I don’t know if one can “marry” them, but including them as peers in the creative process is what a participatory approach is largely about. I’ll be writing a lot more about that, but it’s going to take a while to really answer your question.

There are some clues to be found in our topic modules, if you click on headings to reveal bullet points. Some are “together in a room,” group-scale practices, and some are longer-term, larger-scale practices.

Watching Sam Kaner’s video, linked in Part 2 of this series, could be one source of inspiration. See also Art of Hosting, what’s going on with Social Labs, the case studies of people applying a Positive Deviance approach, and… the list is long.

If you have the patience for a 45-minute conversation, Hannah and I expand on some of those ideas in the third installment of our interview series for the “Liminal Podcast” (and a bunch of links listed under the audio embed).