ourgroundworks.
a leader in design thinking for collective empowerment
...with organisations & collectives
Across the board this enables
A hands-on design thinking work processacross and within teams, groups and collectives.
Build the ‘skill of empathy’ to inquire, relate, understand from the lives of others to create transformation...to deepen insight.
Empathy and insight as integral to to individual and team practice- an active element of day-to-day thinking and action to develop and deepen the ability to generate knowledge, enable application, create impact.
Craft space that is synchronised and 'anti-silo' to coherently bring together experiential learning through content and pedagogy for applied learning.
We facilitate applied to problem solving with a hands-on design thinking approach....
▶︎ employs design thinking to programme feasibility, campaign/project planning;
▶︎ integrates empathy as a skill for problem solving;
▶︎ curates spaces for public communication;
▶︎ mentors organisations, campaigns, project teams within an outcome-oriented frame;
▶︎ coaches projects/campaign teams to combine media making and social change.
...and to evolve and deepen insight to...
▶︎ craft entrepreneurship that creates meaningful profit for wider well-being.
integrate media-making into change-making practice to knit impact collaborations to deepen public insight & transformation.
Our focus:
...with projects & campaigns
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with a focus on strategy and systems to orchestrate robust organisational purpose, presence, sustenance.
...with schools & professional education
Our focus:
at the strategy level …reimagine issue-based change through media-making.
approach …establish spaces for impact collaboration in social, environmental issues with media making.
framework …Involve communities to engage with their issues through media-making.
evolve insight among individuals, communities, organisations through making media-making an integrated and significant part of change-making.
to trigger stepped up public inquiry, reflection and mobilised action by making collective choices based on stories, information, data for collective progress and transformation, and; defines and presents ‘new citizenry’ engagement.
Our focus:
we work to create a ground swell of impact with entities and collectives that see themselves as part of a wider grid-work of transformation ...with deepened insight as the base and informed empathy as the glue and design thinking as the mechanism for change-making.
facilitate education communities to work to integrate empathy as a skill through problem solving in daily practice...and create new insight.
level 1: build team empathy
evaluate and equip teams as self-organising units – with agility and cohesion of focusing on: ‘role’ - as a sense of self; ‘alignment’ – for team purpose; ‘impact’ – collective clarity on effectiveness.
level 2: plan for impact
envisage and construct action with a view to make an impact; frame the impact you intend to create; paint your story of impact.
level 3: assess impact
gauge and measure the shifts against the impact you intended to create (break down impact into bite sizes); track the story of impact; repeatedly revisit the pathway of impact.
level 4: active induction
prepare and orient new members of the organisation so that people understand ‘the purpose’ assimilate ‘their role’ become part of the ‘common purpose’.
liberal spaces for applied learning that create enterprises of collective action, applied learning, impact and empowerment in primary, secondary and higher education.
institutions imparting a professional education in areas related to development, management, design, law, communications, journalism for budding professionals to build robust professional practice.
create 'encounters' that connects, confronts, chance upon new experiential learning and builds a calm mind of attention and consciousness in a secular culture.
experiential learningis brought about through current experience and ‘recycling’ previous experience.