To approach complex issues, the Hub of Possibilities offers an ecosystemic facilitation framework. It brings together stakeholders – for example, from public administration, private enterprise and civil society – who are linked by a common need for change. By offering their different points of view on a situation and activating collective intelligence, they will bring about an innovative, collective solution to their problem.

Various facilitation tools and collective intelligence processes are used, such as Moreno action methods, Theory U and design thinking.

It’s an exploratory approach that follows a logic of prototyping and emergence. To avoid being blocked in their progress, imperfect solutions are quickly tested to check whether they are already “on the right track”, and to be able to adapt, in an agile way, what needs to be adapted.

There are 4 stages to the process:

• Clarification of the challenge or project, outline of objectives and identification of stakeholders
• Process identification: type of facilitation and invitation to stakeholders
• Collective intelligence workshops: definition of common intent, areas of tension, foresight and opening up possibilities.
• Follow-up and feedback: consolidation, prototyping

Interested? Would you like to find out more? Contact annick.wagner@hubdespossibles.org