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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?

What is the thing in plain language
A process of visual facilitation, helping groups find alignment and coherence through structured frameworks and collective articulation.

Offering: a selection of coherently related facilitation techniques already proven to work in the field.
Experimental: bespoke workshops tailored to teams activity field. 

What you're going to do in the next 1-3 months if you get funded
All funding in 1-3 months goes towards personal subsistence - it would be nice to support the progenitors as they are charities.

Horizon 1: Introduce groups of remarkable people to the tools and methods we will be using as well as the relationships between methods.
Horizon 2: Determine where best to start with the group based on their informed consent and facilitate the first session.
Horizon 3: Determine subsequent process based on informed consent and guide the overall action plan towards integrity.


What does it look like long term (6 months, a year etc), mainly just answer the question of "how will we know if it worked/succeeded"
The group will feel a sense of collective agency and aligned co-hear-ence, holding together over the months, while working on their projects with integrity. Depending on the intensity of engagement, number of teams etc, it would be interesting to develop new methods, games and technology based on the underlying principals of frame - this would however need to be relevant to the teams and their sponsoring organizations.


What resources you need (money, skill, etc)
The teams playing should be viable, vital and leaning into evolutionary pathways that are loosely directed towards the good, true and beautiful. I would also need payment for my services, which are priced on a sliding scale dependent on the resources available but needs to meet an overall reserve that I'm happy to discuss privately.

Who else is working on this / whose attention would help this project / who might be a good person to review or endorse it
Core methodologies are held in trust by Future Stewards, originally developed by International Futures Forum and H3uni. These ecosystems would be good reviewers and endorsements, especially for review of new and novel methodologies based on the underlying principals. Other universities or organisations working in partnership with the teams would be good to have support from. Mentors and experts from the participants field of interest may also be relevant.

These methods are based in a deeper tradition than 'we just do a thing together', and so it would be interesting to have participatory action researchers in the field of psi phenomena, collective intelligence, cognition, consciousness studies, process science/philosophy etc. who would wish to contribute and pay close attention to the work (e.g. Matt Segal and Bonita Roy etc.). 

While I'm aware of many facilitators, I've not met more than one who can justify their adaptive framing and frameworks upfront in a transparent and self consistent manner. This is of exceptional importance as frame is power - meaning that if a participant cannot sufficiently interpret the process on their own terms, it legitimately undermines their ability to consent to decisions made by either the facilitator or group.