Method guide · Progress through phases
Timing and Pacing Checkpoint
Choose the next pace from remaining time and anonymous readiness, reducing outputs rather than protected requirements or extending the meeting.
- People
- 3–50
- Base procedure time
- 12 minutes
- Recording
- Shared record
Purpose: Make a decision; Reflect and learn.
English guide
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How this method works
A method for choosing the next pace again from remaining time and group readiness. Do not proceed by the clock alone: receive understanding, participation, and fatigue without names, then choose moving on, staying, resting, or reducing outputs. Do not extend the end time; show outputs to protect, outputs to reduce, and the next checkpoint. Do not fill unfinished work through overtime; hand it over with an owner, checking contact, and next occasion. Do not make emergency, medical, safety, consent, or statutory-break requirements subject to group choice; prioritise formal procedures. Do not disclose individual readiness. The outputs are the chosen pace, output boundaries, and unfinished-work handover. This description is a distinct adaptation, with changes, of Timing and Pacing by Rhizome, published in Commons Library, under CC BY-SA 4.0, and is provided under the same terms.
Phase schedule
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- Show remaining time and essential outputs0–2 minutes from the start (2 minutes)
Action: Show what remains. Participation: Everyone.
Shared record
- Receive understanding, participation, and fatigue anonymously2–5 minutes from the start (3 minutes)
Action: Receive readiness. Participation: Individually and everyone.
Shared record
- Compare moving on, staying, resting, and reducing outputs5–8 minutes from the start (3 minutes)
Action: Compare pace. Participation: Everyone.
Shared record
- Decide next pace and outputs to reduce8–10 minutes from the start (2 minutes)
Action: Decide pace. Participation: Everyone.
Shared record
- Set the next checkpoint and unfinished-work owners10–12 minutes from the start (2 minutes)
Action: Hand over unfinished work. Participation: Everyone.
Shared record
Facilitation steps
- For 2 minutes, write and show remaining time, essential outputs, and reducible outputs on the list.
- For 3 minutes, receive readiness on understanding, participation, and fatigue without names and show only aggregates.
- For 3 minutes, compare moving on, staying, resting, and reducing outputs without extending the end time.
- For 2 minutes, decide one next pace, one output to protect, and one output to reduce.
- For 2 minutes, record the next checkpoint and unfinished-work owner, checking contact, and next occasion.
If something changes
If
Even one proposal cuts safety, consent, breaks, or emergency, medical, or statutory responses.
Then
Remove it from the choices and reduce output volume or the number of presentations to protect required responses.
If
Even one person suffers disadvantage or pressure to speak from disclosure of readiness.
Then
Switch to anonymous input and passing, showing only aggregates without identifying individuals.
If
One or more unfinished items remain while the end time cannot be extended.
Then
Do not ask for an extension or overtime. Record only unfinished-work owners, checking contacts, and the next occasion, and finish.
Preparation
Materials
- One whole-group self-made list of remaining time, essential outputs, and reducible outputs
- One unnamed readiness card per person
- One whole-group move-on/stay/rest/reduce-outputs card set
- One whole-group field for unfinished-work owner, checking contact, and next occasion
- One whole-group timer
- 2 whole-group broad-tip pens
Room and setup
- Display end time, remaining time, essential outputs, and reducible outputs, without assuming an extension
- Receive readiness on understanding, participation, and fatigue without names; show only non-identifying aggregates and offer passing equally
- Choose moving on, staying, resting, or reducing outputs. Do not make emergency, medical, safety, consent, or statutory-break requirements subject to group choice; prioritise formal procedures
Adjust for people and time
With 3–50 people, do not split the whole group; receive readiness anonymously just once and decide the next pace within twelve minutes. With 51 or more, do not publicly aggregate individual readiness; use separate sessions in the original dialogue units, keep the same end time, and show essential outputs first.
Safety and non-applicable situations
Keep readiness anonymous and offer passing without personal disclosure or speaking pressure. Protect safety, consent, breaks, emergency/medical/statutory responses from group negotiation. Reduce outputs rather than those requirements; do not extend the end time or ask for overtime to finish. Record handover contacts and next checks instead.
Manuscript's recorded references
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- Commons Library / Rhizome Facilitation Tools and Techniques: Timing and Pacing
https://commonslibrary.org/facilitation-tools-and-techniques/#h-timing-and-pacing
Adaptation under CC-BY-SA-4.0; changes made
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