Collective intelligence process for conferences

What do you do when you want people to step into an experience and also get the right amount of content in a given domain or topic?

What I learnt for myself as facilitator is that when you have short time (1.5hours) and your content is too concept dense it works great to get people into experiences and deliver small chunks of concepts as you dance and flow with them. Empowering people in each intervention and delivering what needs to be said. I am going to try to go into this process now.

A first piece for this is arquitecture, which refers here as the social space where people meet and how they meet.  A quick look into this is moving from normal boring conference style (straight lines looking to the front) into a beautiful circle where people may sense eachother and have a shared center.  Doing this transforms the space and opens it for wider possibilties. Its a place for experiencing collective wisdom as opposed to a place where one person delivers content.

I have observed that when the circle goes into some sort of collective experience of 'dance' 'songs' or some dynamic to share the physical, emotional, vital planes of being a field emerges, the energy in the room raises, the spirits  light up in the joy of being seen, greatful and open for entering a contained space for sharing and for creating more freedom together.
In a conference this can be done with a very simple dynamic/tool that may be short like a shared song a small dance a game or activity that involves this planes. There are many possibilities for bringing in the power of non verbal communication.

After this moment of reconnection and communion what I see natural is to keep moving into the intention for the emergence of collective intelligence.  I strongly believe that we can aspire to the descent of collective wisdom with a masterful facilitation, arquitecture and will from the individuals to get there.  There are many art processes that play with arquitectures to take from, like worldcafe, openspace and others for small group dialogues that enhance this possibility but when you are also interested in delivering a particular piece of content  then there is a combination in between facilitation and perfomance that is required.

One way to do this is by asking powerful questions for people to answer and from them  weave  the content you want to deliver. It sounds simple but it is not because people love to take the floor without checking where they are at, where they are speaking from (emotions, mind, feelings) why what they are saying is relevant to others and if it is building up for the collective outcome versus an individual need. People love to tell stories.

So its important to set some agreements to being able to set right conditions for listening and expression, honor the person speaking and empower them as they speak, being aware of the scarce time which is a shared resource and to empower the facilitator/performer to being able to go from point A to point B by dancing with peoples answers. I have observed this done masterfully and its really inspiring to see people being in an experience and still receive a download of content. Masterful people speak about Art and performance as they stand in front of an audience.