Positive Tipping Points Toolkit Public Launch

Following the publishing of the 2023 Global Tipping Points Report, a small collection of practitioners have been co-creating an open-source toolkit to help translate and apply the Positive Tipping Points framework for practical use in social and environmental change.

Join this free online event to get a guided tour through the toolkit, experience some of the tools in action, and learn about the ongoing support available for anyone who wants to use the toolkit in their work.

The Toolkit development has been led by the University of Exeter's Green Futures Network, in collaboration with a group of people working in different contexts from around the world. At the launch event you will hear stories from those who have been involved, and how they have been using the Toolkit in their specific contexts.

The Positive Tipping Points Toolkit helps us understand how complex systems change in practice, and how we can bring our intention and agency to create the conditions for transformation in social and environmental systems. Its goal is to make the cutting edge research into tipping points more accessible, relevant, and practical.

Read on for more details of how the Toolkit has been developed:

Illustration: Creating the Story Together, by Hannah Mumby

This illustration represents the importance of noticing which stories we might be telling about Positive Tipping Points, the importance of acknowledging how different stories are brought together, and the need to identify that there are other stories about tipping points out there that might be incorporating narratives that are harmful or that we feel are important to challenge or counter.

Illustration: The Only-Imagined Future, by Hannah Mumby

This illustration is inspired by the importance of holding space for the unknown. As a group embarking on this process and co-producing something together, we have held a sense of not knowing where the journey would lead, or what the end would be (if there is to be an end at all). In this uncertainty we emphasised the importance of holding each other in safety.

Illustration: Tending to What is Emerging, by Hannah Mumby

This illustration is based on the idea that, as we explore new ways of thinking, there is the need to be protective over emerging ideas and not open them up to scrutiny too hastily - there is a tension between being transparent and holding onto power by keeping something private. However, it is important to nurture and care for ideas in the beginning, when these ideas are vulnerable, so that they can take root. Having created the Toolkit we are now ready to share our ideas for wider collaboration.