Guiding approach
Not every room identical. Every room able to speak to the others.
Measure creates consistency in how participants engage, how facilitators gather insight, how information moves between sessions, and how collective interpretation evolves over two and a half days.
Common harvesting framework
Eight lenses, one shared language.
Select a lens to see the question it puts into every room.
What are we noticing or learning?
Every session surfaces what participants observe in the ecosystem — spoken, written, drawn, or contributed anonymously.
Lens 1 of 8 · Signals
Rapid carry-forward harvest
Every major session ends the same way.
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significant patterns
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important tensions or contradictions
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coordination possibilities
- Something that changed or challenged the room's thinking
- Something that must not be lost
- People, organizations, infrastructure, or organizing already in motion
Theory of interrogative reasoning
A facilitation practice, not a second framework.
Who is close enough to this issue to see something the data cannot?
Whose interpretation are we currently believing?
Whose knowledge might change this interpretation?
What assumption are we making because of how this information was collected or presented?
At what point must community knowledge influence the decision for it to actually matter?