CLIPS serves as a reference model for diagnosing strengths and weaknesses in groups. Experience shows that projects with competent people and attention given to all 5 layers of CLIPS have a high possibility of succeeding in building sustainabile community. The methods presented can assist groups to analyse their projects using the CLIPS framework and various approaches. Diagnostic tools are meant for stocktaking, direction setting and to identify areas in which the group needs support.
These cards are produced by the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN Education), here contextualized to CLIPS. They can be used to map motivations for group members, to map skills and learning needs of group members and to search for a common intention for a group. A workshop of 1,5 hours.
A method to help groups orient their actions and understand their strengths and weaknesses using the Permaculture Principles in relation to the CLIPS model. The Assessment Tool cuts across all the CLIPS layers, and is a diagnostic tool that completes the Social Permaculture & CLIPS Method and should therefore be used after the Orientation Table in part 1).
We have developed a CLIPS-Self-Assessment-Tool to help groups to analyze their own group. It is a questionnaire
that can be found on the internet and completed online or on the computer. But the result of the questionnaire
doesn’t tell “the truth” about a project – this is important to bear in mind!
SWOT is used in CLIPS as a diagnostic method, to assess the state of a project – and realize new potentials. It is a known tool, used in both companies and organisations, when laying out strategies.
Feel free to contact us and share your own tools!