What this is
HappyFirms is a free, open library of facilitator-ready activity playbooks for team building and HR programmes. Every entry is a complete run sheet: what the activity is for, who it suits, what you need, what the facilitator does in each phase, what commonly goes wrong, and the questions to ask afterwards.
The activities themselves are not original. Most are long-established facilitation practice — some of them decades old, many of them part of the common stock of workshop design, with no single author to credit. What is written here is the practical detail that usually gets left out: the timings, the specific rule that makes a round work, the step people skip, and the debrief questions.
What this is not
Not an agency. We do not run events, sell facilitation or take bookings. There is nothing to enquire about.
Not a review site. There are no vendor rankings, star ratings or 'best of' lists here, because producing one honestly would mean running comparable events with comparable teams, and we have not done that.
Not a pricing guide. No figures appear anywhere on this site. Event prices vary by country, group size, season and supplier, and a stale number looks authoritative in a way that a missing one does not. Cost is described as a tier instead.
Not a source of statistics about team building. The field is full of confidently cited percentages with no traceable source. None of them appear here.
How to use it
If you know what you want, go to the activities and filter by format, group size, time and outcome.
If you know the problem but not the activity, start with the guide on choosing one, or pick the collection that matches your constraint — fifteen minutes, no budget, forty people, a video call.
If you are building something that repeats — onboarding, a set of remote rituals, a recognition programme — start from the programmes, which sequence several activities over weeks or months.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, unsafe, or attributes a technique badly, say so and it will be fixed or removed. The accessibility notes in particular are written by people who do not use every access technology themselves, and corrections to those are especially welcome.