1. PARTICIPATION: The activity the participant intentionally takes responsibility for within the system they are part of. Participation establishes the participant’s chosen way of engaging the system. It identifies the doing itself, distinct from what that doing contributes or the condition it is intended to help create.
Asks: What do I intend to do in the system I am part of?
Example: Guide leaders toward intentional orientation.
2. SEQUENCE: The characteristic progression through which the participant’s participation unfolds. Sequence describes the movement or order inherent in the participation. It identifies how the doing characteristically progresses without attempting to prescribe every action or create a procedural checklist.
Asks: What are the stages my participation characteristically moves through?
Example: intellectual accuracy → emotional vulnerability → intentional action
3. COMMUNITY: The people and relationships that give the participant’s participation context, relevance, and a relational boundary. Community identifies both with whom and for whom the participation matters. It can include meaningful qualifications that distinguish the particular people for whom the contribution is relevant rather than describing an audience so broadly that everyone qualifies.
Asks: With whom and for whom does my participation matter?
Example: Leaders who are ready to take responsibility for their participation in the systems they are part of.
4. CONTRIBUTION: What the participant intends to make available to others or to the system through their participation. Contribution is distinct from Participation. Participation identifies what the participant does; Contribution identifies what becomes available because they do it. Making something available recognizes that a participant can intentionally contribute to a system without controlling how others receive it or what ultimately results from it.
Asks: What do I intend to make available through my participation?
Example: Clarity and recovering awareness of their participation.
5. PRACTICE: The recurring behaviors through which the participant develops and sustains their intended way of participating. Practice describes how intentional orientation becomes lived capability over time. It is distinct from Sequence: Sequence describes the characteristic movement of the participation; Practice describes what the participant repeatedly does to develop and sustain their ability to participate that way. Practice is inherently iterative. Participation creates experience; experience creates information; review and capture create learning; learning informs the next participation.
Asks: What do I repeatedly do to develop and sustain this way of participating?
Example: constructive review → intentional capture → aligned action
6. DESIRED OUTCOME: The condition the participant intends their contribution to help create. Desired Outcome provides direction without assuming control. Participants can take responsibility for their participation and what they make available while recognizing that outcomes emerge from systems containing many participants, conditions, and interactions. The Desired Outcome therefore describes the condition the contribution is intended to move Closer to Right, rather than a result the participant can guarantee.
Asks: What condition do I intend my contribution to help create?
Example: Leaders increasingly participate in the systems they are part of with awareness, responsibility, and intention.
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