What is the thing in plain language
A process of visual facilitation, helping groups find alignment and coherence through structured frameworks and collective articulation.
Offering: a selection of coherently related facilitation techniques already proven to work in the field.
Experimental: bespoke workshops tailored to teams activity field.
What you're going to do in the next 1-3 months if you get funded
All funding in 1-3 months goes towards personal subsistence - it would be nice to support the progenitors as they are charities.
Horizon 1: Introduce groups of remarkable people to the tools and methods we will be using as well as the relationships between methods.
Horizon 2: Determine where best to start with the group based on their informed consent and facilitate the first session.
Horizon 3: Determine subsequent process based on informed consent and guide the overall action plan towards integrity.
What does it look like long term (6 months, a year etc), mainly just answer the question of "how will we know if it worked/succeeded"
The group will feel a sense of collective agency and aligned co-hear-ence, holding together over the months, while working on their projects with integrity. Depending on the intensity of engagement, number of teams etc, it would be interesting to develop new methods, games and technology based on the underlying principals of frame - this would however need to be relevant to the teams and their sponsoring organizations.
What resources you need (money, skill, etc)
The teams playing should be viable, vital and leaning into evolutionary pathways that are loosely directed towards the good, true and beautiful. I would also need payment for my services, which are priced on a sliding scale dependent on the resources available but needs to meet an overall reserve that I'm happy to discuss privately.
Who else is working on this / whose attention would help this project / who might be a good person to review or endorse it
Core methodologies are held in trust by Future Stewards, originally developed by International Futures Forum and H3uni. These ecosystems would be good reviewers and endorsements, especially for review of new and novel methodologies based on the underlying principals. Other universities or organisations working in partnership with the teams would be good to have support from. Mentors and experts from the participants field of interest may also be relevant.
These methods are based in a deeper tradition than 'we just do a thing together', and so it would be interesting to have participatory action researchers in the field of psi phenomena, collective intelligence, cognition, consciousness studies, process science/philosophy etc. who would wish to contribute and pay close attention to the work (e.g. Matt Segal and Bonita Roy etc.).
While I'm aware of many facilitators, I've not met more than one who can justify their adaptive framing and frameworks upfront in a transparent and self consistent manner. This is of exceptional importance as frame is power - meaning that if a participant cannot sufficiently interpret the process on their own terms, it legitimately undermines their ability to consent to decisions made by either the facilitator or group.