Start, Stop, Sustain: A Strategic Planning Workshop for 2026

* This is an in-person event

At the beginning of the year, most of us reflect on what we want to achieve and do in the coming months. However, if we only think about what we want to add, without reflecting on what we are already doing and what we might have to let go, we end up with an unrealistic plan that will leave us overwhelmed in March and abandoning change in May.

In this reflective and interactive session we will create a plan that includes starting, prioritizing and letting go of activities to achieve the goals we strive for. You will leave the session with clear next steps to avoid the scarcity trap (not investing enough in promising ideas) as well as the rigidity trap (holding on to things because we know how to do them). In addition to these concrete plans, you will learn a set of planning facilitation tools that you can apply in group and individual settings, including Impromptu Networking, Ecocycle Planning, Troika Consulting and 15% Solutions.

Agenda
6:30pm Welcome Impromptu Networking (adapted Fast or Slow):
6:50pm Individual Ecocycle Planning
7:10pm Troika Consulting Peer Assist
7:40pm Shareout
8:00pm Liberating Structures intro
8:10pm 15% Solutions
8:30pm Closing

About our presenter
With over 20 years of professional experience as a facilitator, trainer, coach, poet and organizational change facilitator in the public and private sector, Eva Schiffer focuses on bringing people together to make progress on their most vexing challenges. She enjoys creating processes that allow for the unexpected to emerge, holding space for difficult conversations and inviting the whole person (mind, heart and body) into the room. Her career in international development has honed her skills in intercultural facilitation, and she passionately strives to create facilitated spaces that work for people from different contexts and with different needs.