💖🏝️ Love Island Retreat
Welcome to the Love Island villa! Reflect on our sprint as we build perfect partnerships, recouple ideas, and give roses to what works. Let’s find what sparks joy, what gives us the ick, and what’s worth pursuing for true project romance!
Template Columns
🌹 New Romances to Start
Suggest new practices or habits we should 'couple up' with for greater team chemistry.
Base column: Start🚫 Red Flag Habits to Stop
Call out any behaviors or blockers we need to 'dump' from the villa to improve our teamwork.
Base column: Stop💑 True Matches to Continue
Celebrate the winning strategies and routines we should ‘stay loyal’ to in our next sprint.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The Love Island Retreat retrospective invites your team to reflect on recent work by identifying new ideas to embrace, recurring problems to end, and proven practices to continue, all through a playful, relationship-inspired lens.
When to use this template
Use this retrospective at the end of a sprint or project phase when your team needs creative energy to refresh habits and build stronger collaborative bonds.
How to facilitate
Set the scene by explaining the Love Island theme and each column’s intention so the team feels comfortable engaging with playful metaphors.
Invite team members to individually add reflections to each column: new things to try, habits to drop, and what’s working well.
Give everyone a chance to read through all entries and ask for clarifications on any unfamiliar points or suggestions.
Facilitate a group discussion starting with red flag habits to stop and how to address them, then move to new ideas to try, finishing with true matches to celebrate and reinforce.
Have the team dot-vote on top suggestions in the new romances and red flag habits columns to prioritize actions for the next sprint.
Define 1–2 specific actions per column and assign clear owners, ensuring follow-up in future retrospectives.
Pro Tips
Use the Love Island theme as an icebreaker to encourage open and candid sharing.
Prompt quieter team members with example 'red flags' or 'new romances' to spark contributions.
Celebrate one 'True Match' by sharing a story of how it made an impact recently.
Remind the team that discarding old habits can be as powerful as starting new ones—don’t skip the 'Red Flag Habits' discussion.
FAQ
How do I keep the Love Island theme light and effective without derailing the discussion?
Set the tone early by explaining metaphors and encouraging playful engagement, but always steer the group back to practical outcomes.
What if some team members aren’t comfortable with the theme?
Offer an opt-in approach: let participants use standard terms (start/stop/continue) if they prefer, focusing on the underlying purpose of the columns.
How do we avoid collecting too many actions and losing focus?
After collecting ideas, use time-limited voting to pick the most impactful items in each column, then commit to just 1–2 actions per sprint.
At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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Use this template to run your next retrospective