Skills

Design and facilitation of participative and integrated processes. Governance model and collaborative process design. Coordination and preparation of awareness-raising, brainstorms and co-creation workshops. Development of common and integral visions. Use of creative problem-solving, serious games, collective and integrative decision-making methods (Disney Creative Strategy, Open Space, World Cafés, Photolanguages, …). Collaborative and agile management (dynamic governance, scrum and sociocracy).

Projects

  • Our Golders Green, London, town centre strategy collaborative development, London, UK, 2017 @ Fluid/Soundings
  • South Kilburn Masterplan Review, community engagement, London, UK, 2016 @ Fluid
  • Wood Green Future,  community engagement, London, UK, 2015-2016 @ Soundings
  • UCL-East Campus, community engagement, London, UK, 2015 @ Soundings
  • Clovelly Road Better Block, tactical urbanism, Sydney, Australia, 2013 @ COLOKi
  • Doloy, integrating a new eco-district spatially and socially, Tergnier, France, 2011 @ COLOKi
  • Bye Bikes, station’s square, Amersfoort, the Netherlands, 2011 @ COLOKi
  • Tlahuac*, participatory master plan for Tlahuac district, Mexico, Mexico, 2010 @ COLOKi
  • Plug & Play, urban park, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2010 @ dolte
  • V-markt, ecodistrict, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2010 @ dolte
  • Wilhelminahaven, waterfront, Schiedam, the Netherlands, 2009 @ ABL2
  • Bleizo, station area, Zoetermeer, the Netherlands, 2008 @ ABL2
  • Aviolanda, business park, Woensdrecht, the Netherlands, 2008 @ ABL2
  • Keramiek en Cultuur, industrial area, Delft, the Netherlands, 2007 @ ABL2
  • Blauw, industrial area, Delft, the Netherlands, 2007 @ ABL2
  • Faubourg Saint-Jean-Baptiste, main street, Québec city, Canada, 2006 @ FRP
  • Val-Morin revitalisé, shrinking city, Val-Morin, Canada, 2006 @ FRP
  • Volunteers’ motivation and contribution, Canada, 2006 @ FRP

Education

  • 2016 (2 days) | Agile Project Management | Academy of IT – with Prijanka Sharma, London, UK  |  Agile principles, scrum methodology, user stories and personas, backlog and sprint, kanban, project life cycle.
  • 2016 (2 days) | Planning for Real ®  | Accord Group – with Margaret Wilkinson, Birmingham, UK |  Community planning process based on a 3D model, allowing residents to register their views on a range of issues, to work together to identify priorities, and in partnership with local agencies go on to develop an action plan for change.
  • 2016 (3 days) | Art of Hosting | Art of Hosting  – with Linda Joy Mitchell | World Café, Open Space Technology and Chaordic Café,
  • 2013 (2½ days) | Sociocracy (Dynamic Governance): the basics | IDEOdynamic – with Fabien and Patricia Chabreuil, Paris, F | Introduction to human and efficient governance model : operation, 4 rules (consent, circles, double link, election without candidate), facilitation in a sociocratic way.
  • 2012  (3 days) | Facilitation and the facilitator posture | Formapart – with Jean-Philippe Poupard, Paris, France | Tools, techniques and methods to get good reflexes for a facilitator, to prepare collaborative processes and to facilitate groups’ work.
  • 2012 (2 days) | Collective Intelligence : how to let it emerge | ADN – with Marine Simon, Paris, France | Theory and collaborative tools : World Café, Open Space, Systemic Constellation, Visualisation and shared vision, Parallel reflexion.
  • 2012 (1 day) | Disney Creative Strategy | Centre Iris – with Brigitte Roujol, Paris, France | Shared work method facilitating an iterative way to go from ideas to action plans: 3 roles and scenarios.
  • 2012 (2 days) | Graphical Facilitation: the essentials | Formapart – with Roberta Faulhaber, Paris, France | Techniques to facilitate the apprehension of complex subjects thanks to a adapted visualisation.
  • 2012 (2 days) | Holacracy : the basics | IGI Partners – with Bernard Marie Chiquet, Paris, France | Approach, method and tools for a new governance model. Purpose of an organisation. Distribution of roles and accountabilities. Operating in semi-autonomous circles with links between circles. Facilitation of 3 kinds of meeting: strategy, governance and tensions sorting.
  • 2011 (3 months) | Community Development and Mapping | Colorado State University & Village Earth, online, USA | Approach of Community-Based Development and tools: participatory mapping…
  • 2010 (2 days) | Transition Towns training | TT Nederland | Nijmegen, the Netherlands | Awareness-making (petrol peak and climate change), integral approach (change process), methods (open space, world café, guided visualization, dragon dreaming…) and 12 recommended steps for the development of a Transition Town initiative at the scale of a village or a district.
  • 2005 – 2007 | Special Master MUES (Urban Management, Environment and Services) | ESSEC, Business School | Cergy-Pontoise, France | Diverse practical courses about housing, mobility and transports, economical de­velopment, commercial urbanism, democratic par­ticipation, urban renewal, urban marketing, projects financing, sustainable development, negotiation and contracts, urban planning law.