Invite a few people for an informal conversation around one idea from the Think books that feels alive in your work right now.

Examples: 

• balancing scale vs speed

• Implementation vs adoption

• standards vs prescriptions

• transactional vs relational value of work

Obviously, no ppt deck needed. 

Try walking while talking. Enjoy the change of scenery.

A walk-and-reflect format often changes the quality of conversation:

• people speak more freely

• pauses become easier

• thinking becomes more creative

One question is enough for a good thought-provoking walk.

We have become very skilled at appealing to the intellect. What we are often missing are pathways to emotion, imagination, and lived connection.   

Use a poem, photograph, song, meme, or drawing as the starting point to think about a certain theme relevant to your work right now.

You might ask: What does this remind us of? What does it reveal about us and our work? What feeling does it surface?

Examples: a dandelion painting, a set of physical dominoes, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ by Lewis Carroll, Japanese haikus, poems by Rumi and Tagore, your childhood photograph.

Bring one challenge you need to think together about.

For example: 

• The team needs to be aligned on the scale journey ahead

• The milestones for the  next three years are to be discussed 

• The analysis of the network landscape is to be done

• Some aspects of the existing approach need to be revisited

Return to an idea your team discussed months ago (perhaps within the Think Collective session?). Sometimes the second conversation unfolds the forgotten action points from the first one well.

Ask:

• What has changed since then?

• What stayed unresolved?

• What are we noticing now?

Return to an idea your team discussed months ago (perhaps within the Think Collective session?). Sometimes the second conversation unfolds the forgotten action points from the first one well.

Ask:

• What has changed since then?

• What stayed unresolved?

• What are we noticing now?

Invite people who care about societal change for a conversation that matters to all of you. This could include peers, ecosystem partners, potential or existing funders, advisors, long-time supporters and volunteers. What feels important right now? Where are new possibilities emerging?

Need a starting point? A quick flip through the Facilitator’s Guide can help.

Bring together a few people from the communities you are working for around one shared theme, challenge, or question.

Keep it simple: clear conversation prompts and enough time to listen deeply.

Host a reflective conversation with the coalition, network, or movement you are part of.

Use the space to explore:

• What are we really trying to move toward together?

• Where are we aligned – and where are we not?

• What assumptions are shaping our work?

• What conversations are we avoiding?

Use this Quote-of-the-Day package to start a simple daily mailer for your team. One idea from the Think books each day helps gently nudge imagination. 

Read out loud your favourite idea from the books and tell us why it matters for making societal change happen.
Tag #ThinkCollectiveMonth

On social media, post a question you can't stop thinking about. Tag #ThinkCollectiveMonth and see who responds.

Take a photograph of the place where you do your best thinking. Share it with the thought you’re holding about social problems nowadays. Tag #ThinkCollectiveMonth.

Every Friday this month, write down one assumption you held on Monday that week that you no longer hold about solving at scale and/or exponential change. Keep a record of the 4 (un)learnings. Share the most surprising one (or all).
Tag #ThinkCollectiveMonth.

If you did get a little artsy (Spark 4), we believe it deserves to be seen, heard and loved. Share it on social media and tag #ThinkCollectiveMonth.

Take any provocation in the Think Books (eg: An elephant is not a big mouse). Find something in your city, your office, your home that is literally trying to be an elephant by assembling more mice. Photograph it. Share it with your perspective.
Tag #ThinkCollectiveMonth

This month, practice saying "I don't know" in places where you’re uncertain about the path ahead instead of answering for the sake of it. Notice the shift.

The +1: At the start of Think Collective Month, pick one object that represents the change you're working toward or the problem you can't stop thinking about. Something you already own. Something you share a special bond with. Carry it with you all month. Bring it to every gathering. Set it on the table. It doesn't need to be explained unless someone asks. By the end of the month, share your journey with your +1 and how it has stayed with you during aha moments and tough times equally. Tag #ThinkCollectiveMonth.