Tools & Resources

Step 5 of Deep Collaboration looks at the nuanced skills of facilitating ‘Hot spots’ – naturally occurring points of tension signalling potential breakthrough in a collaboration. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to…

An overview of important things to consider (beyond Cultural Competency) before entering into partnerships between First Nations and Other Multicultural Australians. It includes concepts such as understanding the historical patterns of working, being aware and making decisions about language and…

Working with conflict is important in the work of Deep Collaboration – and challenging. This video discusses ‘Hotspots’ – what they look and feel like and what to do when they happen. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians…

This resource is a field guide to the use of participatory and other research tools by Aboriginal research practitioners in Australia.

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

A good resource for evaluation is the Better Evaluation website. It offers information and links to many evaluation approaches, methods and tools. This website has been developed for program evaluation principally and you should therefore consider how you select and apply these resources to…

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 identify how ready your system (group, community or organisation) is for collaboration and adaptation. It can also be modified to help you assess readiness for tackling complex challenges.

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 identify: • Factors that have contributed to the change you seek. • Evidence demonstrating the contribution. • The strength of the contribution. • Identify new means of and opportunities to exercise leadership.

This resource from Australians Together outlines clearly why and how Intergenerational Trauma needs to be understood in the context of working with First Nations Australians.

John Kania shares insights into why Collective Impact and Systems Change efforts are most powerful when they are conducted at a place-based level. This is an excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry Graham.

John Kania introduces the six conditions of systems change framework. An excerpt of a video interview in 2020 with John Kania by CFI Director, Kerry Graham.

This resource provides a framework, together with more than 80 methods and tools, for evaluating place-based work in the Australian context.

This resource is a compilation of tools and techniques for working in groups and facilitating meetings and workshops.