🩺💖 Mood & Health Checkup
Welcome to your project’s health clinic! Let's diagnose our team’s well-being, prescribe new habits, and keep our spirits thriving. Share what energizes you, what drains you, and how to maintain a healthy, productive rhythm together.
Template Columns
💡 Prescribe New Habits
Suggest positive practices or routines we should start to boost our mood and health.
Base column: Start🛑 Quit Bad Habits
Identify behaviors or processes we should stop to improve overall well-being.
Base column: Stop💚 Keep the Healthy Vibes
Highlight what’s already supporting our team’s mood and well-being that we should continue.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
The Mood & Health Checkup retrospective is designed to assess the team's emotional and operational well-being, helping identify new healthy practices, break negative habits, and reinforce positive routines.
When to use this template
Use this format when the team’s energy feels low, after a challenging sprint, or as a proactive check-in on well-being to foster a healthy, sustainable work rhythm.
How to facilitate
Open with a brief introduction, inviting everyone to reflect on their current mood and team health as a starting point.
Start with the 'Prescribe New Habits' column. Encourage participants to suggest rituals, routines, or support structures that would energize the team and boost morale.
Move to 'Quit Bad Habits.' Ask the team to call out any unhelpful behaviors, routines, or attitudes that drain their energy or negatively impact collaboration.
Shift to 'Keep the Healthy Vibes.' Invite everyone to highlight what’s been working well for mood, well-being, and productivity, and discuss how to maintain these strengths.
Cluster related ideas within each column and facilitate discussion to clarify and prioritize the most impactful items.
Guide the group in transforming top ideas into concrete, actionable next steps, assigning clear owners if possible.
Close with a quick round where each team member shares one personal or team well-being commitment for the next iteration.
Pro Tips
Frame the retrospective as a safe, supportive space to discuss well-being openly, not just productivity.
Offer anonymous input options for sensitive or personal feedback if trust levels are low.
Remind the team that small habit changes can make a big difference to collective mood and energy.
As a facilitator, model vulnerability by sharing your own highs and lows honestly.
Check in a few weeks later on the health commitments made, reinforcing accountability and growth.
FAQ
What if team members are uncomfortable discussing well-being?
Invite candor at each person’s own pace, provide anonymous input options, and stress that the goal is collective support, not judgment.
How do we prevent the same bad habits from returning every retrospective?
Follow up on past action items, celebrate wins, and provide clear accountability so habit changes stick long term.
What if we struggle to turn ideas into action?
Help the group select two or three feasible, high-impact habits to trial and assign ownership for accountability.
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At a glance
- Duration
35–50 min
- Team Size
3-10 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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Use this template to run your next retrospective