Five conditions for creating a Possibility Space

THERE ARE NO INEFFECTIVE TEAMS, ONLY INEFFECTIVE LEADERS.

 THEREFORE, TRAIN YOUR LEADERS.

Inherent in every organization is a vast wealth of intellectual capital and creative genius, already paid for, but minimally used. One hindrance blocking the flow of employee contributions is the form of meetings used.

Typically managers and leaders use a meeting format that imitates a hierarchical power structure that implements dominance, control and the unspoken struggle for position amongst adversaries - the same meeting format used last century to serve last century's needs.

Liberating and directing team genius to produce results in today's rapidly changing conditions requires meetins of a different nature. Five conditions establish a Possibility Meeting that permits people of diverse character and background to work together at unusually high levels of effectiveness and productivity. It is the meeting host's job to establish and maintain these five conditions.

THE FIVE POSSIBILITY PRINCIPLES

1. PURE FORM THINKING Designate specific times for Pure Form generative thinking and Pure Form analytical thinking. Do not mix them at all! Spend 90% of your time and energy generating both linear and nonlinear possibilities. At a different designated time switch to analyzing and selecting what is useful or not.

2. PARALLELPLAY Typical meetings are linear: one person creates at a time - a very ineffective use of available intelligence. Instead, the spaceholder initiates nonlinear ways for everyone to create all at the same time! No more waiting until it is your turn to speak. With Parallel Play, ideas are shared while they are fresh and alive, and new ideas come in an abundant flood.

3. CREATIVE SANCTUARY Creating is a delicate and very personal experience. Creative Sanctuary eliminates the risk of retribution. No matter what you create it will have no negative consequences! This is a guaranteed safe envirenmont. Even the wildest ideas and most controversial issues can then be presented completely without risk. No criticsms are allowed. No "killer phrases". Whatever gets created stays created. This is Sanctuary.

4. GREMLIN-FREE ZONE Each person has a responsible adult quality, and also a Gremlin quality, dedicated to irresponsible actions, nasty little jokes, insults, and disrupting meetings. The point is not to imprison the Gremlin because Gremlin is an inexhaustible source of nonlinear creativity. But if not attended to by a sword-wielding spaceholder, environments of fewer rules often degenerate into Gremlin feeding frenzies. The spaceholder frames the meeeting within the clarity that this is not a Gremlin lunch buffet but rather a creative meeting space. He then uses his own Gremlin to spot other Gremlins, and to immediately interrupt, identify and disallow any irresponsible use of Gremlin. This makes the meeting safe for everyone to contribute fully.

5. PRINCIPLE OF POSSIBILITY Through intention and attention the spaceholder connects the meeting space directly into the resources of the Principle of Possibility. The meeting is called to order in the name of Possibility, and then serves as athe space through which Possibility can do its work. This way the meeting serves something greater than the ego of the spaceholder, and the entire organization receives the benefits.

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