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

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

Activity 1: Assess the year

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

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 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".