I mostly use Convergent Facilitation in a fluid way, applying elements as and when I see it would be useful. I’ve used it in contexts such as creating agreements within my community about how to use the living space in a way that supports us all to want to contribute to paying the bills, with myself or others to decide next steps of where to travel or live, and I also wrote the process into the programme design for creating “collaborative classrooms”, enabling teachers to work with the children to align their classroom practices to the class charter. I see collaboration much like building any building; the more we know what the available materials are to build with, the more capacity we have to build something fit for purpose and that will last. Likewise with people, the more we access and include the raw materials of what is important to us (and thus cultivate a sense of matter-ing – that what is important to me literally has substance), the more robust and lasting a decision will be.