Facilitation

Creating solutions together

Co-creation is a deep dive into the essence of a question together with relevant stakeholders, creating space for a new solution or idea. Working together this way lets you solve a problem from multiple perspectives, and creates buy-in from those involved.

Co-creation can be used to design products and services, but also to create roadmaps or define partnerships and strategies.

Facilitated co-creation

Any complex challenge can benefit hugely from facilitated co-creation. As facilitator I guide the group through the process and activities. This allows participants to focus on the issues, opportunities and people involved.

Facilitated co-creation encourages stakeholders to let go of their individual interests and work towards a common outcome together. It is about creating value for all.

As facilitator I take care of the program and tools, all you have to do is provide the space and the people

Design thinking

I generally use design thinking as an approach when facilitating co-creation. Design thinking is an iterative, creative problem-solving process. It focusses on first seeking to understand the challenge from a human perspective, before moving into a solution.

The building blocks of the Design Thinking process (image: Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford)

Behaviour Change

To add depth to my skills as facilitator and the design thinking process, I completed a post-academic course in behaviour change. The science of behaviour change helps us understand why groups of people behave a certain way. It also provides us with techniques to steer behaviour in the direction we want.