In April 2025 a Ten Seed Technique (TST) exercise was carried out with the Writers Group, of which Chris is a member.   This was a brainstorming, scoring and ranking exercise, where the topic covered was ‘What makes a good story?’ See the link below to the results of this.

The TST itself is a fabulous Participatory Learning & Action (PLA) tool which can be effectively used in a community development or humanitarian setting.  It works particularly well in the needs analysis component of the project planning process to identify strengths and challenges facing a community.  The link to this development TST process can be found here.

The TST process is covered in Topic TC06 (of the same name) in the TorqAid accredited Participatory Disaster Risk Management (PDRM) program – see link below for latest online course (end July to mid November 2025)