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THE FORM AND FUNCTION OF THE GUILD

INTRODUCTION

THE BUILD

NETWORK

THE

EXCHANGING

COMMON

­ VT9=M

THE

ENABLING

COMMON

VISION

THE

GUARDING

COMMON

RYMRnT.

1. In order that every man might have the possibility of living the resurgent style, a primal guild at the localiparish level is c­iled forth to provide the comprehensive care and contextual vision. The guild system coordinates the activities of the primal guilds and injects wisdom from other guild systems around the globe. The guild network maintains the vision of universal care and appropriation of everyman's experience by universalizing and communicating the insights from the systems and particular primal guilds. Having created an image of the form of the primal guild from both thia dynamic in h~story and the present sociological need, the task of defining the system and network functions, forms and interrelationships and creative tensions is visioned. The forms of guild network are interchange, strategy ant research. The forms of a guild system are centrum, training and impact forces. The forms of a primal guild are cell, grassroots forces, care, awakenment and celeb~atian.

The Network Functions

2. One function of the global net is to enable a continuing systematic exchange of common models and wisdom throughout primal guilds. It publicizea local signs, making known across the globe various local breakthroughs and accomplishments. It insures ~ leadership exchange to elicit a cross­fertilization of wiadom and an explosion of context in every primal guild, keeping a global operating image in each guildsman's mind. It enables modelsharing in order to permit every primal guild to feed off the wisdom generated in any other localis.

3­ Another function of the Global Guild Network is articulating the common vision. This is the function of the gathering of local guildsmen in which the pulse of the times is discerned and articulated in order to renew and revitalize the context out of which the guild operates. One way to carry out this function is to create methods to be used at the system and primal levels to hold global commonness in methodology. Another way in which the function is carried out is through the prediction of global needs and the creation of comprehensive designs and operating images to meet the needs. The function of articulating the common vision is also carried out through the analysis of global indicatives, trends and contradictions which come from global research and planning asseablies which the network conducts periodically.

4. The global network also insures a common symbology and a style of servanthood while at the same time upholding the cultural uniqueness of every localis. It insures a common symbology and a common style of servanthood by holding guilds at the primal and sys. tem levels accountable to the common vision and by providing common atories, imagea and ayabola to every guild. It upholda the cultural uniquenesa of every localia by spreading globally the arts and hiatoriea of every localia.

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THE

NETWORK

RELATING TO

nY~TEM

THE

NETWORK

RELATING TO

PRI MAL

THE

OVERALL

NETWORK

FORM

The Network InterreLAtedness

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5. The guild network is related directly to the primal through the guild system. The net calls into being a focus point for the exchange of global and local edge thinking­­including training and research­~1nd acts as the juncture that channels local man's wisdom to global effe¢tiveness. The network limits the system in that it defines the system's nature, size and arenas of operation. The nystem is sustained by the network in that it guards it by honoring the system's full representation and holds the system accountable to its specific area responsibilities.

6. The relationship of the global network and the primal guild is imaged as being transparent in nature and servant in style. From the time the primal guild is called into being, the network is enabling it to take into itself the global wisdom, vision, and story. The primal is limited by the network in that the primal is held accountable to its common vision and defined both in terms of geography and arenas of action. The network sustains the primal by making the globe and its resources available to the local, by reminding the primal that its particular task is on behalf of all, and by providing a structure through which the primal's particular

creativity may be passed on to other local guilds. m e emphasis will always be on the primal guild, but the network is necessary to enable the primal to fulfill its task in history by continually linking the local to the global vision.

m e Network Forms

7. The global network of parish communications and planning is funneled through systems of guilds and particular primal guilds. This network is responsible for integrating the vision of the primal guilds into a global picture and initiates signs to implement that vision. The network is composed of guildsmen uniquely trained in sophisticated tactical methods and style and grounded in a parish guild. Meetings are composed of representatives from parish guilds and guild systems, and invitations are sent out to insure diverse participation from such vocations as teachers, businessmen, union leaders, politicians, religious leaders and entertainers. The operational guidelines of the network include division into three task forces. The permanently based central group consists of varied vocations, meets regularly, processing information from global reports, and redistributes the data. Another group consisting of global representatives meets quarterly using discussion, debate, research, and multi­media to accomplish their task, and takes the product of this work back to the respective areas. The third group meets yearly for longer periods of time to research and exchange information. The general format of guild network includes setting the agendas for PSU's, research proJects, regional

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THE

OVERALL

NETWORK

FORM (Cont'd)

THE

GLOBAL

INTERCHANGE

THE

PRACTICAL

STRATEGY

EXCHANGE

THE

GLOBAL

RESEARCH

NETHORK

gatherings and other necessary coordination structures for wisdom sharing and problem solving. The network is responsible for establishment of common formats in the areas of symbolic life, finances, priorship, procedures and eyaluation. A global information centrum is responsible for collection, translation, and global dissemination of guild information, including research papers, reports and a global r~n~te~

8. The form of global interchange is a network of representatives that include galaxies, area priors, guardians, primal guilds, global council and regulation centrum. Their work is expanded so they can function as the global interchange form of the guild. A small group of coordinating servants meets on a full time basis in an office at Base Centrum to coordinate and carry out the work of the global interchange, having received reports, models and strategies from weekly galaxy and guild meetings, quarterly consults, area meetings and a yearly global council. The general format of the interchange includes the daily work of­the coordinating servants. They develop a data bank, prepare new courses and methodologies, identify edge issues, and make assignments to the global leadership exchange. They d so develop various publications to serve as communication vehicles for common models, common discipline, common symbolic life, a~cumulated wisdom, and signal projects throughout the network.

9. The form of the network guild as the practical strategy exchange insures that strategies developed by primal guilds are shared with the globe. One component would consist of a group of people assigned to the global centrum node to enable a global pool of methodologies and functinal specialists to construct strategies for the primal guilds. Another component is planning sessions such as an annual global planning council, quarterly Continental Guild Presidiums. A third component is an on­going Guild Workshop Exchange. The work format of these groupdags includes preparing common strategies, battleplans, timelines and operational training manuals.

10. The global research network form is composed of a centralized servant staff of primal guildsmen, system coordinators, members of various research assemblies, and extends to hired technical specialists such as computer scientists or atomic physicist consultants, the composition honors all cultural groups. The global research network form operates in a central office located in the Global Cantrum. Access to electronic equipment such as data processing computers, memory bangs, research and library facilities necessitate the location be a key metropolitan community. A small full time staff will coordinate the ongoing data gathering from the system and primal levels, with an annual global research assembly which enables a consensus on global/local edge issues. This continuous research will give form to global trends, contradictions, indicatives and imperatives which will enable every local man to effectively plan the future of the globe.

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THE GUILD SYSTEM

THE TRAINING THE FORCES

THE FOCUSING THE THRUST

TH~ IMPACTING THE MASSES

The S~gtem Functions

11. The guild system function of training the forces equips the guilder at the primal level to serve the parish through continual advancement in methodology, style and network­wide constructs, The scope of this activity is spread over two basic arenas: training teachers and tooling local man. The training of teachers includes all the pedagogical courses necessary in sustaining the common curriculum needs of the primal guilds within the system, As these individuals are trained, the system is able to maintain a pedagogy base which will include names and areas of training and from that base disperse teachers among the parishes as needed, As this occurs, local man is prepared to awaken, care for, and guard humanness through study courses, workshops and problemsolving units, In general, the system provides for comprehensive coordi stion of all training that goes on in the primal guild, always guarding against reductionism and insularity,

12, The system focuses the thrust of the entire form of the guild by being the portal through which the primal and the network enlighten each other, Of equal importance is that the system serves as an enablement unit to local guilds and finds unique possibilities within their parishes, Specifically, the system level establishes the primal.locus in the global grid in such a way that the primal perceives itself as in the globe, Structurally the system maintains accountability processes, common language, and common symbology as it keeps the global network held up before the primal local guild, It screens local and global research data so it may be filtered from one to the other. Data concerning parish resources, primal contradictions, specific local thr~sts, and global network data are coordinated into a r.eadily accessible and globally comprehensible form,

13, To impact the masses at the system level is imaged as servanthood to both the primal guild and the network. Its functions include awakening latent guildsmen through marketing the LENS course and catalyzing the formation of primal guilds in unpenetrated areas, Forces are created to handle involvement in practical activities like Metropolitan celebrations and LENS Follow­up courses, Guildsmen whose task is impactment of established structures like government agencies, major corporations or universities, will be organized and sustained at the system level.

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THE SYSTEMS

RELATING TO

NETWORK

THE SYSTEMS

RELATING TO

PRIMAL

OVERALL

SY~TEM FORM

THE nEGIONAL

..

CENTROM

The System Interrelations

14, In its role of training forces, focusing the task, and impacting the masses, the guild system creates, limits and sustains the global guild network, This allows an exchange of common wisdom and data, enables common vision and battleplanning, and guards common symbology and style, The system creates the global network by training global servants and by revealing local needs, The system holds the global network in tension with the primal level by holding the network accountable by dealing with actual contradictions and needs experienced at the primal level, The system sustains the global network by providing a communications funnel which relates the guild network to the primal, by providing trained forces and by enabling commonality,

15, The­systems level of the guild provides an effective channel to and from the global network which creates, limits and sustains the primal guild. The system creates an effective intermediate forct by providing a source of tested models, training the leadership, and enabling participation in global consensus, The system holds the local­global tension and privides primal guildsmen with a sense of global responsibility which limits tendencies toward parochialism and reduced care structures. Systematic and strategic penetrations models guard against ineffective, random attempts by the primal to release the resurgence style. The system sustains the primal by training the forces, providing the constructs and focusing the thrust of awakenment of the parish to take responsibility for all of its citizens as a sign of global responsibilitY.

The System Forms

16. The form of guild system consists of a regional centrum, a guildsman training construct and a mass impact for¢e. This dynamic is embodied by a core of established professional leaders who are well grounded in movement methodologies, committed to the primal guild and resolved to stand in the tension between the global and the local as teachers, coordinators, or representatives. There will be adequate office space and staff for the purpose of maintaining communications and records, coordinating course schedules and curriculum.

17. The Regional Centrum is a small representative group selected from among the LENS faculty, guild training representatives, and members of primal guilds. By maintaining a low profile and by rotating a portion of the staff quarterly and holding those rotated­off as exofficios, the Centrum will avoid becoming a static bureaucracy. The Centrum coordinates research information and scheduling, thus holding local and global accountability J

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THE GUILDSMAN

TRAINING

c~ l u~cr

THE MASS

IMPACT FORCES

18. The Guild Training Construct operates out of an area coordinating centrum (probably the Religious House initially) using a WATTS line to ensure constant primal contact. It maintains master files of available pedagogues and training facilities at the primal level. A minimal staff coordinates and maintains the data and resources available for the training of the local man. This construct is also responsible for the coordination and scheduling of the training programs which will emerge as primal guilds determine their area of need.

19. The Mass Impact Force is composed of a small representative group, including those from primal guilds, LENS grads, movement Guardians, and persons with wisdom in economic or political or cultural fields. Persons with skills in designing celebrations and follow­up events are important for engaging grads and movement friends. The system coordinates marketing of courses to impact key establishment elements. The forces designated to fill this function must be carefully chosen to meet the specific situation at hand. The format will be accomplished primarily through the marketing of the LENS course and linking of those into a network.

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THE PRIMAL

GUILD

THE

CATALYZING

COMPREHENSIVE

CARE

THE

TRAINING

MOBILIZATION

E~OER

THE

RELEASING

RESUR¢NC_

RbLE

THE

PRIMAL

RELATING TO

N_TWoRK

The Primal Functions

20. The primal guild, functioning as the catalyst for comprehensive care, renews and establishes community care systems. Spotting the needs of the community, locating available resources and determining potential snags in filling those needs are followed by evoking new structures and revitalizing existing ones. Identifying futuric priorities through problem solving units allows the community to grasp the importance of greasroots participation in enabling continuing care and solving its own Problems.

21. Another function of the prioal guild is that of training and mobilizing forces. This includes resurgent methods training, birthing strategic vision and sustaining resurgent trends; the latter insures that the guild stays on target with respect to its long range vision by providing nurture to new guilders and by developing the means for teaching the new evangelism. Resurgent methods creates the training models and then trains local man in the methodologies necessary.for bringing about resurgence. Birthing strategic vision means taking the spiritual pulse of the primal community and creating stories, vocational revisioning, and celebrative events.

22. A function of the primal guild which allows man to act out his care for society is that of releasing resurgence styles. It spiritizes primal community by catalyzing cabarets, creating celebrative events and bringing antagonists together to produce positive working relationships. In order to release resurgence styles the guild must enable engaged life styles by sustaining the missional family, giving the possibility of seeing how the mundane has global effect and by demonstrating the totally expended life atyle. The guild also relessea resurgence styles by stimulating symbol creation, thereby raising to the community's self­consciousness the possibility of a new relationship to life.

>!he Primal Interrelations

23. The primal guild, as an autonomous unit, relates to the global network out of a comprehensive context. The primal guild's need for methods, models, and vision beyond themselves creates the necessity for the formation of the guild network where coordination, research and methodologies are forged and unified in a common effort. The primal gui~d limita the guild network in that it guards local and ethnic wisdom by insisting that resurgence training be applicable to the local situation. The primal guild evA,uates and reports contradictions to the network and demands that global data and models apply to local situationa. Even as the primal unite are held together by the common vision and methodologies of the

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THE PRINAL

RELATING TO

NETWORK (Cons 'd)

THE PRIMAL

RELATING TO

SYSTEM

THE OYERALL

PRIMAL

FORM

network, the primal sustains the network through local research, demonstration models and signs. In feeding back insights and practical wisdom, the primal allows the network to revise its methodologies, maintain an interchange of funds and personnel, and decide what arenas need exploration.

24. The local action pole of the guild is the primal form which, together with the system and network, comprises the overall form of the guild in such a way that each component creates, limits, and sustains the others. The primal creates the system's need for a troop training center, a global screen, an information and data pool, ant a forces coordination base. The primal guild ci~ s into question the battleplans and models of the system by demanding they be applicable at the local level. Such models are tested and. if ineffective, returned to the system, a method which guards against bureaucracy. The primal guild sustains the system by lending authenticity through signs of demonstration, through data exchange, and through continual!' providing more troops for the system. The primal thus impacts the system by redefining arenas of action, much as a computer's program is radically altered by a change of one digit in the primal program unit

The Primal Form

25. The primal guild is composed of self­conscious guildsmen from a cross section of the parish. It incorporates expertise gifts from various professional fields and includes businessmen, selfconscious churchmen, movement colleagues, and concerned community leaders. This group of 80­100 includes levels of commitment ranging from a life­committed core of 7­12 to those who affirm the work of the guild but participate on a limited basis. The comprehensive group congregates in a public meeting place monthly for the purpose of celebrating, reporting, holding accountability and absolution and visioning. The meeting is open to anyone interested who has decided to participate in the work of a particular session. This same format is repeated in the smaller group sessions. The guild descerns contradictions within the community and creates imaginal signs to release those contradictions. This is done through comprehensive planning, co­ordination of activities, parish think­tanks, forums for local participation, seminars in community methodologies and parish­wide celebrations.

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THE DECISION

COORDINATION

CELL

THE GRASSROOTS

MOBILIZATION

enRPs

THE

COMPREHENSIVE

CARE DESIGN

THE

DEMONSTRATION

AWAKENNENT

LABORATORIES

26. The decision co­ordination cell is composed of 7­12 well­trained, disciplined colleagues representing the other four forms and reflecting the make­up of the parish by phases, sexes and cultures. The cell will have office space and intentional weekly meetings to symbolize their disciplin. The meeting image will be open, but only members participate in the consensus. Week II is a time of planning and includes PSU's and work with other forms of the guild. The cell embodies the role of servant, and its general format is to design models, to co­ordinate the work of the other forms, to care for the guild members, to hold accountabilitY/absolution retes, and to coordinate all assi~nments.

27. The grassroots mobilization corps is composed of a selfconscious group of 20 local community leaders with a representation from the decision coordination cell. At a minimum this group meets weekly in office facilities, visible yet not publicized. Their task is to build models in the areas of nurture, training and mobilization of manpower utilizing highly developed manpower resource data bank, communications net, manpower recruitment and training network to meet all immediate and projected guild and community requirements. They are imaged as disciplined catalytic generators.

28. Comprehensive care design is composed of full­time and part­time staff of 30 to 50 volunteer workers. A small core group is assigned by the decision coordination cell. They must be structural revolutionaries with at least three self­conscious churchmen. This group is identifiable to the parish and meets weekly as a full body in the nodal office. Their procedural format includes "ridding and problematting the parish, conducting parish PSU's, building models for adequate care structures, and refining those structures already in existonce.

29. The demonstration awakenment laboratories are composed of 6­12 people who are disciplined and highly trained troops including movement pedagogues, regional movemental leadership such as guardians, local church cadre members and committed LENS graduates. They meet once a week at a popular node and are an intentional visible sign of awakenment in the parish. The general format of the laboratories includes marketing the LENS course, sponsoring special methods courses in the parish and catalyzing intentional follow­up and training of course grads in order to enable grassroot mobilization.

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THE

COMMUNITY

CELEBRATION

EUENTS

CONCLUSION

30. The community celebration events for~ of the­guild ia composed of 8­20 parishioners. At least one is a latent churchman and all are imaginal educators or have skills in the fine arts. Their meetinga are held in visible places which are accessible and open to all parish residents. They meet quarterly and whenever it is necesaary to activate parish celebrative events. Possible celebrative themes are heritage, local history, urs, and religious and national holidays. Possible forms are street fairs, festivals, dinners, son~ fests. and art fair~

31. The form of the guild consists of the primal guild, which in witnessing to the resurgence continually plumbs the creativity of loca man; the guild system, which coordinates the efforts of the prim­1 guilds for the purpose of focusing their thrust and enabling their effectiveness in responding to the demands of care; the guild network, whi¢h in discerning with boldness the ever new vision, sees that the entire guild construct remains a lively reaponse to the global situation. The form of the guild will differ therefore from the form of other secular institutions of care in the guild's dedication expressed in its very structure to continually expand the dimensions of its human concern, shifting the arenea of its action in response to the cries of innocent suffering which are interpreted as the hiatoric demand.