MissionswerkstattMissionswerkstatt: a workshop format from mission to action

From workshop method to movement: people get started without waiting for permission.

The Missionswerkstatt takes people from a personal mission to concrete room for action. Afterwards they connect in the Missionswerkstatt community and find allies, and individual missions grow into thematic teams. A project of D2030 e.V., developed by Jonas Drechsel and Johannes Wirz, freely available as a method handbook.

After the first Missionswerkstatt, New Horizons 2045 exhibition, Berlin, March 2024 ↗

A space for activation and focus:
Give people the power to act!

At a glance

15: workshops run
€125,000: from 4 grants
8.6/10: satisfaction right after the workshop
8.1/10: want to pursue their mission afterwards

First workshop in March 2024
From secondary schools to foundations

As of October 2026

Why the Missionswerkstatt exists

Many organisations have well-connected, well-informed members. Yet the hoped-for activation doesn't happen, because the link between personal values and concrete ways to act is missing. People want to do something meaningful. The polycrisis paralyses them.

What the Missionswerkstatt aims for by 2030

By 2030 the Missionswerkstatt wants to mobilise more than 2,000 people shaping transformation, with workshops that scale, a train-the-trainer network and thematic mission communities. It all started in 2023 with the scenario project D2045 “Missionen für Deutschland” (missions for Germany).

Who is the Missionswerkstatt for?

For foundations, alliances, associations, clubs, social impact companies, non-profits and start-up centres that want to get their community moving or give it focus. As the host, you send the invitations and suggest the venue. If you want to facilitate yourself, you join through the onboarding.

Three phases in four hours

Seek: Connect personal topics with desirable futures, sparked by scenarios from interdisciplinary futures work.
Strengthen: Participants interview each other about their ideas and share their positive visions with the group.
Realise: Put vision and mission into words, with coaching up to the first concrete steps.

Vision and mission of the Missionswerkstatt

Vision: In five years, more and more mission teams from our workshops are carrying out projects you could almost call real-utopian. We see a culture of missions emerging beyond our project.
Mission: As a project, we focus on running workshops in which individuals find their mission. We accompany as many of them as possible until they come together in self-organised thematic teams. We make the first real-utopian results visible, and also the limits they run into along the way.
Values: Trust, doing before brooding, political independence, sustainability, openness to the world and a focus on the we.
Tomorrow: We learn why who isn't buying, whether the project lead can handle sales personally, and how welcoming and accompanying people works better in the transition from the workshop to the community. We talk to 200 contacts in a three-question survey (hook: Saxony-Anhalt) and at our own Futures Lounge on the energy transition in mid-2027. We start with the very first tests with thematic communities, five to seven funding applications and a sales video of ten to fifteen minutes.
The Goldener Kreisel: On the worksheet for your own mission, the vision comes first, one sentence in one breath. Then comes the mission as the answer to how that is supposed to work. Tomorrow captures the first two or three steps. Geels, Mazzucato and Sinek provide the theoretical background.

Workshops so far

Futura Biennale
Workshop, October 2025
Halle rollt e.V.
Workshop, funded by DFL, 2025
Wiener Zukunftstage
Workshop, 2025
SRH Berlin
First workshop, 6 March 2024, New Horizons 2045 exhibition

From the workshops

Missionswerkstatt on video

Clip on Instagram ↗

A method I developed

Missionswerkstatt

In the workshop, people put their personal mission into words. It becomes a bridge between their own values and the structures of an organisation.

4 hours, 10 to 20 participants, 2 facilitators. Developed with Johannes Wirz.

One-pager, PDF in German ↓ (Missionswerkstatt)

All six methods →

Missionswerkstatt offers

Onboarding for facilitators

Format

One day of training plus co-facilitating a workshop. Handbook and materials included.

What you get

Afterwards you facilitate yourselves, as part of the train-the-trainer network.

Method handbook

Format

PDF in German, freely available, published in March 2025.

What you get

The method to copy, after two years of development and testing.

Who is behind the Missionswerkstatt

In the team: Georg Jänchen (design and facilitation), Maria Reimer (fundraising and facilitation), Jenny Geiser (community), Simon Stock (growth), Vivianne Vogt and Alexandra Morgenroth (facilitation). In the network, among others, Jantje Meinzer and Christine Kolbe.

A workshop for your community?

If you can imagine hosting a Missionswerkstatt in your organisation, I am happy to talk, with no strings attached, about what it could look like for you.

Let's talk ↗

drechsel@d2030.de