ABSTRACT
The lateral project is managed by putting the energy of the players first and technique second - and doing this for the total lifetime of the project. Each day brings new actions and new events to react to, and one must then ‘lateralise the lateral project’. The project must be adapted in real time taking into account current conditions on the ground. The project is probably going to be ‘an event’ for the players. More precisely, a certain number of significant facts or ‘micro-events’ are going to make the event: the announcement of the nomination of the project leader, a press release from government, the launching of a report, the arrival of boxes left casually in a corridor. The most important moment for the project is the moment a player learns a fact. The mediation-revelation process should have identified the shortcomings in the project as regards the players’ needs in terms of desires and values.
