Support at every stage of your collaboration

No matter where you are in your collaboration journey, we can support you.

We design and facilitate innovative, adaptive strategies to support diverse groups from across organisations, sectors, and perspectives, to work together across differences to address complex societal issues.

Using our rigorous set of approaches, we facilitate building collaborative teams, capabilities, processes, structures, strategies, and actions toward systems change.

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Where are you on your collaboration journey?

  • Initiating new collaborations
  • Strengthening an existing collaboration
  • Implementing collaborative action
  • Broadening collaborative action

Initiating new collaborations

Are you embarking on a new complex collaboration involving diverse stakeholders?

We’ll support you with

  • Mapping interests, perspectives, challenges, and opportunities
  • Identifying and convening stakeholders
  • Designing collaborative processes, strategies, and structures
  • Building collaborative capabilities and relationships

Using methods such as

  • Systems and stakeholder mapping
  • Dialogue interviews
  • Transformative scenarios
  • Developing systemic strategies and theories of change

Examples of how we’ve supported initiating new collaborations

Our experience as trusted guides on complex societal challenges

Discover some of the initiatives and projects we’ve supported across a range of issue areas worldwide.

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Climate
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Education
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Energy
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Food systems
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Gender-based violence and harassment
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Health
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Inclusive growth and development
indigenous rights
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information ecosystems
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Oceans, seas, and water
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Peace, democracy, and justice
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Augmenting climate action with speed, scale, and justice

As the global impacts of climate change become more clear and severe, the need to effectively respond and adapt to these changes becomes more urgent.

Climate change ignores all national and sector boundaries. What’s clear is that collaboration is paramount, on a scale that humanity has never attempted.

Our approaches for systems change

For over two decades, we’ve pioneered groundbreaking approaches for systems change, including transformative scenarios and social labs.

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Transformative scenarios enable you to construct shared understandings, build stronger relationships, and develop clearer intentions to create the potential to shape a better future.

Transformative scenarios differs from other scenario planning methodologies in that:

  • The focus is not only to understand or adapt to the future but also to shape and transform it.
  • The scenarios are crafted not by academics or consultants but by an inclusive multi-stakeholder and multi-disciplinary group of actors. Each participant holds a valuable piece of a wider puzzle, not only in their knowledge but also in their agency and sphere of influence.
  • The co-creative facilitation approach builds relationships, trust, insight, ownership, and collaborative capability, generating results beyond the knowledge outputs produced.
social-labs

Social labs enable you to bring people together across a system, identify the root causes behind a problem, devise collective solutions, test and action them in the real world.

Social labs are:

  • Systemic
    Addressing root causes – not only symptoms and quick fixes.
  • Experimental
    Iteratively prototyping and piloting interventions and then scaling solutions in practice – not only producing reports, recommendations, or plans.
  • Ongoing and sustained
    Mobilising a network to implement and sustain solutions through learning, trust-building, sharing, and communicating – not just a one-off project.
  • Collaborative and inclusive
    Bringing together actors from across the system – not only experts or authorities.
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Your partners in systems change