The organizational triangle can be used in many ways and for many different scopes. Here it is proposed as a tool to check the status of the project at a […]

Conflicts, problems and tensions form a natural part of the life of a group project and we only have a few social tools to manage them in a positive way. […]

Throughout the Global Ecovillage Network, many people use Dragon Dreaming. At every annual GEN gathering, Dragon Dreaming workshops will be held. It is a widely used and cherished tool and […]

Process Work and Deep Democracy are terms often used or heard in ecovillage environments. Therefore, these schools of thought and practice have been included as sources in CLIPS, to better […]

A group needs practices for sharing.This is one that is widely used within the ecovillage movement and therefore a recommendation for each community group to experiment with – and find […]

Any group needs to set its boundaries in a transparent manner for members, both new and old, to be able to navigate more smoothly within the community. What is needed […]

Some groups establish car-sharing schemes, thus using common cars more effectively: having on average more passengers per ride, distributing ownership and maintenance costs, reducing the number of cars on the […]

Consent is an agile , efficient decision-making method. It brings a different way of relating to the proposals which are in the center to be decided upon, highlighting the importance […]

Before starting with their tasks team members meet in a circle and spenda few moments in silence, listening within, noticing how they are, connecting to the larger purpose of theirwork […]

Sharing an innovative toilet culture is a great opportunity for community building. The group needs to find answers to many questions: Who will create the system? Where to place it? […]

The main goal of this method is to use the Mat to learn about the clips model and to put it at the service of a group project. The Mat […]

Many of the challenges that a group project entails for each person are expressed in the individual layer. This method proposes a way for a positive understanding of these challenges, […]

Tensions can be seen as a piece of emergent information at a given time. A group project will go through situations with tension as part of a changing, growing, and […]

The term ‘Collegial Coaching’ is widely used in social enterprises to target issues of importance to one person for which this person seeks advice from their peers. The method has […]

A method to create working groups, know each other better, create synergy and evaluate the real strength of a group in the present time. A visual representation of human resources […]

Sociometry is often used in decision-making to get a clear picture of the current situation of the individuals within the community. It can support the decision-making process and is thus […]

This method aims at supporting groups to develop a meta-perspective about their group from a CLIPS perspective. A typical example of the use of this method is the first day […]

The Emotional Wheel is rooted in the culture of Native Americans and is a practical development of the talking stick (or pipe). It creates an intimate, special atmosphere for people […]

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 […]