Toolbox for Thriving With Humans

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

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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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Neuroscience of Leadership

A concise reminder that leadership suffers when analysis crowds out human awareness — and why great leaders learn to switch modes, not stay stuck in one.

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Formula 1 Cross-Pollination

A gripping case study in cross-industry learning: how Formula 1 pit-stop discipline helped a pediatric cardiac team cut handover errors and make high-stakes work dramatically safer.

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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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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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Ninja · Hunter · Bear

Ninja · Hunter · Bear is a loud, physical twist on Rock–Paper–Scissors designed to unlock play and collective energy. It replaces self-consciousness with laughter, momentum, and instant group bonding.

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Word Fusion

Word Fusion helps teams practice thinking together by blending words in real time. What starts as playful randomness quickly turns into alignment, shared meaning, and collective focus.

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I’m a Tree

I’m a Tree is a fast, physical improv exercise where ideas are built live, in the body, and together. It trains teams to say “yes” first, reduce creative pressure, and let collective imagination take over.

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Face-Off Portraits

Face-Off Portraits asks people to draw each other seriously—and fail publicly. The result is laughter, lowered defenses, and a fast reset of creative courage.

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Invisible Ball

Invisible Ball is a fast-moving group exercise built on imaginary objects and real sounds. As complexity increases, participants practice presence, coordination, and letting go of self-consciousness together.

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Three Things

Three Things is a rapid-fire exercise built on spontaneity and simplicity. It reduces overthinking by making judgment impossible — momentum replaces self-editing.

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Zip · Zap · Boing

Zip · Zap · Boing is a high-energy circle game where attention must stay fully embodied to keep up. It trains instant awareness by rewarding presence, not thinking.

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