Our Tools

We use a variety of tools and practices to support our clients’ organisational alignment and healthy group cultures.

We have linked some of our favourites on this page. We invite you to try them out in your own organisations and groups. They are not intended to be stand-alone “fixes,” as we have found that they combine and come to life differently in each of the groups we have worked with. However, by experimenting with them, we have no doubt that you and your groups will learn to better Connect, Create & Collaborate.

Healthy Agreement Tools

The Agreement Field

• Creating Group Agreements — Willingness to Participate

Group Agreements — Examples

• Co-Creators — Agreements

• Common Ground — Agreements

Healthy Communication Tools:

Healthy Organisational Tools:

Organisational Overview

• Guidelines & Template

Role Outlines

• Guidelines & Template

  • Culture Gardener

  • Community Engagement

Role Review / Self-Evaluation

• Guidelines & Template

Contracts — Energy Exchange Agreement (Employment)

• Agreement — Template

Team Survey

• Anonymous Team Survey

Stages of Group Development

• Five Stages of Team Development

• Integrated Model of Group Development (the IMGD)

Visioning — Awakening Action Planning

• Visioning Guidance

• River of Life

Building Trust, Vulnerability & Safety

Shared Governance / Decision Making Processes

• Sociocracy 3.0 — Web resource

  • Introduction — PDF

  • Overview Diagram

  • Producing Proposals Sheet

Organisational Leadership Resources

• Community Coaches — Introduction: Creating Collaborative Culture is Key to Successful Community Initiatives

  • Introduction PDF

• Reinventing Organisations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness

  • Illustrated Book — PDF

  • Website resources

  • 9 Minute Video Outline

• Addressing Power & Authority

  • Being Silenced and Silencing Others — Megan Reitz & John Higgins

  • How your power silences truth — Megan Reitz (15 mins)

  • The Power of Diverse Thinking — Matthew Syed (3.40 mins)

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

  • Book — Adrienne Brown

• The Fearless Organisation: Creating Psychological Safety in the Work place for Learning, Innovation and Growth

  • Book — Any C. Edmondson

  • Website resources

• An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organisation

  • Book — Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey

• The Power of the Herd: Building Social Intelligence, Visionary Leadership, and Authentic Community Through the Way of the Horse

  • Book Overview — Linda Kohanov

• Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future

  • Book — Riane Eisler & Douglas Fry

Culture Garden Partners:

• BodyInformedLeadership.org

• HealthyMasculine.com

• Awakened Action Planning

• GrowingGoodLives.com

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