Tools & Resources

This video explores how conflict – often seen as the enemy – can be an asset to partnerships when understood and harnessed. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and lead together.

This video discusses why the often counter-intuitive approach of actively seeking out difference is helpful in the context of cross-cultural partnering. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and…

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

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 describes seven elements of cross sector partnership formation.

This resource provides a process for developing questions that lead to new insights, ideas and solutions.

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 resource is designed to help those interested or involved in a particular cross-sector collaboration better understand the complexities and nuances of the initiative.

This resource explores different ways of assessing a community’s readiness for collaborative work and includes links to tools and resources for assessing and building community readiness.

This resource contains a process for working with stakeholders to determine their desired level of involvement in an initiative.

This resource will help your group to identify and prioritise influential champions who could be engaged in the collaborative effort and lend their support to moving the effort forward.