Ecological disasters, migrations, violence, inequalities. All happen as if democratic actors no longer succeed in regulating the evolutions in which they are caught. How to reinvent a new form of societal empowerment ? How to rebuild a collective intelligence in order to create an awakening, a call to action ? We are at historical crossroads with an unknown future for societal self-regulation and its responsibility for survival of life in all its forms. The methodology developed in the research « Citizen Intelligences » attempt to handle this challenge by promoting action instead of passivity through a heuristic model of collective action for the survival of local and global public space. Narrative intelligence allows the telling of unjust and destructive situations to create a reaction and an active involvement. It must be combined with the deconstructive intelligence which means dealing with the threats of the dominant thought process by removing one layer at the time. A group of people concerned with social justice and protection of life must then work together to build options in order to reallocate to all people the common components of life. That is called the prescriptive intelligence. This collective construction finally goes through the argumentative intelligence which enables us to present the arguments for our requirements and to deliberate democratically. The deployment of these four intelligences requires processes of popular education.