Guidelines for Asset Mapping

You can carry out asset mapping in many different settings, with many different groups of people: such as your family, the local choir, your church, a village or even a football team.

Asset mapping is the time you spend together with your chosen group to find out what your group’s assets are. We all have gifts in abundance. Let us be positive in our outlook! Our cup is not half empty, it is half full. If we take a good look at our half full cup, we can identify our assets and God’s gifts to us. We can then use these to bless our churches, communities, and families.

IF YOU WANT TO CARRY OUT ASSET MAPPING MORE FORMALLY, YOU COULD FOLLOW THE SUGGESTIONS BELOW.

First, split into groups of around 6 to 10 people. Make sure everybody has multiple pieces of paper (the paper doesn’t have to be big, A6 is fine) and something to write with.

If you carry out asset mapping informally, say in your family, you can ask questions such as:

 What kind of knowledge and skills do we have within the family?

 Who does what in our family?

 Is there something that our family or one of the members in our family or household cares about in a special way?

 Whom do you relate to outside the family? Individuals, families, congregations, associations, institutions, society.

 What are our physical assets, what kind of land do we have; what could it be used for? Do we have any houses; what could they be used for? What other kinds of property do we have; what could it be used for?

 On what do we spend our money? How much money is it possible to save each week? How could we use this money?