Notes from doing the work

Google Keep as a parts board: one note per part, updated as they show up. Simple, free, and still what we hand people who ask how to keep track.

Parts work meets holding a room. What changes when the facilitator has an inner system in view, not only an agenda.

There is no such thing as an inner saboteur, and the label is doing the same work that "saboteur" has always done for a plan that isn't going well. Also cargo cults.

On losing your sense of humour as a diagnostic instrument, by way of a left sock and a hamster team. Probably the most us thing we've written.

The hard passages, through Daniel Ingram's mapping rather than around them. The one we send people when the same theme has come back deeper than last time.

Why homework fails, and how to design a practice that cannot — do it and your life improves, don't and you have found something worth knowing.

Our most-used solo technique. A page, a situation in the middle of it, and whatever speaks up. Handwriting included.

What the Unconference actually is, why there are no keynote speakers, and the one law. Harrison Owen noticed the best part of a conference was the coffee breaks.

When the first map of the system is done and the work asks for more patience than technique. What "deeper" actually means in practice.

Why we build gatherings the way we do, and what Self-energy has to do with a marketplace of sessions.

Thirteen wishes across the darkest nights, from Rauhnächte. The one we send when someone wants a year-turn practice that parts can actually join.

How the Unconference actually runs — Open Space, closed rooms when needed, and what "structure meeting freedom" looks like in practice.