Silent Walk Drill

Walk Softly.

Use when you want thoughtful reflections on ideas, activities, conversations, emerging solutions, and progress.

Allow your mind to be still with the Silent Walk Drill. Between multitasking and day-to-day work, we typically don’t make time to quiet the noise and reflect.This drill offers not only a chance to Get Out, but to recharge and clear our heads—the catch? You guessed it, no speaking.

During the drill we encourage Wrong Thinkers to clear their minds of what we worked through prior to the walk, or what we need to get back to afterwords. The concept is to simply be in the moment, and to let your senses guide your thoughts. If this seems too challenging for the group, sometimes we’ll give one simple prompt: reflect on what you are grateful for.

This varies in difficulty for Wrong Thinkers: some love the meditative quality and jump in. Others, especially the talkative ones, doubt they can do it. All that we ask is to suspend disbelief and go with it. Once the group returns ask them to reflect and share any discoveries they made or changes they noticed along the way—it can be more transformative than you think!

Outcomes

• Attentive and receptive mindset 

• Observations, insights, serendipitous connections

• Reflection, inspiration, and enriched understanding of the opportunity and the potential for impact

Materials
Pens
Sharpies
Post-its

Tools
Silent Walk Poster (PDF) 

Instructions

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