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Hot Air Balloon Retrospective

Hot Air Balloon Retrospective is a team reflection exercise for reflection and learning: it helps participants reflect on experience and turn observations into learning.

5 to 15 minutesTIME
Medium group (9-25), Pairs, Small group (4-8)GROUP SIZE
ActiveENERGY
In person, RemoteSETTING
Medium cognitive loadCOGNITIVE LOAD
Strengthens Learning Transfer This reflection and learning exercise strengthens Learning Transfer, one of the eight Gathering Effectiveness pillars.

How to run it

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  6. Imagine your project is a hot-air balloon and there are a couple of forces in place.
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Live facilitator

Run this exercise live

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Prompts to use +

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Start For Free Hot Air Balloon Retrospective Retrospective What is this activity?

Imagine your project is a hot-air balloon and there are a couple of forces in place.

Template created by: Dinesh Has been used 2824 times Create Free Board Hot Air Balloon Retrospective Template What helps us go higher?

(sandbags) Create Free Board Create Free Board Check the list of templates created by our users See more templates like this!

We've helped teams improve in more than 1,000,000 retrospectives Company About Us Pricing Features Contact Us What's New Wall of Love Give Back

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Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.

Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Hot Air Balloon Retrospective. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: ๐Ÿš€ Access 50+ Ready-to-Use Templates and Get Inspired for Your Next Meeting โ†’; Start For Free Hot Air Balloon Retrospective Retrospective What is this activity?; Imagine your project is a hot-air balloon and there are a couple of forces in place.; Template created by: Dinesh Has been used 2824 times Create Free Board Hot Air Balloon Retrospective Template What helps us go higher?. Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.

Origin unverified

  • Where we observed it: The exercise appears across 3 observed source organizations in the current corpus. (3 sources observed, including Parabol, EasyRetro, Miro.)
  • What that means: we track where an exercise has been observed in public sources. We do not claim to know who created it, or how popular it is.
  • No efficacy claims: appearing in this library is not a claim that the exercise is proven effective. Facilitator judgment and context decide whether it works for a given room.
  • Corrections: if you have evidence of an earlier or more accurate source, read our methodology and trust boundary and tell us.

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