identified in a number of ways through research, dialogue, large meetings or individual sensing interviews. Context is important. • What is going on in the world right now that makes our work important? • What are the challenges and opportunities we are facing? • Why is it important that we do this work? Harvest: • A needs statement for the project. • A shared understanding about why it is important to do work now. • A clear statement of urgency or timing with which to create an invitation Purpose “Purpose is the invisible leader” - Mary Follett Parker Purpose statements are clear and compelling ideas about where we are going that guide us in doing our best possible work. Discerning a shared purpose is helpful to guide work and seek outcomes, but don’t get too attached. Working in a chaordic space means constantly making adjustments as you learn and create new ideas and solutions. A purpose statement should be a direction, not a necessarily a destination. Once you have a purpose statement, continue to check in to make sure it is valid and true. Adjust it if you need to based on what you’re learning as you go. • If this work should live up to its fullest potential, what do you imagine is possible? • What could this work do/create/inspire/result in? • Where should we be heading? • What are the stories we want more of? Harvest: • A common understanding of the basic direction for the work • Commitment and buy in to a direction and intention for the work • A clear statement of purpose around which to build an invitation Principles “Obey the principles without being bound by them” - Bruce Lee Principles of cooperation help us to know how we will work together. It is very important that these principles be simple, co-owned and well understood. These are not principles that are platitudes or that lie on a page somewhere. They are crisp statements of how we agree to operate together so that over the long term we can sustain the relationships that make this work possible. 3 23
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