exercise · all tools
Inviting Non-Human Stakeholders
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation2 — facilitator
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
Role-play that adds the missing chairs: participants embody non-human stakeholders — animals, rivers, trees, future ecosystems — inside a real case or project discussion, speaking their interests in first person so the more-than-human world is present when its fate is decided.
Practical
- Time
- 60-90 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Stakeholder cards
- Mechanisms
- perspective-taking, creative-expression, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Origin & where it lives
Anke de Vrieze, Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA); adapted from Re Imaginary — More-than-human perspective work
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Transition Makers Toolbox
Related: council of all beings (variant-of)
The workplace-safe door into Council of All Beings territory: same mechanism, project framing instead of ritual framing.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25