• Understanding our role(s) within our work team
• Highlighting our emotional approach to our working environment
• Finding who could complement us (ideal team-mate).

Duration: 2 hours

Guide the participants through a sensitive portrait of themselves in 7 steps which will allow them to make some creative associations that illustrate their role in their working environment and how they perceive their team.

Ask them to draw, write and choose two colours.

They can freely choose when to use each technique.

Questions/Guidelines:

1. If my feelings when I am working with my team where 2 colours, which ones would they be? Think well, because the colours you choose will be the only ones you can use during the creation of your portrait. (2 minutes)

2. If I was an animal in my team, which animal would I be? From the 2 colours I chose before, I pick one to draw & colour myself as an animal. (4 minutes)

3. If my team was a scenery, how do I picture it? (5 minutes)

4. I imagine there is a task I don’t want to do but I have to and I will do it: What song could I sing, that represent this feeling? Make your animal sing it. (2 minutes)

5. If the personal skills I have where 3 Super Powers, which ones would they be? (5 minutes)

6. If I had a gadget to face an unexpected situation what would it be? (3 minutes)

7. If I had the perfect team-mate, how she/he will be? Choose one aspect that best suits he/she and picture it with two of the following: colour, animal or super power (4 minutes). You can choose another colour if you feel like it.

Ask the participants to share their portrait with the others and to see if they find a match in the group.

Place 4 tables in which the participants will discuss about one or two specific aspects of their portrait for 10 minutes, before switching to a second one, then a third, and so on.

You may attribute the following topics to the different tables:

Table#1: Colours + Song Table#2: Superpowers Table#3: Your animal & its environment Table#4: The gadget

Through the metaphors will appear meaningful elements about the way the participants represent themselves, their characters, their behaviors, their values, the environment they feel at home, the atmosphere they need to feel at ease, etc. Beyond simple figures, personalities might progressively be revealed.

To conclude the session and assess its results, ask the participants to reflect on 3 questions.

• What surprised me the most?
• What I learned about other people’s needs that I didn’t expect?
• If I had to join a new team tomorrow, which aspect of my portrait would I explain so we can work easily together?

Offer one minute per person to share one of their answers with the group. Encourage everyone to be short and assertive to keep the pace.

• 1 A4 per person (to draw their sensitive portrait)
• Pencils, felt pens and markers
• A paperboard