Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides approaches developed from the experience of Chantal Neve-Hanquet, having its roots in several principal sources of reference. It considers a prerequisite for building a safe frame and deriving benefits from the action techniques. A collective intelligence context is a kind of synchronisation, a form of osmosis that emerges within a group. Analogies would be a successful jazz improvisation, people together breaking into song, a spontaneous dance formation, or instances of how synchronisation among team sports players sets in motion a particular ‘frequency’ or ‘vibration’. Such synchronisation among persons can give rise to a collective experience and a joint creation representing a potential of a quite different order than the sum of the individuals forming the group.