About WorkshopSkill

Activity websites are built to be browsed, not to be run. You read them on a phone the night before, copy half a script into a doc, and print the wrong thing. A folder is the opposite deal: open it, take the files, walk in prepared. Everything in the folder works on paper — no projector, no accounts, no click-through slides.

Most of these exercises grow out of the long public tradition of facilitation — back-to-back drawing, two truths and a lie, the orange negotiation have been run in training rooms for decades. What each folder adds is the working part: a minute-by-minute script, the failure modes these exercises are known for, the standard rescues, printable props at the right size, and — where it matters — a pre/post measure.

The “Listed” stamp on every folder means one thing: before filing, a folder was checked against itself — script against the clock, props against the printer — so that what it says matches what it ships. It is not a claim that the activity has been validated in anyone’s room, and it is not a star rating; there are no scores here because there is nothing to score a free folder against. Everything is CC BY 4.0, so you can verify every claim yourself, word for word, on each folder page.

Every folder is filed to the same spec. Whatever the activity, a folder always holds: the run sheet (rules, the minute-by-minute script, failure modes with rescues, variations), the debrief sheet (the questions, plus the failure modes of the debrief itself), an A4 print edition (run sheet and debrief bound as one printable document), and SKILL.md (the machine-readable manifest). Assessment-type folders add a pre/post measure as plain JSON; where the activity needs physical materials, a print-ready poker-spec prop-card deck comes with it.

The production line is four steps, said plainly: a first draft is written with AI assistance; then it is filed by hand — script against a clock, props against a printer, the measure against the script — and cross-checked folder against folder; the folder is stamped Listed; everything is released under CC BY 4.0. The AI is the drafter. The stamp belongs to the human. That split is the product.

Everything in every folder — scripts, prop cards, debrief sheets, assessment presets — is CC BY 4.0: run it, copy it, translate it, rebrand it for your own workshop, use it commercially. Keep the attribution line and it stays free forever. The full terms are on the terms page.

A weekly email announces every folder the week it is filed (subscribe) and readable by AI agents (the skills page, and the skill tutorials for each agent).

A folder is complete on paper first — no projector, no accounts, nothing to install. Three optional tools stand alongside the drawer for when you want to go further, and the folders stay free-standing either way: AssessWiki is the theory portal behind the measures — the named models and sources you can cite to a room; FormLM turns a folder's assessment preset into a live pre/post form with per-participant delta reports; QRCard-AI puts a folder on the room's big screen with a code people scan from their seats. The drawer is the product; the tools are doors out of it — never a wall inside it.