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This section explores the art of creating and holding spaces where people can build trust, share perspectives, and co-create meaningful action. It brings together convening methods, dialogue processes, participatory design, and facilitation practices that foster the relationships and shared understanding essential for transformation—across generations, cultures, and sectors.
Here we signpost to approaches for designing and facilitating inclusive spaces that invite deep dialogue, nurture connection, and support collaboration toward shared purpose.
Communities of Practice (CoPs) bring people together around shared questions, challenges, or aspirations. They offer a collaborative approach to learning and change-making by fostering regular interaction, building relationships of trust, and deepening collective wisdom. CoPs enable participants to share insights, co-create knowledge, and support one another in developing and applying transformative practices.
Read about our initial vision for a Cultural Creatives Community of Practice
Overview of our Community of Practice, from our Call to Action
The World Café (also known as Conversation Café) is a highly adaptable methodology designed to facilitate meaningful conversations in groups of all sizes. It provides a hospitable space for people to share experiences, explore questions that matter, and listen together for patterns and insights. This method encourages collective intelligence and can surface creative ideas, shared values, and potential actions.
Open Space is a flexible, highly participatory method for facilitating dialogue, in which participants co-create the agenda and lead the discussions. Designed for groups of any size, this approach allows people to engage deeply, creatively, and collaboratively on the issues they care most about—unearthing insights, surfacing solutions, and sparking connections that more structured formats might miss.
The Three Horizons Framework is a strategic tool for fostering long-term thinking and system transformation. It provides a structured way for communities, organisations, and changemakers to explore the tension between the current system and their visions for a more just, resilient, and regenerative future.
The Three Horizons Framework is a strategic tool for fostering long-term thinking and system transformation. It provides a structured way for communities, organisations, and changemakers to explore the tension between the current system and their visions for a more just, resilient, and regenerative future.
This model was developed by the Berkana Institute (Margaret Wheatley & Deborah Frieze), is a powerful way to understand transitions and engage with systemic transformation in times of uncertainty and change.
This model was developed by the Berkana Institute (Margaret Wheatley & Deborah Frieze), is a powerful way to understand transitions and engage with systemic transformation in times of uncertainty and change.
The model maps the lifecycle of systems, showing how all living systems rise, peak, and eventually decline.
The model maps the lifecycle of systems, showing how all living systems rise, peak, and eventually decline.
Active Hope Spiral
Active Hope Spiral
Active Hope, developed by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, is a practice-based framework that supports people in transforming despair into collective, creative action. Also known as The Work That Reconnects (TWTR), it is particularly relevant for facilitators, artists, educators, and community leaders seeking to guide themselves and others through the turbulence of the Great Unravelling—the ecological, social, and spiritual crises of our time.
Active Hope, developed by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, is a practice-based framework that supports people in transforming despair into collective, creative action. Also known as The Work That Reconnects (TWTR), it is particularly relevant for facilitators, artists, educators, and community leaders seeking to guide themselves and others through the turbulence of the Great Unravelling—the ecological, social, and spiritual crises of our time.
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