Navigating the New World. Together
Basecamp Methodology is NewGeo's proven approach for bringing collective intelligence together around complex challenges.
The world needs guides; here's a way to become one.
Is it Time to Brave a New Way?
Are traditional strategies no longer yielding breakthrough results? In more and more situations, making progress now is not simply a matter of more or faster...but differently.
This is a methodology for leaving them behind.
How to Basecamp
The Basecamp Methodology is a proven approach for convening the mix that's been missing, surfacing the differences that make a difference, and discovering new paths forward. It is not a linear process; it is a looped practice of three distinct disciplines:
Build A Collective Intelligence
Build a Cohort: To help you see more new things faster, convene a novel cohort of perspectives through tools like Blunt Stakeholder Mapping, a Big Question Canvas, and Unusual Suspects.
Ask Unsettling Questions: Notice and name Unsettling Questions with the biggest potential impact upon the status quo. Make plain the challenge you see and the things you don't know.
Find New Ways
See New Things: Surface and signpost tensions among your cohort to build richer perspectives toward the challenge you share.
Probe Deeper: Transform Questions into Invitations to explore uncertainties that have been seen and identified. Embark on investigations with those who have energy for them.
Shift Patterns
Adopt Insights: Share stories about "What happened?" Scale what's working and mutate lessons learned to serve your own context.
Begin Better Again: Redraft your original Map with the benefit of your enhanced perspective and collective understanding. Recognize the paradigm shift you've already achieved, and reframe the challenge you see.
When is the Right Time to Basecamp?
If you identify with one or more of these situations and you are ready to move past it, then Basecamp Methodology may help you do so:
You've begun to worry about what's in your blind spots—about opportunities and risks you might be missing.
You see no clear path forward, or no good options.
You feel that too much time, energy, and human potential is sucked into serving the status quo instead of serving a significant Purpose.
You're looking for a way that hasn't yet been found.
Benefits
Make better decisions—together
Not because one person has the answer, but because you’ve built a map no one could see alone.
Lead without knowing the way
Bravery becomes not a heroic act, but a shared norm.
Forge trust fast
When people see their perspective in the map, they commit to the journey.
Build your team’s capacity to think and act in complexity
So next time, the edge doesn’t feel like a crisis. It feels like home.
Harness collective intelligence
Bring diverse perspectives together to reveal blind spots, spark new insights, and co-create solutions no leader could see alone.
Surface blind spots and unblock tensions
Turn frustration into creative tension—and forward momentum.
How To Begin
Get the Book: How to Basecamp: Your Power to Convene is a practical manual to help you unlock the collective intelligence of your team, company, or community. It synthesizes lessons learned by dozens of skilled practitioners across hundreds of Basecamp journeys.
Get in Touch: Contact New Geo for information about the programme services available to you, ranging from co-design to complete custom programme delivery. We've assisted groups from 5 to 500, for an hour and for multiple years.
Field Notes
Traces from the frontier of thought
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