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.

Creative Workshop Exercises by category

Strengths

 Wellbeing

 Resilience

Teams

Leadership

Coaching

Appreciative inquiry At my best Strengths cards BeTalent Strengths Cards Coaching coaching exercise confidence counselling exercise mood positive emotions cards Positran Strengths Cards Resilience self-awareness Strengths cards Tell Your Story Tell Your Story Cards therapy exercise VIA strengths cards wellbeing
Bring Two Teams into One, using the River Cards

Bring Two Teams into One, using the River Cards

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. 
— Sarah Jane Lewis
positran positive transformation cards

Releasing the HERO within to achieve your goals

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.
— Sarah Jane Lewis
Positran Mindfulness Cards

Coaching for Wellbeing through Mindfulness

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.
— Sarah Jane Lewis
BeTalent Strengths Cards

Identifying Team Strengths with one pack of Strengths Cards

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.
— Sarah Jane Lewis
BeTalent Team Cards

Increase Team Productivity by working with Team Role Preferences

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. 

— Sarah Jane Lewis
Tell your story cards

Explore the Leadership Development Journey with Tell Your Story Cards

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.

— Sarah Jane Lewis
Langley value cards

Bring Workplace Values Alive with Langley Values Cards

This exercise will be useful for workshop leaders, team leaders and managers, organisational development practitioners and others who work with groups to help them identify or create a sense of their core values or a values statement.
— Sarah Jane Lewis
Boosting Happiness at Work with Positive Emotion Cards

Boosting Happiness at Work with Positive Emotion Cards

This exercise is designed to help people identify and focus on the opportunities at work to experience positive emotions. It will be useful for wellbeing consultants and other workshop leaders, as well as team leaders and managers. It can be particularly useful in difficult and challenging workplaces where opportunities to notice, experience and savour moments of happiness or good feeling can be overlooked.
— Sarah Jane Lewis
Coaching for Positive Wellbeing with Positive Action Cards

Coaching for Positive Wellbeing with Positive Action Cards

This exercise will be useful for coaches and therapists working with clients who are looking to positively affect their emotions or emotional state, psychological well-being, depression, anxiety, health, relationships, happiness, self-esteem, or beliefs. All sixty-four actions suggested by the pack are scientifically proven
— Sarah Jane Lewis
HEX Cards

Enhance Group Connection and Communication with HEX Cards

This exercise will help workshop facilitators, trainers and others who run group events and who are looking for an engaging, fun, joint exercise that helps the group create a joined-up account or narrative about some aspect of group life, activity or thinking. The exercise can focus on any question meaningful to the group, for example learning from a session, aspirations for the future, personal values – team values, memorable moments, significant life events.
— Sarah Jane Lewis
Boost Communication, Trust and Performance with Improved Psychological Safety

Boost Communication, Trust and Performance with Improved Psychological Safety

This exercise is designed for team leaders, workshop leaders, team coaches and others who want to help people work more effectively together by improving levels of trust and openness. The card pack presents 10 key factors that underpin psychological safety with full definitions and key identifiers.

— Sarah Jane Lewis
Emotional Intensity Cards

Increasing Emotional Intelligence with Emotional Intensity Cards

This exercise is likely to benefit anyone who feels at the mercy of their emotions, that their emotions are out of control or that their emotions frequently get the better of them. This exercise will help them understand how to better manage their emotional state.
— Sarah Jane Lewis