This is one of a series of guides for collaborative environmental research and advocacy projects. 

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####Planning this event

**Ahead of time:** 

* Pick a time that is convenient for the most people involved
* Find a space, it may be useful to be indoors with enough chairs, restrooms, and some wall space or at least floor space available, etc. 
* Send invites two weeks to a month in advance

**Materials to have on hand:** 

* markers
* chart paper
* sticky notes
* a camera or phone that can take a picture

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####Activity 1: Assess the year

We will use a "SWOT" (Strengths / Weaknesses / Opportunities / Threats)

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####Activity 2: Look Ahead

Think about what to do differently next year and update the goals matrix (from http://publiclab.org/wiki/choosing-how-to-track-progress)

The last step of this activity is to [post a research note](/post) with your updated goals matrix, and tag it with your place's name, your project name if it exists yet, and also "reflect-and-look-ahead,goals-matrix". 

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