The KUMI method is composed of nine steps, delivered over a period of a 3-5 day residential workshop. Each step is designed to build on the preceding steps, although the exact order of some of the steps may vary depending on the needs of each particular group.

The nine steps are:

1. Preparation,
2. Surfacing the Contradictions,
3. Understanding the Conflict’s History,
4. Re-framing the Conflict Narratives,
5. Generating Possible Futures,
6. Envisioning our Preferred Future,
7. Developing Strategies Towards our Future,
8. Planning for Action and Support and,
9. Implementation, Follow up, and Ongoing Evaluation.

This last step is open-ended and it links the 5-days residential workshop with the following 6-9 months of implementation.

Each step, and the method as a whole, is designed to achieve two types of objectives: a rational objective, which refers to the resolve of the group and its evolution towards a collective decision to act in order to change the status-quo, and an experiential objective, which refers to the cognitive change on the level of individual participants and the evolution of their identification of one another and their cohesion as a group.