Provisional asset · built from session photos · drivers and barriers shown per the group's own placement · pending David's transcription for the final version
Conditions Hub Asset · TNN Retreat
Mutual Obligation
One of the seven neighborhood components · Activity 3, what makes it viable
This board collected what has to be present for mutual obligation to be real, the conditions under which people owe each other something and act on it. The group also placed a set of drivers, the forces they saw shaping the dynamic, and sketched a wider block of notes trying to connect the components to each other. Everything below is read from the session photos and is provisional until David's transcription.
Enabling conditions
What has to be present
01Accountable both ways
02Willing to give at a cost
03Help is askable
04Mutual aid and adoptionphoto unclear: adoption or adaptation
05Clearly defined expectations
06Terms of agreement
07Available resources are publicly available and accessible
08Stories that encourage the shared identity of a place
09It doesn't have to be your thing to be our thing
10Room to challenge the patterns of white supremacy and the dominant narratives
11A resident's desire to be a visible citizen
12A person or entity wanting to be a visible part of the placetop-right square, partly legible
Drivers
Forces the group named
D1Scarcity mindset
D2White supremacy culture, named as a system of domination
Open question for revision · driver or barrier
The group placed these as drivers, the forces shaping mutual obligation. In a revised version, decide whether each reads as a driver that pushes the dynamic or a barrier that undermines it. A scarcity mindset and a culture of domination can do either, depending on how the network chooses to name them.
Barriers
What undermines it
Not captured on this board. The Activity 4 layer that names what undermines the conditions was not completed here, so this asset carries conditions and drivers only. Barriers can be added from David's transcription or a short follow-up pass.
The board at a glance
Conditions around the component
Mutual obligation at the center, the enabling conditions arranged around it, and the two drivers the group placed set apart in terra. The shape, not the exact positions, is the read: many conditions, two named forces, no barriers yet.
The group's connecting notes
Their wider thinking, kept as written
Captured verbatim · placement to be decided in revision
The group reached past mutual obligation and tried to connect the components to each other. These notes are held here rather than dropped, to honor the work, with where they belong left for a later pass.
Complexity
Is our niche the hyperlocal? The contextualization of complex realities in specific places with specific neighbors.
Flourishing neighborhoods everywhere, the vision. And an imagination for our counter-narrative.
We need the skills and responsibilities to navigate complexity.
Practices and commitments feed imaginations. Create on-ramps into a different way of being.
Trans-neighborhood and local neighborhood. The interconnection of ecosystems.
Activators. Sacred vision. Narrators of this.
God is building this work, we are just joining Him.
Each local place illuminates and echoes the bigger picture.
Open, and worth carrying forward
Threads
T1
Driver or barrier
The green notes were placed as drivers. Revisit whether scarcity mindset and a culture of domination read as drivers or as barriers when the network names them.
T2
The barriers layer is missing
This board did not capture what undermines the conditions. Add it from transcription or a short follow-up so the component carries both halves.
T3
Where the connecting notes belong
The pencil block reaches toward niche, vision, and ecosystem questions that exceed this component. Decide whether it seeds a separate strategy artifact.
T4
Reading uncertainties
Adoption or adaptation, one half-hidden blue note, and a partly legible top-right square. David's transcription settles these.