The social learning tools we employ encourage new ways of seeing, thinking and making sense of the complexity, uncertainty and turbulence we are seeing with climate and global changes.
Dialogue Mapping: we develop soft system maps of multi-stakeholder planning dialogues to capture the key themes, design principles and next step initiatives to developing sustainable regions – communities. These ‘maps’ of exploratory conversations are about actioning sustainability, building a holistic systems picture or generating shared understanding by bringing together peoples’ different ways of knowing, for example, dialogue between local landholders’, government organisations and Indigenous communities.
Here are some examples of Dialogue Maps developed by the Evolveris Group:
Leading the Future Conversation Report – Brisbane, 2007
Concept Plan, Waterfall Way Walking Tracks, 2003
Whole of community learning dialogues: we facilitate dialogues with all the key stakeholders in a region or local community to build both a rich picture of the strengths, challenges and opportunities. This helps build buy-in across regional and community stakeholders and agencies and enhances their capacity to work together cohesively to identify sustainable pathways and enterprises.
Priorities & Initiatives – New England Sustainability Strategy
Co-Design: this is our term describing how communities, stakeholders and agencies can collaboratively design sustainable regions, communities and enterprises. Examples of our work include the Waterfall Way Cross-Regional Tourism Enterprise and Branding Projects. Some of the co-design maps that were compiled for this projects:
Coffs Harbour – Place Identity Map, 2007
Waterfall Way – Brand Concept Map, 2007
We support agencies and non government organisations to become reflexive; to explore and strategise and to develop capabilities to enhance their working practice.
Our social learning tools embody a bottom-up community driven and top-down government agency supported partnership approach.
