Incarnational Innovation Accelerator

The Incarnational Innovation (i2) Accelerator is designed to help church teams spark the creativity needed for today’s ministry environment.

Ministry in the 21st century requires creativity and the ability to try new things. In this facilitated journey, your church will engage in a process that will change the way your team approaches problem solving. The I2 Cohort will show you how to move from ideas to innovation. Learn how to effectively brainstorm, communicate ideas, launch new initiatives, and more. Take your ministry to a new level as you tackle your challenges with energy and imagination.

What you can expect:

• Interactive teaching on the principles of design thinking applied to the ministry context
• Tools and practices for more robust ideation 
• Group workshopping to apply the skills and tools to the problem you are trying to solve
• Feedback loops to refine ideas and experiments

What is the i2 Process?

The i2 process was founded upon Design Thinking methodology, that has been adapted to be rooted theologically and practically for the Church to use for problem-solving and innovation. Each step of the process is filled with tools and methods for teams to apply to their design challenge. Each team must come in with a design challenge, which is either: an idea of a problem they are trying to solve, a ministry they are trying to develop or make better, or a product or service they want to create.

How is the Accelerator structured?

• Week 1: Introduction – hone in on specifics of the design challenge and target audience
• Week 2: Group workshop
• Week 3: Embracing Empathy
• Week 4: Group workshop
• Week 5: Defining your Data
• Week 6: Group workshop
• Week 7: Recovering True Ideation
• Week 8: Group workshop
• Week 9: Refining, Clarifying & Funneling Ideas Week 10: Group workshop
• Week 11: Discovering How to Prototype Part 1 Week 12: Group workshop
• Week 13: Discovering How to Prototype Part 2 Week 14: Group workshop
• Week 15: Testing & Feedback Loops Week 16: Group workshop
• Week 17: Refine
• Week 18: Group workshop
• Week 19: Final Presentation

*The length of the Accelerator can be amended to a certain extent to meet your team’s needs.

Additional coaching and in-person options are available, wherein a custom package would be agreed upon.

If you are interested in starting this process with your ministry team, please contact Mitch Marcello at Mitch.Marcello@FreshExpressionsUS.org.