lewis
This exercise will help you work with your clients who are uncertain, lacking confidence or confused about how to approach or achieve their goals become more aware of the beliefs and emotional factors that are swirling around the particular goal under discussion.
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Coaching for Wellbeing through Mindfulness

Sarah Jane Lewis
This exercise is for life, executive or other coaches, therapists and counsellors who want to help their clients experience the wellbeing benefits of greater mindfulness.
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Identifying Team Strengths with one pack of Strengths Cards

Sarah Jane Lewis
This exercise is for facilitators, team leaders, trainers and others who want to help a team show appreciation to each other and understand the overview of the perceived strengths of the team.
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Increase Team Productivity by working with Team Role Preferences

Sarah Jane Lewis

Once the team understand everyone's team role preferences, they can better organise the work to play to those preferences. When people can work in the way they like best, they are likely to be more energised and motivated. 

Tell your story cards

Explore the Leadership Development Journey with Tell Your Story Cards

Sarah Jane Lewis

This exercise is for anyone assisting others to understand and tell the story of their development as a leader. Using the cards makes the task of tracking and exploring the leadership journey so far more tactile, visual and easier to share. The conversation can then spring-board to exploring possibilities for the continuing leadership development journey.