Ask people to bring pen/cil and paper. First, ask participants to individually make a list on paper of their fears/anxieties around a particular topic (e.g. for students, about learning online, or about an upcoming assessment)

Drawing part:

• Ask them to divide the paper (fold or draw lines) into four (or six or eight, your choice!) pieces
• Ask participants to put in each box a round shape, a four sided shape, a three sided shape and a squiggle
• Ask participants to then convert each of the parts of the paper into monsters – abstract or realistic – invite them to go wild
• Next, ask participants to select fears they had written and connect them to one of the monsters they drew, naming the monsters
• In groups of 2-4 (breakout rooms), invite participants to share one or all of their monsters with each other, and think through which one of these they would like to see differently
• Do another round of discussing how participants want to look at one of the fears/anxieties differently
• Bring participants back to the main room and invite some to share
• Ask participants to re-draw one of their monsters, like dancing with them or something like that
• Debrief with participants how they felt doing the exercise and what it was enabled for them