🌟🕊️ Trinity Sunday Reflection
Gather in unity as we reflect on our teamwork, inspired by the balance and harmony of Trinity Sunday. Let’s celebrate our strengths, confront challenges, and find new paths forward together as one agile team!
Template Columns
🌱 Seeds of Creation (Start)
Share new ideas or practices we should begin to foster greater collaboration and unity.
Base column: Start⛔ Boundaries of Renewal (Stop)
Identify behaviors or processes that hinder our harmony, and suggest stopping them so we can flourish.
Base column: Stop🔥 Flame of Continuity (Continue)
Highlight the positive practices we should keep to maintain our project’s spirit and synergy.
Base column: ContinueAbout this template
Reflect as a team on what to start, stop, and continue to foster unity, harmony, and continuous improvement, inspired by the themes of Trinity Sunday.
When to use this template
Use this template when your team needs to strengthen collaboration, celebrate successes, and thoughtfully address friction points. It’s especially valuable at milestone moments or after periods of rapid change.
How to facilitate
Welcome everyone and introduce the Trinity Sunday Reflection theme, emphasizing unity and harmony as team virtues.
Briefly review each column's focus and encourage participants to consider team dynamics through this lens.
Provide silent time for each team member to add thoughts to all columns: new ideas to start, unhelpful habits to stop, and positive practices to continue.
Host a team review, reading submissions aloud and clustering similar ideas to identify common themes.
Invite open discussion for each column, making sure all voices are heard and exploring the impact of proposed changes.
Guide the team to prioritize 1–2 actions per column for implementation or further exploration.
Summarize agreed-upon commitments and define concrete next steps to reinforce accountability.
Pro Tips
Set a supportive tone by connecting the retrospective to your team’s shared purpose before starting.
Prompt participants to provide specific examples for each column to foster actionable insights.
Rotate the facilitation role among team members to enhance engagement and ownership.
Allocate extra reflection time for remote or quieter teams to ensure inclusive participation.
FAQ
How can I encourage my team to be honest in the 'stop' column?
Invite feedback in a constructive way and remind everyone that growth relies on surfacing tough issues. Anonymous input can help if trust is still being built.
What if we have too many items and feel overwhelmed?
Guide the team to group similar suggestions, focus on common themes, and agree on only a few actions per sprint to maintain momentum and focus.
How do we ensure follow-up on agreed actions?
Assign clear owners and due dates for each action item, then review progress briefly at the start of your next retrospective.
Can this format be used for non-project teams?
Absolutely; the structure is flexible and can help any group reflect on shared strengths, challenges, and ways to improve collaboration.
At a glance
- Duration
45–60 min
- Team Size
4-12 people
- Columns
3 columns
- Base Format
Start, Stop, Continue
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Ready to get started?
Use this template to run your next retrospective