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Last updated: October 31, 2026

Integrated the full available transcript of Meeting 5 (31 October) from the private Meeting Archive repository. The group clarified contribution beyond hosting events, reported attendance at its first offers, and named practical support requests. Participation, finances, and the six guidelines remain open; a collective-first website is a proposal. The next meeting was agreed for 17 November at 15:30, with timezone confirmation still needed.

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Purpose of this page: maintain one current view of what the group is creating. The meeting participation table, findings, decisions, proposals, and guidelines are all here. Original transcripts stay in the Meeting Archive repository; earlier Notion archive records remain historical references (links under Sources).

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Help shape the project: Open ‣. Choose a topic and add yourself under “People exploring,” then write your notes in “What we found.” Anyone can add a topic. When it is ready, set its stage to “Ready to discuss” so the group can consider it at a meeting.

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Current direction

Common Ground is developing as a collaborative umbrella for practitioner-led offers, supported by an inner field of mutual help.

1. Public contribution: members bring meditation, inquiry, counseling, conversations, or other experiments into the world under a shared name and value field.
2. Collaborative support: other members may help through moderation, presence, feedback, recording, editing, communication, design, or technical work.
3. A simple public pathway: Instagram helps people encounter the work; common-ground.space is live. Its event, practitioner, and booking pathways can be reviewed and refined as the group learns.
4. An inner relational field: honest reflection, encouragement, exchange of experience, and possible intervision support the people doing the work.

This does not yet imply a uniform collective practice or equal involvement in every offer. The emerging model allows individual initiative within a shared field.

Clarification from Meeting 5: Irene and Nico emphasized that contribution can include practical help, introductions, writing, relational presence, and experimentation; hosting an event is not the only way to belong or contribute. Luisa said the larger project still felt abstract and that experiencing an event helped her understand its potential. This working direction should therefore remain an invitation to clarify together, rather than an assumption that everyone already shares the same understanding.

Current working understanding — not yet a final group statement: Common Ground is a shared space where practitioners rooted in presence and inquiry can initiate meaningful work, support one another in bringing it forward, and offer others a human way to encounter that work.

What changed in Meeting 3 — 20 September 2026

• The outward purpose became clearer: bring the group’s shared values and quality of presence beyond itself, rather than function mainly as peer support.
• The group moved from abstract exploration to named commitments around Instagram, the domain, website, recordings, visual identity, meditation, and inquiry events.
• One member may originate an offer while others support it without becoming co-owners of it.
• Common Ground became the project identity and common-ground.space the chosen domain; the platform is now live.
• Instagram was chosen as the first public communication channel; the website was planned as a simple destination and booking space. The platform is now live at common-ground.space.
• Absent members should be invited to state whether and how they want to participate, without their silence blocking the people who are acting.

What changed in Meeting 4 — 17 October 2026