Shift Bristol: Mapped Organisation's Evolution & Developed Advisory Board

Shift Bristol CIC is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company that provides affordable and accessible training to people wanting to create positive change in their lives, environment, communities and the planet.

It exists and thrives because it’s a growing network of dedicated tutors, practitioners, community projects/groups with over 300+ Shifty students from the last 12 years. This network allows Shift Bristol’s approach to teaching and design of course format to remain resilient and adaptable, alive and transitional.

As part of a change in leadership, Shift Bristol wanted to understand the potential resting within the organisation and transition into a more strategic approach in order to support the organisation’s evolution. They knew that this would help the organisation reach more people with its ground-breaking approach to creating positive change.

Most importantly, Shift Bristol wanted to ensure a collaborative approach to capturing its potential drawing on intelligence resting within its tutors and students. Using Earthself’s TreeMap, Shift Bristol, a small team explored the vision, potential within its ecosystem, key resource, necessary infrastructure as well as the strategy and tactics needed to help Shift Bristol realise it’s vision. The team also explored the impact that Shift Bristol could have through this.

Through this process, the team identified long held strategic objectives that were not fully realised along with key resource and infrastructure challenges that prevented the organisation from realising its vision.

Following this, Earthself continued to work with Shift Bristol to coach the organisation to overcome these challenges. It also supported the development of an Advisory Board through the creation of a seasonal cycle approach to receiving guidance and direction on how to continue to realise the organisation’s vision.