Cognitive Security · Paper · 2020

The Facilitator's Catechism

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Catalog Row114
Citation KeyFriedman2020FacilitatorSCatechism114
Paper FolderAvailable
DOI10.5281/zenodo.4203765

Overview

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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.

OPORDoperations ordersorganizational sensemakinghigh reliability organizationscomplexityremote teamsActive Inferencecognitive security

Use Notes

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Findings / Concepts
  • Situates operations orders historically and in relation to civilian analogues and sensemaking.
  • Integrates multi-disciplinary lenses (complexity, HRO, KM, Active Inference) on OPORD design constraints.
  • Proposes the Facilitator's Catechism as a structured format for facilitation-centric teams.
Methods / Techniques
  • Historical and comparative analysis of operations orders.
  • Multi-disciplinary synthesis (complexity, org psychology, logistics, memetics, KM, Active Inference).
  • Normative proposal for a new facilitator-oriented order format.

Citation

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Friedman, Daniel Ari. 2020. The Facilitator's Catechism. Zenodo.

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