Part 4 - Closing together. Convergent Facilitation support from NGL | The How

This final episode of the Greaterthan Closing Series zooms into the convergent facilitation process that NGL guided Greaterthan through. Elena and Alícia share the ups and downs of the process and what steps were challenging or somehow, didn't even work in this particular case. In the end, a few Greaterthan Alumni share how they feel and how they want to keep living Greaterthan's legacy. More on Greaterthan and its story here: https://greaterthan.my.canva.site More on NLG: https://nglcommunity.org This series is about leadership, conflict, tensions, closing entrepreneurial endeavours in self-organising / self-management settings. Timestamps 0:00 Intro: What are non-controversial essences (NCEs)? 2:22 The NCEs and the confusion about whether Greater Than was staying together 5:09 From 43 NCEs to three subgroups 7:18 Contradicting proposals and the birth of the tuners group 9:49 Trust, circle practice and different timelines for acceptance 12:46 Commitment and care across the system 14:12 Forming the tuners group and swapping a member 17:11 Integrating dissent: from network to closing 20:19 A concrete example: distributing the financial commons 25:30 Internodal governance and the closing ritual 29:24 How it feels now: grief, relief and spaciousness 35:10 What we'd do differently: conflict, support and the systemic layer 44:08 Why did it work despite everything? 45:16 Faith in the process and in those holding it 49:32 The role of relational capital 51:21 Closings that aren't terminal 53:11 Multiple stories, many voices 54:39 Voices from the community