COLLECTIVE CULTURE RIPPLE

Culture by Co-Design

Culture design isn’t a ‘top-down rollout.’ It’s a co-facilitated, co-designed bottom-up process that surfaces the real pain-points of your employees, maps the harm loops, and co-creates living, day to day rituals that stick. We replace slide decks with brave rooms, shared pens, and pacing that respects how humans (and nervous systems) actually change and thrive.

Overview

Duration:

12 weeks

Number of team members:

10-40

Format:

in-person/online/hybrid

SoCo Hatafu:

Emeli Paulo

Best for:

  • P&C, NGOs or DEI teams post-merger/post-crisis

  • Festival crews

  • Founders ready to share power

Not for Leaders who want a top-down values rollout or a one-off workshop.

Walk away with (deliverables):

Culture Map – A visual, plain-language synthesis of your current culture: strengths, pain-points, and harm loops.

Co-Created Rituals & Practices – Tangible, repeatable actions that embed new behaviours into daily work.

Behavioural Agreements – Team-written commitments that replace vague “values” with clear, lived standards.

90-Day Culture Prototypes – Low-risk experiments to test and refine new ways of working before scaling.

Leadership & Staff Integration Sessions – Brave-room facilitation to align decision-makers with frontline reality.

Measurement & Feedback Loop – Culturally safe indicators to track progress without weaponising data.

What you’re feeling:

  • Broken trust post-merger or crisis

  • Values posters ≠ lived behaviour

  • Inclusion feels tokenistic

  • Leader resistance or fatigue

  • Staff emotionally checked-out

Burnout is rising. DEI work has lost momentum. “Values” have become a whisper-net joke. Leadership wanted change - but without a roadmap, old patterns keep looping back.

What happens (agenda):

Culture Map – A visual, plain-language synthesis of your current culture: strengths, pain-points, and harm loops.

Co-Created Rituals & Practices – Tangible, repeatable actions that embed new behaviours into daily work.

Behavioural Agreements – Team-written commitments that replace vague “values” with clear, lived standards.

90-Day Culture Prototypes – Low-risk experiments to test and refine new ways of working before scaling.

Leadership & Staff Integration Sessions – Brave-room facilitation to align decision-makers with frontline reality.

Measurement & Feedback Loop – Culturally safe indicators to track progress without weaponising data.

“Staff finally believe our values mean something” — People & Culture Lead

“Staff finally believe our values mean something” — People & Culture Lead

“Staff didn’t just feel heard—they rewrote the playbook” — Director, Health & Human Services

“Staff didn’t just feel heard—they rewrote the playbook” — Director, Health & Human Services

“It all begins with an idea.” - Source

“It all begins with an idea.” - Source

All SoCo offerings are cross-checked against Tatak’s Entity Identity Framework to ensure every ritual, tool, and story we deliver is justice-centred, culturally safe, and lived not just promised. Learn more about the SoCo Collective x Tatak partnership here.