Group Proprioception

Heart: 

What should be considered and held here and now, vs. what belongs at another time and place?  

Description: 

Groups use vernacular such as "bike rack," "parking lot," "small enough to fit in a box" to denote what belongs in the present conversational space and when to draw an Appropriate Boundary to move a discussion to a different time or place.

Placeholder quote:  "The IETF is all about the creation of Spaces for Dialogue and Collaboration [WD79]. A significant part of achieving that goal is a keen discernment of what does not belong in a given space but needs to be moved elsewhere. We call this a group proprioception. This discernment allows each space to remain focused on its scope of work and the mandate, as it were, for that space while providing a mechanism by which off-topic concerns may be moved into an appropriate space." (citation below)

Examples: 

See p. 91 of Exploring the Remarkable Regenerative Patterns and Practices of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) by Kaliya “Identity Woman” Young & Day Davis Waterbury
 

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Comments

Possibly also related, if I'm getting your gist:

Trajectory, Setting Intention

Right Size Bite, Seasoned Timing

I've been playing with a Right Person in Right Role card which has a similar feel, and what you're describing also has that feel, wanting to get items to the most on-topic, in-capacity, likely-to-be-well-addressed space/time (including a parking lot, but with some system to make sure those are gotten to as needed).

More generally:

I definitely see something pattern-y here that is not already in the cards. I might be tempted to fit it into Setting Intention rather than add a new card.

When I saw "Group Proprioception" what came to my mind is a possible group-level stigmergic "group sensory input" — if that makes sense. It relates to the stigmergy-dialogue spectrum which has become important in how I see/understand systems, I forget if we've talked about it at all. ("Stigmergy" came out of research on insect collaboration.)

I haven't yet sat with the subset of permaculture cards the IETF paper drew on, I would love to sometime, both to understand the work better and perhaps to point us to patterns we may want to add. I'm looking for more partners on hosting a nice WikiBirthday (the 30th!) on March 25th online, which might be a space big enough to include things like the IETF paper and Internet/web generally. :-)

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