Generic products used in facilitation
Below are categories and subcategories of generic products used in facilitation. Each connected page has an editorial introduction with links to some manufacturers or products. You may add your tips & tricks in comments to these pages and include links as well. Tip: picture, audiotape or videotape how you do it, upload that to your website, YouTube or the Downloads section here, and link to it from your Tip & trick comment.
Product category | Sub category | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Cards | Magnetic Cards | Magnetic cards can be written on with a marker and stuck to a white board that is made of steel. |
| Cards | Writing Paper | Standard letter size paper |
| Cards | Tent cards for participant names | Folded card for participant names |
| Cards | Shaped cards | A variety of shapes can be found or made to help create clear images of the process or content of a workshop such as Speech bubbles etc. |
| Cards | Pin Cards | These are shaped cards that can be taped or pinned to a board. |
| Games / Toys | Tangram | The tangram (Chinese: 七巧板; pinyin: qī qiǎo bǎn; literally "seven boards of skill") is a dissection puzzle consisting of seven flat shapes, called tans, which are put together to form shapes. The objective of the puzzle is to form a specific shape (given only in outline or silhouette) using all seven pieces, which may not overlap. From Wikipedia |
| Games / Toys | Spot the difference | Spot the difference is a name given to a puzzle where two versions of an image are shown side by side, and the player has to find differences between them. (Wikipedia) |
| Games / Toys | Sliding puzzles | A sliding puzzle, sliding block puzzle, or sliding tile puzzle challenges a player to slide usually flat pieces along certain routes (usually on a board) to establish a certain end-configuration. (Wikipedia) |
| Games / Toys | Missing Square Puzzles | The missing square puzzle depicts two arrangements of shapes, each of which apparently forms a 13×5 right-angled triangle, but one of which has a 1×1 hole in it. (Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle ) |
| Games / Toys | Koosh Ball | The Koosh ball is a toy ball made of rubber filaments (strings) attached to a soft plasma rubber core. |
| Games / Toys | Pipe Cleaners | Pipe cleaners come in a variety of colors and sizes. |
| Games / Toys | Wikki Stix | Wikki Stix are made of a strand of acrylic, hand-knitting yarn enhanced with a microcrystalline, food-grade, non-toxic wax. There is no latex, nor any peanut or nut oil. The wax is similar to that used in lipsticks and on food products. |
| Games / Toys | Stuffed Animals | Small stuffed animals can help the environment |
| Graphic Facilitation Supplies | Templates | Graphic facilitation materials and supplies. |
| Graphic Facilitation Supplies | Facilitation Kits | A number of companies supply facilitation kits that include cards, pins, markers, etc. |
| Lists | Check lists | To do, equipment and other useful lists |
| Markers | Permanent markers | Uneraseable or detegergent eraseable markers |
| Markers | Squeeze markers | Markers for really wide (> 1 inch) lines. |
| Markers | White board markers | Dry erasable markers |
| Markers | Crayons | Wax markers |
| Office supplies | Scissors, rulers, tape, glue, etc | These are things that you should be able to find in most offices. |
| Office supplies | Name badges | To wear by session participants |
| Office supplies | Dots | Sticky Dots are of various sizes, shapes and colours. |
| Projectors | LCD Projectors | To project video or computer screens |
| Projectors | LED Video Display | Large bright screens |
| Projectors | Overhead projectors | To project A4 or 8.5 x 11" size transparencies |
| Projectors | Slide projectors | To project 35mm slides |
| Projectors | Opaque projectors | Classroom aid, to project directly from books, maps, etc. |
| Working boards | White boards | White boards for use with markers, magnets, wipers. |
| Working boards | Black boards | Traditional black school boards |
| Working boards | Flip charts | A1 size boards with paper blocks |
| Working Boards | Pin Boards | Pin boards have a soft material such as cork that pins can be stuck into |
| Working boards | Improvised boards | Do-it-yourself boards when no regular board is available, for instance when doing field work in developing countries. |
| Working boards | Electronic boards | Smart boards, Touch boards, Interactive whiteboards |
| Working Boards | Sticky Wall | Sticky walls are usually made of light cloth such as parachute fabric attached to a wall with tape and sprayed with mounting glue. |
| Working boards | Paper taped to wall | Brown packing paper taped in single or multiple rows. |
| Working Environment | Music | Music can be used to enable a good working environment. |
| Working Environment | Wall Decor | Most facilitators use the products of the various session to create wall decor. There are other approachs. |
| Working Environment | Table covers | In some workshops like World Cafe the table cover is paper and part of the record of the workshop. In others the table decore is used as normal. |
| Working Environment | Flowers or other center pieces | A center piece of flowers or art can contribute to the environment of the workshop. |
