Awesome IP workshop tools: Exercises, games, worksheets,

activities, videos to make your workshop impactful, exciting,

and fun

Active Games/Ice Breakers:

Nametags with strange fact about themselves or “2 truths and a lie” “Stand up if” game

4 corners

Ball toss

Bingo with life experiences

Take-home tools for your participants:

Flip the thought cards

Affirmation/new beliefs/mantra cards

Gratitude journals

Dream sheet with baby steps

Homework sheets

Get Unstuck list

What I will do today, this week, this month sheet Happy Habits List

To Be List/ Happy Habits List

Write an encouraging note to yourself – mail them in a month

Worry Stones

TBT bookmarks

Videos to show during workshops or to send to your participants:

Apollos Hester video

Songify version

Andy Dooley visualization

Thoughts - the water experiment

About visualization: Saturday Night Live video & Jessica's daily affirmation

The Secret - This is the best day of my life video

Bob Ross remix – beliefs

Mr. Rogers

This is your life - do what you love

What do you desire? Do that!

Jim Carey - Fear and Love

Andy Dooley "Feel Good Now"

Uptown Funk treadmill dance

If I were a young woman video

Sesame Street "What I am"

Exercises/Activities:

Ask everyone “why did you say YES to this workshop?” Forced sharing…

Meet and introduce another participant after a break

Lemon visualization What I would like to pursue…But – Hidden Beliefs list

Alka seltzer or flash paper with limiting beliefs

Arm muscle testing

Belief sticker labels – how would you experience hosting Thanksgiving if you had this limiting belief?

Beliefs exercise – wear a negative belief sticker for a while throughout class and then each person describes how that feels. Then group writes positive affirmation sticker about each person – put it on the person as you read them aloud to the group.

I AM sheet – write positive affirmations from the labels on a sheet of paper with “I AM” written at the top for each participant

Share baby steps list with a partner (good to say it out loud)

Brainstorm in pairs – how can we “act as if”?

Dream triad/dream amplifier – in any chapter where you are discussing their dream/goal. 2 people talk about another’s goal with lots of juicy details

Dream/Goal sheet – share with a partner Superpowers list

Fear in your pocket

Vision boards

Pull a Notes From The Universe card and read it out loud

Use card decks

Write a letter to yourself now from your older self

Additional readings / things to show:

Autobiography in 5 chapters

Quotes (wise words slide) about the power of thoughts

Poems/book passages you like

Inspirational message slides

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Get Out of the Black Vortex of Swirling Crap

Get Unstuck

Everything Totally Sucks and I Want it to Stop

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1 step I can take to move toward my dream/ goal today:

1 step I can take to move toward my dream / goal this week:

1 step I can take to move toward my dream / goal this month:

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Daily BE My Best Habits

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Eating a Lemon Visualization Exercise:

Imagine you are in a kitchen somewhere.

On a bench is a basket of lemons. You reach out and select a ripe yellow lemon. You feel the weight of

the lemon in your hand..., you slide your fingers over the smooth waxy skin... feel the dimpled

texture... You lift the lemon to your face and breathe in that lemony smell... and then

you slice the lemon open. As the bright yellow flesh is exposed you see the juice run out... a lovely

lemony citrus aroma fills the room. You cut a slice and put it in your mouth. You bite down on it ....

the juice runs over your tongue... your mouth fills with the taste of lemon juice...

Most people will find their mouthwatering after reading the Eating a Lemon visualization exercise.

This is because in order to make sense of what you hear or read your brain has to retrieve the

memories - the images, smells, textures - that the Lemon Visualization brings to mind. The experience

of eating a lemon is something that generates powerful physical reactions. Recalling eating the lemon

recalls the distinctive reaction, and your body responds with a conditioned reflex. The Eating a Lemon

visualization exercise demonstrates that words undoubtedly do have a physical effect on the body.

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You have SUPERPOWERS!!

What are some of your AWESOME SUPERPOWERS?

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Wise Words!

“We are what we think. All that we are arises from our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.” -

Buddha

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them to think. To find yourself, think for yourself.” -

Socrates

“Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you

think.” -Dale Carnegie

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.” -Henry Ford

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” -Marcus Aurelius

“You create your own universe as you go along.” –Winston Churchill

Autobiography in Five Short Chapters by Porche Nelson

Chapter 1

I walk down the street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I fall in.

I am lost.

I am helpless.

It isn’t my fault.

It takes forever to find the way out.

Chapter 2

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I pretend I don’t see it.

I fall in again.

I can’t believe I’m in the same place, but it isn’t my fault.

It still takes a long time to get out.

Chapter 3

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I see it is there.

I still fall in; it’s a habit.

Yet, my eyes are open.

I know where I am.

It is my fault.

I get out immediately.

Chapter 4

I walk down the same street.

There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.

I walk around it.

Chapter 5

I walk down another street.