NATURAL intelligence

HX + SYSTEMS + AI

Only with our natural intelligence will build the futures we want to live in…

Why

Tech breeds complexity and accelerates change. To ensure our human experience (HX) flourishes as we face a new paradigm, we need to hone our embodied, system-aware, and relational intelligences… alongside developing our technical capabilities and rosources.

How

We ignite natural intelligence through presencing,* reflecting, and rapid prototyping. Presencing recognizes that our inner condition influences our outer reality. We shift the interior place from where we operate so we can FEEL a future as it emerges.** Reflecting allows for deep consideration. We use bespoke models to view, listen to, and grasp systems as they are while we FORM opinions of what should be. Rapid prototyping permits real-world attempts, however rough, to FIND OUT how our innovations truly land, sense the future as it could be, informing how we invest time and resources in building.

Who

Natural intelligence is inborn for all of us–individual contributors, leaders, and teams alike may use and benefit from engaging NI. We just need the language and regular practices to apply NI in business and systems. We recognize that all systemic change happens in relationship. 

What

Use self-serve resources to activate your own and your team’s natural intelligence or chat with me on LinkedIn about facilitating natural intelligence with your group. We curate this Observe, Reflect, Act playground of activities from: design, agile, presencing, systems theory, and change management approaches.

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NATURAL intelligence

METHODS + ACTIVITIES

We believe all people are inherently good and every system has the potential to serve our highest needs. It's just a matter of finding out.

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OBSERVE

Discern challenges with human-centered, system-aware inquiry.

Frame the challenge

Feel the system

Self-serve activity

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Stretch Roulette activates Natural Intelligence in people & social bodies.

REFLECT

Evolve cross-functional self-awareness to spark emergent future possibilities.

Form an opinion

Ferment futures

Self-serve activity

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Normalize Silence to unlock creativity, decision quality, and divergent thinking.

ACT

Orchestrate the enterprise to share a common story, and make together.

Forge a solution

Find out and reapeat

Self-serve activity

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Estimate value to help the system realize it’s own worth in realtime.

Cases

Special Projects

State of UX in Hawaiʻi research report

Building community and finding our unique giftsOutcomesFirst, Thanks Shout out to Jennifer Kimura and Kat Duran, UXHI founders, for their vision and passion for the UX community in Hawaiʻi. Grateful to have worked with the fabulous designers and makers: Passiana Abe,...

Gratitude_x – How gift economy influences learner attitudes in a massive open online course

Abstract Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs have grown in membership and influence since their introduction at the beginning of the 21st century. Research on these courses and their communities has focused primarily on learning outcomes for participants and economic...

@2:50 daily insight experience

Everything works better again if you unplugg it for a bit...@2:50 Wheat paste poster campaign.Today, is consecutive day Visit: at250.orgTo maintain the human aspects...

Peculiar Produce – The Alphabet Book

Peculiar Produce presents opportunities to learn about uncommon foods and discover the names of children from different cultures. With its alliterative text and aspirational vocabulary, the book encourages discussion around variety in fruits and vegetables while...

Designers see the future – to find insights

Originally published at MassArt Design Innovation (updated here) Designers see the future, specifically when surfacing insights. Seeing the end is a multi-step process for the designer, forming wisdom from the body of research about midway. It's hard. I pace around...

How might we…?

Share your challenge with me on LinkedIn and let’s find out.