Tools & Resources

This resource contains a curated a list of papers, tools and resources for effective community engagement and movement building.

The August Wilson Red Door Project's ground-breaking production of Evolve is about racial profiling but from a multiplicity of perspectives. In this video, Artistic Director Kevin E. Jones explores what it meant to create the conditions for change.

This resource can help you deepen your understanding of facilitation.

This resource describes successful community leadership development programs through which governments, social purpose organisations and communities can help build leadership capacity.

A worksheet from Diamond Leadership that helps in mapping your different types of power - personal and positional. Use this worksheet to identify and cultivate your specific base of power, so you can remain effective and resilient, regardless of the challenges you face.

This resource will walk you through the philosophy of an Appreciative Inquiry, and how to facilitate one or more phases of the exercise.

This resource is a comprehensive toolkit for planning, delivering and analysing Harwood Community Conversations.

This resource is a video of Rich Harwood describing the Harwood Institute’s concept of Turning Outward, or making the community the reference point for everything you do.

This tool will help you to reflect on how you are using the power you currently have in service of your purpose, and identify opportunities to more fully use your power.

This tool will help you to: • Anticipate challenges a new initiative might face. • Understand why an existing initiative has stalled. • Make sense of conflict that’s occurring in/around the initiative.

This resource provides a comprehensive ‘how to’ guide for forming, running, and harnessing the benefits of working groups.

This tool will help you to map and interpret stakeholder dynamics in your initiative. This tool can be useful at the start of an initiative when you are working out the ‘lay of the land’, if things go wrong, if there is conflict, or if you are not making progress.

This tool will help you to prepare for a conversation with a stakeholder who has a different perspective on the issue or the way forward.  It can be particularly useful when preparing for a conversation that you fear may become heated.    

This tool will help you to identify ways to expand your adaptive leadership practices. It is designed to support individual reflection on leadership practice and identify practices that can be trialled immediately.  

This tool will help you to reflect on the power and influence currently available to you and assist you to identify other ways of using that power and influence.