Reflection Workshop Activities

A Focused Conversation to begin to process traumatic situations for use with colleagues, friends and family, and how to respond to them productively. Often traumatic events become undiscussable and this enables persons to talk about them

Easy and fun way to review content or atmosphere at the end of a group activity (or in between) in 5 minutes.

Easy and fun way to review content or atmosphere at the end of a group activity (or in between) in 1 minute.

Easy and fun ways to review content or atmosphere at the end or in between group activity, in 2 minutes.

Reflecting both individually and together with a group paves the way for collaborative learning - as everyone shares their experiences of the previous events and day(s) with each other.

Using Quote to inspire team and promote trust.

Regularly the team reflects on how they worked during the last period, what went well, what could be improved, and selects one or two improvement axis.

There are many ways to run a retrospective.

Let's quote some of them: starfish & Niko Niko

Starfish practice is coming from Agile principles.

Sea Star diagram: https://www.sessionlab.com/methods/starfish

Brainstorming session with post-its on what the team should DO MORE, DO LESS, START DOING, STOP DOING and KEEP DOING.

Ideas are clustered and then the team votes for the best ideas. They keep one or two improvement ideas.

Niko, niko: it is a mood graph where each members draw his/her mood during the period and then explains variations, peeks. The team can then decide what to improve to increase their good mood.

Prepare axis on a board (horizontal representing time, and vertical one representing the mood - could be positive and negative). Each participant draw their mood graph during the period and then give explanations

Determine the gap between the present situation and a desired future state

Applying a linear scale to gather a diversity of perspectives, opinions and responses.

It has been used as a part of training of facilitators and as part of team building.