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Facilitating Emergence: Matrix Group Dialogue

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Facilitating Emergence: Matrix Group

Dialogue

Outcomes:

Understand what Matrix Group Dialogue is and what need it meets in today’s world.

Experience how emergence evolves, through participating in the process.

Have some take away tools to support implementation.

Inspiration

My current learning edge is around the nature of dynamic tensions – male/female, spirit/matter, being/doing, individual/collective, etc.

I am coming to believe that collective wisdom involves growing our capacity for being with difference while staying connected.

What shows up as conflict is often simply one aspect of a larger dynamic pattern. By welcoming that disturbance and understanding the nature of what it is in tension with, we can embrace the larger context from which to draw insights and answers.

–– Peggy Holman, author of Engaging Emergence, Turning Upheaval into Opportunity

Facilitating Emergence: Matrix

Group DialogueHow can we use Matrix tools and principles to help solve problems or address issues and territories in a complex, continually changing emergent world?

EMERGENCE: “The arising of novel and coherent structures, patterns and properties during the process of self-organization in complex systems.” – Prof. Jeffrey Goldstein

Matrix Group DialogueWhy Matrix? What’s the gap?

Theory U and the Change Lab (Reos Partners)

Chaordic Design

Open Space TechnologyHuman

Systems Dynamics

Appreciative Inquiry The Art of

Hosting

World Café

Deep Democracy

Matrix Group DialogueWhy Matrix? What’s the gap?

The possibility of communication between each pair of people in the open …

In the eyes & ears of the whole!

Keys to Emergent Wisdom

✺ Differentiating while staying in connection

✺ Distributing Roles and Fields

Beyond conflict & competition……to collaboration and connection through the enlivened differences between them.

Yields groups that move…

Providing the capacity for…

Emergent wisdom through interconnection.

Practices & PrinciplesUrgeMerge

Diverge

Emerge

Converge

Clarify Intention and Purpose

Form & maintain the Matrix– P2P, GofH, Feedback

– Differentiate distribute thru as many pairs as possible

– Delay solution/resolution

– Leave the comfortable & habitual / question assumptions

– Slow Down

– Surf the creative tension – stability vs creative chaos

Listen for the new future emerging– ideas, feelings, practices

Plan for implementation