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Emergence Facilitation Practices™
How to hold a group so that something arrives which nobody brought into the room.
2 chapters · 11,509 words · Narrated · Still being written
Emergence cannot be produced on demand, which makes it a strange thing to write a practice manual about. What can be done is to arrange conditions under which it becomes more likely and to stop doing the things that reliably prevent it — premature convergence, the facilitator's own need for a result, and an agenda that leaves no unallocated time.
This volume is about the arranging and the not-doing. It is honest that the outcome is never guaranteed, and specific about how to sit with a group when nothing has arrived yet.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.