# It is our job to clarify and develop methods useful to civil society--methods that can handle exponentially increasing complexity.
Vernacular Systems Models Models for Seeing Systems
A method is a structured procedure for bringing about a certain goal.
A particular procedure for accomplishing or approaching something, especially a systematic or established one.
A particular way of doing something.
We believe that methods that **reveal the systems** we are part of are critical.
Each and every one of these methods and tools must be adapted, even transformed, so they become understandable and handy for the prospective inhabitants. This translation and all it implies is the work I see in front of us. This can only be done in **partnership with neighbors in neighborhoods**.
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We must do this work as builders only. Not as facilitators or active agents in communities--because I do not see how a model dependent upon outsiders or experts can scale and spread in time.
It is important to understand that these methods and tools are held in abeyance or readiness until needed. Like a plumber who only brings the needed tools into the house from his truck. Over time the Control Room and its users will embed, master and adapt these tools to their needs.
This set of methods and tools is not a mere listing. It is a system, or more aptly a pattern language.
DSRP, Distinction, System, Relationships, Perspectives.
Interaction of Enthusiasms of youth, working people, elders.
AIC (Appreciation Influence Control)
Wiki (The Brain)
See also
See Six Aims
See Learning to Wait as a foundational stance and "method."