![]() ![]() After about 45 minutes, your group will have a shared sense of what you want to accomplish working together. We recommend trying the “Find True North” activity from the Clarify Your Goal section. Step Three: Identify the challenge you’re trying to solve (We also recommend that you have some snacks on hand.) All you need is a group of people, a space to meet, some pencils and paper, and a few hours of time. ![]() What follows are 5 quick steps you can do with a group to get started with using the CAT. Along with these updates, we heard from some toolkit users that they wished there was a simple quick-start guide to get them going with the toolkit. As a result of what we learned, we refreshed the visual style to improve the overall usability of the toolkit, and added a French-language translation to our English, Chinese, and Spanish editions. We spoke to and surveyed people to find out how we could further improve it, and potentially extend it into new languages. We used the CAT to build our team and create strategies for how we were going to work together, what kinds of programs/projects we wanted to work on and where we wanted to focus our work.” -Rochelle, educator in Myanmarīased on the input of people like Rochelle, we set out to do a revision of the CAT. “We started using the CAT because it was the first toolkit that was really made for local people who want to create change in their communities. For example: Point B, an organization in Myanmar, used the exercises in the toolkit to develop a curriculum for training the next generation of change makers in an emerging democracy: ![]() Thousands of problem solvers have downloaded the CAT in the last four years, and sent us valuable feedback about how it can be best used and potentially improved. The toolkit is part of frogCamp, our approach to sharing the processes that we use with our clients at frog, so that more people can have access to the tools we use to solve challenges every day in multidisciplinary teams. Groups can use and adapt these tools to solve problems, build new skills, and gain important knowledge to better support their needs. The Collective Action Toolkit (CAT), which was launched in 2012 and re-released in a revised edition today, provides a set of activities that enables groups of people to organize, build trust, and collaboratively create solutions for challenges impacting a company or a community. How do people from unique backgrounds come together with their different skills and perspectives to make change happen? We’ve heard stories from all over the world, and while there is no perfect way to make change happen, we know that having a shared process can help groups move in the right direction. Groups of people around the world get asked to try and solve all sorts of problems, both big and small. ![]()
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