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!

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
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
happiness at work game

Solving Workplace Problems with Positive Psychology

This fun and engaging exercise uses the learning from positive psychology to address workplace challenges. The Choose happiness at work game is packed with scientific knowledge of the small things that make a big difference to wellbeing at work. With these positive action cards in their hands, participants learn how to deal with common workplace problems and frustrations in an active, enjoyable way.

— Sarah Jane Lewis
Coaching Cubes

Tactile Coaching Cubes for Impact and Engagement

This exercise is designed to pro-actively engage clients in the coaching process. With six different ways to use the cubes it brings a tactile, pro-active, soothing and self-directed element to the coaching conversation. It’s particularly suitable for young adults, neuro-diverse clients and shy or anxious clients.

— Sarah Jane Lewis
Appreciative Inquiry Cards

Creative Conversations about Change

This exercise is designed to help groups that need to initiate some change, or where change has become stuck, to have creative conversations that open up possibilities. This might be when they are subject to planned change as well as when they are self-initiating change.

— Sarah Jane Lewis
Resilience Cards

Creating a Resilience Plan in Testing Times

This exercise is designed to help boost the resilience of groups that feel under pressure or unable to cope. For example, when feeling overwhelmed by a forthcoming challenge or by present circumstances. It’s for people who want to better understand what supports their resilience and how to become more resilience when facing difficult circumstances.
— Sarah Jane Lewis
Tagged: Resilience wellbeing
Positive Organisational Development Cards

Using the Positive Organisational Development Cards to Create Flourishing Organisations

This exercise is designed for anyone who wants to, or is in a position to, help their organization become a place where people can flourish. Based on the science of positive organisational psychology, the exercise introduces key concepts, questions to stimulate discussion and ideas for action.
— Sarah Lewis
Positran Strengths Cards

Discovering Strengths Using Appreciative Inquiry and Strengths Cards to Boost Mood, Self-Awareness and Confidence

This exercise is designed to help people discover their key strengths through the Appreciative Inquiry discovery interview. The aim of the exercise is to bring each person’s strengths-in-action to light through their sharing of an account of themselves at their best in a particular context. The cards are used to help identify possible strengths, and as stimuli to further discussion and exploration of strengths.
— Sarah Lewis
Tagged: Appreciative inquiry At my best Strengths cards BeTalent Strengths Cards confidence mood Positran Strengths Cards self-awareness Strengths cards VIA strengths cards wellbeing
Tell your story cards

Use Tell Your Story Cards to Create Optimism, Hope and Possibility

This exercise is designed to help anyone who has become stuck in a downward cycle of despair or hopelessness and feels stuck. The aim of the exercise is to change the story being told about the situation to one that offers scope for positive and pro-active ways forward.
— Sarah Lewis
Tagged: Coaching coaching exercise counselling exercise Tell Your Story Tell Your Story Cards therapy exercise wellbeing