For Teams · Org Exclusive
Draw the storm your team has already weathered.
Picture your team as a boat, somewhere out past a storm, with a lighthouse in view. Write your own version of the story — privately, in your own words. Once enough of you have written yours, a collective picture starts to form.
How This Works
Three short parts, about 5–10 minutes
- Write the story. A few sentences each on what your team's boat was like before, during, and after a storm — a real hard stretch, told your way, using the metaphor as loosely or literally as it's useful to you.
- Answer four short reflection questions about what it was like, who helped, how you imagined rescue, and how you could've asked for help.
- Come back over time. This is a journal, not a one-time form — write a new entry whenever a new storm's worth reflecting on. Your own past entries are always below, private to you.
Everything you write here is private to you alone — no one on your team ever sees your individual entry. Once at least 5 people on your team have each written their own, a separate collective report unlocks further down this page, built only from patterns and counts, never from anyone's actual words.
Tell Your Story
Before, during, and after the storm
There's no wrong way to see it — only what's true for you right now. This is yours alone unless you choose to talk about it out loud with your team.
The Story
Before the storm
Say a little about before the storm.
During the storm
Say a little about during the storm.
After the storm
Say a little about after the storm.
One
What would it have been like to be in the boat with your team during the storm?
This one needs an answer too.
Two
Who would have been most helpful to you during the storm?
This stays private — only you ever see the name you write.
Write who came to mind, even briefly.
And which of these are they, generally speaking?
Pick the closest one.
Three
If you believed a rescue would come, how did you imagine it happening?
This one needs an answer too.
Four
In what ways could you have asked for help?
This one needs an answer too.
Adapted from a family-systems narrative technique (Post-Sprunk, 2010) used to help a group compare their own perspectives on a shared hard moment. This is a reflection practice, not therapy — no one here is being diagnosed, and nothing you write is a verdict on you or anyone else.
Your Reflections
What you've written so far
The Collective Picture