Sequence Description

• Phase 1: Sequential Social Thanksgiving​

• Phase 2: Spontaneous Thanks

• Phase 3: Silence

This sequence goes from verbose gratitude expression to its formless expression via the spontaneous thanks intermediary step.

Facilitation Notes

• Some people like to mark the shifts between these phases with a bell, while others like to invite participants to take their cue from the facilitator on when to shift between phases.

• When facilitating this practice virtually, it's recommended that you organize people in small groups of 3-5–at least for the first phase, while the order is sequential. It's ideal if you can configure the break-outs so that everyone comes back from the first phase automatically after a set period of time. Otherwise, it's probably best to do the whole sequence in the small groups.

Created by Vince Fakhoury Horn​

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