Imagine yourself in a garden. The sun shines light on you, birds are chirping, and blossoms blooming. You soak it all in, ready for some gardening action: to nurture the soil and plants around you. But as you get stuck in, something feels off – the tools and materials you are using do not actually support you in tending to the garden. Rather, they worsen its condition.
Most of us have experienced something similar in our work. We wish to do well, to create a thriving team environment, and to be intentional and purposeful in a project. Yet the available processes and practices seem to actually hinder more than help.
At Unity Effect, we have been experimenting from day one with what supports us, knowing about the challenges not only to “talk New Work”, but to embody a paradigm of true collaboration.
This led us to ask the following questions:
After countless hours of research, facilitation, supporting events, measuring impact and networking, we have now gathered all that we’ve learned and experienced in one place for you: Unity Effect’s Living Library.
The core intention of the Living Library is to support you in your daily work. The term “living” implies that the resources within it are relevant and up-to-date, and link to your specific tasks, ideas and goals. The term also implies that it’s not only about theoretical knowledge, but the practice of adjusting and using the resources, and bringing them to life through your work.
It’s also a response to two challenges we observed:
As such, we are not attempting to replace Wikipedia or existing knowledge databases. Rather, we have in mind and heart to provide meaningful support for you, and scan, create and share resources that we see fit for that purpose.
The content of the Living Library is structured around three major topics:
We have broken each major topic down further into subtopics. For example, in the case of Thriving Teams & Leaders:
For each of these topics, we created introductory factsheets, and resources such as toolboxes with methods, worksheets with exercises, and case studies with good practices.
Examples of our resources include:
Whether you are already working towards creating thriving teamwork yourself, or are completely new to these topics: we would like to support you in nurturing the garden surrounding you. Ready to dig in?
There are different ways you can engage with us, namely:
Or email us: info@unityeffect.net
We’d love to hear from you!
The Unity Effect team