Great thanks for the feedback, sounds like there is a lack of clarity - I'm not sure how to edit the original document though. Any ideas?
In the meanwhile, I'll answer the questions above in this comment before further revision.
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> I feel like I'm not really getting what's being pitched. Team building activities? Group psychedelic experiences? Occult rituals?
Exoteric pitch: Group alignment through visual facilitation.
Mesoteric pitch: Democratic processes that use self consistent frameworks to enable the deepening collective intelligence.
Esoteric answer: Most facilitation is a faux democracy as participants do not usually have a reliable way of understanding the journey they are on, the frameworks the methods and systems they are in. As such, they cannot meaningfully question, let alone consent to decisions being made through such processes which ultimately undermine the notions of both democracy and agency. To remedy this, we provide a simple enough but self consistent symbolic framework with corresponding methodologies that are justified through their foundations in natural philosophy (science!) - if participants have deeply metaphysical questions, these can likely be addressed through self study. This enables informed consent to group activities and transparent decision practices - legitimate emancipatory structures!
Other articulations include: facilitation.joshafairhead.com (WIP also, happy to receive feedback)
And the material established at: https://www.h3uni.org/resource-library/tutorial/h3uni-practice-framework
> To help make it clear, can you show one concrete example of this working with a real group — what happened before, what happened after? This might help paint a picture for us.
I am proposing is an evolutionary pathway or synthesis and therefore something new that relies on older foundations. We can look at case studies of related work:
The science was originally developed by JG Bennett, who founded one of the worlds first 'psychokinetic communities' in Claymont Court West Virginia which was and still is a success after his passing - a run down mansion and lands were regenerated, community built and many unseen effects. It also appears that John Allen used Bennetts methods amongst others in setting up the Biosphere2.0 project out in Arizona (now managed by the university) since you can see some of the symbology in the documentary called 'Spaceship Earth' - the outcomes here were less clear cut as the group was clearly effective in many endeavors but were somewhat controversial. Cult or Culture?
Tony Hodgeson was the generation after this who came from a teaching background and reformulated Bennetts work into a real pedagogy, implementing it with Bill Sharpe and others while setting up the International Futures Forum, H3uni and now Future Stewards, who offer a library of resources and case studies. This work appears to be a resounding success with little down side and the long term effects that are still to become visible (as tends to be the way with seven generations thinking). The three horizons method seem to be propagating at both the highest and lowest levels of society. Here is a link to the futurestewards resources and case studies: https://futurestewards.com/resources
I'm pitching something similar to this having studied both Tony and Bennetts work since 2019 and Three Horizons is certainly one of the core methods. However I aspire to work more intensively at a smaller scale with groups genuinely interested in the deeper elements of collective intelligence, 'noetic technology', Whiteheads 'process science', Stafford Beers 'cybernetics / syntegrations', Buckys 'Synergetics' and so forth. Those who want to work with others in good faith, but not at the loss of their own agency. In other words this pitch is more for the creatives than the corporates.
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Does this articulation help? Whats missing or unclear? Any creative reframes you might suggest?