Appendix B sent you here

Four doors.

Pick the one that's pulling at you. Not the one you should do. The one that's already calling.

Each runs twenty-one days: one move a week, against one object, ending in a capture you post. Sign up, pick a domain, run week one, post the capture, and the ebook unlocks.

Two rules, before you pick

The capture is posted. The person is not.

Report what you did and what it cost you. Never who they were, and never enough detail for a reader to work out who they were.

Buying the book is a Gather Resources rep.

It moves a resource, which is a real rep in a real campaign. A Direct Action rep costs you something you chose, and money you were going to spend anyway is not that.

Skillful Organizing

The Room

Build a gathering that keeps working after you stop carrying it. Three weeks, one structure, and the terms said out loud rather than assumed.

  1. W1Inventory the conditions you are actually working with.
  2. W2Set the terms out loud, to the people they bind.
  3. W3Build one that outlasts you.

The object

A tour stop, hosted or produced end to end.

Gather Resources

The Introduction

Move a resource that costs you something to move. Money is the obvious one and rarely the scarce one — access, a name, and an hour of standing are the harder gifts.

  1. W1Name what is depleted, precisely enough to fill it.
  2. W2Move a resource that costs you.
  3. W3Track what it freed.

The object

An introduction, a venue, or a resource moved toward the Crossing.

Raise Awareness

The Telling

Tell it in a form that suits the telling, then check what moved. Reach is the number that flatters; a changed decision is the number that counts.

  1. W1Choose the form the telling wants.
  2. W2Tell it.
  3. W3Track what actually shifted.

The object

The tour, told to the people who would want it.

Direct Action

The Cost

A rep that costs you something you chose. Week 1 is where the object gets named, and the naming is most of the work.

  1. W1Name the object, and name what it will cost you.
  2. W2Take the action, at the cost you named.
  3. W3Report what it cost and what it changed.

The object

Week 1 names it. Most of these have nothing to do with this book:

  • A boundary held with somebody who outranks you
  • A correction made in the moment rather than afterward
  • A shift covered so somebody else makes the hearing, or the funeral
  • A standing commitment to a body already doing the work
  • A refusal that costs you a relationship you value
  • Standing up a tour stop nobody asked you to run

Fund a Copy

Pay for a book that goes to somebody who cannot buy one, with a real named person on the other end rather than a category. It closes a Gather Resources campaign at week three the way the book describes: the copy is somewhere it is wanted, and it runs without you.

This is a purchase and not a donation, and the organization it will eventually belong to does not legally exist yet. Until it does, a funded copy is a book bought and sent, handled by a person. The organization's actual state is on its own page.

Fund a copy through The Crossing →

Running one against the book tour? Pick how you want to help and it enters the matching campaign.