Power to Praxis is a space for reflective, justice-aligned practice. This page outlines what Power to Praxis is, what it includes, and how you can join workshops, practice circles, or pre-order the Reflection Cards and Companion Guide.
Power to Praxis is a growing ecosystem of tools, conversations, and workshops that help development and humanitarian practitioners turn critical reflection into everyday decisions, relationships, and designs.
Power to Praxis lives at the messy intersection of theory and practice. It is grounded in decolonial, feminist, queer and anti racist traditions, and shaped by years of work across the Pacific, Asia and Australia.
Power to Praxis includes
- Power to Praxis brings together:
- A reflection card deck and companion guidebook
- Ongoing Practice Circles
- In person and online workshops and training
- A longer term reflective practice program for teams and organisations
- A Substack newsletter that shares reflections, resources, and learning from the work
Each element can stand alone, but they are designed to work together as part of a wider reflective practice ecosystem.
Organisational, Programme, and Global Use
The Power to Praxis Reflection Cards and Companion Guide are primarily designed for individual practitioners. When they are used at organisational scale, however, they function differently.
In organisational, programme, or multi-country contexts, Power to Praxis often becomes part of shared learning, internal training, supervision, MEL, safeguarding, or organisational culture. It may be used repeatedly across teams, offices, and years. In these contexts, the value of the resource is collective and cumulative, not individual.
For this reason, organisational, programme, and global use requires a separate licence.
Licensing is not about restriction or control. It exists to ensure that the work is used with integrity, that its political and ethical intent is respected, and that the labour and lineage behind it are not quietly absorbed into institutional systems without accountability.
Licences are priced according to scale of use, taking into account:
- Whether the resource is used within a single organisation, programme, or across multiple countries
- The number of teams or offices involved
- Whether use is limited, piloted, or embedded organisation-wide
- The size and reach of the organisation, including large global INGOs
This approach is intended to be proportionate and fair. Smaller organisations are not asked to subsidise large institutions, and large global organisations are asked to contribute in line with the scale and longevity of their use.
If you are considering using Power to Praxis within an organisation, programme, regional portfolio, or across global offices, please contact hello@communitypoweredresponses.com We will discuss your context and identify the most appropriate licensing option.
Power to Praxis: Reflection Cards for Decolonial Design
The Power to Praxis Reflection Cards are a set of 54 prompts that support ethical reflection across the project cycle. Each prompt invites you to slow down and examine power, intention, participation, safety and accountability.
They are colour coded by project phase:
- 10 Pre-Engagement cards (Ochre)
- 10 Pre-Project cards (Pink)
- 10 Implementation cards (Blue)
- 10 Completion cards (Green)
- 10 Meta-Reflection cards (Purple)
- 4 Commitment cards (Orange)
The cards can be used by individuals, teams, rights holder organisations, facilitators, MEL staff and leaders. They are flexible and simple to use, yet grounded in deep political traditions.
The Power to Praxis Companion Guide sits alongside the deck. It offers:
- The political and theoretical grounding of reflexive praxis
- Guidance for facilitation, safety and cultural considerations
- Ways to translate the cards into team processes, coaching, meetings and learning cycles
- Tools such as the Self Locating Tool, community agreements and guidance on accountability
Together, the deck and guidebook help you integrate reflection into real decisions, not only retreats or training.
Presale Options
- Card deck
- Companion guide
- Deck plus guidebook bundle
- Discounts for multiple sets for teams and organisations
Power to Praxis Practice Circles
Practice Circles are monthly, facilitated spaces where practitioners bring a real question arising from their work – something complex, unfinished, or sitting just beneath the surface. Together, we explore these questions as a larger group of experts, drawing on our collective experience across community development, humanitarian response, and social inclusion practice.
Each circle centres the questions and support practitioners need in the moment. It is a place to slow down, think together, and hold complexity with care. The space is grounded, spacious, and relational, offering room for clarity, connection, and honest reflection.
These circles do not replace organisational responsibilities like coaching, line management, or reflective supervision. Instead, they fill a critical gap: a space for peer-supported reflection in systems that often move too quickly for practitioners to understand what they are navigating.
Inclusion work is demanding. It involves culture, trauma, community relationships, institutional pressures, and the emotional labour of supporting others. Aware, grounded, and supported practitioners are essential.
After each circle, I publish a short reflection or learning piece on the Power to Praxis Substack. This allows practitioners who could not attend to read, reflect, and continue learning alongside the community.
Practice Circles offer a place to reconnect with values, strengthen reflective skills, and learn in community. They are open to individuals, teams, rights holder organisations, and practitioners anywhere in the world.
Join the Power to Praxis Substack to receive regular newsletters, including registration details and Zoom links for the free Monthly Practice Circles.
The Power to Praxis Approach
Power to Praxis is built on a clear, accessible rhythm:
Pause → Notice → Make sense → Change → Repeat
It helps practitioners and teams move from reflection to action in ways that are ethical, grounded, and accountable to the communities they serve.
At the heart of the approach are:
- The Power to Praxis Cycle
- The Five Ps
- A set of reflective tools and commitments
Together, they form a simple but rigorous method for reflective, justice aligned practice.
The Power to Praxis Cycle
The Power to Praxis Cycle shows how teams move from noticing, to sense making, to changing how they work.
Phase 1: Grounding
See what is.
Slow down. Locate yourself. Name the assumptions, pressures, and values that are shaping your work.
Phase 2: Bridge
Make sense together.
Bring individual reflections into shared understanding. Notice patterns, tensions, and contradictions. Build a collective picture of what is really going on.
Phase 3: Method
Change how you work.
Translate insight into shifts in behaviour, relationships, processes, and decisions. Test small changes and embed what works.
At the centre sits Praxis, the ongoing rhythm of reflection, action, and accountability that keeps ethical practice alive. The cycle is designed to be returned to, not completed once.
Phase 4: Praxis
Reflection becomes rhythm. Teams build ongoing reflective practices into their work, such as regular check ins, learning reviews, or practice circles. Leadership structures are invited into the work, so that accountability does not sit only with individual practitioners.
This program can be shaped as a three month introductory cycle, a six month deepening cycle, or a twelve month transformational cycle, depending on what an organisation needs and can hold.
It is not a technical training. It is a slow, relational, politically grounded practice pathway that supports real change.
The Power to Praxis Cycle shows how teams move from noticing, to sense making, to changing how they work.
Power to Praxis Workshops
Alongside the longer term program, Power to Praxis is offered through tailored workshops.
Team and Program Workshops
These in house workshops are designed for program teams, country offices, MEL and safeguarding teams, inclusion and GEDSI teams, leadership groups, and partnerships. They can include:
- Grounding and self location sessions
- Structured reflective practice using the Power to Praxis cards
- Collective sense making using the Five Ps
- Application of insights to real program decisions, designs, or dilemmas
- Commitment practices that help teams carry learning back into daily work
Workshops can be run as stand alone sessions or as part of a broader Power to Praxis program.
Individual Practitioner Workshops
A small number of open workshops for individual practitioners are offered each year. These are designed for people whose organisations are not yet ready to invest in reflective practice, or who are working as independent consultants and practitioners.
These workshops introduce the Power to Praxis cards and approach in a supportive, carefully held space, and offer time to connect with others doing similar work.
Stay Connected
The best way to stay connected with Power to Praxis is through the Power to Praxis Substack. Subscribers receive:
- Announcements about presales for the Reflection Cards and Companion Guide
- Registration details and Zoom links for the free Monthly Practice Circles
- Reflections and learning pieces from practice
- Updates on upcoming workshops and program offerings
Contact
You can also contact Community Powered Responses to:
- Discuss a Power to Praxis program for your team or organisation
- Explore tailored workshops or reflective practice series
- Enquire about using the cards and guide within your own training or organisational processes
Power to Praxis is an invitation. To pause. To notice. To act with more honesty and care. To build practice that is accountable to communities and aligned with the futures we say we are working toward.
