practice · all tools
Purpose connection moments
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharedoptional
To maintain a thread between daily work and larger purpose. At the beginning or end of regular team meetings, include a brief moment connecting to purpose. This can take different forms: • One team member shares a moment when they felt the team's work was particularly… An ongoing team scaffold (meeting element), run each meeting, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 3-5 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, values-clarification
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Each meeting)
Origin & where it lives
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Model by occasionally sharing your own sense of purpose connection. Protect this time even when the agenda is full.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25