Free downloads & resources

PDFs of a presentation that leads you through using the software (in two parts).

To use the software, you need to enable macros. It only works on a Mac if you are using the Parallels Windows operating system.

We recommend that you enter all of the felts from any one workshop / series of workshops with the same topic in the same spreadsheet, so you can  sort and analyse the results from across the felts.

Tool for simple capture of results

The Word Template does not allow for much analysis, but offers a quick way to capture a few key points.

We recommend you use the excel spreadsheet for most purposes instead of this template as it offers more capacity for analysing the spreadsheets and seeing the structure of the Ketso workspace.

The introductory slide show contains key messages for introducing Ketso.

Alternatively, you can download the PowerPoint presentations to introduce each of the workshop plans in the library below (the same slides, just adapted ready for that workshop plan).

There is a set of slides slide with images of Ketso in use in different contexts. You can select appropriate image/s from these to add to your introductory slide show, in order to demonstrate to your participants that Ketso has been used in context similar to theirs. This helps build credibility for the toolkit.

There is also a slide that simply has a blank template for filling in your own branches and leaf meanings.

To date we have translations of the introductory slides into Spanish and French.

We would be delighted to post more translations, if anyone has translated the slides, please share them with us!

You can print these checklists of kit contents to help you check your kit is ready for use. These are especially useful if you have more than one kit, or if you lend kits out to others – so they have a checklist of what should be in the kit before they return it to you. You may wish to laminate these checklists, so you can use the Ketso pens on them to check off the elements when the kit is packed.

The second sheet is a quick guide to using Ketso – giving a brief overview of key points.

Note: since spring 2019 we have shipped Ketso kits complete with these checklists.

Use this checklist to help you prepare for a workshop.

It includes practical details such as issues to consider with the venue and what to take to the workshop.

You can download and print this one page leaflet to introduce Ketso. Alternatively, if you have a large event and would like to give out flyers about Ketso, please contact us.

This workshop plan helps partners developing integrated health and social care approaches to forge new ways of working together.

This workshop can be used in an organisation to explore how to improve staff wellbeing (and enhance staff engagement), or can be used to explore ways to enhance wellbeing in a particular group (such as an ageing population), sector or area. The branches below are the New Economics Foundation’s Five Ways to Wellbeing.

There is an alternative set of branches in the slideshow, which may be more useful if you are doing a workshop looking at how different public sector agencies can work together to enhance wellbeing in an area (you need to choose one!).

This workshop is useful for forward planning at any stage in a business. For the start of a new enterprise, replace the question ‘What is working?’ with ‘What resources do we have?’.

This workshop can also be used as an exercise in enterprise skills training, possibly following the workshop – Develop an idea for enterprise.

This workshop focuses on growing a business.

This workshop gives a general pattern for developing a project idea. The branches below offer a good starting point for thinking about any project, and can be adapted to suit your context.

The branches below have a landscape / neighbourhood focus (and came from the founder of Ketso, Joanne’s PhD). They can be tweaked for a business / organisation.

This is useful for neighbourhood planning or developing new ideas for landscapes and spaces with community members and stakeholders. The branches are the same as for the Planning for Sustainability workshop, and came from the founder of Ketso, Joanne’s PhD into river basin planning.

A workshop for planning for emergencies and how to cope with them (example of coping with snow and ice in a community).

This workshop is designed to help a group plan an event.

If a review is carried out at the end of a project or programme, the branches might be the objectives of the project, or you could adapt the generic project planning branches below.

This workshop plan on developing a new product or service idea for an enterprise offers a slight variation on the Feedback & Discuss seed, with several stages of creative thinking to develop ideas.

The way this has been written is as a practical exercise in enterprise skills training, but this can be adapted for a team developing a new product idea or service.

This workshop can be used to inform neighbourhood planning and landscape character assessments. The branches can be added to and adapted to suit the local context. The centrepiece would include the actual place.

This workshop takes students through the process of structuring a university level essay, working on a current assignment topic. Ideally students will be sitting at tables with common essay titles that they are working on.

They include Joanne’s top hints for writing essays – which can be adapted to suit you purposes.

This workshop is useful at the start of a degree, to help students think through how to make the most of their time at university and think about their expectations (plus meet fellow students). It helps students think through what is expected of them, and what they can expect from the university.

It works best in the first few weeks in the first year.

Students develop their ideas for their dissertations, each working on their own project ideas, but sharing their ideas with the whole group.

Also useful for research teams to develop their early research thinking / come up with new proposals.

Planning stakeholder engagement in projects, thinking through who to engage with and why.