PHASE 3: Imagine & Connect

Tool 11: How Might We Questions (HMW)

4 – 7
45 min
Flipchart, or whiteboard, post-its, markers

This tool helps the team translate their design intention into questions that open a field of possibilities. Starting from the values and needs identified in the challenge, participants explore how the desired quality could gradually emerge in the system.

Instead of searching for quick solutions, the team learns to ask questions that support a shift in patterns — not only isolated situations. The focus moves from “What should we do?” to “What do we want to grow?”

Well-formulated How Might We questions create a space where the regenerative potential of the challenge can be explored through different possible directions for action.