For the purposes of this project, a pattern is a feature we believe shows up repeatedly in group processes that result in deepening, ...
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Here's a brainstorm list of potential patterns. The red ones haven't been added into this system yet, ...
Patterns listed by stages
Bouquet Patterns
Bloom Patterns
Sprout Patterns
Seed Patterns
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Each lists below names at least one pattern that doesn't yet have a card — the gray "ADD |pattern name|" entries. These lists are existing patterns' lists of related patterns.
Add Mystery at the Centre
... add an image for Rest and Action in Balance
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Building sufficient "down time" into group process tends to yield better results, and faster too! People use the alternate times for rest, reflection, integration, and ...Description
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Cards: Silence+related patterns, Silence, related patterns
Last Editor: Tree Bressen
... add an image for Opening and Welcome
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Add Celebration
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Following the energy is at the root of group facilitation, and the role of watching, guiding, and following the energy is key to a successful ...Description
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... add an image for Convergence and Divergence rhythm
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Inhale, exhale. The beat of opening and spreading in balance with the beat of closing and coming together. A thousand times, and in a thousand ...Description
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Add Measurement
Cards: Closing+related patterns, Closing, related patterns
Last Editor: Wagn Bot
Add Elicitation
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Creating a Container is how we create a context to manifest our intent by attending to factors such as emotional safety, individual difference, physical space, etc. ...Description
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... add an image for Opening and Welcome
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Cards: Invitation+related patterns, Invitation, related patterns
Last Editor: Wagn Bot
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... add an image for Convergence and Divergence rhythm
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Inhale, exhale. The beat of opening and spreading in balance with the beat of closing and coming together. A thousand times, and in a thousand ...Description
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... add an image for Naming
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To call out, to state directly what is perceived. Naming can function to "birth" things not yet recognized by the group, sometimes things that are ...Description
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Add Drilling Down
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Following the energy is at the root of group facilitation, and the role of watching, guiding, and following the energy is key to a successful ...Description
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... add an image for Invitation
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The Elements of Invitation (from MichaelHerman.com):- Audience (who will be invited, and how that list is assembled)
- Context (backstory to explain why
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Cards: Questions+related patterns, Questions, related patterns
Last Editor: Wagn Bot
... add an image for Arranging the Space
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Physical space (location and environment) have a significant impact on people’s experience, the functioning of an event and what can be accomplished in a room. ...Description
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Add Self-Organization
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What do your efforts yield? What is the record or result of the conversation, your collective memory? What do you hold in your hands when ...Description
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... add an image for Feedback
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Feedback is the offering and receiving of information that enables learning and adaptation.Description
Context The concept of Feedback comes from the field of cybernetics, where there are two kinds of feedback:- Positive (amplifying, reinforcing) feedback, which encourages
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Add Margin vs. Center
Cards: Space and Time Nooks+related patterns, Space and Time Nooks, related patterns
Last Editor: Dave Pollard
... add an image for Naming
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To call out, to state directly what is perceived. Naming can function to "birth" things not yet recognized by the group, sometimes things that are ...Description
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... add an image for Holding Dissonance and Difference
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The need to hold dissonance is a raison d'être for using a facilitator. It is the times when tensions are high and agreement seems far ...Description
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... add an image for Unity and Diversity
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Awareness of both Many and One at all times, and discernment as to which emphasis is needed in the moment to fulfill the purpose, knowing ...Description
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... add an image for Convergence and Divergence rhythm
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Inhale, exhale. The beat of opening and spreading in balance with the beat of closing and coming together. A thousand times, and in a thousand ...Description
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Add Drilling Down
Cards: Common Ground+related patterns, Common Ground, related patterns
Last Editor: Carol MacKinnon
Add Seeing Life Cycle of Event
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maybe not its own pattern, maybe part of depersonalization or something about bringing charge down HEART & DESCRIPTION empathizing CONTEXT people are stuck in their viewpoint and not able ...Examples
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Cards: Time Shifting+related patterns, Time Shifting, related patterns
Last Editor: Tree Bressen
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Choosing immediate action as a vehicle for accelerating experiential learning to provide a foundation for learning the appropriate theory and principles.Description
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. 
-- attributed (incorrectly) to Johann Wolfgang von ...Examples
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Add Minimalist Design & Intervention
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Clear instructions provide structure and a path to enable participants to find their own way to the intended goal.Description
Clear instructions allow everyone to know what to do It allows the time to be best spent: allows us to move smoothly into different processes Clear instructions ...Examples
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... add an image for Naming
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To call out, to state directly what is perceived. Naming can function to "birth" things not yet recognized by the group, sometimes things that are ...Description
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Oops! I tried more than the maximum number of times to render Convergence and Divergence rhythm, but then stopped, fearing infinity.
Cards: Keep it simple+related patterns, Keep it simple, related patterns
Last Editor: Daniel Lindenberger
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What is the “great” question that captures the essence of this?Description
Questions lead us to something new or unknown Change begins to happen the moment a question is asked Questions can direct the flow, they can also obstruct ...Examples
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Add Iteration
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Feedback is the offering and receiving of information that enables learning and adaptation.Description
Context The concept of Feedback comes from the field of cybernetics, where there are two kinds of feedback:- Positive (amplifying, reinforcing) feedback, which encourages
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Cards: Action Reflection Cycle+related patterns, Action Reflection Cycle, related patterns
Last Editor: Dave Pollard
... add an image for Gaia - Presence of Nature
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The presence of Nature helps us remember our place in things. We are one small part of a very large whole, always connected. ...Description
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Add Spirit
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We focus on the group, yet there are moments when something larger than the group is at work. When conditions--which are not always controllable or ...Description
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Add Multiple Intelligences
Cards: Ritual+related patterns, Ritual, related patterns
Last Editor: Tree Bressen
Add Ground Rules
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Context: The culture of a group has multiple forms
... - a intellectual purpose "reason" for being together.
- an emotional attractor
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... add an image for Holding Dissonance and Difference
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The need to hold dissonance is a raison d'être for using a facilitator. It is the times when tensions are high and agreement seems far ...Description
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... add an image for Cave Entrance
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Within the dark cave of our emotions exist feelings that need to be expressed and stories that need to be told. Only then can we ...Description
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... add an image for Shared Airtime
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Everyone has a piece of the truth. Find ways to invite sharing from all, not just the loudest. "Step up, step back."Description
Context: American culture tends to value product over process and most people are in a perpetual hurry. Together these run roughshod over many quiet ...Examples
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... add an image for Invitation
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The Elements of Invitation (from MichaelHerman.com):- Audience (who will be invited, and how that list is assembled)
- Context (backstory to explain why
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... add an image for Power of Place
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For many people, the power of "place" is a crucial determinant in the nature of group process that can happen within it. It is part ...Description
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... add an image for Light
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Light is a fundamental element that has both physical and spiritual attributes and meaning. Physically and metaphorically, light makes things visible - illuminating and manifestating ...Description
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... add an image for Beauty
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Beauty is a sensation or experience of one's heart opening which can catalyze or be accompanied by a sense of awe or an overwhelming love ...Description
Context: Beauty acts on both conscious and unconscious levels in its effect on groups. Including beauty when creating a container for an event, ...Examples
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... add an image for Safe Space for Truth-Telling
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Creating a group culture that facilitates individuals to name deep truths, thereby allowing the group to make better decisions. Sometimes it isn't safe or possible ...Description
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Cards: Creating a Container+related patterns, Creating a Container, related patterns
Last Editor: Tree Bressen
... add an image for Unity and Diversity
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Awareness of both Many and One at all times, and discernment as to which emphasis is needed in the moment to fulfill the purpose, knowing ...Description
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Oops! I tried more than the maximum number of times to render Opening and Welcome, but then stopped, fearing infinity.
... add an image for Closing
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A closing is part of the whole energy cycle of a group process it closes the time and space openned in the opening. It completes ...Description
Closing and Openings are bookends that sit on both ends of time together. Their are "big" opennings and "big" closing that book end large ...Examples
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... add an image for Harvesting
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What do your efforts yield? What is the record or result of the conversation, your collective memory? What do you hold in your hands when ...Description
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Add Groan Zone
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Keeping awareness of both, the key is in the balance. Groups that have it sustain life over time.Description
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... add an image for Emergence
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Between rigid structure and unproductive chaos, between numbing familiarity and paralyzing anxiety lies Emergence. The Emergence pattern functions as an alchemical retort: a container ...Description
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Awareness of both Many and One at all times, and discernment as to which emphasis is needed in the moment to fulfill the purpose, knowing ...Description
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Add Measurement
Oops! I tried more than the maximum number of times to render Naming, but then stopped, fearing infinity.
... add an image for Follow the Energy
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Following the energy is at the root of group facilitation, and the role of watching, guiding, and following the energy is key to a successful ...Description
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... add an image for Mirroring
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People's speech, writing, drawing, and other expressions are an offering, a gift, that needs to be received. Mirroring is a means to signal and enact ...Description
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Cards: Feedback+related patterns, Feedback, related patterns
Last Editor: Wagn Bot
... add an image for Clear Channel
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The capacity to serve the group's needs, with minimal distortion caused by internal disturbance. Arises from connection with Source or a wider perspective, ...Description
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The ongoing (often daily) activity one does to maintain connection with Source.Description
In conducting group conversations, the leader performs as an instrument. Like any other instrument, we need regular tune-ups. This nurturing attention supports us to be ...Examples
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Add Witnessing without Judgment
Cards: Neutral Attention Out+related patterns, Neutral Attention Out, related patterns
Last Editor: Tree Bressen
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Brainstorming is the free generation of ideas while suspending judgment/evaluation—with the purpose of significantly broadening the range of ideas/possibilities to explore/considerDescription
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A critical part of creative problem-solving is being able to suspend judgment, disbelief, preconceptions and premature conclusions. Suspension is about delaying/postponing evaluative assessment and convergence ...Description
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Between rigid structure and unproductive chaos, between numbing familiarity and paralyzing anxiety lies Emergence. The Emergence pattern functions as an alchemical retort: a container ...Description
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Add Open to Outcome
Add Acceptance of Limitations
Add Art as Evoker or Catalyst
Oops! I tried more than the maximum number of times to render Convergence and Divergence rhythm, but then stopped, fearing infinity.
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Spontaneous expression, within an explicit container, that welcomes chaos as part of creativity.Description
In music, a jam session is a collaboration that arises from familiarity with a particular genre while experimenting with style and details. It is a ...Examples
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Cards: Imagination and Creativity+related patterns, Imagination and Creativity, related patterns
Last Editor: Tree Bressen
Add Iteration
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The incubation of individual creativity and relationship-building occurs most effectively and fruitfully at the edges and in the folds of a group or community, where ...Description
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... add an image for Eating Together
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People gathering around a shared meal is one of the most ancient forms of community process. Sharing food together links us back to our pre-human ...Description
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... add an image for Enough but not too much
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Balance is a key theme running through the application of many other patterns, and a few in particular. It's the rhythm of the air breathing ...Description
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Cards: Rest and Action in Balance+related patterns, Rest and Action in Balance, related patterns
Last Editor: Tree Bressen
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The capacity to serve the group's needs, with minimal distortion caused by internal disturbance. Arises from connection with Source or a wider perspective, ...Description
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Add Good Faith Assumptions
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Reframing is changing a group's, or individuals', way of perceiving or representing a situation or issue, by introducing a different viewpoint for visualizing or appreciating, ...Description
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People's speech, writing, drawing, and other expressions are an offering, a gift, that needs to be received. Mirroring is a means to signal and enact ...Description
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Cards: Translation+related patterns, Translation, related patterns
Last Editor: Tree Bressen
... add an image for Creating a Culture
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Context: The culture of a group has multiple forms
... - a intellectual purpose "reason" for being together.
- an emotional attractor
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Add Art as Evoker or Catalyst
Cards: Storytelling+related patterns, Storytelling, related patterns
Last Editor: John Abbe
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The capacity to serve the group's needs, with minimal distortion caused by internal disturbance. Arises from connection with Source or a wider perspective, ...Description
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... add an image for Hologram
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“As above, so below” is one ancient expression for the tendency of phenomena to repeat at a variety of scales; in this case, between an ...Description
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A rich noticing, with delayed or suspended judgment. Witnessing, from a grounded inner place.Description
Neutral Attention Out means paying attention to what is happening in the room, from a relatively calm place inside. It involves watching, listening, awareness . ...Examples
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... add an image for Personal Responsibility
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This pattern keeps the source of action present in the group. It combats the tendencies to blame, scapegoat, and otherwise place power outside ourselves. ...Description
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Add Setting Personal Intention
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The Accordion is the healthy dance between a whole group and subgroups that come together to make the whole, then split off, come back, ...Description
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Cards: Personal Practice+related patterns, Personal Practice, related patterns
Last Editor: John Abbe
Oops! I tried more than the maximum number of times to render Convergence and Divergence rhythm, but then stopped, fearing infinity.
... add an image for Imagination and Creativity
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To address the complex issues and challenges facing groups, we need the highest levels of imagination and creativity brought to bear on whatever the group ...Description
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Add Iteration
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Acting, presenting, making and creating in the moment, in response to the stimulus of one’s immediate environment and inner feelings.Description
“Of making and creating in the moment, and in response to the stimulus of one’s immediate environment and inner feelings” (Wikipedia) In a sense, all ...Examples
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Cards: Brainstorming+related patterns, Brainstorming, related patterns
Last Editor: Tree Bressen
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Reframing is changing a group's, or individuals', way of perceiving or representing a situation or issue, by introducing a different viewpoint for visualizing or appreciating, ...Description
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... add an image for Self Acceptance and Reassurance
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As a group gains first acceptance and then appreciation that even the challenging places are ok - that wherever ... (will finish today)Description
self-acceptance, this is normal and ok cheerleading normalization empathy compassion naming something as an archetypal dynamic comfort and reassurance just because it’s hard doesn’t mean ...Examples
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... add an image for Transparency
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Just as our personal relationships are invigorated and revitalized when truths are shared, so too do our group processes require honesty for their sustenance. Good ...Description
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Add Drilling Down
Cards: All grist for the mill+related patterns, All grist for the mill, related patterns
Last Editor: Dawn Smith
... add an image for Ritual
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Whether tacit or formal, rituals help us deepen into the task, reinforce group identity, and engage on more levels than just our minds. ??? something ...Description
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Add Iteration
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Between rigid structure and unproductive chaos, between numbing familiarity and paralyzing anxiety lies Emergence. The Emergence pattern functions as an alchemical retort: a container ...Description
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Add Art as Evoker or Catalyst
Cards: Embodiment+related patterns, Embodiment, related patterns
Last Editor: Daniel Lindenberger
Add Spirit
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For many people, the power of "place" is a crucial determinant in the nature of group process that can happen within it. It is part ...Description
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Light is a fundamental element that has both physical and spiritual attributes and meaning. Physically and metaphorically, light makes things visible - illuminating and manifestating ...Description
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... add an image for Beauty
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Beauty is a sensation or experience of one's heart opening which can catalyze or be accompanied by a sense of awe or an overwhelming love ...Description
Context: Beauty acts on both conscious and unconscious levels in its effect on groups. Including beauty when creating a container for an event, ...Examples
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Cards: Gaia - Presence of Nature+related patterns, Gaia - Presence of Nature, related patterns
Last Editor: Tree Bressen
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