Category: CEI Protocol Toolkit

This decision-making protocol is used when participants need to see immediate responses and make a collective decision. When consensus is difficult or too time-consuming, voting is an option for decision-making.

A collaborative learning process used to review an article or document so all participants leave with strong understanding. A strategy developed initially by Elliot Aronson in 1971 for use in multicultural classrooms.

This protocol demonstrates each participant's unique and vital contribution to the success of the group, initiative, or project.

This protocol is a fun way to demonstrate how a group builds a movement for change as it conducts its work. It builds upon a TED Talk to help participants feel shared leadership in something greater than themselves.

This protocol demonstrates how a group is building a shared leadership network to conduct its work. It is an example of how shared leadership and connections to each other contribute to the group's success.

This simple group protocol focuses on all participant's essential contributions and leadership. The tower of shared leadership represents how individual members contribute to the success of the whole.

A creative and interactive protocol that engages all members in shared leadership as they create a newspaper front page with headlines representing the vision for their work together.

This protocol helps participants see their unique role in making changes and improvements. It highlights that all types of participants bring value and leadership to collective decisions and initiatives.

Creating working agreements (sometimes called norms) is critical in building accountability and a foundation for a safe, collaborative, equitable space. This protocol provides a process a group can use to develop their mutually agreed-upon expectations fo

Square Circle Triangle is a self-reflection activity that allows participants to reflect on a meeting/session by identifying specific ideas/concepts that align with their thinking, essential points they want to remember, and remaining questions they might

Ultima Palabra (Last Word) is a self-reflection activity that allows groups to reflect and respond at the end of the meeting or session. It will enable the group to identify takeaways, build shared understanding, and increase connectedness.

This protocol provides a structure for examining data. It allows participants to reflect on and interpret data, share their observations, and make collective meaning. It leads to decision-making based on the data and protocol experience.

This protocol provides a structure for examining data. It allows participants to reflect on and interpret data, share their observations, and make collective meaning. It leads to decision-making based on the data and protocol experience.

The Circle Keeping protocol is ideal for deepening relationships, processing difficult experiences, and restoring groups, teams, and communities after a rupture. While it falls into the Transparency group, it also supports effective communication, capacit

A structured protocol that opens discussion and improves transparency within the group as they examine a challenging topic or concern, such as budgets or finances.

A structured protocol used to engage participants in exploring and discussing multiple exhibits or displays. It encourages transparency through shared information, active learning, collaboration, and reflection.

This protocol expands communication and understanding between participants as they collaboratively develop an illustration of what community engagement means to them. This protocol is also one that contributes to relationship-building.

In a group, teams are frequently asked to present information or practices. This protocol is appropriate after a team has presented information. It allows listeners to ask questions and get clarification on what was presented. It deepens communication bet

A protocol that allows for expanded communication by exploring questions and statements and engaging in collaborative discovery through discourse. (This protocol is adapted from AVID Press resources).