Facilitating individual and collective creative thinking is a practice that needs to learned through direct action with coaching. Some theory is helpful but cannot develop the skills alone. DIL will help develop the six key facilitator skills in the above diagram and also cultivate the following supportive capabilities:

• the antecedents and direction of a group
• the nature of the people and what brings them together
• the physical space in which the event is taking place
• the technologies and tools configuration in the space
• the way attention and space are interacting through time