The Facilitator's Catechism

This paper traces operations orders (OPORD) from antiquity through contemporary military and civilian practice and their role in organizational sensemaking. It draws on complexity science, organizational psychology, high-reliability organizations, memetics, logistics, knowledge management, and Active Inference to articulate requirements and limits of existing formats, and proposes a catechism-style operations order for process facilitators bridging military, intelligence, and civilian teams.