Provisional asset · built from session photos · conditions, barriers, drivers and dimensions per the group's own placement · pending David's transcription for the final version
Conditions & Barriers Hub Asset · TNN Retreat

Institutional Anchors

One of the seven neighborhood components · Activity 3 (what makes it viable) and Activity 4 (what undermines it)

This board mapped what has to be present for institutions to act as anchors for a neighborhood rather than over it, the conditions under which an institution holds power and resources in service of the common good. The group named the barriers that undermine those conditions and the larger forces, placed as drivers, working from the Activity 2 dimensions carried in below. Read from the session photos and provisional until David's transcription.

Carried in from Activity 2

The dimensions these attach to

★Connection to the institutionUnderstands the common stakesHealthy and diverseClosely answerable to its community
Enabling conditions

What has to be present

01Willingness to die
02Place and scale of commitment
03Money and agency to spend in community
04Resourcing, not controlling
05Power source is people, not money
06Shared power and governance
07Initiatives of transformation, co-led and shared with neighbors
08Holds trust in multiple spaces between communities
09Mission or purpose is neighborhood thriving“includes” crossed out, replaced with “is”
10Humble collaborative posture that lets go of control, shares power, and serves and lifts the common good
11Creative money to support the margin
12Inefficiency toward the margin and faithfulnessreading uncertain
13People who can hold and navigate complexity
Drivers

Forces the group named

D1Capitalism
D2Doctrine of Discovery
D3Institutions failing: when it happens they turn inward, hoard resources, protectionism
Open question for revision · driver or barrier

The group placed these in green as the larger forces around institutional anchors. Capitalism, the Doctrine of Discovery, and institutional failure can read as drivers that shape the dynamic or as barriers that undermine it. Decide which in revision.

Barriers

What undermines it

B1Lack of interest in the common good (only taking care of our own)
B2Holding onto power, control, memory, and money for the few instead of using it toward the next good
B3Program imposed from outside
B4Decisions made about communities by people unaffected by the outcomes of their decisions
B5Charismatic leader who doesn't share power or work well with others
B6Power centralized in one or two people or families
B7Colonial theology
B8MIA, or the unrealized potential of churches
B9Not at the table, or underrepresented neighborsplaced on a yellow condition note in red
The board at a glance

Around the component

Institutional anchors at the center, the enabling conditions around it, and the barriers the group named set apart in rose. The Activity 2 dimensions are the anchors these attach to. Drivers are listed above, not drawn.

barriers INSTITUTIONALANCHORS
Open, and worth carrying forward

Threads

T1

The dimensions carry forward

The dot appears to land on connection to the institution, read provisionally from the photo. Confirm the voted dimension in revision.

T2

Driver or barrier

Capitalism, the Doctrine of Discovery, and institutional failure were placed as green drivers. Revisit whether they read as drivers or barriers.

T3

A condition or a gap

“Not at the table, or underrepresented neighbors” was placed on the conditions side but reads as a barrier. Decide where it belongs.

T4

Overlapping middle

This board shares a sheet with Recognition & Belonging, and the money, margin, and power notes sit between them. A few were partly hidden. David's transcription settles attribution.