The Activy Toolkit provides a participatory process to empower communities. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Getting Started, 2) Define Your Aim, 3) Discover Evidence, 4) Bring It Together, 5) Tell Your Story. Each step utilizes various tools to engage communities, gather insights, and develop solutions. The overall goal is to shift to educational democracy and community empowerment through a bottom-up approach.

1. The Activy Toolkit
Fee Schmidt-Soltau | Interim Presentation

2. 1. Relevance
2. Activy Toolkit
3. Outlook

3. “ The 21st Century requires a participatory democracy...
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Alex Niel MSP - Minister for Housing and Communities
(VOiCE National Conference, Edinburgh 11.5.2010)

4. ‘participatory democracy’
“ Communities need to be part of the solution not
the problem. We need community engagement
and empowerment.
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Alex Niel MSP - Minister for Housing and Communities
(VOiCE National Conference, Edinburgh 11.5.2010)

5. National Standards

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7. Capacity Building

8. “ There needs to be a shift to educational democracy
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Ted Scanlon, Community Worker and Researcher (Interview 12.5.2010)

9. Bottom - Up
Bottom-Up

10. Jack Simpson- GERA - Community Engagement Team

11. Garthamlock Women Group

12. Group Journey - Garthamlock Group

13. Hiden Dependencies
Diffused Focus
Lack of Funding
Findings - Garthamlock Group

15. Project Platform Tools Supporting Network
Project Documentation Step by step process Step stone to action
Continues Reflection Milestones Best Practice
Exchange Network Funding

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18. Discourage immediate Actions
Incourage Understanding
Focus on Individuals
Supporting Network

19. The Activy Toolkit

21. 1. Getting Started
2. Define your Aim
3. Discover Evidence
4. Bring it Together
5. Tell your Stories

22. INDIVUAL GROUP VISUAL PROCESS
TUNING IN DISCUSSION Gaps / Learnings
OWN VIEWPOINT PLANNING Documentation
DECISIONS Reflection

23. All you need inclosed in one session pack

24. Advice on setting up the ACTIVY Group Profile

25. Tuning In and Individual booklets

26. Process Explanation

27. Individual Tasks for next session in preparation

28. Group Dynamic Tool
- Aligns Vision and Intent
- Maps out Relationships and Stakeholders
- Identifies Gaps
- Defines Success Criteria
- Exposes possible Solutions
- Objective / Mission Statement
2. Define Your Aim

29. Tools
Platform
Action

30. 2. Define Your Aim - First Iteration

31. 3. Discover Evidence

32. 4. Bring It Together

33. 5. Tell Your Story

34. Discovery Tools Storytelling Tools Prototyping Tools
The range of tools, from pas- Tools that inspire ideas, evaluated Methods of externalising and
sive to engaged participation upon their effectiveness in commu- expressing ideas that promote feed-
nication with non-designers back and iterative learning
Aim
Definition
Observe & Gather & Frame & Ideate & Vote & Test & Action &
Understand Make Synthesise Generate Develope Feedback Planning
Team Roles
Getting Started Synthesis Tools Brainstorming Implementation
Preparation and explanation Analytical and creative tools Sourcing for ideas and pos- Planning and finding of re-
of process to come, to steer to make sense of the findings sible solutions sources for implementation
participants’ expectations to extract insights

35. The ACTIVY Process
The ACTIVY Process is a creative process. It acknowledges that
knowledge is not complete, but it helps you to understand the
wider context, so that you can plan your next steps ahead.
Think Small and Managable
Action is good, but step back first look at what you got, see the
opportunities and then plan your actions.

36. VOiCE Planning Photovoice
for Real
Engagement Tools