The experience is facilitated by innovation strategist Rachel Audigé, a certified facilitator of Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) and one of Australia’s leading practitioners in helping organisations challenge fixed thinking.

Rachel helps teams recognise cognitive fixedness, the assumptions and established patterns that can stop us seeing possibilities hiding in plain sight.

Rather than simply asking people to “think outside the box”, SIT does something more interesting:

It challenges us to think differently about what’s already inside it.
Working with real textile waste, constraints and limited resources, teams are challenged to stop seeing a discarded uniform as a uniform and start seeing the materials, components, functions and possibilities contained within it.

And that’s where the workshop becomes much bigger than waste.
If we can learn to see new possibilities in something we’ve already written off, what else might we be overlooking in our organisations?
For the planet, that shift in thinking is powerful too.
Because creating a circular economy isn’t only about finding better ways to dispose of things.

It’s about learning to see resources where we previously saw waste.