Focus the Map
Give participants three stickers or markers. Ask them to choose the factors they think are most important to address, either as barriers to overcome or opportunities to build on.
This helps clarify collective priorities and makes the map actionable. It also validates participants’ input and can reveal converging insights. Once everyone has placed their stickers, facilitate a short discussion focusing on the points that received the most and the fewest stickers to explore differing perspectives and shared priorities. This helps clarify collective priorities and makes the map actionable. It also validates participants’ input and can reveal converging insights.
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Develop Change Pathways
Select 2–3 key issues identified through the mapping. Explore through a further round of discussion, perspectives and ideas on such as:
- Who needs to be engaged and how?
- What kind of change is possible (policy, behaviour, mindset)?
- What’s a realistic first step (and whether this first step requires collective commitment and/ or particular individuals/ departments within the organisation will need to sign-up first)?
These questions support the transition from mapping to planning. Change pathways may be modest, relational, or cultural, but still meaningful. Accordingly, it may also be helpful to reframe change as a series of small experiments rather than a large programme.
