The First Impressions Exercise

Communities and their residents often have difficulty in developing an objective assessment of their strengths, limitations and opportunities, due to over familiarisation, fear of offending someone and the diversity of local perspectives.

The First Impressions Exercise provides a simple and inexpensive mechanism to gain valuable feedback and insights from a neutral source with no local vested interests. It is a simple tool to provide feedback to a community from a "first time" visitor by pairing up locations willing to visit each other.