This toolkit is to help explore and communicate the factors that will keep you engaged in your project, this involves personal motivations, types of outputs that excite you and the practical needs and ways of working that will help you to engage.

Suggested use of the toolkit

1. Place all the cards with the text facing up on the table.
2. Sort them in to their different categories (motivations, practical needs etc).
3. Individually, consider what your individual priority would be for each of the categories in order to encourage and feed your engagement with the project and the research process.
4. Choose one card per category that you feel represent your priorities. Use the black card to create your own answer if needed. You should have four cards, one from each category.
5. Turn the cards over and assemble your “Engaged Being”! Use sticky tape to connect the pieces together and form a body.
6. Take it in turns to introduce the rest of your project team to your “Engaged Being”. Explain their motivations, how they work, what outputs excite them, and what they practical needs assist this.

This tool can also be used on your own, to help you explore what keeps you engaged and excited in your work.