Continuing the discussion from Forming a Moderation Team:
- Status: Workshop discussion ✓ Follow-up processing ✓ Collated and revised as text ✓ Jointly workshopped again ✓
- Still to do: Feedback and revision to support practical use with the whole OGM community
- "Making of" doc is here.
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1. Core Purpose: Connect the connectors to what they need to thrive
CONTEXT: In the context of ongoing learning and unlearning, resource flows
IF: We have created a ‘practice space’ BUT we and other stakeholders have other needs that are not yet satisfied
THEN: Connect the network-weavers and their stakeholders to the resources they need to thrive
2. Defining Characteristics: Maps of the landscape
CONTEXT: Many overlapping organisations and representatives of multiple stakeholder groups have come together…
IF: These individuals are to form a “ferment” that sustains their inquiry and engagement BUT they are at risk of being dissolved in broader cultural wash
THEN: Create loci for engagement and use them together to chart the complexity of the world outside and inside…
- Including the group’s developing collective wisdom →
- and specifically to Debug individual and joint activities →
3. Values: Practices of stewardship
CONTEXT: Having committed to stewardship of commons…
IF: The people involved aim for ‘harmonized diversity’ BUT are part of a culture with a broader ‘yin deficiency’ (and accordingly are still inclined to ‘yang’ out of habit)
THEN: Practices that achieve fun, elevation and a vibe are needed to establish qualities like trust, integrity, and alignment…
- Which develop collective wisdom →
- which is Needed to maintain cohesion →
4. Scope of Work: Debug individual and joint activities
CONTEXT: Within a distributed collaboration…
IF: Not everyone can contribute equally BUT there are lots of different tasks that need to be done to sustain the group
THEN: Develop explicit practices at different levels, in different kinds of spaces, in service to the group and in service to broader networks/wholes…
- Vitally including tooling whereby people can get better at these practices through ongoing learning and unlearning →
5. Participants: Maintain sufficient cohesion to generate value
CONTEXT: Within an economic/ecological system with vast inequality…
IF: On the one hand there are problems that affect everyone just about equally BUT there are resources that only some people have access to
THEN: Networks that pull together the various resources are a critical part of relating from the parts to the whole, which generates ‘value’ of various kinds (cf. the multiple capitals theory)…
- Whereby different people can learn from each other and unlearn habits →
- that harm wholeness Leading towards connecting the connectors →
6. Strategic Objectives: Ongoing learning (w/ a shared memory artifact) and unlearning
CONTEXT: Within individual engagement with a collective transformation process…
IF: Each individual has their own subjective experience of engagement BUT there are also objective features of success or quality (e.g., stakeholders need to ship products)
THEN: Measure ‘success’ in a way that takes on board both subjective and objective features, e.g., by asking whether the question was reframed, whether we have gained wisdom, whether we have achieved alignment (not necessarily consensus)…
- Leading towards connecting the connectors →
7. Key Operating Principles and Practices: Online with intention, and in the world with compassion
CONTEXT: In the context of the wider online ecosystem…
IF: We [[assume good intent]] among all participants BUT intermingling of themes nevertheless leads to the possibility of confusion
THEN: There’s a need for an ongoing conversation that can sort out complexities as they develop…
- Allowing the collective to develop their practices of stewardship →
- and to Build a map of the landscape →
8. Sustainability Model: Develop collective wisdom
CONTEXT: A voluntary collective that gets together for fun and that thinks it has something to offer to the outside world
IF: Volunteer participants don’t necessarily expect remuneration BUT their engagements begin to develop the potential to contribute financial value to some constituents
THEN: Develop a ‘steward ownership’ model that can build both inner and outer wealth…
- Needed to maintain sufficient cohesion to generate value of all kinds →
- as Measured by ongoing learning and unlearning →
- in the Process of debugging individual and joint activities →
Authors: @Jerry, @lovolution, @kenhomer, @Mila, @holtzermann17
