Toolbox for Thriving With Humans

An Expanding Collection of My Top Energizers, Exercises & Sources for Meaningful Collaboration & Personal Growth

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Silent Eye Gazing

This is a paired presence exercise that strips interaction down to its essentials. By removing words and roles, participants practice staying present with another person — without performing, fixing, or withdrawing.

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Hero’s Journey

The Hero’s Journey is a reflective storytelling exercise that helps people make sense of challenge, change, and growth. By mapping real experiences onto a simple narrative structure, participants uncover meaning, clarify purpose, and see how struggle often precedes insight.

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Friend vs. Self

A short reflection exercise that reveals the gap between how we treat others in difficulty and how we treat ourselves. It helps participants develop a more effective inner coach without lowering standards.

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Deep Listening

Deep Listening is a structured partner exercise that separates speaking from listening to train attention, presence, and empathy. It builds trust and psychological safety by letting people experience what it feels like to be truly heard.

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Whose Bag?

What can you learn about a person without asking them a single question? This exercise trains empathy and collective sense-making by turning everyday objects into clues about identity, values, and meaning.

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Love Questions

Love Questions uses carefully sequenced questions to help people connect beyond roles and titles. It builds trust, empathy, and psychological safety by pairing self-disclosure with deep, uninterrupted listening.

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Your Living Funeral

Your Living Funeral is a reflective exercise that invites leaders to step back and consider the legacy they want to leave behind. By imagining how they would like to be remembered, it helps clarify what truly matters—and how to live and lead accordingly.

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Values Exploration

Values Exploration is a reflective exercise that helps leaders clarify and prioritize what truly matters to them. It supports calmer decision-making, reduces defensiveness under pressure, and anchors leadership behavior in personal integrity.

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Line Game

The Line Game is a simple, constraint-based drawing exercise built around a classic nine-dot puzzle. It makes visible how quickly people adopt invisible rules—and what happens when those rules are questioned.

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Mind Mapping

Mind Mapping is a visual thinking practice built around non-linear, associative idea generation. Ideas are captured radially, allowing thoughts to branch, connect, and coexist on the page.

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