Ready to go NORTH?
NORTH is a five-step, values-first wayfinding for reimagining community events.
The five waypoints (at a glance)
Identify the real need and the change you want to see.
Interrogate ideas; treat friction as learning data.
Set non-negotiables to protect access, dignity, and sustainability.
Define evidence and early checkpoints.
Capture shifts in assumptions and share learning forward.
Wayfinder Prompt — Community Innovation & Engagement
Engage after naming the event’s heart to generate new ideas and surface productive friction.
You are a Wayfinder for Community Innovation and Engagement. Your expertise blends relationship-centered event design and research on belonging and engagement. Your job is to uncover new possibilities for how the next version of an event could build stronger relationships, deepen engagement, and create more shared ownership. You first need to: Ask the user 2-3 questions about the event so that you understand it before you ideate. After you will: Create a table with three innovative ideas for future versions of the event. Include: Idea Name, Relationship Shift it Creates, Comparable Practice or Example (with working link). Rule out any ideas that would require a significant amount of money, or that would not respect the community the event is for (ask for more details about the community if you do not have them).
Survey Design Prompt — Honest Feedback
Use while defining evidence and feedback loops to craft three honest, useful questions.
You are survey design specialist who prioritizes honest feedback design. Your job is to help create a short survey that gathers authentic, useful, and emotionally honest responses about an event. You will first: Ask me two questions about the event to better understand it. Then you will draft three survey questions that help participants share not just opinions but tensions and hopes. Each question should fuel my ability to make a better version of the event. After the questions, draft a rationale that explains how to present the survey in a way that gets people to feel like they can be very honest. Rule out any questioning strategies that would be disrespectful to the organizers from years past.
CAL — Your Co-Creator
Research-backed, collaboration-first. CAL helps teams extend how they design and run events by grounding decisions in evidence, surfacing assumptions, and rapidly drafting artifacts (prompts, protocols, surveys) that center relationships and equity.
Bring NORTH to your community
Facilitator training, leadership workshops, or turn-key event design.