tools

The facilitator is there to manage a process

- not to be an expert, to demonstrate intentionally or otherwise exercise authority or influence over the outcome. To have a

light footprint

is a minimum, no footprint is the goal. Complex facilitation processes and methods are designed with this role in mind. To support this:

• The facilitator should not

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Perspective Shift:

1. Suffering doesn’t block awakening, it catalyzes it. Most people don’t begin their spiritual path because everything is fine. It’s suffering that cracks the surface of the self, but only when we turn toward it with open-heartedness and support does it become the doorway to transcendence. Trauma and revelation aren’t

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Distributing the decision-making, but not the authority, and doing something, that is taking action, increases the agency of those who are involved. Traditional approaches privilege the elite few and disenfranchise the rest. It helps if you can focus on how to create more stories like this and fewer like that.

The other method is to do some kind of network analysis. This is broadly the approach that ssb uses - here independent parties post "follow" messages which bring that peer into your network. https://www.stellar.org/ is anothe example of this approach. For a voting system, you could have each peer state who they accept the votes of, and discount... See more

Consider the clusters of a landscape and ask questions:

• Coherent homogeneity - Are we different but in a coherent way?


• Incoherent homogeneity - Are we all the same, dangerously so?


• Coherent heterogeneity - How much heterogeneity is needed to be resilient in the current context? To be coherent, are the different clusters overlapping? Understand at a

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Process

Rapid Coordination begins by inviting participants, one-by-one, to briefly share something they need help with, or a potential collaboration they’d like to explore with others. Encourage participants to use the following phrases:

• What I’m working on/ interested in exploring is...


• What I need is...