Committee Tools

Ordinary people should be involved in designing, planning, and building their future environment. Thinking about the future, what are called ‘futures’ exercises, focus on designing how the future can be imagined as more sustainable.

Everything has a cause. But the distance between the effect and the starting cause can be fairly long and not obvious at first. Often the cause of a negative event can be close to home and so more easily solved once we know the real cause: by asking ouselves the five ‘whys’.

A ‘mind map’ is a picture of ideas, ideas, or tasks. It starts with a main subject or idea which branches out to other ideas, words, or things that are related to it. Mind maps allow you to show that ideas always following one after another and then another in a line. They can branch out like a tree or a spiders web where ideas can be connected together.

An activity used at the end of a workshop or meeting to understand everyone’s feelings before everyone goes home. When people worked together in a very focussed and self-questioning way it is important that nobody feels too drained.