Liz West

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waiting to step into a jumprope

ripe fruit falling

break just out of the oven

tree dropping its leaves

gymnast doing the horse/flip (complex gymnastics)

tennis player about to hit incoming ball

someone waiting to enter into the flow (less mechanical than but like a car mergingonto a highway)

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When is the right time to propose an idea, switch processes, end discussion, challenge someone to go deeper, or bring in an outside expert or facilitator? Sense the timing of things to swim with the flow, instead of against it. Be patient and alert for ripeness. When the time is right, act.

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Seasoned Timing points primarily to:

Divergence and Convergence Rhythm

Balance Process and Content

How Related

Don't to pull people together when they are in the midst of expressing their differences or creating. Likewise, don't ask for new ideas when people are Moving Toward Alignment. -- Tom

Take seriously people who resist a process; consider whether the group is ripe for it. -- Tom. It is by gathering feedback from the group that you discern what the season is. --Tree

In order to judge your timing, stay tuned to where the group is at. -- Tom

A major part of a facilitator's role and legitimacy as a Holder of Space is synchronizing the timing of interventions with the mood, interest, and energy of the group, rather than being arbitrary or rigid. -- Tom

If the group should clearly be focused on X, that is not the time to introduce Y! -- Tom ... Agree. -- Tree

the right timing for something can often be understood in relationship to the overall trajectory. --Sue

Other patterns Seasoned Timing also points to (secondarily):

Balance Structure and Flexibility

Dive In

Emergence

Letting Go

Guerrilla Facilitation

History and Context

Inquiry

Iteration

Nooks in Space and Time

Preparedness

Presence

Reflection-Action Cycle

Right Size Bite

Shared Leadership and Roles

Trust the Wisdom of the Group

Improvise

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Seasoned Timing+Balance Structure and Flexibility

Seasoned Timing+Dive In

Seasoned Timing+Emergence

Seasoned Timing+Guerrilla Facilitation

Seasoned Timing+History and Context

Seasoned Timing+Improvise

Seasoned Timing+Inquiry

Seasoned Timing+Iteration

Seasoned Timing+Letting Go

Seasoned Timing+Nooks in Space and Time

Seasoned Timing+Preparedness

Seasoned Timing+Presence

Seasoned Timing+Reflection-Action Cycle

Seasoned Timing+Right Size Bite

Seasoned Timing+Shared Leadership and Roles

Seasoned Timing+Trust the Wisdom of the Group

Patterns that point primarily back at Seasoned Timing

Divergence and Convergence Rhythm

Improvise

Naming

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Divergence and Convergence Rhythm+Seasoned Timing

Improvise+Seasoned Timing

Naming+Seasoned Timing

Other patterns that also point back at Seasoned Timing (reverse secondaries):

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Flow

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rhythm

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