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
Values in Action: A Deep Dive into Discovering Core Strengths

Values in Action: A Deep Dive into Discovering Core Strengths

Understanding your core values is essential for leading a fulfilling life. These values guide our decisions, shape our behaviours, and help us connect with others. By discovering and applying these...
— Sarah Jane Lewis
Team Building Cards: Fostering Unity and Engagement in Every Session

Team Building Cards: Fostering Unity and Engagement in Every Session

Team building cards are innovative tools designed to foster camaraderie and engagement among team members. These cards can be used in various settings to promote communication, collaboration, and understanding, making...
— Sarah Jane Lewis
Attracting Emotional Awareness: How Emotions Magnets Can Enhance Self-Reflection and Communication

Attracting Emotional Awareness: How Emotions Magnets Can Enhance Self-Reflection and Communication

In today's fast-paced world, emotional awareness is more important than ever. Emotions Magnets are tools designed to enhance our understanding of feelings, helping us reflect on our emotions and communicate...
— Sarah Jane Lewis
Psychological Safety Workshop Activities to Build Trust and Openness

Psychological Safety Workshop Activities to Build Trust and Openness

An extensive guide to activities to promote psychological safety amongst teams
— Sarah Jane Lewis
Winning attitude cards

Coaching for Goal Achievement

    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...
— Sarah Jane Lewis
Coaching for Wellbeing with the Squiggly Life Mindfulness Toolkit

Coaching for Wellbeing with the Squiggly Life Mindfulness Toolkit

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

Leadership Development with the Work Up Card Set

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.
— Sarah Jane Lewis
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