2026-07-09 –, The Seedbed
How do we tap into collective intelligence without relying solely on words? This participatory, 60-minute session offers something rare in technology-focused spaces: a liberatory invitation to step out of the head and into the body. Using the "Co-Oracle" methodology, this session treats collective, improvisational movement as a site of revelation. Participants will submit real questions they are holding—from their projects, their communities, or their practice—and the group will respond not with discussion, but with improvised movement to make the implicit explicit and surface unspoken truths and shared patterns.
This session represents a consolidated programming block that compresses three standalone concepts into a single, highly focused dynamic block. The structure shifts the room away from textual processing into somatic problem-solving:
Thinking With Our Bodies: An introduction to the Co-Oracle methodology and a short physical warm-up to prepare the group for collective movement (no prior movement experience required!).
Improvisational Rounds: Three rounds of participant-prompted improvisation where the group physically embodies the tensions, questions, and patterns of the community.
Sensemaking & Visual Synthesis: A closing group conversation to integrate what emerged from the physical simulation, supported by live visual scribing to map out the insights and translate physical expressions into an accessible knowledge wall.
Madelynn Martiniere is a facilitator, designer, and strategist specializing in collective innovation—the conditions and infrastructure that enable ecosystems to cultivate community resilience and tackle wicked problems together.
For almost two decades, she has worked across sectors and scales to build innovation ecosystems that center open access, community ownership, and collective power. Her portfolio spans the globe: co-designing an entrepreneurship hub for refugees in Uganda, leading development for a digital platform for sustainable fisheries in Latin America, facilitating data sovereignty initiatives toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and stewarding a global movement of founders and funders building businesses that balance profit and purpose.
A co-founder of Armillaria and former Executive Director of Zebras Unite, she has spent over 15 years bridging local practice with systems-level change—developing the social, organizational, financial, and technical infrastructure that enables communities to produce, govern, and share the technologies shaping our future.
She currently serves on the boards of Communitere International, which builds community resilience infrastructure in crisis and post-crisis contexts, and the Holochain Foundation, advancing peer-to-peer technology for community-owned digital infrastructure.
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