JOIN A THREE-DAY STRATEGIC-PLANNING INTENSIVE.
Turn what matters into a plan you can actually carry forward.
A three-day strategic planning intensive for founders, independent professionals, and creatives. Envision what comes next for your work or business, define meaningful outcomes, and build a practical roadmap you can begin putting into action.
DECEMBER 9–11, 2026 · INDY HALL, PHILADELPHIA 10AM - 12PM EST · LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE
The work you choose affects your time. Your goals affect your capacity and health. Your responsibilities shape what is feasible. The way you operate determines whether a plan becomes sustainable progress or another source of pressure.
Most planning experiences focus on what you want to accomplish without examining the system that must support it.
Design Your 2027 helps you look at the whole picture. You will consider your work, priorities, capacity, energy, responsibilities, and desired future together. With these factors in view, you will design a direction for your work or business and make intentional choices about what the coming year can realistically hold.
You do not need more goals. You need a year designed around what matters and a way to begin living it.
This experience is designed for founders, independent professionals, and creatives who have meaningful work underway but need protected time and structured guidance to determine what comes next.
Bring your questions, ideas, and unresolved decisions. You don’t need a finished vision or a clear goal to begin.
Over three days, you’ll take part in six hours of facilitated strategic planning to clarify your direction and turn it into action. You’ll apply strategic design and agile ways of working to assess where you are, envision your desired future, define measurable outcomes, and build a strategic roadmap and practical Q1 plan. After each session, you'll receive optional coworking to give you space to continue developing your plan or get your own work done.
Understand where you are. Design where you want to go.
Assess your current state of life and work, explore your desired future, and define what meaningful progress would look like. Turn your vision into measurable outcomes that give your 2027 plan a clear direction.
Align what you believe, what you do, and what you need.
Apply The Unstuck Method to identify what behaviors need to shift, learn how to activate your intentions, and choose the central priorities that will move you toward your outcomes.
Build the roadmap. Make room for the work. Begin.
Translate your desired outcomes a strategic roadmap with meaningful milestones. Assess your capacity and adjust the scope of your commitments. Bring the roadmap into focus with a practical Q1 plan and your first 30 days of action.
THE MORNING PROGRAM RUNS FROM 10 A.M. TO NOON EACH DAY, WITH OPTIONAL COWORKING UNTIL 5 P.M. USE THE COWORKING TIME FOR YOUR OWN WORK, CONTINUE DEVELOPING YOUR PLAN, OR WORK ALONGSIDE OTHER PARTICIPANTS. LIMITED TO 12 PARTICIPANTS.
Explore Design Your 2027
You’ll learn planning practices you can continue using to take action, review progress, and adapt as circumstances change.
The goal is not to predict every part of the year. It is to make the choices that allow you to enter it with intention and momentum.
It was challenging in the best way. It simplified the overwhelming feeling about where to start and helped me get what was in my head onto paper.
The workshop was a sprint of knowledge, tools, and concepts that make vision tangible and attainable. My confidence grew.
This program consistently gets me out of my head and into action. As a returning participant, I can confidently recommend this accelerator to any entrepreneur or creative who needs clarity and direction. It blends self-discovery, goal setting, and real implementation in a way that actually moves you forward.
Reflections from participants in previous SHBD workshops and facilitated experiences.
Annalicia GeeterStrategic Outcomes Advisor and Founder of Futura Studios and SH*T HAPPENS BY DESIGN
Sh*t Happens By Design™ began with a belief: the strategic-design practices used to help major organizations navigate complexity and create change should not be reserved for corporations.
I spent more than a decade working across strategic design, change management, product strategy, facilitation, and program delivery. I helped leaders and teams make sense of complicated situations, align around what mattered, and translate strategy into action.
But when I began moving from corporate consultant to independent consultant and, ultimately, studio owner, I encountered a different kind of design challenge.
I wasn’t only changing jobs. I was reconsidering how I wanted to work, what I wanted to build, how much capacity I actually had, and what kind of life the business needed to support. Traditional career advice and business planning treated those questions separately. My life did not.
I created The Unstuck Method to help me examine the full system, clarify the future I wanted, and design a path I could test and activate. That work became the foundation of SHBD.
Today, I use the same strategic-design, systems-thinking, and change practices to help other people see more clearly, choose intentionally, and move differently through consequential moments in their lives and work.
Sh*t Happens By Design™ helps people and teams design what comes next and build toward it. We apply strategic design and agile ways of working to take action, learn through practice, and create momentum toward outcomes that matter.
Strategic design helps organizations create better futures. I believe individuals should have access to that power, too.
Consider what you want your life and work to support, make a practical plan, and get support as you put it into practice.
$299
Per person. Your ticket includes:
$249
Per person, for current Indy Hall members using the member discount code.
Indy Hall members receive $50 off the standard ticket. All eight included coworking days are bonus days and do not count against your membership plan.
Members must apply the member discount code on the shared Luma registration page.
RESERVE YOUR SPOTAll tickets are nonrefundable but transferable. If you can't make it, send someone in your place.
Coming with coworkers? If three or more people from the same organization would like to attend, reach out to Annalicia to discuss the best fit.
Ask about attending as a teamAsk about a private intensive
Private team experiences may include additional customization, team-only facilitation, and organizational planning support.
Planned January 13–15, 2027. Proposed $299 per person. A facilitated planning intensive supported by guided working materials. Registration opens December 1st.
Ask about the January virtual intensivePlanned February 1–March 12, 2027. Six weeks of accountability, structure, new tools and community to drive one strategic priority into practice. Offered separately from the intensive.
Ask about the February Momentum SprintBusiness will be part of the conversation, but it is not treated as separate from the rest of your life. You will consider your work, capacity, priorities, responsibilities, and desired future together before building your plan.
No. Bring your questions, ideas, and unresolved decisions. You don’t need a finished vision or a clear goal to begin.
You only need to reserve the morning sessions for the program. Afterward, you can stay at Indy Hall until 5 p.m. and use the coworking time for your own work, continue developing your plan, or work alongside other participants. Lunch is on your own.
If three or more people from the same team or organization would like to attend, reach out to Annalicia to discuss the best fit. A private intensive is a separate engagement designed only for your team.
Before we meet, you’ll complete a short intake about your current work, the decisions you’re facing, and what you hope to change. No course completion is required beforehand.
Bring your laptop, charger, calendar, relevant business or financial information, and anything else you need to make informed decisions about the coming year.
All tickets are nonrefundable but transferable. If you can't make it, send someone in your place.
Give yourself time to focus on what matters, design what is feasible, and build the first version of the plan.
Explore Design Your 2027DECEMBER 9–11, 2026 · INDY HALL, PHILADELPHIA 10AM - 12PM EST · LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE
Limited to 12 participants