I first learned of this via the Burning Man Webteam. Hosted at Reclaiming, a site devoted to modern witchcraft and paganism, yet subtitled “No-Magic” and originating from the short classic by Berit Lakey of the Movement for a New Society, a reform movement within the Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, this document may sound like a contradiction. Instead widespread adoption likely attests to the practical success of things that work. And what works for pagans and Quakers, and hackers and Burners, ought also work for many of us.

Meeting facilitation, especially when parties find difficulty in coming to agreement, can be an art. Use this checklist after understanding the approach guided in the companion document “Meeting Facilitation — The No-magic Method” by Berit Lackey of the Movement for a New Society, a reform movement within the Society of Friends, the Quakers.

Sure, Larry Harvey espouses 10 principles for Burning Man. They appear in each summer issue of the Burning Man newsletter. Organizations adopting them, however, do not automatically work. They are not the true principles deep at work underlying functioning communities. Instead, i find other deeper ones. Here is an honest and earnest description of one of them.