Once the hub and facilitation team are in place, the next step is to design and employ place-specific versions of the four core facilitation processes. Each process corresponds to a key facilitator role and serves as a guiding structure for channelling energy into the Action Learning Journey (ALJ) intensive—the multi-stakeholder container for aligned, emergent action.

Enrolment: Aligning Energies Around Potential

• The hub and facilitator teams steward the process of inviting additional participants, ensuring that diverse capacities (roles) align with the vision of potential emerging through the ALJ.
• This is more than recruitment—it’s about intentional weaving of relationships, ensuring that each participant plays a meaningful part in realizing the system’s potential.

Ground-Potentializing: Managing Scope & Readiness

• This process ensures that expectations are balanced between on-the-ground realities and the larger vision.
• The hub and facilitation teams work to:
  • Define a clear focus for the ALJ.
  • Ensure alignment between approach and intended outcomes.
  • Engage external stakeholders whose interests connect to the envisioned outcomes.
• This step contains the ALJ scope, preventing it from becoming too diffuse while still allowing for emergence.

Action: Designing for Self-Organizing Emergence

• The facilitation team creates conditions for participants to engage in self-organizing action that leads to a tangible innovation, prototype, or intervention.
• This process is:
  • Informed by the unique place-based context and its dynamics.
  • Designed from a living systems paradigm, where the experience itself becomes the experiment.
  • Focused on embodiment and experiential learning—participants don’t just discuss, they enact and inhabit a potential system state in real time.
• The collective insights from this phase drive a precise, emergent intervention.

Evaluation: Making Flows of Energy Visible & Valued

• Rather than standard metrics, this process tracks how energy moves through the ALJ—what is activated, where value is created, and how it continues beyond the event.
• The facilitation team makes visible:
  • The new relationships, insights, and capacities formed.
  • The shifts in perspective or practice that emerge.
  • The regenerative potential seeded in the place.
• This ensures that the ALJ leaves a lasting imprint, not just in actions taken but in new ways of being and working that sustain beyond the event.