The Methods Manual outlines ‘better practice’ methods for community consultation and engagement in the planning and implementation of initiatives. It provides practical details of the community participatory processes, drawing on experiences throughout the Supportive Environments for Physical Activity trail in the South-East Queensland community of Eagleby and Public Health initiatives across Queensland. It presents targeting adults, young people and people of diverse backgrounds. Each method is divided into seven categories: purpose, features, budgeting, the step-by-step process, key roles, relationship to Supportive Environments for Active Living and further information.
The Methods Manual can be accessed here:

• Introduction and Quick Reference to Methods
• Community Capacity Building
  • Method 1: Community Accountability Group
  • Method 2: Local Research Team
• Participatory Action Research
  • Method 3: Facilitation and Recording
  • Method 4: The Lump and Split Categorisation Process
  • Method 5: Mind Maps
  • Method 6: Skills Register
  • Method 7: The SpeakOut
  • Method 8: The Stakeholders Workshop
  • Method 9: Search Conference
  • Method 10: Nominal Group Technique
  • Method 11: Affinity Diagram Exercise
  • Method 12: Creative Visualisation and Community Visioning
  • Method 13: Appreciative Inquiry
  • Method 14: Reconnecting Ceremony
  • Method 15: FINDinG OUT Technique
• Methods Targeting Young People
  • Method 16: Food Modelling
  • Method 17: Barefoot Mapping
  • Method 18: A Week with a Camera
• Accessing Environmental Issues
  • Method 19: Face-to-Face interviewing of Users of Spaces
  • Method 20: Observing users of Spaces
  • Method 21: Surveys
  • Method 22: Focus Groups
  • Method 23: The Sharing Circle
  • Method 24: Static Display Interaction
  • Method 25: Roving Billboards
  • Method 26: Community Design Workshop
• Celebration
  • Method 27: Preparing for a Community Celebration
  • Method 28: Community Celebration
  • Method 29: The Story
• Appendices
  • Partnership Agreement
  • Developing Community Accountability Group Guidelines
  • Equitable Process for Recruiting Local Research Team
  • Training Manual/Facilitators and Recorders
  • The Wheel of Participation
  • The SpeakOut: A Manual for Organisers
  • NHMRC Natyional Statement on Ethical Conduct in Reearch involving Humans
  • Reconnecting Ceremony