Here are some resources that we consider useful and come back to again and again. We hope you find inspirations through these texts, videos and images as well.
Our Palestine Statement
Our Free Palestine statement, of which we read out in all major events we run. The statement is revised and updated constantly, and we welcome other organiser to make use of the text if they find it helpful.
Principles for Working Together
The document we share will all of our collaborators, intended to work with kindness and consideration and to value the well-being of everyone involved in the collaboration.
Safeguarding Policy
The policy we adhere to with the goal of provide staff and volunteers, as well as children, young people and adults at risks, with the overarching principles that guide our approach to protection.
A Peer Learning Syllabus
Exploring everyday abolition in organisational practice - a workbook we co-built with Migrant in Culture, Unit 38, The Rights Collective and The Young Foundation
Healing Imaginations
This project by Centric Lab provides a time and space to think about healing. In time this space will turn into a robust digital library of healing practices rooted in Kinship and Solidarity with the Great Cosmic Energy and all Earthly siblings.
Decolonizing the Imagination
Offered as part of RISD’s Decolonial Teaching in Action program, Decolonizing the Imagination is a semester-long seminar for RISD faculty, librarians, and museum curators aimed at generating a space for studying, analyzing, and discussing some of the central questions of ‘decolonization’ and ‘decoloniality’, one of the fastest-growing debates in the humanities, the social sciences, and contemporary art and design practices.
Accountability Mapping
Transformative Justice (TJ) seeks to move away from punishment and toward accountability,  healing and transformation of the conditions that allowed violence to happen in the first place. All of this happens without reliance on the state.
Ideation — Transition Resource Circle
Part of TRC’s work is to challenge the assumptions at the heart of the dominant culture of late-stage capitalism, and it’s offspring, philanthropy.
How to … fail well
Owning and admitting openly to failure can be uncomfortable. But what do we mean by failure, and how can we change our perspective away from things ‘going wrong’ to think about what to do next?
Interrogating imagination infrastructure
This report asks what forms of ‘imagination infrastructure’ might help foster a critical, creative imagination to take us beyond existing social arrangements and open-up pathways beyond and outside the current polycrisis.
On Work | Interview with Jack Ky Tan
A series of conversations by Alessandra Cianetti (June 2022 – ongoing) with UK-based and international practitioners to learn, unlearn, gather and share knowledge to build safe and fair spaces for collective labour.
Healing Systems
How recognizing trauma in ourselves, other people, and the systems around us can open up new pathways to solving social problems.
Our Systems Change Frameworks
We at The Systems Sanctuary teach and train people who want to create the conditions for systemic change. We use many frameworks and tools to do this. Here are some of the frameworks we have created ourselves (along with a few favorites created by others).
The Zendesk Triple Diamond
It’s common to think of the user experience as the designers’ sole responsibility, but in reality there are many different points of influence. As designers, we don’t hold a monopoly on thinking about the humans who use and buy our software.
Resourcing Hope for Alternative Futures
This fourth essay in the series shines a light on funding and philanthropy and its role in supporting or suppressing how new possibilities emerge, evolve, and unfurl.