Participatory indexes and frameworks, most built on the Ten Seed Technique, for understanding communities and tracking the change that matters to them. Five can be worked through in your browser; the rest are written up below.
Each one puts ten seeds in your hand. Place them on the plate to show how true something is, one question at a time — the same method used with communities in the field, scaled down to one person or group. Nothing is uploaded or stored, and you can export your result as a PDF.
The five aspects of happiness — positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning and accomplishment. Developed with Dr. VanValin.
5 steps · exports a PDF
Open the tool Read the article →The four areas of control that contribute to personal empowerment: health, income, expenditure, and micro-political environment.
4 steps · exports a PDF
Open the tool Read the article →The nine fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22–23). Run it for yourself, or for your congregation.
9 steps · exports a PDF
Open the tool Read the article →The eight marks of the blessed life, from the Beatitudes (Matthew 5:2–10).
8 steps · exports a PDF
Open the tool Read the article →The eight elements of reconciliation, from the forthcoming book Reconciled. Think of one relationship and work through it.
8 steps · exports a PDF
Open the toolField notes and frameworks from four decades of participatory practice.
Tracks how a community's own capacities grow against its vulnerabilities, year by year, using the Holistic Worldview Analysis.
Read more →Understanding a community's worldview, and why it makes a world of difference to development practice.
Read more →A self-assessment for couples to assess and strengthen the foundations of their marriage.
Read more →A framework for safe drinking water in poor communities: Availability, Access, Asset creation, Utilization.
Read more →Integrating the empirical and spiritual dimensions of development. Presented at Lausanne, Cape Town 2010.
Read more →Named in the Atlanta Business Chronicle's Top 100 leaders guiding the future of Atlanta's health-care industry.
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