E.3.1.b Triangles

The Triangle is a mechanism of study established to generate a continuous reflection about each of our Lifeline Plans, this is a type of openness and accountability and a way to create a permanent critical space among the organizations that are part of each Triangle.

The heart of the Triangles are three organizations that commit to habitually developing their own refletions about each other’s Lifeline Plans. These reflections will be shared every three months in the TAM TAM - Newsletter, one of the communications tools that we use to share our rhythms: (see E.3.2.a).

Each organization in the triangle:

• Translates its own Lifeline into English

• Reads the lifeline of both of the other organizations within the triangle.

• Asks friendly, constructive and critical questions

• Coaches and supports the other organizations as necessary

• Shares its own difficulties, failures, successes

One way to to balance limitations in terms of time, resources, and geographical distance is to optimize the use of the online platform of AC (again not without its own limitation due to the discrepancy of internet access in the different regions) in order to work in the Triangles.

Principles for Triangles

• Inside the Triangle

It is expected that in the meetings of the triangles the harvesting process will be implemented. (See Section E.3.1.b/Tools Developed by AC/Harvesting)

• Each Triangle

  • Is self-organized

  • Is aware of different types of resources available within its own ecosystem.

  • Watches out for inclusiveness of diversity and differences of groups in the ecosystem.

  • Shares what has been important for each organization during the past period.

  • Is a place in which radical imagination can occur depending on the needs of each organization

  • Is aware of AC ethical principles

  • Is aware of and try to localize the AC Identity

As a replacement of an Annual Institutional Review, AC will undertake a yearly peer-review using the Triangle method of organisation to organisation conversations and mentorship. The Assembly will be the ‘Annual General Meeting’, and the occasion for studying together core issues and questions that emerge in each of our plans during the year.