Weave Spirit, Hearts, and Minds

Move two: coherence before action. A Circle that has not become one will not choose well.

This is the move most groups skip and most groups later wish they had not. Between gathering the people and picking the work, a body has to become one body: spirit, so that the ØNE the work serves is shared and not assumed; hearts, so that the people trust each other with the truth; minds, so that the picture of where you are and where you are going is actually the same picture in each head.

It is load-bearing because coherence is what the later moves spend. A Quest chosen by a Circle that has not woven will be chosen by the loudest voice. A gap reported honestly in week five requires trust built in week one. Circle Coherence names the condition; this move is how a body reaches it, and reaches it again after it is lost.

How it is played. Spirit first: silence together, the Three Supreme Agreements said plainly, or whatever form your table's traditions give to what is above the work. Hearts: each person says why they are here and what they are carrying — this is what Check In becomes when it is done in earnest. Minds: craft the shared picture, asking each member how would you like the world to be?, and write down, in a few honest lines, where the body actually is. Dialogos and Listening are the instruments; Speaking Truth In Love is the discipline. The weave is not a one-time ceremony — it is repeated at every turning and after every rupture, and it is what Mend a Tension restores.

Also called: coherence before action Stands on: Spirit · Spirit Precedes Pattern · Circle Coherence · Right Relationship Opens onto: Choose a Quest · Check In · Dialogos · The Turn · Vision In play: table Sources: The Seven Moves, move 2 (captured) · The DNA of Heaven, Part V — "coherence before action" (Fable synthesis, second draft) · The Game at the Table, §The Vision and §Sensemaking (current best understanding) · lionsberg.wiki: The Seven Moves Open: The move has no card of its own anywhere in the corpus — it is named in a captured list and nowhere articulated. Its content here is composed from the Vision and Sensemaking sections and from the Patterns it obviously invokes; it should be treated as a proposal until a card exists. · The five-move form has no place for it; whether it is a move or a condition is unsettled.