Strategic Goal Setting Workshop 2025
At a glance
sunday 23 march 2025
10am-5pm GMT
A one day Strategic Goal Setting workshop
facilitated by Stéphanie Heckman
in person in blick studios hill st, belfast
£0 this is a fully sponsored workshop (excl lunch)
Only 8 spots available.
Super keen to join? Sign up via the form! 👉🏼
Keen to know a bit more? Read on 😉
The offering
We’ve come through the darkest part of winter, a time for hunkering down and recharging. Now, as we begin to emerge into a new spring, is a time for orienting ourselves to the new year: Where am I now? What has the past year brought me? Where do I want go?
We rarely give ourselves an opportunity to check in with where we are and move intentionally into a new season. Spring, with the sun reappearing and new life budding, is a time for ripening ideas and renewed inspiration. Too often we let this precious time slip us by. We get distracted as the year rushes in and the sprouting ideas and insights get buried in the busyness. But if we take the time we can harness that energy of renewal and put it to good use on projects aligned with what matters to us most.
For the past seven years, Stéphanie has taken time every year for personal strategy days, to draw out the lessons from the previous year and chart out an intentional route into the next, towards some strategically chosen goals. This process has helped her aim for and achieve some bold goals, such as cultivating an ongoing working relationship with UN Climate Change, bringing visual practice peers along to the annual COP climate summits, and training up multiple cohorts of visual practitioners internationally.
In recent years she has begun to share this process with others both in open workshops and 1-on-1 sessions. Now you are invited to join an in-person one-day workshop in the beautiful Blick Studios in Hill St where Stéphanie is an artist resident. If you feel in need of some time for yourself this spring to pause, take stock of where you are and plot out some next steps that align with your needs and values…. And if you want some structure, guidance and companionship to do it, join us!
The methodology
The methodology we’ll use is called backcasting - a tool Stéphanie learned during her MSc in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability in Karlskrona, Sweden. It’s been adapted it for personal strategic discernment, and - of course - use visual thinking tools from Stéphanie’s work as a seasoned visual facilitator aplenty to make the process and outcomes come alive.
Over the course of two half days together, we’ll go through the four steps of backcasting:
A - Looking forward
B - Looking back
C - Brainstorming
D - Strategic Prioritisation
We’ll use a combination of shared visual harvesting and dialogic exercises, as well as time to stretch, get out there and do some solo work. This methodology, when done in this way and with reflection partners, will help you
Uncover the creative tension between your status quo and personal vision, and let it pull you into the new year with purpose and direction
The facilitator
Stéphanie Heckman is a visual practitioner working internationally to visually support organisations working to progress climate action, peace and reconciliation and leadership development. She says about the Strategic Goal Setting process:
“I credit this process for the steep trajectory my visual practice career has been on - going from being a jobless stranded foreigner to a well-established visual practitioner with a transformed relationship to my own work, collaborating with the UN and training up my own colleagues, all within five years. It's given me confidence and focus to aim high, and hit!”
- Stéphanie
Cost
Thanks to a sponsored collaboration with Blick Shared Studios, we’re able to offer this workshop completely free of charge! You’ll be getting:
A full day for self-reflection and action-oriented project planning, hosted by an experienced facilitator who specialises in making complex content simple and exciting through visuals and using an established strategic planning methodology;
Entry into a fellowship with others in a carefully held empathic space that will continue after this workshop;
All the visual materials you’ll produce for yourself during the workshop;
And a set of tools that can serve you for years to come.
Normally between £85 - £160
Now on limted offer for £0
Testimonials
“I have really avoided goal setting in the past, as a lot of approaches didn’t resonated with me. But this structure helped me to visualize my top priorities in and gave me an amazing tool box that I feel confident in to go back to every year or so. I already know other friends who would gravitate towards this approach.
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“I have been telling everyone about this workshop and now they all want to do it too. The power of visualisation! Everything I drew out in my vision at the start of the year has been starting to come out. I can’t believe it - everyone should do this!”
“There was a lovely atmosphere. The group was confidently managed, but also with great warmth.”
Sign me up!
By filling out the below form you sign up for the workshop Strategic Goal Setting. You will receive an acknowledgement of your registration, and an email with further instructions two weeks and one week ahead of the workshop. If you have any questions you need answered first, reach out to me via my Contact page on this website. I can’t wait to share this with you and look forward to seeing you in March!