Starship Canvas

Fast facilitation (~15 min per round):Facilitator reads prompt (1 min) → Silent writing of 3–5 stickies (3 min) → Place on canvas + gallery walk (3 min) → Group discussion (8 min).

Rounds

1. Crew Choose a sticky colour, write your name, place it on the canvas. Add fun titles.
2. Hard Skills + Soft Skills What can people rely on when working with you? Both known and less known skills. Soft skills won't change much over time but it's interesting to see if someone writes something different next session.
3. Weaknesses (Deep) Individual or shared weak spots to address. Some weaknesses will be left behind by members over time – celebrate these small wins.
4. Personal Goals What does each person want to achieve, with the team's support? Goals are very different for each person and reveal what drives their creativity, work ethic and morale.
5. Personal Needs What does each person need to work efficiently? Slowly shift the focus from individual to team. Small things matter: who needs a certain kind of feedback, who needs more space or silence.
6. Unique Values What values make your team stand out? Summarises individual strengths on a team level and helps articulate why people like working together. One of the more important sections – spend more time here.
7. Common Goals What is the team committed to delivering over the next period
8. Seek Out + To Avoid What should the team explore but hasn't yet? What kind of projects should you avoid? Add subcategories like markets, industries, technologies or ethical considerations.
9. Bridge Each crew member commits to 1-2 specific action they will personally do after this workshop. After commitments are set, conclude by quickly running through the main points again. A good commitment is:- Specific: "I will set up weekly 1-on-1s with each designer" – not "I'll communicate more".

Recommended: use Fast for informational rounds (Crew, Skills, Personal Needs, Common Goals, Seek Out + Avoid) and Deep for rounds that benefit from individual sharing (Weaknesses, Personal Goals, Unique Values, Bridge).

After the workshop

How long it takes

All-Fast (9 Fast rounds): about 2 hours for any team size.

Mixed (5 Fast + 4 Deep rounds, plus setup and wrap-up):

• 3–5 people: ~4 hours
  
• 7–9 people: ~4 hours (subgroups of 3)
• 12 people: ~4.5 hours (subgroups of 4)

Example schedule (Mixed, 9 people, subgroups of 3):

• 9:00 – Setup + intro
• 9:15 – Crew, Skills (Fast)
• 9:40 – Weaknesses (Deep)
• 10:15 – Break
• 10:30 – Personal Goals (Deep), Personal Needs (Fast)
• 11:20 – Unique Values (Deep)
• 11:55 – Break
• 12:10 – Common Goals, Seek Out + Avoid (Fast)
• 12:35 – Bridge (Deep)
• 13:10 – Wrap-up
• 13:30 – Done

Source files: https://github.com/fogarasy/starship-canvas