Practical tools that bring organizations to life, restore focus and put people at the centre
The foundation for the organizational development work at GreenGardens® is the framework for Organizational Health – a whole-system perspective that brings together strategy, people and values, mission and vision, servant leadership, governance, operations, impact and the external environment, with the inherent value of people at the centre.
Alongside more traditional organizational tools used in strategic and organizational development work – such as SWOT analyses, strategy workshops, performance metrics and organizational restructuring initiatives – the tools presented below serve as a complement by focusing on the human and relational dynamics that often determine whether change efforts succeed or fail. They work with conversations, reflection, values and lived experience to surface underlying patterns that influence how people think, act and relate to one another.
What makes these tools distinctive is their combination of systemic thinking and existential reflection. Rather than focusing only on structures and outputs, they help individuals and teams reconnect their work with meaning, responsibility and shared purpose. In this way, organizational development becomes not only a technical process but also a human one – strengthening trust, awareness and the conditions for healthy and sustainable working relationships.
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The Health Game
The Quest for the Healthy Organization®: This interactive exercise helps teams visualize and understand the inner dynamics of the workplace. Using a game board, color-coded pieces, and reflection cards, participants explore key areas such as leadership, stress, engagement, health, workplace culture, and organizational change. Through guided dialogue and systems thinking, the game creates insight into patterns, causes, and connections - and supports concrete actions that strengthen collaboration, leadership, and a healthy, productive work environment.
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Health assessments
Understanding the situation of an organization is a prerequisite for being able to develop in the right direction. GreenGardens® uses Whole, a tool based on long research from Linköping University. In a trustworthy, transparent and multidimensional way, it reveals both the organization's strengths and weaknesses. Most important of all; the output generates specific actions. The result is followed by inspirational lectures and workshops, or, if necessary, processed in a more long term change process. READ MORE
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Natural Growth Forces
A framework built on six systemic principles drawn from how living systems grow: reciprocity, multiplication, energy transformation, sustainability, symbiosis and fruitfulness. These forces are most powerful when they work in harmony – each one reinforcing the others. Applied to organizations, the framework reveals why forced growth so often fails and helps leaders shift from controlling outcomes to cultivating the conditions under which teams, cultures and initiatives grow naturally.
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Healthy Conversations & Team Review
Healthy Conversations are regular, structured dialogues designed to address friction before it becomes embedded in the culture.
Team Reviews complement this by turning shared experience into shared learning – systematically evaluating collaboration to understand what worked, what didn't, and what changes next.
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Family-of-Origin Roles
A self-assessment tool based on the Minnesota Model that helps individuals identify relational patterns rooted in their family of origin – the Hero, the Rescuer, the Clown, the Scapegoat and the Invisible Child. It often creates immediate recognition and opens the door to deeper work on how these patterns shape behavior in both personal and professional life.
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Conversations that Matter
A series of guided conversations where colleagues reflect on what gives their work meaning, the values that shape how they act, and the existential dimensions of their experiences as people. The aim is to create space for deeper dialogue, strengthen trust within teams, and reconnect everyday work with what truly matters to individuals and the organisation.
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A.G.I.R.
A four-step process of inside-out transformation built on four values: Agape (Love), Grace, Integrity and Respect. Lasting organizational change grows from within. A.G.I.R. starts where real change begins – with the heart and character of the people who lead it.
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The Cognitive Discovery Process
A structured process based on cognitive behavioral therapy that reveals how emotions and automatic thoughts shape organizational behavior – turning insight into lasting change
