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This activity helps groups to reflect on and think about shared experiences. The result will be a mutual understanding and will help to act in a coordinated way without losing time and energy with unproductive differences and conflicts. Every voice is being heard in this activity. At the same time it supports to look for insights and to find and shape new ways and directions. The process starts by looking at “What Happened” and discussing that. Then, those facts are being analysed with “So What” and finally it’s being discussed what follows with “Now What”. This helps eliminating most of the misunderstandings that otherwise fuel disagreements about how to proceed.

Mature Your Ideas can help you select the most promising ideas, by maturing and refining them. This method is a structured and a solution-oriented way to build on ideas that at first appear compelling after a brainstorming session. This method evaluates the strengths of the ideas and suggests solutions to the challenges that these ideas may have. This is similar to SWOT but not entirely the same.

Fish Bowl method is a dynamic alternative to classic discussion formats such as panel discussions. It includes small rounds of talks in major events and brings vitality as well as spontaneity in conventional activity and event formats.

SWOT and PESTEL facilitate the identification of external and internal factors that ought to be considered  when planning a project or an activity. These analytical tools can be used together  or  on an individual basis, but here as part of the co-creation toolkit, they will be presented  as a  group  activity  to  support  planning  of  strategy  and  action  and  making decisions. These activities can be successfully conducted online. If using flipchart, ensure it is within the reach of the web camera. Alternatively, explore the available options in the online communication platform to use co-creation tools in real time.