You can already see what needs to change.
Now build the conditions that make it possible.

Groundwork

A six-month programme to build the practical frameworks and the cultural change tools to move your regenerative work into lasting impact

6 months, 13 fortnightly sessions  · Maximum 10 participants  · £1,500 plus VAT, instalments available

A note from Heather, your facilitator

You've already done the hard part:
you've started to see differently

Groundwork is built for people who are already working on regenerative change and hitting a ceiling. You know the theory. Something is still not quite translating into the culture shift you know is possible.

Built from the collaboration up

There is no shortage of brilliant frameworks for culture change. What Groundwork offers isn't a different set of tools: it's a different starting point for using them.

The programme begins by building your collaboration skills toolkit. Most of us were taught to compete, to defer to hierarchy, to manage disagreement by avoiding it.

Collaboration is a skill, and most of us were never explicitly taught it. Groundwork starts there, with the practical vocabulary and tools to surface the invisible dynamics that make or break a group's ability to work together: power, conflict, values, participatory decision-making.

From that foundation, the cultural change strategies arrive: narrative change, tipping point approaches, community design, co-creation and facilitation. Evidence-based, directly applicable to your context, and significantly more powerful with the collaboration foundation underneath them.

Your Cultural Change Blueprint: Specific to your context

Every participant builds their own Blueprint across the thirteen weeks. It is a living plan, added to layer by layer from your own work throughout the programme. By Week 13 it becomes the framework for the work that follows.

01 Your change story

A narrative that moves beyond the resistance you face and points toward what's possible

02 Your tipping point map

Who to gather in your context, what ties to build, and how to create the committed cluster that makes change irreversible

03 Your mental models toolkit

The ability to map invisible thought patterns blocking change and a method for beginning to shift them

04 Your community framework

A structure for organising a purpose-driven group that shows up, builds skills, and commits over time to enable new norms to emerge

05 Your theory of change

Co-created and built to iterate as you learn and grow: a living account of how your work creates the change you're working toward

06 Your 90-day action pathway

Concrete, grounded next steps that turn intention into momentum, specific enough to act on the day you leave

SIX MONTHS

How the programme unfolds

Thirteen two-hour sessions, every fortnight, with guided work and peer groups between sessions. Each session builds on the last and adds a layer to your Blueprint. Co-creation is at the heart of everything.

  • 1 | Finding and Living Our Story as Changemakers

    As a cohort, we establish ourselves as a group and co-create our working agreement. We each map where our mental models about change came from and draws our first scenario map.

    2 | Power Over and Power With

    We’ll develop the ability to identify power dynamics in any group, exploring comfort zones and why we freeze or default to hierarchy.

    3 | From Conflict to Tension

    We’ll explore how to transform friction into something generative, and the difference between conflict that damages and tension that produces something new. We’ll practice deep listening as one tool within a broader practice of making disagreement useful.

    4 | Values, Boundaries and Triggers

    The emotional vocabulary of change work. Building the language to understand your own reactions so you can understand others' with genuine curiosity.

    5 | Participatory Decision Making

    A practical toolkit for making decisions collectively without defaulting to hierarchy or false consensus. We’ll look at consent-based methods, advice process, sociocratic approaches, practising on real decisions from your own contexts.

  • 6 | Find the Story, Deepened

    Real practice with the full Narrative Roadblock Map diagnostic. We’ll be using deep listening as the entry point, because you cannot accurately map someone else's narrative without first attending to their world.

    7 | Tipping Point, Deepened

    Building your actual Tipping Point People Map with specific names, specific relationships, and values alignment as the foundation. The people capable of stepping outside their comfort zone are your wide bridges.

  • 8 | Purpose, Goals and Theory of Change

    Distinguishing between purpose and goals, and beginning to build a theory of change that is honest about mechanism, not just aspiration.

    9 | Community Design

    The intentional practice of designing communities so their culture embodies the values of the work they exist to do. Roles, membership, and onboarding as cultural practices.

    10 | Productive Disagreement

    We’ll look at why false consensus is one of the most damaging dynamics in power-with spaces and explore frameworks for surfacing and working through disagreement in ways that build rather than fracture.

    11 | Co-Creation and Co-Design, Part 1

    We’ll examine the principles of designing with rather than for, working on real challenges within the cohort to use co-design methods in practice.

  • Week 12: Co-Creation and Co-Design, Part 2

    Facilitation is a craft! We’ll explore how we can hold space for emergence and manage the tension between structure and openness.

    Week 13: Blueprint Review, 90-Day Pathway and Close

    Co-Lab peer review of your Cultural Change Blueprint. A reviewed, sharpened plan and a clear, grounded next step you can take immediately. You leave with something real.

The work is long-term.
The beginning is now.

If you've read this far, you already know the change you're working toward is necessary. Groundwork gives you the foundations, the frameworks, and the company to move it forward with skill and with care.

Solidarity pricing available — if cost is a barrier, email us first: heather@togetherculture.com