Core methods | about 45 minutes | free
Understand overlapping participation and repeated cross-topic learning through a small structural rehearsal.
A paper exercise about the classic structure, not delivery of a licensed or full Team Syntegrity event. It does not replace facilitation, topic formation, role allocation or the complete protocol. Other developed formats exist.
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Fictional case: a regional partnership needs to consider twelve interdependent topics about access to advice. For the classic structural model, use twelve topic groups and thirty participants, with each person a member of two groups and each group having five members. This is a membership calculation only; critic, observer and facilitator roles are additional and must not be erased from a real design. For a small original rehearsal, focus on three topics: A access, B workforce and C funding. Lia is in A and B; Mo in B and C; Ren in C and A. In round 1, A proposes longer opening hours, B identifies an unfilled staffing requirement and C states a fixed short-term budget.
Use paper, your own drawing tool or the notes below. Attempt each step before opening its comparison. Describe a diagram in words when that is more accessible.
Produce: Two independent counts of membership places.
Twelve groups times five members gives 60 places. Thirty participants times two memberships also gives 60. The counts agree, but arithmetic alone does not prove a valid icosahedral allocation, workable timetable or fair process. Nor does it count the separate critic and observer roles.
Produce: A round-2 note for each topic.
Lia can bring workforce constraints into access; Mo can bring staffing implications into funding; Ren can connect funding limits back to access. A might revise opening hours or propose a bounded trial. B might distinguish staff capacity from scheduling. C might examine whether a different allocation is possible. This is an original reduced network exercise, not a miniature claimed to preserve the full Syntegrity protocol.
Produce: One structural difference and one possible consequence.
The overlapping membership and recurrent reconsideration are absent. A report-back can transmit a summary, but need not let each topic's reasoning be altered through repeated encounters with the others. A good facilitator could still enable learning; the point is to inspect the communication design rather than assume any workshop is Syntegration.
Produce: Two design questions and a record of unresolved disagreement.
Ask who helped form the opening question and who cannot participate under the proposed format. Ask how critics can challenge an emerging account and how disagreements survive synthesis. A symmetric allocation does not guarantee equal influence, legitimacy or consensus. Record a remaining disagreement, such as access versus staffing priorities, rather than describing it as resolved by geometry.
These checks test the supplied case, not your overall competence. Open answers and model variants still need your judgement.
A conference has twelve tables and thirty delegates. The organiser declares the process to be Syntegrity and promises consensus.
The counts are not the method. Inspect topic formation, overlapping memberships, critic and observer roles, recurrent discussion, facilitation and the underlying structure. Do not promise an agreement that participants have not made.
Lia attends A only and Mo attends B only, while Ren carries every message. What structural risk appears?
Cross-topic learning depends on one person, creating a bottleneck and a privileged interpreter. Other connections or repeated cross-topic encounters would be needed. The repair should preserve accurate differences rather than force every group to repeat Ren's summary.
A different model can be defensible when its purpose, assumptions and reasoning are explicit. A contradiction, incorrect unit, invented fact or unacknowledged change of purpose needs repair. Keep both your first attempt and revision.
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The complete original case above is free. Links below distinguish exercises from explanations, recordings, software and paid study. Reading a page or drawing in a tool is not itself a model check.
Check the structural arithmetic and the difference between a membership exercise and the complete facilitated process.
HTML account inspected, including the classic twelve topics, thirty participants, two memberships and separate critic/observer roles.
Further reading for each framework row, including the separate references associated with transposing theory.
Public sharing confirmed; approach and theory bibliography inspected. The presence of a reference does not establish that it contains self-check exercises.
For a full facilitated process, ask about design, participation, licensing, outputs and evaluation. The structural rehearsal here is not a branded delivery substitute.
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