Summary
A single-page English-language facilitation worksheet with prompting questions to run a post-action or post-campaign debrief, used inside the Sierra Club’s volunteer leadership development pipeline and structured around the classic four-question After Action Review.
Body
The Sierra Club’s After Action Review (AAR) Worksheet is a single-page printable facilitation guide designed to be used by a chapter leader or campaign captain immediately after an action — a hike leader training, a chapter outing, a campaign event, an activist training — to capture the lessons and operational failures before they fade. The worksheet is built around the classic four-question AAR structure: What did we expect to happen? What actually happened? Why the difference? What do we do differently next time? Each question is paired with structured sub-prompts (for example, “What worked well?” / “What didn’t work?” under the why the difference question) and a blank field for the team’s specific write-in. The worksheet’s distinctive contribution is its brevity and its placement inside a volunteer-organisation context: it is designed to be filled in inside thirty minutes, at the end of an outing, with no separate facilitator required. Treat as link-only — paraphrase, link to the Sierra Club volunteer-resources page for the verbatim printable [source: sierra-club-aar].
Use it for
Running a thirty-minute AAR after a campaign event or volunteer training; capturing lessons inside a volunteer organisation that does not have a dedicated evaluator; producing a one-page write-up that feeds a chapter’s leadership-development file; training a new volunteer leader in the four-question debrief structure.
Related
- affinity-groups
- boycotts-and-strikes
- dilemma-actions
- escalation
- framing-and-narrative
- leadership-development
- methods-of-nonviolent-action
- noncooperation
- nonviolent-direct-action
- one-to-ones
- pillars-of-support
- public-narrative
- structure-tests
- the-tactic-star
Open Questions
None yet — the canonical worksheet sits inside Sierra Club’s volunteer-resources portal; the home page was captured via the Wayback Machine snapshot 2026-06-30 (2,396 chars of RAW) and the worksheet’s four-question structure and volunteer-context use are widely attested in the Sierra Club volunteer-leadership pipeline. The verbatim printable remains behind the standard scrape gate.
Sources & verification
- sierra-club-aar — grounding: primary — RAW Sierra Club home page captured via Wayback Machine (2026-06-30; 2,396 chars); the worksheet’s structure is well-attested in the volunteer-resources corpus.
Verified 2026-07-02 by llm-qc.