Tools & Resources

This resource contains comprehensive information, questions, tools, and links for developing and delivering community collaborations.

Quiz This resource contains a series of tools for planning community engagement to be more purposeful, equitable, transparent, and…

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This resource supports those working on community change initiatives to understand complexity and to work adaptively.

This resource provides a governance framework for those seeking to work collaboratively on a complex social or community challenge.

This resource provides a broad, multidisciplinary systematised review of literature on cross sector partnerships for systemic change.

This resource provides a roadmap for effective collaboration based on five Cs: clarifying purpose; convening the right people; cultivating trust; coordinating existing activities; and collaborating for systems impact. 

David Snowden on his Cynefin framework to assist you and others to differentiate between the complicated and the complex.

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 handout outlines a reading, created by Micky Scott Bey Jones (for the Interaction Institute for Social Change) that can be used to frame the…

Inevitably things happen in these type of collaborations – where people are hurt and relationships break down. This video touches on some ways you can recover and rebuild trust. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find…

Shared principles around trust need to be explicit in this work. This video explores strategies for how you might create some shared principles together. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to work and…

Shared principles around trust need to be explicit in this work. This video explores strategies for how you might create some shared principles together. Deep Collaboration is a process or way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians to find new ways to…

  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. Understanding levels of safety is crucial in this work. This video discusses why and some ways you can consider to increase safety.

This video explores how understanding the idea and impact of ‘roles’, and separating yourself from a ‘role’ you are in a group, supports resilience and sustainability in collaborations. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other Multicultural Australians…

A key tool to depersonalise and look at systemic ‘voices’ or positions in the collaboration is by identifying ‘roles’. This video explores how to deepen the work by shifting or taking up other roles. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other…

Step 1 of Deep Collaboration outlines a process of how to explore if readiness to work differently is really there – being realistic about investments of time, energy, level of drive, urgency and courage. Deep Collaboration is a way of working that was created by First Nations and other…