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A critical mass of diverse stakeholders working together helps the whole system adapt and learn more effectively. Spark transformative change by gathering a cross-section of the organization or community to coordinate visioning, innovate novel solutions, make more informed choices and motivate quick implementation.

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Whole System in the Room points primarily to:

Common Ground

History and Context

Inform the Group Mind

Invitation

Preparedness

Subgroup and Whole Group

Viewpoint Shift

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Naming the whole system as a Whole System brings that factor as a unifying common ground for the system's disparate parts, many of which still see themselves as separate. -- Tom

Usually the parts of the Whole System arrive in the Room with energies, gifts, conflicts, etc. that help it or interfere with it being (or becoming) more whole. Best to be aware of these. See also Group Culture. -- Tom

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You won't get WSR unless you have a really good invitation. --Tree
Getting the whole system in the room generally involves an excellent Invitation. -- wiki

Getting the Whole System in the Room requires planning and effort because so many factors serve to impede that. It seldom happens by itself. -- Tom

The Subgroups of the Whole System have their own functional and transformational needs and energies. Encouraging and enabling them to work on those -- in league with other Subgroups -- allows the system to become its new whole. -- Tom
Sometimes you want the whole system in a subgroup. -- wiki

When the parts see themselves as part of a Whole System, the other parts of which are also present in the Room, there is a valuable shift on consciousness away from alienated silos towards functional relationships. -- Tom ... You will have all these different viewpoints in the room, so the Viewpoint Shift pattern will help you work more effectively in the room and have more Viewpoint Shift in the encounter. -- Tree

Other patterns Whole System in the Room also points to (secondarily):

Getting the whole system in the room generally involves an excellent Invitation. Sometimes you want the whole system in a ...

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Whole System in the Room+All Grist for the Mill

Whole System in the Room+Celebrate

Whole System in the Room+Circle

Whole System in the Room+Emergence

Whole System in the Room+Experts on Tap

Whole System in the Room+Expressive Arts

Whole System in the Room+Follow the Energy

Whole System in the Room+Fractal

Whole System in the Room+Gaia

Whole System in the Room+Good Faith Assumptions

Whole System in the Room+Group Culture

Whole System in the Room+Holding Space

Whole System in the Room+Hosting

Whole System in the Room+Inquiry

Whole System in the Room+Magic

Whole System in the Room+Moving toward Alignment

Whole System in the Room+Opening and Welcome

Whole System in the Room+Power Shift

Whole System in the Room+Seeing the Forest, Seeing the Trees

Whole System in the Room+Setting Intention

Patterns that point primarily back at Whole System in the Room

Emergence

Experts on Tap

Fractal

Inform the Group Mind

Invitation

Magic

Shared Leadership and Roles

Trust the Wisdom of the Group

Value the Margins

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Other patterns that also point back at Whole System in the Room (reverse secondaries):

Appropriate Boundaries

Circle

Commitment

Feedback

Generate Possibilities

Go Deeper

Group Culture

History and Context

Mapping and Measurement

Opening and Welcome

Power Shift

Preparedness

Seeing the Forest, Seeing the Trees

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Mapping and Measurement+Whole System in the Room

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