Activities specifically focused on personal growth, self-awareness, actualizing our potential, and making progress toward our goals.
Ask and It Is Given!
This activity is similar to a gifting circle, where we share wish lists and what we can offer, and then match people who can help each other. Read more here.
Visualization
We close our eyes and imagine a desired result, adding more and more vivid details to it, including imagining and describing what we see, hear, smell, and feel. In this way, we can reach greater clarity about a goal, how to get there, and how to overcome obstacles.
Crafting Your Positive Life Narrative
We notice the story our minds tell us about who we are and our lives, and we deliberately craft a positive, energizing narrative that still fits reality. It covers goals and plans, and turns objections, fears, and pains into concrete next steps we can look forward to. Read more here.
Values-in-Action
Each person picks a value (see: Values) and describes how they can express it in their life: design a specific behavior for the upcoming week. The group pressure-tests whether it’s observable and realistic.
Sprint Planning & Metrics
Each person names one focus life-area, and drafts 2–3 concrete outcomes to achieve in the next 90 days (or some other chosen time period). The group helps stress-test the plan (risks, blind spots, first actions) and verify the outcomes are measurable and realistic.
You can choose to include one “stretch” metric: A single number you can track that is ambitious but still plausible. Not a guaranteed outcome, but something that would genuinely require you to raise your game over the chosen time period.
- Metric: Something measurable (or at least scorable on a consistent scale), not only a vague intention. E.g. 10 outreach conversations, bed by 23:30 five nights/week, “otal minutes of running, number of published posts.
- Stretch: It should feel slightly uncomfortable relative to your baseline, enough that you might not hit it every week, but you’d be proud if you got close and you’d learn something even if you miss.
Role-play Simulations
In a supportive, non-judgmental space, we use role-playing as a “laboratory” to rehearse difficult situations or walk through a desired outcome, practice behaviors, and reflect together so we can carry more clarity and confidence into real life. Read more here.
The “Hot Seat”
One person sits in the center and openly shares a problem, difficulty, or complaint they are facing. The others are deliberately and honestly tough with them, “grilling” the person with uncompromising questions, calling out self-limiting patterns and excuses (or “bullshit” the person is telling him/herself) which is holding them back. They can also offer advice and guiding questions, as well as challenge the person to do certain actions beyond his or her comfort zone – actions that would be beneficial for advancing the person’s desires. All this is done with the person’s full consent, at a level suitable for that person, and the default tone remains caring. However, the person in the seat may explicitly request a more blunt and challenging style. The exercise often produces a mix of discomfort, insight, and laughter of embarrassment about one’s failings.
Playfully Challenging Each Other
Together we name limiting patterns, pick growth directions that excite us, and playfully challenge each other, each one - according to their own pace. Read more here.
Discussions
In some of our meetings, we choose a topic that is relevant for our personal growth and is practical and relevant for our lives. We have a fruitful discussion about it. A list of potential topics can be found here.
Accountability & Follow-Through
- Commitment circle: One small, time-bound action per person to be done before the next meetup. We can use daily “buddy” check-ins to support each other.
- Sharing what was done: Quick round: What did you actually do since last time - with curiosity, of course not with judging, or scoring who did better (unless we deliberately decided to do a friendly competition).