A method for collaboration, and the work that comes of it.
Dreaming together, and helping one another.
InCoReS is a method of participatory research and action, through the arts. It starts with three questions: what you want, what you need, and what you can share. Those are your Wants, Needs and Possibilities. Answered honestly, they give other people something to work with.
The research started in 2010: sustainability, learning outside school, alternative currencies, Social Action, Human Diversity. Rita Macedo Nóbrega and the core team of the Festival da Primavera 2017 built the method with local associations, before, during and after the festival. Rita has kept developing it ever since.
The Process
The Process is made of self-reflection questions, of actions, and of what grows from them. It moves back and forth between you, your group, your place and the world. It looks simple, and goes as deep as each person lets it. The deeper you answer, the easier it is to see where things clash and where they fit. The deeper the Process, the greater the Progress!
The three starting dimensions
The Process invites you into a deep reflection, through three questions. Your answers are the base for everything that follows, so the more concrete they are, the better. Each question comes with a guide of topics to help you.
Sort the concrete details into: me and other People, Spaces I have or need, ideas, time.
Wants
What I’d do if there were no limitsIt all starts with the dream, and with each person sharing their idea in their group. Once the goals and the shared purpose are clear, you move on to resources.Needs
What I need to make it happenOne gap means several things to look for. People, know-how, materials, equipment, spaces, support, time. Aimed at the solution, a need finds an answer in the local community and in the InCoReS collective.Possibilities
What I have to shareWhat you can really offer: know-how, interests, talents, experience, time, space, materials, links to other people. You also say how you share it. After the first two questions, this becomes something the collective can count on.
The method
It works in cycles, with stages guided and shaped together as you go.
The method is a guide, built to fit the People, Projects, Spaces and Events taking part. It’s there to make the work land wider, pushed along by the InCoReS network, which keeps growing.
People · Projects · Spaces · Events
InCoReS happens in the relationships between these four. A project may need people. A person may be looking for a project. A space can host something being made. An event can bring it all together.
People
Anyone who creates, joins in, learns, teaches, guides, supports and collaborates.
Projects
Ideas, research, art being made, workshops, residencies, shows and other kinds of action.
Spaces
Places where the processes can happen: physical, cultural, educational, community, urban or rural.
Events
Moments to meet, show, share, celebrate and keep going.
A conscious job & community support market
The hiring world asks what you’ve already done, and rewards whoever has the most visible track record. InCoReS asks three questions instead, and the answers describe a person in the present, with all their diversity, in a way that can meet compatible people. Your Need is someone’s Possibility. Your Possibility is someone’s Need. Your Want is the reason either of you would bother. Since 2020, InCoReS has been moving towards a paid-work system, testing funding routes and giving visibility to the network of professionals who also work with the method.
In 2025, Auras started its own process, and the two turned out to be heading the same way: hence the expansion you see today. Auras is building this market. You post your three answers, with the app’s suggestions to help, and anyone can reply with theirs. What comes back is not a pile of CVs, it’s a reciprocal match, weighed in three directions at once. It’s the same market whether what’s exchanged is a salary, a room for the winter or an afternoon of help. Auras and InCoReS work for the same dream, digital and material.
Could this process make our most complex challenges simpler?
Come answer the three questions.
Auras is a living network for the spiritual community. You can co-create: make your profile, find your people, help shape what this becomes. And if you leave feedback, even better.
Joining is free.