Butter Block Templates

Invite everyone to get to know each other in smaller breakouts with a series of thoughtful questions about what lights them up these days.

Encourage everyone to get different perspectives about a topic or idea by rotating them through several rounds of conversation with each other.

In small groups, participants will take turns to answer fun reflective questions and then share back their experience with the group.

This is great for getting a bit creative and approaching potentially serious topics in a more lighthearted way!

This is a great team-building icebreaker as it encourages people to reveal something new about themselves through a fun guessing game!

Start, Stop, Continue is a great activity to use at the end of a team meeting, team retrospective, project end, or in general, during a team alignment session.

Lift up the energy in the room by getting everyone to bust a move. Create a fun and relaxed atmosphere as a group with a bit of dancing!

Get your participants primed to think outside of the box with this improv-inspired energizer.

Pump up the energy and get everyone’s imaginations going with this fun GIF icebreaker!

This icebreaker/energizer will get your participants moving and will also get them sharing things about their space and themselves along the way.

Get connections happening fast by asking simple but meaningful questions—and then throwing in a twist.

Get everyone to share what they're thinking by collecting asking them to draw it out!

This is a great check-out activity for everyone to share what they appreciated in a session. Ideal for when you have bigger groups and when you are short on time!

Rose, Bud, Thorn is a mindful way to get or give feedback. It’s a simple retrospective technique to help identify positive outcomes (Rose), opportunities (Bud), and challenges (Thorn) from your projects.

Get everyone moving and having fun with this energizer! The spotlighted participant will need to pick a dance move and everyone else will need to follow the leader and copy that move.

This is a personal favorite of AJ&Smart's CEO Jonathan Courtney. Learn something new about each other without getting too uncomfortably personal!

Get creatively sketchy with this fun drawing icebreaker! Since it’s a party game everyone’s familiar with, it’s a great way to get people feeling relaxed.

Great if you want to warm people up but also set some context for the meeting or workshop! The goal is to ease people into it in a lighthearted, low-pressure way.

Ease the group into natural conversation and prime them for creative thinking by asking fun questions.