Retrospective Magic Video Course
Retrospectives That Actually Change Things
A practical video course for Scrum Masters, team leads, and coaches, who are tired of running the same retrospective and getting the same results.
You've run dozens of retrospectives. Maybe hundreds. Your team identifies the same issues, agrees on the same action items, and two sprints later, nothing has changed.
It's not your team's fault. And it's probably not yours either.
Most retrospective advice focuses on formats and activities. But the difference between a retro that changes things and one that just goes through the motions comes down to something subtler: psychological safety, human motivation, and how people actually make decisions under pressure.
That's what 25 years of facilitation, and a deep dive into neuroscience and human behaviour, taught me. And that's what this course teaches.
What you'll be able to do after this course:
- Diagnose why your retrospectives aren't producing change, and fix the actual problem, not the symptoms
- Choose the right format for your team's situation, from simple standups to LEGO® Serious Play®, and know why you're choosing it
- Create genuine psychological safety, not just the appearance of it, so people say what's actually true
- Break the "same issues every sprint" cycle using facilitation techniques grounded in behavioural science
- Handle the hard situations: disengaged teams, dominant voices, action items that never happen
- Apply what neuroscience tells us about motivation, threat response, and decision-making, and use it to run better retrospectives starting next sprint
Whether you're about to facilitate your first retrospective, or you've been doing them for years and are ready to take them to the next level, there's something here for you.
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What's inside?
Part 1: Setting the foundation
You'll learn the core pattern that underlies every effective retrospective. By the end of this section, you'll be able to run a solid retrospective, even if
you've never facilitated one before. If you're experienced, this section will give you a clean mental model to build on.
Part 2 : expanding our options
Not every team or situation calls for the same format. You'll work through the retrospective styles I use most: the Starfish, the Sailboat, Six Thinking Hats, and more. More importantly, you'll understand why you'd choose one over another. Including one session using LEGO® Serious Play®, which produces results that surprise even skeptical teams.
Part 3 : adding the magic
This is where the course earns its name. We go deep on the neuroscience and psychology behind why retrospectives succeed or fail: how the threat response shuts down honest conversation, what actually builds psychological safety (vs. what just looks like it), how motivation works, and how to design retrospectives that produce real behavioural change, not just good intentions.
Community support
Community + Direct Access to Mike
Every team situation is different. When you hit a scenario the course doesn't cover exactly, a disengaged team, a dysfunctional dynamic, a retro that went
sideways, bring it to the community forums. You'll get answers from fellow participants and from me directly, applied to your specific context.
What facilitators say after taking the course
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Retros are such a critical component in allowing us to focus on enhancing what’s good, and improving what isn’t.
Mike provides an exceptional overview of how to facilitate and structure these critical events with a focus on bringing out the best from the people doing the work, and uncovering the opportunities to get better.
Whether you’re new or experienced in helping a group improve through retrospectives, this is an exceptional course to review proven formats, explore ideas, and gain insights into tips and tricks that will help you help your teams.
I can’t recommend this strongly enough.
-Jeff Kosciejew, agile coach
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Having participated in retros with Mike, this course was an excellent reminder of the different techniques that made them effective and memorable.
Mike highlights what makes retrospectives valuable, and helps prepare you for the challenges no one speaks of. He guides you on how to facilitate meaningful conversations between people, followed by taking action to improve.
I highly recommend this course to anyone irrespective of their role, skill level, or experience, as I’m certain you’ll learn something new to elevate your retrospectives to the next level.
- Kartik nagarajan, agile coach
Meet your Instructor, Mike bowler
I've been facilitating retrospectives since before most people had heard the word. I started as a software developer — one of the earliest XP practitioners in Canada, and have spent the last 25 years helping teams at organizations like Capital One, Ford, RBC, Charles Schwab, and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board improve how they work.
What makes my approach different is that I don't just teach formats. I got certified as a consulting hypnotist, studied Clean Language, polyvagal theory, and the neuroscience of psychological safety, not as academic curiosities, but because understanding how people actually behave under pressure is what separates a retrospective that changes things from one that just goes through the motions.
This course is what I wish I'd had when I started.
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The corporate rate for this training is $3,000+ CAD.
Organizations pay that rate to train their people — because the return on a team that runs better retrospectives compounds over time.
For individual practitioners, the price is $297 CAD.
Corporate price: $3000+ CAD
Regular price:
$297 CAD
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