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Inviting Non-Human Stakeholders
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
Instructions
- Where
- transitionmakers.nl/tool/inviting-non-human-stakeholders — Transition Makers Toolbox, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0 per the Transition Makers footer; its badge links CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — variant unresolved, see source record
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Anke de Vrieze, Transition Makers Toolbox (IIS UvA); adapted from Re Imaginary — More-than-human perspective work
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