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title: Workshops Stages
description: "How to take a workshop through its five stages: Define, Score, Review, Treatment and Monitor. **Applies to:** Workshop managers and members · **Module:** Workshops ## How Stages Work A workshop moves through five stages in order. The workshop manager changes…"
url: "https://support.symbiant.co.uk/kb/workshops-stages/"
updated: "2026-10-30"
category: Workshop Basics
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  - Updating
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# Workshops Stages

How to take a workshop through its five stages: Define, Score, Review, Treatment and Monitor.

**Applies to:** Workshop managers and members · **Module:** Workshops

## How Stages Work

A workshop moves through five stages in order. The workshop manager changes the stage on the **Edit Workshop** tab, and the **Stages** tab shows the form for the current stage. You can go back to an earlier stage if a mistake was made.

![Stage list](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/workshops-stages-04-stage-list.png)

To move on, select the next stage in the **Stage** field and save.

## Define

At the **Define** stage you choose the risks the workshop will work on. Open the workshop and select the **Stages** tab. Use the plus icon to create a new risk, or the link icon to pick existing risks from the Risk Universe.

![Stages tab with the plus and link icons](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/workshops-stages-01-stages-tab.png)

Workshops work best with new risks that are not yet in a register, scored or actioned. To create one, select the plus icon, enter a **Summary** and the **Divisions**, then select the blue tick.

![New risk from the Define stage](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/workshops-stages-02-new-risk-b.png)

The risks now appear under **Define Risks**.

![Defined risks](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/workshops-stages-03-defined-b.png)

## Score

At the **Score** stage each risk has its own scoring section. Only the scoring factors chosen when the workshop was set up appear.

For the **Inherent** score (no controls in place), select an **Impact** and a **Likelihood**, and add a **Score Rationale** explaining why the score fits. Here, Major and Likely give 16.

![Inherent score and rationale](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/workshops-stages-05-inherent-b.png)

For the **Residual** score (with controls in place), do the same. Here, Moderate and Possible give 9.

![Residual score and rationale](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/workshops-stages-06-residual.png)

Select **Save**, or the pencil to save and stay on the workshop.

![Save buttons](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/risk-flows-05-save.png)

## Review

The **Review** stage lists each risk with the scores it was given, so the group can check them before agreeing treatments. Select a risk to open its full details.

![Review stage scores](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/workshops-stages-07-review.png)

## Treatment

At the **Treatment** stage members suggest mitigation plans, vote on them, and the manager adopts the best ones. See [Workshop Risk Treatment Plans](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/kb/workshop-risk-treatment-plans/).

![Treatment stage](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/workshop-risk-treatment-plans-01-treatment.png)

## Monitor

The **Monitor** stage shows the adopted plans. From here you add actions and escalate the risks to a risk register. See [Workshop Escalating Risks to a Register](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/kb/workshop-escalating-risks-to-a-register/).

![Monitor stage](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/workshop-escalating-risks-to-a-register-01-monitor.png)

## Related articles

- [Creating a Workshop](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/kb/creating-a-workshop/)
- [Workshop Risk Treatment Plans](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/kb/workshop-risk-treatment-plans/)
- [Workshop Escalating Risks to a Register](https://support.symbiant.co.uk/kb/workshop-escalating-risks-to-a-register/)