Advanced Tactic: The Echo Technique

How to design endings that reinforce key themes by weaving participants’ words into a final group narrative

Endings stick. Participants might forget half the activities or even the detailed content of a workshop, but they almost always remember how it felt to leave the room. That’s why the Echo Technique is so powerful: it doesn’t just close a session, it reflects the group’s own words back to them - creating resonance, ownership, and meaning.

Rather than telling people what they should take away, you amplify what they already said. It’s about turning fragments of dialogue into a narrative that feels both personal and collective.