Creative and Inclusive Spaces
The Principles of Collaborating Out Loud
The Principles of Collaborating Out Loud are a values-based framework for creating meaningful collaboration, social innovation and positive change. The principles encourage people and organisations to work openly, build trusted communities, embrace diverse perspectives, share power, act with generosity and kindness, and turn ideas into practical action. Rooted in co-production and fair exchange, they provide a foundation for creating inclusive spaces where lived experience, professional expertise and collective learning come together to drive change and strengthen communities.
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Fairer Health for All Leadership Gallery of Ideas and Tools
Fairer Health for All Leadership Approach is a collection of insights, tools and resources designed to help leaders rethink how they lead in order to tackle health inequalities and create a fairer future for all. Co-developed through conversations with people with lived experience and those working across health and care, the approach encourages leaders to think differently, build stronger relationships, share power, and place communities at the heart of decision-making. It provides practical resources to support inclusive, compassionate and community-centred leadership across Greater Manchester and beyond.
Landscape Reviews and Insight Packs
Below are the insights that we gathered across Greater Manchester and informed the Gallery of Ideas and tools that were developed.
FHFA System Landscape Review.pdf
FHFA Leadership Summary System Insights.pdf
FHFA Leadership Mapping Pack.pdf
FHFA Locality Insight Pack.pdf
FHFA Community and Citizen Insignts.pdf
Gallery of Ideas
Below are the different versions of the Gallery of Ideas as well as printable versions.
Gallery of Ideas.pdf
Opening the Archive.pdf
Powerful Prompts.pdf
How to Run the Gallery of Ideas.pdf
How to Run the Gallery of Ideas – Printable.pdf
Preparing to Hold the Gallery of Ideas.pdf
People’s Gallery of Ideas.pdf
Peopleu0027s Gallery of Ideas – Printable.pdf
Leadership Tools
A series of practical tools mapped to the Gallery of Ideas that help leaders explore and apply the ideas.
FHFA Imagineering experience.pdf
FHFA journalone pageversion.pdf
FHFA Tools Develop.pdf
FHFA Tools Feeling Safety Barriers.pdf
FHFA Tools Relating Power.pdf
FHFA Tools Seeing WhatisYour Opportunity for Change.pdf
FHFA Tools Thinking Pick Your Spot.pdf
FHFA The how designing leadership reflective questions tool.pdf
FHFA The time is now reflective questions tool.pdf
FHFA Tools Ways of feeling reflective question tools.pdf
FHFA ways of feeling safety barriers reflective questions tool.pdf
FHFA ways of relating islands of leadership reflective questions tool.pdf
FHFA Ways of relating reflective questions tool.pdf
FHFA ways of relating rethinking power reflective questions tool.pdf
FHFA ways of relating words shape what is possible reflective questions tool.pdf
FHFA Ways of seeing see beyond reflective questions tool.pdf
FHFA Ways of thinking reflective questions tool.pdf
Boards
Below are the print ready boards, if you want to run the Gallery of Ideas yourself then use these to get the boards printed. There are packs around Greater Manchester and please email hello@collaborateoutloud.org if you want to access one of these to run your event.
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 1.pdf
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 2THE TIME IS NOW.pdf
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 3 WAYS OF SEEING.pdf
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 4 WAYS OF THINKING.pdf
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 5 WAYS OF FEELING.pdf
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 6 SAFETY BARRIERS.pdf
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 7 WAYS OF RELATING.pdf
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 8 RETHINKING POWER.pdf
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 9 WORDS.pdf
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 10 CONNECTING.pdf
A1 FHFA peoples gallery of ideas cream background 11 THE HOW.pdf
Collaborative Mentoring Playbook
Facilitating a Collaborative Mentoring Process Playbook is a comprehensive guide for organisations, facilitators and leaders who want to design and deliver collaborative mentoring programmes. Packed with practical tools, workshop plans, communication templates, reflective activities and evaluation resources, it provides everything needed to create trust-based learning partnerships that promote inclusion, shared learning, equity and meaningful organisational change.
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Collaborative Mentoring Learning Journal
Collaborative Mentoring Journal is an interactive reflection and learning resource designed to strengthen collaborative mentoring relationships. Built around the five principles of Collaborating Out Loud, it features over 50 practical activities that encourage trust, empathy, inclusion, shared learning, generosity and creative action. Perfect for mentors, mentees and peer learning partnerships, the journal helps individuals turn conversations into meaningful insights, stronger connections and positive change.
Collaborative Mentoring Journal.pdf
Engaging Diverse Groups Virtually
Engaging with Diverse Groups Virtually is a practical workbook and resource pack designed to help facilitators, community leaders and organisations create inclusive, accessible and engaging online spaces. The resource provides guidance on planning and facilitating virtual events, addressing power dynamics and accessibility barriers, designing meaningful participation opportunities, and selecting appropriate digital tools and approaches. Combining reflective exercises, facilitation tips, practical checklists and curated resources, it supports people to build confidence in running virtual meetings, workshops and collaborative sessions that enable diverse voices to be heard and valued
COL Engaging with diverse groups virtually.pdf
Leading Communities of Purpose
Leading Communities of Purpose is a practical framework and development guide designed to help organisations, partnerships and networks create and sustain communities that come together around a shared purpose, challenge or area of interest. Drawing on community of practice theory and the Fairer Health for All principles, the resource provides tools, frameworks and reflective questions to support shared learning, collaboration, knowledge exchange and collective action. It helps groups establish strong foundations, build trust and belonging, create effective ways of working, and develop the conditions for long-term impact, innovation and system change across communities, organisations and sectors.
