• Explain the sailboat metaphor and four elements/questions which are:

1. Wind – what helps you move forward?;
2. Sun – what makes you feel good?;
3. Anchor – what holds you back?;
4. Reefs – what potential risks may you face in future?. 

• The activity can be done in two broad ways.

Option 1: Invite students to reflect on an experience or project they worked on, and list all they can think of under elements 1,2,3, and 4. If they are reflecting on a group project, each team can take one slide and answer all 4 questions together so they can discuss what has been working and what hasn’t.

Option 2: If they are reflecting on a similar experience but in which people may have experienced it differently, then you can have different spaces for people to answer each question – for example answering question 1, before moving to a second space to answer question 2, etc.,. In this way, people can see what the group before them has said for the different questions, and the new group can +1 or add new thoughts.  

• Bring the groups together and spend some time towards the end reflecting as a collective on all the answers.