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Assessment of Interdependence ad Decentralization

Who do you lean on?

Who leans on you?

(Explore the places where those lists overlap, and where they don't. How can you increase mutual relationship?)

Are all of your needs met? If yes, how? If not, why not?

Did you answer either question above as if it's all your responsibility?

• If not, try it. How does that feel?
• If yes, answer again as if nothing happens with you alone.

Who makes works happen in your group?

• Me
• A small core group of us
• Everyone shares the work.

Does everyone take vacation time and weekends where you work?

Do you feel comfortable using the sick and/ or vacation time you ern?

If you disappeared tomorrow (because aliens chose you as the ambassador from Earth to the Alliance of Evolved Planets, for instance), how would you organization respond?

• Close its doors.
• Period of chaos and power struggle
• Redistribute my work and be overwhelmed.
• Redistribute my work and adjust for capacity so that we're still on path

How does your answer to the questions above feel?

What could you do to increase decentralized strength in your group?

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Assessment of Nonlinear/Iterative

What are you practicing? (include anything you practice/repeat in your life, things you feel positive about, things you feel negative about-from meditation to burn-out, listening to interruption, community accountability to public takedowns, exercise, escaping, etc.)

We spend our lives in unconscious practices, practices that make us deny our true selves, our true power, our collectivism. It takes three hundred repetitions for muscle memory and three thousand repetitions for embodiment. What do you need to practice?

What does your organization/collective/alliance practice? (Include all the things you practice in your collective work-conflict avoidance, glorifying burn-out, over scheduling, mission drifting, check-ins, retreats, active listening, community accountability, etc.)

What do you need to practice?

How long does it take you to understand your feeling and reactions?

How quickly do you (individually, collectively) translate experiences (successes or failures) into lessons?