Our Toolkit
The Interplay team delivers tools and services that empower communities as active partners to assess and measurably improve their own wellbeing. Interplay has become a world leader in creating practical tools that communities can use to improve their wellbeing. These tools are underpinned by rigorous scientific methodology.
Creating a ‘Shared Space’
We place communities at the centre of our work, they become the designers, builders and evaluators of our wellbeing frameworks.
The shared space may include yarning circles, focus groups, and other structured conversations. Our approach is personal, adapted for all key groups.
Everyone collaborates in every stage, at every level. The outcome is to develop shared knowledge, understaning and create new ways of working together.
Bringing together Stories and Numbers
We work in a “shared space” with communities to understand peoples position, needs and values through stories.
We represent these stories in numerical data to quantify holistic wellbeing.
Aboriginal peoples’ values and knowledge are held in stories, and governments and other partners value evidence in numbers to measure impact. By bringing together stories and numbers, we are able to create a bridge. We use this data to understand wellbeing needs across different communities.
Codesign
Our unique codesign process enables Interplay to work with you to create innovative frameworks for monitoring and evaluation while ensuring that communities retain control of their own data and their wellbeing destinies.
Your ‘Story of Change’
Interplay’s ‘Story of Change’ tools enable us to work with you to design a wellbeing framework that is relevant to your priorities and goals. Our assessment tools enable us to work with you to identify the key activities required to drive the outcomes that will translate into measurable impact.
Interplay Mapping
We map our data holistically to create a visual tool that gives you and your community an easy to understand measure of community wellbeing. We call this Interplay Mapping.
The Interplay Map is a 'shared space' visual and statistical map of wellbeing. It helps communities and partners understand how different parts of a system interrelate and how to strengthen causal pathways for change.
Importantly, the Interplay model can evaluate programs while they’re ‘live’. This means that feedback and data is used to inform the design and improve the program while it is running.
Interplay maps work to build knowledge and strengthen practice for sustainable impact in communities. We can work with you to design an Interplay Map for your needs.
