At the end of 2016 George Por posted an article called Mapping a LifeWork 
which drew some of its inspiration from the workings of Holacracy . This evolving article attempts to map out my own “Circle of LifeWork” or “Holacracy of One”, seeing myself as a multi-faceted, multi-potential “human organization” of wholes within wholes…
*The directions in my Circle of LifeWork represent roles in the Holacratic sense; they are organizational entities used to define certain functions of the organization. The definition of a Role includes a Purpose to express, Domain(s) to control, and Accountabilities to perform.* *What makes the Holacratic concept of “role” suitable to play in structuring the energies present in the Circle is that we all are organizations. Not institution, but organization in the sense of bottom-up organizing of the atoms, molecules, tissues and organs that make up our body, and the joint organizing of our social identity with the social fields in which we are embedded.* – George Por
# Excerpts from Holacracy Constitution :
# Responsibilities of Role-Filling
As a Partner of the Organization, you have the following responsibilities for each Role that you are assigned to and agree to fill:
# Processing Tensions You are responsible for monitoring how your Role’s Purpose and Accountabilities are expressed, and comparing that to your vision of their ideal potential expression, to identify gaps between the current reality and a potential you sense (each gap is a “Tension”). You are also responsible for trying to resolve those Tensions by using the authorities and other mechanisms available to you under this Constitution.
# Processing Purpose & Accountabilities You are responsible for regularly considering how to enact your Role’s Purpose and each of your Role’s Accountabilities, by defining: (a) "**Next-Actions**", which are actions you could execute immediately and that would be useful to execute immediately, at least in the absence of competing priorities; and (b) “**Projects**”, which are specific outcomes that require multiple sequential actions to achieve and that would be useful to work towards, at least in the absence of competing priorities.
# Processing Projects You are responsible for regularly considering how to complete each Project you are actively working towards for your Role, including by defining any Next-Actions useful to move the Project forward.
# Tracking Projects, Next-Actions, & Tensions You are responsible for capturing and tracking all Projects and Next-Actions for your Role in a database or similar tangible form, and for regularly reviewing and updating that database to maintain it as a trusted list of the Role’s active and potential work. You are also responsible for tracking any Tensions you identify for your Role, at least until you process them into desired Projects or Next-Actions, or otherwise resolve them.
# Directing Attention & Resources Whenever you have time available to act in your Role, you are responsible for considering the potential Next-Actions you could efficiently and effectively do at that point in time, and executing whichever you believe would add the most value to the Organization from among that subset.
# My Overall Evolutionary Purpose (“OEP”) in Ten Words: ***Sustainable thriving through contributing to accelerating the uplift of humanity***.
**OEP Focus** Area(s) or Context(s): - Education & Entrepreneurship; - Inclusive Place-making & Wealth-making (including Creative Finance); - Edutainment (Enlightening, Expanding, Enriching, Exciting; Encouraging, Elevating) - “Group Genius” FASST Operating Systems (including running local and global incentive competitions to source, adapt and scale the most promising operating systems for improving collaboration, caring, creativity, wholeness, synergy, boldness and fun, for social, economic, cultural and environmental flourishing, thrive-ability and soaring societal progress).
# My Roles: - Role Name: **Explorer-Learner** - Role Purpose: Research, reflection, reaching outwards and inwards to ideas, projects, people, and more, to explore and learn with/from/for. - Domain(s): Action-Research, Networking, Learning. - Accountabilities: (including Next-Actions and Projects):
- Role Name: **Creator-Collaborator** - Role Purpose: To create or co-create ideas, content, project or venture proposals that attract additional resources, and contribute to the OEP. - Domain(s): See OEP Focus areas above. - Accountabilities:
Role Name: **Income Generator** - Role Purpose: To undertake paid work which may or may not be directly related to my OEP. Over time, the intention is to have the freedom to choose paid work that is 100% aligned with my OEP. - Domain(s): Ethical income generating opportunities. - Accountabilities:
- Role Name: **Promotor-Connector** - Role Purpose: To be a story carrier, story teller, advocate, catalyst, connector for others doing work that contributes to uplifting humanity. - Domain(s): All - Accountabilities:
- Role Name: **Friend-Coach** - Role Purpose: To provide generative challenge, support and reflection space-time for self, others (including my son) and “system” or context. - Domain(s): Relationships - Accountabilities:
- Role Name: **Recreationer-Player** - Role Purpose: To relax, play and enjoy taking time to “smell the roses”. - Domain(s): Life - Accountabilities:
# George Por LifeWork Excerpt re Roles:
LifeWork mapping starts as an individual practice of making more meaning of our life, but as it unfolds, it rapidly becomes a community art. Here you will find the explanation of (my roles from) the latest version of my Circle of LifeWork that I update annually, on my birthday:
**East** — VISION HOLDER (Meaning Making) Having been playing this role (formally or informally) in various organizations and groups I’m involved with, I recognize its domain as the future in need of our wise action and collaboration today. The ultimate purpose of this role is to keep me available, moment-to-moment, to the evolutionary impulse, manifesting in/through/as me. The accountabilities of this role include: - Sensing, articulating, and responding to the highest potential of everyone and every situation - Providing a vantage point for my other roles, from which they can deepen their self-knowledge and have their action better aligned with what is needed.
**South** — EVOLUTIONARY AGENT (Relationship Building) This role’s domain is the facilitation of evolutionary transformation in people, organizations, and social systems. Its purpose is to strengthen the ecosystem of co-evolving transformational movements, by fostering meaningful connections among them. The role’s accountabilities include: - Expanding evolutionary entrepreneurship in business, government, and civil society, by helping reinvent them in alignment with the universal principles of self-organization. - Mentoring people and organizations, who want their work to be guided by the next-stage of human consciousness, supported by the R3 framework of Reckoning, Reinventing, Regeneration. - Charting organisational strategies for communities of practice that liberate the creative potential of their members. - Serving thought-leaders and facilitators of transformational change, by being their strategic learning partner and amplifying the impact of their work. - Rebalancing the ravaging effects of the patriarchal millennia on the fabric of social relations, by fostering the mutual power of women and men.
**West** — CO-INTELLIGENCE CATALYST (Co-evolution Fostering) The domain here is the emergent collective intelligence (CI) of groups, organizations, cities, and other complex adaptive social systems. Here, I define CI as the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher-order complexity and harmony, through such innovation mechanisms as variation-feedback-selection, differentiation-integration-transformation, and competition-cooperation-“coopetition”. The role’s purpose is boosting the emergent collective intelligence, consciousness, and impact of the ecosystem of next-stage organizations and initiatives until they become the new mainstream of organizing work. (This purpose of the Co-Intelligence Catalyst role of mine is presently also under exploration as the proposed explicit mission of Enlivening Edge.) The role’s accountabilities can be memorized with a new meaning of the familiar acronym, HTML, which in this case, stands for: - Humans — supporting people who know that none of us is smart as all of us, and want to graduate from communities of learners to communities that learn. - Tools — advising the creation of maps and platforms of transformational movements and post-conventional educational offers, including their Community Knowledge. - Methods — contributing to the development of, and sharing the fruits of, new approaches to augment CI. - Learning — inspiring the formation of communities of CI-boosting practice, where practitioners can become ever better at their art, thanks to the mutual exposure to each other’s mental models and practices.
**North** — PRAXIS RESEARCHER (Knowledge Development) Praxis is the name of the dance floor where Mr. Theory and Ms. Practice caper together. They alternate who is leading, cuddling and clinging with entwined limbs, in good days, knowing that they can get far away from each other only at their own peril. That dance floor is the domain of the Praxis Researcher. My work as a researcher is the work of a basket weaver. My “craft” and purpose is to weave a basket of deep understanding of how the evolution of consciousness and society work and affect each other, and then to share it with all who are inspired to foster that evolution. In that role, I want to dive for ever-deeper truths in the overlap of science, spirituality, technology, and social change. The accountabilities of this role include: - Conducting participatory action research (PAR) into the future of work and organizing - Developing scalable PAR methodologies suitable to cause the resolution of wicked challenges in organizations and social systems - Contributing to the further development of the PAR field, through writing and publishing, and through cultivating epistemic communities
**Center** — THE UNSPEAKABLE QUALITY In the center of my Circle of Lifeworks, the space is held for an unspeakable quality, or “the quality without a name”, as Christopher Alexander calls it. (Alexander, Christopher (1979). The Timeless Way of Building. Oxford University Press) There are names that try to describe that space, like Wholeness, Emptiness, Non-duality, Oneness, the Source, the Light, and more (including the Force, for Star Wars fans.) They all reflect an aspect of the unspeakable quality, but when a name is given, its living, multidimensional nature is reduced to a concept. I hold it as the evolutionary impulse manifesting in/through/as me, as well as in/through/as all of us.