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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHi folks! Hi folks!I thought I\u2019d share a tool to design community and staff engagement activities. It’s called the \u201c6-dimensional enchanting event constructor\u201d.Here\u2019s the idea: I\u2019ve gradually become convinced that the #1 rule for successful community engagement is to be, well, engaging! In other words, to design initiatives that are buzzworthy, fun, game-like, social and tasty (as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facilitation-2","category-innovation-2","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pac6ss-DQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enablingchange.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enablingchange.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enablingchange.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enablingchange.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enablingchange.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enablingchange.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3686,"href":"https:\/\/www.enablingchange.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enablingchange.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enablingchange.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enablingchange.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I thought I\u2019d share a tool to design community and staff engagement activities. It’s called the \u201c6-dimensional enchanting event constructor\u201d.
Here\u2019s the idea: I\u2019ve gradually become convinced that the #1 rule for successful community engagement is to be, well, engaging! In other words, to design initiatives that are buzzworthy, fun, game-like, social and tasty (as well as important) – the kind of things we would want to \u201ccome and play\u201d with even if we weren\u2019t being paid.
When I see teams designing engagement projects under pressure, the first thing that tends to suffer is their ability to remember ideas they already know are engaging and fun. This seems like a small matter, but it effectively destroys their capacity for creativity, because creativity is all about mixing and matching existing ideas. As a result the solution is often just \u201canother workshop\u201d.
So this tool aims to be a memory-jogger. You can use it as a team activity, with pairs of people assembling alternatives then presenting them to the group.
(Use the attached PDF<\/a> which has instructions, not just the image above.)
Hope you find it useful.
Best wishes
– Les
P.S. This is version 1 – let me know if you can see any ways to improve it. Remember that it\u2019s not meant to contain EVERY possible idea, just enough to wake up our imaginations.
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