This is actually the only part of the search engine where you don’t filter your selection, but add to it. For every category you pick, you’ll expand your search to include one of the six categories. If you click competition and reflection, you’ll get results for both categories.

Also note that the categories are abbreviated on the individual energizers pages using the following:

Competition (C)
Energizers (E)
Icebreaker (I)
Reflection (R)
Teambuilding (T)
Team up (TU)

Time is an indicator of how much time you want to spend the energizer. It’s set in minutes, so simply set the minutes you wish you spend to filter through the energizers that suits your time frame.

Whether you know the exact group size or just want to estimate it, you simply click the box(es) which are relevant to you. The filter will make sure, that you only get results that are relevant to your group size.

We’ve chosen to differentiate our energizers between “Mental” and “Physical”. This because there’s a big difference in how that works. It’s all about energy management during your session, and having people do something physical or mental can have a big impact. With that said, a mental energizers can start of as physical but with an element of reflection afterwards. This is why we’ve chosen to give some energizers the “Mental” label, some the “Physical” label, and some both.

This particular filter has been hard for us to work out. Props is something you need to actually carry out the energizer. However, some props seems more natural to come by than others. A lot of the props needed you can download right here on the page, and some energizers actually require you to acquire materials to make them work. 

We’ve decided, that either you need props or you don’t. So if you check the “No props needed” box, that means absolutely nothing is needed. If you check the “Props ok” box, you’ll get results where you can download the props, where you only need pen and paper etc. 

As said, this one has been a little difficult to work out since some of our customers find themselves in the woods and in need of an energizer, in which case they really don’t want ANY props. Others are in a conference room and can’t just get balls, balloons etc, but have pen and paper ready.

To sum up: Props: “Yes” means that props are okay, even if it’s just pen and paper. Props: “No” means absolutely no props are needed, you can go right ahead with no preparation.

We’ve included facilitation as a filter, since we often experience, that it can be very helpful, to search through energizers which relate to a specific topic at hand.

If you’re with a sales team, searching through specific energizers with sales angles makes a lot of sense. The same goes for the other facilitation topics we’ve included.