Welcome Chaos...

By introducing you to the Possibility of unleashing and harvesting positive benefits of Chaos in your meetings and Teams, we are at the same time inviting you to a life-long skills development Path. If you accept the offer, and you practice well, the world will work differently for you. We speak from our own experience.

So much of what happens in a Team seems tainted with resentment, fear, competition, power struggles, revenge, and inexplicable anguish, that the very idea of starting a Circle and trying again looks distasteful in the extreme.

It can help to thoroughly study the Torus Technology (http://torustechnology.org) website and give yourself permission to recognize how much you do not know about what you don't yet know.

The practical differences are radical and vast between operating in the Context, Purpose, and Procedures of a Circular Team rather than a Hierarchical Team .

This small section in this website cannot suffice even as a mini-handbook for Circular organizations. We will at best open a few doors for your further exploration.

- Hierarchical Team members sit around a table so that the center of the Space is blocked and covered, and so that participants can hide behind the objects on the table in front of them and behind the table itself.

- Circular Team members sit in chairs a circle around an empty space (no flowers, candles, flags, scarves, crystals, sea shells, pictures of your mother...) so that Nothingness is available as an Infinite Resource for Creation. People sit in straight-backed chairs, because sitting hunched over in cross-legged position on the floor forces the belly and chest to scrunch over into a physical position that interferes with breathing freely and Consciously Feeling and using your Feelings and Emotions.

- The 'Leader' of the Hierarchical meeting sits at the head of the table so that everyone knows who has the power and the final say. The 'Leader' works from an Agenda, where the answers to any questions, or the outcome of any decisions, have already been decided by those higher-up in the Hierarchy. The 'Leader' is the 'Leader' so that everyone else knows they are nothing more than one of the many 'followers'. No organization can use the concept of 'Leadership' without automatically generating 'Followership', the peasants, the Zombies, the economic slaves. The Hierarchical Meeting will never get out of control. There will be no uprising from the masses of slaves. Nothing new can be Created here. A Hierarchical Meeting is a defensive meeting. The status quo is protected, and nothing new can be created.

- In a Circular or Torus Meeting, there is no 'Leader'. What you have instead is a Spaceholder. Being 'Spaceholder' is a job that can be passed on to anyone around the Circle. The Spaceholder's job is to Become A Space, Cavitate Space, Hold Space, and Navigate Space. The Skills of a Spaceholder include Declaring The Energetic Space into existence, guarding the space, making the Grounding Cord, Setting Context, calling in the Bright Principles of the Team, and Navigating Space. A Torus Meeting is an expansive meeting. New things can be created that never existed before, even if they are Transformational.

In Torus (Circular) Meeting Technology, the Team breathes.

• The Team coming together is called 'Convergence', which is the 'inhaling'. 
• The Team breaking out into its various 'Nodes' for Creating and Deciding is the 'Divergence', the 'exhaling'.

Convergence is a 'Uniform Team' where we all do the same thing at the same time.

Divergence is a 'Creation Team' or 'Evolution Team' where each Node does what it needs or wants to do under its own Radically Responsible cognizance.

In Torus Meeting Technology, each and every individual is regarded as a Doorway to Infinite Resources. Everyone is unleashed all at the same time. To be heard and understood, people generally speak one after the other, as navigated by the Spaceholder. Each person's vast intelligence resources are requested.

In Torus Meeting Technology, Feelings and Emotions are experienced as intelligence and energy resources. It is also recognized that Feelings and Emotions are vastly different from each other. Feelings are for handling things. Emotions are for healing things. They both start out feeling the same: Anger, Sadness, Fear, and Joy. But then the difference becomes visible:

• Feelings arise, are used, and then they Experientially disappear in less than 3 minutes.
• Emotions arise, may or may not be expressed, and no matter what you try, they last longer than 3 minutes. Emotions may last an hour, a week... often for months or years. We know that you know what we are talking about...

During either Convergence or Divergence it is often the case that Emotional Reactivity arises.

In Torus Meeting Technology it is contextually clear that Emotions exist in Time. A person in Emotions is not in the Present. Emotions are a blessing and a Doorway for the person feeling them to do an Emotional Healing Process (EHP).

Sometimes the person who is experiencing Emotions recognizes that they are experiencing Emotions. Sometimes they do not.

• When a person in the Circle (everyone in the room is in the Circle, there are no bystanders permitted...) recognizes that they are experiencing Emotions, they say, "I am feeling Emotional Anger (or Emotional Sadness, or Emotional Fear, or Emotional Joy, or Mixed Emotions). Would someone Hold Space for an Emotional Healing Process for me?"  The volunteer EHP Spaceholder goes with Emoting person as their Client into an adjacent Space and Navigates the Emotional Healing Process then and there. When they are through the Process - usually within 20 to 40 minutes - they return to the meeting space and are welcomed back into the meeting, often sharing their insights and discovery Treasures with the Team.
• When a person who is experiencing Emotions is not aware that they are experiencing Emotions - thinking that since they 'feel' them they must be feelings... - then anyone in the room holds up their Purple Card to signal that an Emotional Healing Process would be in order.

If only one member of the Circle holds up their Purple Card... it could be their own personal Emotional Reactivity, and actually they are the one who found a Doorway to an Emotional Healing Process.

But if three, five, or ten members of the Circle hold up their Purple Card, it can be fairly certain that the emoting person has discovered an old wound, a remnant vow, an outdated decision, a Projection, an Expectation, an unconscious fear, an Emotional Block, or some Brain Splits, for example, and the Team can provide them with one or two Spaceholders for their Emotional Healing Process in the next room.

With these simple but powerful arrangements in a Torus Meeting contexted in Radical Responsibility and the Thoughtware and Distinctions of Possibility Management, you have suddenly created an Extraordinary space that is clear and resilient enough of a container to unleash the brilliance of Chaos and Transformation.

From this humble beginning, there is indescribably more value to be discovered and implemented through applying the Infinite Resource of Conscious Chaos.