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Training Stephen Boucher School of Collective Intelligence

Tailor-made processes to boost collective intelligence and creativity

You are tired of "business as usual" and the notion that “there is no alternative"? Our tailored advice, workshops and processes, rooted in the science of creativity and collective intelligence, equip you to boost collective intelligence and creativity, innovate and make better decisions. Our services are organized around three priorities.

  • Reimagine

    desirable futures

    We enable you to envision and create desirable futures that reflect your deepest values and ambitions.

  • Reframe

    public agendas and discourse

    We help you shape public agendas and influence public discourse to set positive narratives and promote constructive and inclusive dialogue, away from antagonistic frames.

  • Reinvent

    public governance and policies

    We help you develop innovative novel policy solutions and governance models that enhance impact, greater trust and collaboration in public policy and administration.

Key services

  • Visioning, scenario planning and training

    • Visioning and scenario planning

    • Inclusive, empathetic and emotionally intelligent community engagement

    • Developing bold democratic innovations

    • Documenting and sharing inspirational governance practices and public policies

    • Capacity building in Collective Intelligence, creativity and collaborative leadership

  • Analysis of frames and development of creative narratives

    • Critical analysis of framing; that is to say, the way in which a problem or a public policy issue is formulated

    • Creative narrative change

    • Narrative-based community organizing

    • Creative advocacy

    • Depolarization strategies

    • Storytelling

  • Running deliberative processes and co creating policies

    • Design of collaborative workshops and deliberative democracy processes

    • Facilitation, moderation

    • Stakeholder management, mediation and conflict resolution

    • Systemic analysis and collaborative mapping

    • Co-creation, prototyping, and co-evaluation of policy solutions

Workshops

  • If you are an advocate of important change, but your ideas are being crowded out, let us empower you with new creative skills specifically designed for interest groups and lobbyists. We have trained and assisted dozens with our creative advocacy workshops, running from a few hours to a full week. You will learn new knowledge management approaches, apply ideation techniques and develop exciting new advocacy strategies.

  • Deep Democracy is a powerful facilitation method designed to foster inclusive decision-making and resolve group conflicts by embracing diverse perspectives. It goes beyond traditional democratic approaches by encouraging all voices, especially minority opinions, to be heard and integrated. Through structured techniques like dialogue, role-playing, and consensus-building, Deep Democracy strengthens collaboration, innovation, and trust, making it ideal for organizations, teams, and communities striving for meaningful, sustainable solutions.

  • Unlock the power of Polarity Thinking to bridge divides in the public sphere. Polarity Mapping and Polarity Thinking are proven, dynamic methods that help organizations and communities harness opposing viewpoints, turning conflict and what seem like irreconcilable goals into collaboration and synergies. Embrace the tension!

  • Combining the best methodologies in class – Transformative Scenario Planning, backcasting, Deliberative Polling and Policy Labs – this is our game-changing approach to tackle the most complex policy challenges in the most inclusive and collectively intelligent fashion. It allows you to develop a clear vision and pathway for the future with relevant audiences.

  • Thanks to our core team’s expertise in branding, political communications, and creativity, we help political movements, parties and elected officials (re)find their mojo and unique selling point, through deep introspection as well as through quality dialogue with relevant supporters and contesters.

  • Get your ideas moving! Our level of creativity increases by up to 60% when we walk. Thanks to the WalkSprint, you will develop new solutions and create stronger bonds. You will discover how different walking rhythms encourage different creative states, how your environment can provoke random associations and fertile encounters, how movement encourages the decantation that leads to bright ideas, and how walking and being elsewhere help you concentrate better.

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