Time to start our next - March’23 - challenge!
Find the details in this thread.
Please note, that we now calculate votes and likes in Miroverse for the people's choice award, so the earlier you publish the higher the chances are for winning.
@Nick V you leave us no merci with super prolific and sharp icebreaker ! See you in 2023 on our beloved Miroverse 
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Oh, @Boris Petrovitch Njegosh it was hard to compete with you, but let’s meet in the next challenge ;)
@Helena Brandist , @Mariam Danielian - appreciate for this challenge, looking for more!
Huge congratulations to the winners, and to everyone who participated. We’re all making Miro better.
Hello dear participants!
Quick reminder that you still have some time today to get likes/ votes under your submission in this thread to win the People’s Choice award! 
The jury is still out for the main prize, but stay tuned: we will announce the winner of the challenge by end of day today!
@Akos Piltmann @Nick V @Boris Petrovitch Njegosh @Louisdylanking @OnlyAli @Paul Snedden @amtodorova @Richard Becker @Barry Jack @Eline Charles @Indra Kusuma @Jaipriya.Pandiyan @Krasi_Owtcome @Mirjam Leunissen
Thank you everyone for your submissions! We are now closing the contest! 
Judges’ Choice
Together with NDB judges, Miro panel will review all of your submissions to chose the WINNER! I can already tell that this is going to be a very difficult job. This time we will keep the voting and evaluation offline and won’t be running a separate event to announce the winners, we will announce the winner in this thread on December 14!
People’s Choice
Second winner will be decided by the number of VOTES (Likes) under the submission post in this thread. So go ahead and spread the word: the participant with the most amount of likes generated by December 14 will get the People’s Choice prize!
Good luck!
CC @Akos Piltmann @Nick V @Boris Petrovitch Njegosh @Louisdylanking @OnlyAli @Paul Snedden @amtodorova @Richard Becker @Barry Jack @Eline Charles @Indra Kusuma @Jaipriya.Pandiyan @Krasi_Owtcome @Mirjam Leunissen
Hi,
please find our icebreaker here.
What:
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This Icebreaker game is designed to bring team members closer to each other. Participants need to work together in order to find the answers for some personal questions.
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Who will win? All of the participants by having more information about each other. Get to know each other increases trust between team members, establishes psychological safety and contributes to a high-performing team.
Who:
When:
How:
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Facilitator should think about a theme for the exercise (Christmas, etc.). Identify questions related to the selected theme, like "What was worst Christmas present you have ever got?"
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As a preparation for the exercise ask all participants to answer one of the questions and collect their answers.
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Update the template with the questions and integrate the answers to the word search part.
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Use the exercise as 5 minutes icebreaker for your meeting.
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Introduce the exercise, review all the questions and ask participants to find the answers in the word search. Answers should be highlighted by the rectangles provided.
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Team members are to be discussed the answers shortly.
- Write your name
– Write your name on the sticker - Drag your monster
– Pick the monster you like and drag it above the sticker below - Pin your monster
– Copy/Paste your monster to the appropriate place on the "Thermometer" - Improvise
– Improvise. Change the amount of thermometers. Find different statements. Make the it yours!
Instruction is also in the template itself.
Name: Mirjam Leunissen
Role: Self-employed facilitator & trainer
Board:
PURPOSE:
The 'Seeing the forest for the trees' board serves as a visual tool for exploration and connection with the entire group at the beginning of a meeting, using the metaphor of individual trees (the participants) together constituting a diverse forest. It sparks reflection & conversation and leverages the diversity of the group, revealing what would otherwise remain hidden - a picture is worth a thousand words!
What do we (not) have in common? What are the strengths / weaknesses of our individual trees and do we form a healthy forest together? What might be missing in our forest?
The board connects directly to the shared purpose of the meeting for which the characteristics of the forest are relevant and thus leads naturally into other activities and conversations.
Group: 6 - 18 people that are on a shared journey (e.g. in professional development or a project), but may not know each other very well yet.
Duration: 15 minutes
FEATURES:
- the board supports less experienced Miro-users with pre-made drag & drop elements and the user only needs to access the default color palette
- within the limitations of the default color palette the contrast has been optimised to support users with a color vision deficiency
- the board is designed for common laptop screen sizes, optimising legibility while maintaining the overview (and thus limiting the need to zoom in & out)
- the layout follows the default scroll direction for easy navigation
FACILITATOR INSTRUCTIONS
Before the meeting:
Decide what information you want to visually encode in the tree ring profiles and what axes you use to sort the profiles. Change the labels on the board if needed.
The example shown is for a group of facilitators from the NeverDoneBefore community, visually encoding:
How many years experience do you have as a facilitator?
Are you self-employed or do you work for an organisation?
What area do you primarily work in these days?
Do you work mostly online, in-person or roughly 50/50?
How many certifications in facilitation do you have?
In how many professional communities are you currently active?
During the meeting:
1) Start at the first field and invite participants to duplicate & drag the tree ring image that reflects their situation to the second field on the board.
2) Reveal step-by-step the visual encoding guide at the bottom of the second field and demonstrate the editing steps, letting participants customise their tree rings.
3) Invite participants to move their customised tree rings to the final field, positioning them along the horizontal & vertical scales, so as to reflect their situation.
4) Now it's time to start seeing the forest for the trees! Invite a group conversation by highlighting aspects that stand out and by inviting additional observations. For example:
Are the trees healthy?
What aspects of our trees serve / inhibit us? (e.g. certifications)
Do we form a healthy forest together?
How might our similarities / differences support us?
What might be missing in our forest? (e.g. specific expertise)
5) From here you can take it into further conversation and activities connected to the shared purpose of the meeting for which the characteristics of the forest are relevant.
@Helena Brandist we have a crazy set of MIRO top notched CONTENT CREATORS here Good luck for judging :)
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Boris PETROVITCH NJEGOSH
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CPO @INTERSTELLAR
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WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE ?
An icebreaker is an activity, game, or event that serves to host and warm up the conversation between participants in a meeting, training class, team building session, or other event.
WHY ARE WE IN ?
Get to know each other remotely, sharing your mood, your expectations and familiarize yourself with the use of the digital board tool.
HOW DO WE RUN IT ?
This workshop is designed to be driven in 15 minutes following the instructions :
WHO & WHERE ARE YOU ?
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Select a Note (N) and put your name and your location on it
WHAT'S YOUR MOOD TODAY ?
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Move your Note with the select tool (S) on the visual that reflect more your emotional status of the day
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SHARE YOUR EXPECTATIONS
- Complete your note with the expectation you have for this workshop,
- You have one minute per participant to share your mood of the day,
- Share love with Stickers and emojis from the toolbox over your partners notes !
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Boris PETROVITCH NJEGOSH
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CPO @INTERSTELLAR
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SET THE EXPECTATIONS... WITH FUN
With this exclusive LEGO
icebreaker enjoy a workshop kick-starting to reveal both mood and participant expectations using the beautiful Lego component.
HOW TO DRIVE THIS MOMENTUM?
This workshop is designed to be driven in 10 to 15 minutes following the instructions :
DESIGN YOUR LEGO AVATAR 🫥
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From background to top, create your personal avatar following your mood today.
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Duplicate (CMD/CTRL + D) each part and move them to the right side of the board choosing an avatar slot!
DEFINE YOUR MOOD & YOUR EXPECTATIONS 🧐
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Aside from your avatar, write your name,
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Write your mood and your expectations from the workshop today.
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You have one minute per participant to share your mood and your expectation of the day 🥳
SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS 🤩
Hello Miro Heroes!
- Krasi Bozhinkova
- Strategy Director at Owtcome
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The Empathy Gap Icebreaker is a visual collaboration activity, bringing teams closer together to become engaged, connected, and creative. Outcomes are more powerful when everyone makes room for empathy.
The Empathy Gap Icebreaker helps teams align at the beginning of a project/workshop or do a check-in to defuse tension and improve performance. As a result, you gain access to an empathic space, re-imagine the team dynamics, and find better ways to co-create with each other.
This is a 15 min activity for a team of up to 16 people.
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Instructions:
- Pick your team (blue or red). You may give your team a name.
- Settle on your land (blue and red) and discover your empathy heroes and other elements.
- Express your present moment at work and how you wish to improve it.
- Have each team share one thing they value the most about the other side.
- Don't forget to have fun!
Best,
Krasi
Hello MIRO Creators,
ICE BREAKER - MAKE A OBJECT
A Christmas themed, quick ice breaker to start any presentation, retrospective or event with a fun filled ice breaker game to engage all your team members on a track.
INSTRUCTION FOR THE ICE BREAKER :
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This template will grasp the team members attention with their attractive and fun filled activity.
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First engage everyone to say Ho-Ho-Ho as mentioned in the image as a warm up.
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Then ask team members to pick 1 or 2 and drop it in the box with name on the sticky.
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Later, ask 1 members to make Christmas tree and 2 members to make snow man with the time on 1 minute.
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Then see, who has completed everyone and start your presentation.
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It will be really fun to finish object making on time :-)
Let’s have a fun engaging session with your team members .
Hi Miro Creators,
Meme Battle is a fun, hilarious, competitive, and chaotic game that allows participants to be free to express their feeling and what engage with their life stories and recent experience.
When to use the Meme Battle?
The Meme can be utilized for two main purposes the facilitation:Retrospective-driven purposeIcebreaker gameIt very depends on your creativity in creating the challenge for each round.
How to conduct Meme Battle?
Meme Battle template is designed to be easily modified in the Battle Arena to serve both purpose.
Retrospective Format
Here are the steps for conducting Retrospective format:
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Explain the Retrospective purpose and Meme Template. Clearly define what this retrospective is used for and how you want to summarize the insight from the meme battle progress.
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Show how to do it in Battle Arena. Create the meme from the template to give context for the retrospective you can give prompt questions for each round to lead to retrospective principles: what is worked, what didn’t work & What could be improved for example.
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Give participants time to reflect and ask questions. Accommodate participants to overview the result from each other memes, you can ask to vote to be shortlisted for your team insights. Give time and space for participants to ask questions as well in Burning Question section to listen to new ideas for improvement.
Icebreaker Game Format
Here are the steps for conducting Icebreaker Game format:
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Explain the Icebreaker activity purpose and Meme Template. Give time for participants to explore for awhile on how to participate in the game.
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Show how to do it in Battle Arena. First, hide all the challenges within the Battle Arena and set a time for each round for 5-10 minutes to create the meme from the template based on the given challenge.
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Let participants inspire each other and compete. The key is giving the opportunity to be free to express, and letting the participants create the meme based on their experience or daily life contexts which will help drive great engagement.
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Give space to overview and cool down time. After increasing tense and heat for the meme battle competition, try to give space to highlight the prominent memes as triggers to grab attention. Then cold down time by putting burning questions for facilitator or to the meme creators as complimentary.
Enjoy the Memes! 
Building Metaphors:
Pick a station and start building!
This icebreaker helps to unlock creativity by using simple shapes to create a visual answer to the question.
It also helps the participants think in metaphors. Metaphors are powerful shortcuts to instant and memorable understanding. They evoke vivid images and allow us to "see" things from a new perspective, and are useful tools for creative problem-solving.
So:
- Pick a question
- Remove the box to reveal the blocks
- Build
- Listen to each other's explanation
- Reflect
- Clean up!
- Barry Jack
- Scrum Master at Group GTI
- Instructions in the template
Miro avatar builder - icebreaker and beginner tutorial
- Richard Becker
- Illustrator at Big Pictury GmbH (Hamburg)
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- A combination of an icebreaker and a beginner Miro tutorial, this template will help users to:
1. Create a self-portrait vector illustration using only Miro shape and line elements.
2. Export the illustration as an image.
3. Import the image as their Miro profile photo.
The template is intended to be an engaging and expressive way to learn some of the basics of Miro, including arrangement, grouping, connecting, aligning and colouring of shapes, exporting of frames, and importing a profile photo. Users are encouraged to have fun and create something personal and original. The rules are, there are no rules! Examples are given as inspiration or as starting points. More detailed instructions can be found in the template itself.
There's an artist hidden in every single one of us! This is an icebreaker that allows everyone to create a mosaic masterpiece and share what they care about in just 25 tiles.
- Anna-Maria Todorova
- Agile Coach, eyeo GmbH
- Mosaic Icebreaker Template:
Miro board link: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVP-RRohM=/
Password: mosaicicebreaker
Instructions:
0. Ask participants to choose a board and to add their names to the sticky in the top left corner.
1. Give everyone a moment to pick something they love. This can be an object, a person/pet or an activity.
2. Give everyone 5 minutes to create a mosaic representation of the thing they love.
3. Give everyone 3 minutes to look at the creations of others and write down their guesses on a sticky note. Bump the time if you have more than 8 people joining.
4. Go around the board as a group and let each participant share what they actually tried to represent.
Tip: If you need more than 8 boards, make sure to lock the background & the frame for the mosaic on the new additions, as well as to bring the color tiles to front, just in case!
Photo by Bernard Hermant on Unsplash.
- Remind the Agile Manifesto Values 🧠 – Quickly go through the Agile Manifesto statements. Ask participants to think about the values mentioned for a minute
- Inspect the examples of each value
️ – Ask participants to write down examples when themselves or their colleagues has shown one of the Agile Manifesto Values. One sticky note per example. Examples of opposite are also ok. - How well do you embrace Agile Values
– Each participant read out loud their stickers. Use it as an input for further discussion how well do you embrace the Agile Values and what can be improved
Instruction is also in the template itself.
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Watch the GIF 
– Watch the gif inside the template for quick and easy explanation, it covers 99% of what needed to be done
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Draw a graph 
– Ask participants to draw a graph on a timeline how do they feel the last sprint / iteration went. What was the hottest or coldest moment, where they felt like a shower rain, or when it was a sunshine.
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Write your name – At the end of your graph write your name on the sticky note
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Spice Up your graph 
️ – Use stickers to highlight some important moments of the sprint / iteration
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Explain your graph 
️ – Ask each participant to briefly explain the graph and use the explanation for potential further discussion
Instruction is also in the template itself
Timing
Prizes
How to Participate → Check here
– Use Spinny Picker Wheel app to define what question will you ask the participant
– Edit the statement and insert the chosen word into the phrase.
– Use sticky notes to answer the created question
– Select one of the four provided designs for you to clone aka copy/paste. 
