EIP Sequences

THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS.

# PUT THE MIRO DIAGRAM INTO OMNIGRAFFLE NOW. USE the build function for Pille's group presentation.

Click and open Marc's Pattern Sequence next to this page. Use it by clicking on the nodes as you read through this page. The goal is to develop useful traversals through a network of available patterns such that they support one another.

* Begin with friendly conversations in small groups. (Campfire Conversation)

* Explore the six questions and nesting contexts. (Six Questions Exercise)

* Make a sketch from the conversations and questions. (Cave Drawing Sketch)

* Begin to arrange the sketch into three sections: Ecological-Biological-Physical recursions section, Geopolitical recursions section, and in the middle an institutional network section. (EIP Causal Loop Diagram)

* Consider the Mission Critical Functions and place locally and temporally relevant functions in the center institutional area of the EIP sketch.

* Turn the nouns in the sketch into interesting variables such as Quality of ... and Aliveness of ... (Variabilization. Now you are on your way to creating a CLD Sketch).

* Connect variables and look for loops. This together with variables begins to look like a CLD Sketch.

* Look for Leverage Points in the sketch--variables that will make a big difference.

* At this point (or later) you may choose to consider the health of these key variables. (See Mission Critical Functions for a suggested starting assessment.

* Get clear on relevant Situations and then clarify using the IAD Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development framework. As it turns out the IAD framework fits into the EIP sketch quite well.

* Consider exploring your situation with the Tetrahedron +++ diagram (as POIA) which invites further conversations about ideals and values and how they relate to effective collective action.

* Consider further exploring your situation with the Social System Assessment. Aristotle and Russ Ackoff claim that these four aspects, **when in balance**, are necessary and sufficient for understanding social systems.

* Save and share understanding using Patterns, Pattern Exercise, ane Pattern Sequences or recipies.

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One should keep the **purpose of the EIP Sketches** in mind: to foster conversations that may generate collective action to simultaneously improve the truthfulness, beauty, fairness, and sharing within your nested ecosystems and your nested political systems.

> It is a trap to descend into useless precision when the possibility for agreement exists in more familiar and even poetic realms of conversation.

> NOTE: I wish I had a graph tool that would center on a node and its first degree relatives.

> Here is A line up of the stuff I am currently working on. to integrate with the EIP Sketch. To be DELETED later.

Each of the diagrams and exercises need to be developed into Patterns using this Pattern Template. Messy but important work.

The referenced diagrams will reveal relationships inherent in the EIP Causal Loop Diagram.

# Write patterns for each:

* Explore the nested contexts in which you live and operate. Use the Six Questions Exercise.

* Explore conversations -> Campfire Conversation? Bonfire? Develop a local typology of conversation types or styles so that the group can choose how to communicate.

* Explore diagraming -> Cave Drawing Sketch?

* Someone in the group learns causal diagraming -> CLD Sketch (See site about Causal Loop Diagramming )

# MAKE ASSESSMENTS (answer questions)

> 3 Questions

1- Where is "Home?" -> Minimum of Three Ecological Geographic Biological Recursions (review your Six Nested Contexts Diagram)

2- Who is "We?" -> Minimum of Three Political Geographic Recursions (review your Six Nested Contexts Diagram)

3- How will we take care? -> Domain Specific Institutional Networks (review your Six Nested Contexts Diagram for How Long? and for How? and for What?)

* Assess 26 Mission Critical Functions to prioritize the opportunities and organize yourselves.

* How healthy are our institutions? -> Sofi-VSM Sketch Assessment of key institutions internal viability within their environments (as depicted in the EIP Sketch)

* How healthy is our governing? -> Asby's Governance Assessment (Houses of Reps, Houses of Experts in key domains, Executives and Community Collectives) at every level of recursion (or at three adjacent levels).

# Power Assessment See (Tetrahedron +++, PIOA) See Six Nested Contexts Diagram - How Long?=Upward Recursions are take longer to respond. > I suggest that Ideals are forever and for everyone. - Where?=Ecological Geography > Everything happens somewhere and distance matters. - Who?=**Person** - Why?=**Ideal** - How?=**Org**-Institutions - What?=**Act**-Produce

* Social System Assessment -> BGTE (T=E, G=P, B&E=I)

* Create or elaborate a Relevant EIP Causal Loop Diagram

* Assess your community's capability for Collective Action, Ostrom

How will we share? See Pattern Exercise and A Pattern Sequence

I would like to integrate Ostrom’S IAD—all in the EPI CLD. This will take a while longer.

Pattern Sequence in Graphviz (under dev)

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