A growing collection of practical tools, resources and creative approaches that I’ve developed, helped to create, or regularly draw on in my work.
They’re here to explore, share and use — whether you’re planning a workshop, bringing people together or looking for new ways to approach an idea. If you need something more specific, I also work with organisations and teams to develop engaging, accessible resources of their own.
Innovation to Action
A participatory tool for helping individuals and groups think through and shape their ideas, actions, products, services or projects.
Starting with why, it uses a series of simple questions and suggested participatory methods to explore purpose, people, vision, possibilities, practicalities and how you’ll know if it’s working — helping move from purpose to action.
I use this tool myself to shape discovery days and workshops — sometimes focusing in on a particular area, and sometimes using the whole framework to guide a process from initial thinking through to clear next steps.
Link to tool - The full tool includes guiding questions and participatory methods (please credit me - the author - if you use and even better let me know how you find it).
Tools and resources
I’ve helped create
Over the years I’ve had the chance to develop and collaborate on a wide range of tools and resources — designed to make complex ideas more accessible, support learning and conversation, and help people explore, participate and take action. Here are a few open source examples that might be of interest:
Tools and resources
I use in my practice:
There are lots of methods, frameworks and communities of practice that influence how I design and facilitate work. These are some of the places I regularly return to for activities, ideas and different ways of approaching participation, collaboration and change.
Liberating Structures
A large collection of facilitation structures designed to involve everybody in a group rather than relying on conventional presentations or open discussion.
Explore Liberating Structures
Design Council
Particularly useful around design thinking, systems thinking and the Double Diamond approach to exploring and responding to challenges.
Explore Design Council
Art of Hosting
Approaches and practices for hosting meaningful conversations, participatory processes and collective work.
Explore Art of Hosting
Presencing Institute – Tools
A collection of methods connected with Theory U, including approaches to listening, sensing, reflection and working with emerging possibilities.
Explore the tools
Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit
A particularly good fit for Becky’s practice: tools for helping groups explore alternative and more hopeful futures through collective imagination, embodied practices, place, ecology and future thinking.
Explore the toolkit
SessionLab Library
A very practical library of workshop activities, facilitation methods and exercises that can be searched and adapted when designing sessions.
Explore SessionLab Library