A repository created by Dr. Brandon Charpied of classroom exercises with the facilitator guide, the student materials, the timing, and the debrief. Not an abstract, not a conference paper describing one. The thing itself, ready to teach on Tuesday.
Experiential teaching material moves by word of mouth. Someone runs a session at a conference, forty people watch it work, and then it goes home in a laptop bag. If you want to run it yourself you email the author and hope they still have the handouts. Most of the time what comes back is a description of the exercise rather than the exercise.
The published route is worse. A journal will take the paper about the activity, which is not the same artifact as the activity. You end up reconstructing timing, materials, and debrief questions from a methods section. BWOX exists to hold the artifact instead of the write-up, with enough operational detail that someone who was not in the room can run it cold.
By what you are teaching, how long you have, and whether the room is physical. Every listing below has been built and run in a real classroom.
Minute by minute timing, what to say to open, the failure modes, and what to do when a group finishes early or stalls. Written by whoever ran it, after they ran it.
Role cards, handouts, slide decks, and where an exercise is software, the working application. Downloadable, editable, and licensed for classroom use.
The part that gets skipped. Discussion questions, the concepts each one is meant to surface, and the named literature the exercise is grounded in, so you can defend it to a curriculum committee.
The catalogue opens in management and organizational behavior, simply because that is what is ready today. The structure is not specific to that field, and the disciplines below are genuinely next in line rather than aspirational.
The catalogue grows from exercises people already run. Some arrive finished. Others arrive as a stack of role cards that only works when their author is standing in the room, and those are the ones worth rescuing.
You have the exercise, the materials, and the scars from running it. It gets a listing with your name on it, a permanent link, and a place where people searching by concept or by literature will actually find it.
Your exercise lives on paper, or only works in one room, or falls apart the moment the class is remote. Send it and it gets built into a working browser version. No code, no hosting, no software to learn.
This is the same build process behind every exercise in the catalogue.
Either path starts the same way. A description of the exercise, whatever materials exist even if they are handwritten, roughly how long it takes, how many people it needs, and what you want students to walk out understanding. Rough is fine. It is easier to work from the real thing than from a tidied up version of it.
Tell me what the exercise is and how you run it now. That is enough to begin either path, and it costs nothing to ask.