A method for collaboration, and the work that comes of it.
Dreaming together, helping each other.
InCoReS is a method built on three questions: what you want, what you need, and what you can give. Each one asks something different of you, and they are harder to answer than they look. Answered plainly, they give other people something to work with.
This research-based method was created by Rita Macedo Nóbrega, a Portuguese artist and facilitator, and first tested in 2017 at a festival in Porto organised by a group of local associations.
The three dimensions
Wants
What you would do if you could
Desire, not lack. Here a person or group names a direction, and goals and resources follow.
Needs
What you cannot supply yourself
Deliberately concrete: a need stated plainly is one someone else can meet. It points at livelihood and support.
Possibilities
What you can give
Your real capacity: skills, time, a van, an afternoon. Named, it becomes something the group can plan around.
The loop
The method moves in cycles, not stages. First the mapping, where each person and each group sets down their wants, needs and possibilities. Then the adaptations: the plans, workshops and collaborations the mapping actually calls for. Then improvement, where the group looks honestly at what happened and changes the thing itself. Then it goes round again, and what was learned in one place is replanted somewhere else and adapted to fit. Everything is a prototype, made to be improved.
Mapping
Adaptations
Improvement
Replanting
A conscious job & community support market
The hiring world asks what you have already done, and rewards whoever has had the smoothest run. InCoReS asks the three questions instead, and the answers describe a person in the present tense, in a form that can actually be matched. Your need is somebody’s possibility. Your possibility is somebody’s need. Your want is the reason either of you would bother. Paid work was always meant to come out of the method, though the 2020 programme that set this out was never funded and never ran.
Auras is building this as a conscious job & community support market. When it opens, you will publish what you are looking for alongside your own three answers, and anyone can reply with theirs. What comes back is not a ranked pile of CVs but a reciprocal match, scored in three directions at once: what they offer against what you need, what you offer against what they need, and whether your wants point the same way. Someone with nothing to put on a CV but a great deal to give finds a way in. It is the same market whether what is exchanged is a salary, a room for the winter, or an afternoon of help. That is Auras’ bet, not a claim the method makes.
Come and answer the three questions.
Auras is a living network for the spiritual community. The market is still being built, and the three questions open with the new version. You can arrive before it does: make your profile, find your people, help shape what this becomes. Joining is free.
Visit the original InCoReS project