Fill-in-the-blanks allows members to explore psychological safety by thinking on how they respond to safe and unsafe environments. These activity tries to get real experiences instead of abstract responses.
Steps
- Introduce the activity as a way to understand how safety affects behaviour Hands two different set of color index cards to each.
- Share the first sentence: “When I feel unsafe, I … “. Ask participants to complete the sentence on index cards
- Share second sentence “When I feel safe, I …”
- Collect the answers to both sentences and shuffle/anonymize
- Share the responses and read out the sentence endings for sentence #1, then #2. Allow time each time for the sentences to sink in
- Ask how people would prefer to work. After the discussion, ask wether working agreements would work (see Retrospective Working Agreements)
Remote variation: instead of index cards (less anonymous), use two word clouds