Change starts within

Theory U, also known as ‘Presencing’, offers a framework for collaboration and engagement using awareness-based and contemplative practices.It can help groups sense more deeply into team dynamics, and organisations engage in purposeful planning, prototyping of projects and initiatives, and acting…

Compassion training can help build empathy and compassion, described as an ability to relate to others, oneself and nature with kindness and the intention to address related suffering. It can help the practitioner increase their well-being and have a higher quality of relations, as well improve…

Personal agency and personal initiative training are interventions designed to catalyze actions towards specific life goals. It can help participants take meaningful action towards their goals, create resilient, proactive habits, and increase livelihoods of individuals living in resource poor…

Acceptance commitment therapy / training (ACT) is a psychotherapeutic intervention that mediates improvements in individuals’ psychological flexibility. It can help the practitioner increase psychological flexibility and have a more stable identity and sense of self.

Imagination activism is a new kind of activism that pairs imagination exercises with calls to action in community to enact the better world we envision. It can help the practitioner create connections to the Earth and nature, explore future world possibilities, and inspire hope that fuels their…

Structured methods for facilitating collaboration on complex issues can scaffold productive collaboration and overcome interest conflicts among diverse stakeholders. It can help the practitioner facilitate collaboration and problem-solving on a specific issue, as well as long term openness to…

Multi-disciplinary arts practices are used in many sectors to liberate people from normative identities and structures. Creative practice can help people increase their health and well-being, as well as enhance their empathy and compassion, empowering them to care more for others.

WOOP is short for wish, outcomes, obstacles and plans and is a simple and research-based method for setting goals with something you want to achieve or experience. It can help participants increase the probability that they will actually be able to achieve the goal that they set for themselves.

Pausing on what we just heard is an inner skill that enables connecting to “what the person just said” and “how those words landed on oneself”. It can help the practitioner act from a more conscious state of being.

Psychological safety refers to the experience of being able to be oneself in a group without fear of being rejected or ridiculed by other group members. It can help teams increase performance, increase learning, and have higher work satisfaction.

Training in intercultural competence can include earning about common dimensions of cultural differences in endeavors involving participants with different cultural backgrounds. It can help the practitioner reduce the risk of misunderstandings, frictions and outright conflict.

Meet Yourself at 90 is a guided exercise that helps you be present with your hopes, dreams, priorities, and values by envisioning yourself at your 90 year old birthday party. It can help the practitioner increase awareness of what is important to you, and identify if there are things you’d like to…

The shield is an exercise for three or more participants that takes 30 min to 4 hours to do. It’s main purpose is to get the participants to talk about and share about themselves. It can help groups connect, get to know each other, and create a climate of trust.

Connections with nature have the potential to leverage deep societal change toward respect and care for our environment. It can help the practitioner recognize that we do not exist independently and that our sense of self includes nature, fostering pro-environmental behavior.

Nonviolent communication (NVC) aims at going beyond what people are saying and doing to make explicit people’s internal feelings and needs. It can help the practitioner open a room for shared understanding, discover needs that they were unaware of, and facilitate a solution in line with everyone’s…

The Immunity to Change (ITC) process addresses the foundation of how we make sense of the world and our place in it, by accessing our hidden assumptions. It can help the practitioner to gain insights into emotional reactions and assumptions, giving greater freedom and allowing one to harbour more…

Mindfulness is the capacity to attend intentionally to present-moment experience, with an attitude of openness, curiosity, and care. It can help the practitioner establish a more conscious way of living, as well as improve focus and productivity, mental health and well-being, body awareness and…

The dialectical thought form framework (DTF) offers insights into reality’s messiness and complexity beyond our attempts to categorise it. It can help the practitioner see how things depend on each other rather than existing in isolation.