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Meeting sequence
Here is an architecture that can be used for most meetings when participants are willing to operate at higher consciousness levels, individually and collectively.
This sequence will support the emergence of collective consciousness?, which comes with:
Before the meeting, build agreements on which social architecture is going to be used and for what purpose: meeting schedule, agenda, methodology, ways to engage conversation, ways to deal with broken agreements. This phase will avoid participants enter into an endless discussion about what architecture they need or want (which would also need another architecture for this!). At this point it is suggested that the experienced facilitator is the one suggesting the appropriate architecture for the appropriate purpose. Once participants have used that architecture enough, they may rely on their experience to improve it during further meetings. During the meeting don't let undeclared decisions take over. Any broken agreement or undeclared behaviors should be discussed and reviews at the light of consciousness. The room should be welcoming and warm. People need to feel safe in it, it should be protected from external intrusion or possibility for external people to hear or see what happens inside. The room has to be turned into a sacred space? so that participants can be connected to what is sacred in themselves and in the responsibility they have in engaging with their peers. Flowers, incense, decoration are important. Then participants can get a clear sense of when they enter in this space, and when they exit to return to ordinary life. Meeting sequence1. Declare social architecture: the chosen social architecture is previously explained by the facilitator in the context of visible and invisible architectures. Participants can then understand, remember, or learn which social architecture is currently going to be used and for which purpose. This is presented as an agreement to be sealed between participants. Some participants may disagree with the proposed architecture. Depending on how strictly the current architecture needs to be held, participants may decide to leave the meeting, or improve some agreements that fit better their needs (wording, better distinctions or rituals...). Note: this should not turn into an endless discussion since most of the preparing work has been done before the meeting with the facilitator, and because the architecture is specifically made to empower the meeting and its participants. 2. Open sacred space: sacredness is not only visible in the physical space, but in the subjective and intersubjective space. It is also a context where people can be integral, free and authentic in their being (vital, emotional, mental, higher consciousness, and possibly reaching their soul's journey). 3. Salute:invent or use an existing ritual to salute, honor and invite the highest in everyone. 4. Begin with meditation: or declare a time for “silent centering” when participants are scared with what meditation may mean for themselves. Don't be scarce on this time because of external pressure such as time scarcity or usual “emergencies”. 5. Thread the beads: invite everyone to share and offer his/her individual context. It can be very short (2-3 sentences each) or open (each one takes the time he/she needs). 6. Appoint people to maintain the architecture live: facilitator (it can be a turning role), note taking, observer, time keeper, clerk... these are possible roles that a group may declare depending on its purpose. 7. Do the session: evolve within the chosen social architecture, stick to the original agreements or change them consciously. 8. Acknowledge: breakthroughs, thresholds and efforts that happened during the session should be declared and acknowledged as wealth and new possibilities for the group. 9. Conclude: invite people share their inner context again . What has evolved for them? How do they feel? What difficulties or challenge do they face now? Etc. 10. Salute and close the space: use a ritual for both salutation and closing the sacred space. The room should not be left in a mess, but as open and welcoming as it was before people entered in it.
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