Selecting Lock Point Participants

A Collective Intelligence Lock Point brings people together around one consequential question.

The standard Lock Point is designed for up to 12 participants.

Custom configurations for larger groups are available by arrangement with the Host.

Selecting participants is not simply a matter of inviting the leadership team, filling seats, or choosing representatives from an organizational chart.

The people are selected in relationship to the question.

Begin with one consideration:

Whose experience, perspective, knowledge, or relationship to what is happening belongs in this conversation?

Some people may be close to a decision. Others may be living with its consequences.

Some may carry organizational history. Others may see possibilities that are only beginning to emerge.

Some voices are frequently heard. Others may carry experiences and perspectives that rarely enter the same conversation.

The purpose is not to assemble a perfectly balanced group or engineer agreement.

It is to bring together people whose presence may allow the question to be encountered more fully.

A Lock Point begins from a simple premise:

Every person enters as the world expert on their own becoming.

Position, expertise, and organizational authority matter. But they do not give one person greater authority over another person's lived experience.

A senior executive and a frontline employee may understand the same organizational change differently.

Neither experience cancels the other.

The Lock Point creates a protected place where those different experiences can encounter one another.

The Host provides organizational context and works with James Egbert, the facilitator, to consider whose presence may matter.

The Host invites participants and helps establish the practical conditions for the Lock Point.

If the Host also participates, they enter the dialogue under the same conditions as everyone else.

For larger groups, Becoming Gate works with the Host to design a configuration appropriate to the question, participants, and circumstances.

Return once more to the consequential question.

Consider who has been invited—and who has not.

Whose experience is close to the decision?

Whose experience is close to its consequences?

Whose perspective might otherwise remain unheard?

The purpose is not to assemble the perfect group.

It is to bring together people who may encounter the question—and one another—differently.

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