==== AKIN Gathering ==== AKIN = Integrative [[Process Facilitation]] Working Group 16th December 2016 @ FoAM BXL Host: Luea Ritter\\ Participants: Ingrid Vranken, Stevie Wishart, Maja Kuzmanovic, Luea Ritter === Intentions and Questions === Morning: * Our individual aims, wishes and scales for this work ? * Clarifying how this working group is and wants to be part of our different work lives ? * What are the different threads within this working group and who holds engagement and commitment to which areas of focus Afternoon: * Systems Mapping * Tangible commitments and engagement for the coming time * Next steps {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/31651346456/}}\\ === The Work === In detail and //in progress// about our work with {{ :hosting:integrativeprocessfacilitation.pdf |Integrative Process Facilitation}} Why and how * Navigation skills in complexity * Process stewards with a long term vision (our own inquiry), with clear values and ethics * Inhabiting uncertainty and staying with the trouble * Moving from surviving to thriving * Lab approaches - prototyping how things could be otherwise * Including the subtle and cyclical threshold times (e.g. seasons) * Trans-local and trans-disciplinary work with the space in between silos (larger prototype for stystemic transition towards generative systems * Ambient/embodied foresight and futures literacy * Moving away from anthropocentrism and towards pan-psychism (everything around us has a sentience) Action research * Stewarding and supporting transitions (personal -> collective -> systemic) * Process facilitation part of larger iterative research programmes (developing long term relationships) * Bring systemic and whole systems approach into the mainstream (always on invitation) * Action research - long term deepening into collective transition (not just one-offs here and there) but connected to a larger inquiry * Developing our own research and writing methodology (games) Integrative facilitation * Our inner work supports our facilitation skills and approaches (the facilitator is an embodiment of the work) * Collaboration -> kinships (including building personal connections, doing + being) * Multisensory experience design * Joyful work, in the flow * Connected to nature * Celebration, fun, friendships and parties should be a part of the facilitation process Process facilitation for Multistakeholder networks * Inclusive, diverse, multistakeholder, unholy alliances engaged in discovery based strategy * diverse, transdisciplinary networks * Creating containers, conditions, frameworks: How can we use the potential that lays in diversity more fully and explicitly Economic sustainability * discerning, precise and long term relationship with partners * valuing our work * economically viable activities and structures The working group functions as a Peer learning environment * share knowledge and learn from each other * first internally, then possibly extend towards a "guild" - creating learning environments and capacity building for embodied practice of process facilitation for others * Apprenticeships (learning and assisting) * Strengthening individual practice through diverse approaches * A platform where we can learn from others as well as guide and coach * "witnessing" each other’s work (like a fly on the wall) Toolbox * Sharing and testing the tools of our crafts (from pens to process techniques) * creating a growing repository of techniques and methods * Combining techniques from a range of disciplines to provide opportunities for multiple ways of learning (including interaction between process facilitation and methods, strategies and composing techniques from music) //On the edge// //(members’ interests that might or might not be part of The Work when we clarify its scope and purpose)// * //Facilitated dinners with politicians, institutions and artists (Ingrid)// * //The Living Room, creating a space/place for connections (Ingrid)// * //Facilitated Oxford Society dinners with a speaker (Stevie)// * //Learning Village Andros (Luea)// * //The triangle: Futures, Experience design and Panpsychism (Maja)// {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/30877830463/}}\\ ---- === Systems map === Inner circle: AKIN - CORE (Committed are: Maja, Stevie, Ingrid and Luea): * Stewards and Fire Keepers of the AKIN * Committing to the Whole with Awareness and Clarity around Time Engagement, Resources… * Working on the Resource-Flow * Bringing in Contacts, Connections, … and weaving it * Holders of Governance Second circle: SHELL (...) involves people that: * Share the values and principles * Are not always present * Carry less responsibility for the Whole * Get asked/called regarding specific knowledge that would be needed at various points * People the Core knows and trusts * Can propose projects (NOTE: this circle might be too ambiguous. we might end up having only the core and the membrane) Outer working group circle: MEMBRANE/POOL: * Affiliates, associated members * Newcomers * Single Connection with people in the Core * Specific and new knowledge and skills (experts, specialists) * Get invited for shorter term and specific collaboration Existing wider networks: CURRENTS - people, organisations, initiatives within our existing networks\\ Potential networks: OCEAN - people with whom we don't have an established contact, but would like to involve\\ The CURRENTS and OCEAN are people who hold a question, inquiry or intention for a systemic shift. They are people whom AKIN can work with (beneficiaries) and people/entities who can support AKIN in developing The Work and achieving meaningful outcomes. * Partners * Clients * Funders * "Ambassadors" * ... {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/31687865825/}}\\ ---- === Next Steps === * Luea & Maja: transcribe notes and put them online * Ingrid: check out deadlines Horizon 2020 & NESTA **NEXT MEETING: 13/03 Whole Day** * Function & role of core + governance * 1 clear stream > clarify The Work * Next Actions and Steps ---- {{>http://www.flickr.com/photos/foam/30877831563/}}\\