Incarnational Innovation (i2) Accelerator

The Incarnational Innovation (i2) Accelerator is designed to help teams move from imagination to innovation, revolving around a specific challenge the team is trying to solve.

The accelerator dives into a variety of topics around creativity, divergent thinking, change management and more. It will change the way your team approaches problem solving (including how you brainstorm, communicate ideas, launch new initiatives, and more). It will also give your team a consistent, inclusive tools and strategies for each step of the i2 process when creating new or enhancing existing ministries into the future.

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.