5toFold is highly adaptable for various circumstances.
However, there are key aspects that we recommend to put in place. This way it stays a true 5toFold process
(and does not become a hybrid that looses its power).
Before the 5toFold meeting
- 5toFold is only used in real time meetings, in-person or online (NOT asynchronously).
- The group has consciously agreed to use this process. Ideally through a 5toFold process.
- There is no “back-up” decision-making process in place to “over-rule” a Fold.
- Every proposal is brought to the meeting by one or more proposers, who take the lead for bringing the proposal.
- The proposers have been briefed about the process and the importance and value of being open to outcome.
- The facilitator’s role includes being unattached to the outcome of the decision making process.
- The team has a shared purpose. The proposal is meant to be in service of that shared purpose.
During the 5toFold meeting
- The group is seated in a circle.
- The meeting is facilitated and starts with an opportunity for the participants to “land and become present with each other and with the theme”. We prefer to use Whole Person Process Facilitation, WPPF, starting with a Transfer-in and then an invitation to share hopes and fears for the meeting.
- The facilitator guides the process; without engaging in the content of the proposal or participating in the voting.
- Every proposal is shared in writing as well as spoken in the circle by the proposer(s).
- The proposers of a proposal express their invitation for people to “tap into their wisdom and follow what has heart and meaning for them.” All outcomes of the meeting are seen as successful, a Fold as much as an acceptance of the proposal. Both support the long-term benefit of the team/organization.
- The process is given adequate time for each step to be completed.
- There is a plan for situations where the time runs out before the decision-making process gets completed.
- There is a plan for how to support the process after the decision, including the possibility that there is a Fold.
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