In this model success is sought in the quality of relationship with nature, not power over it. To facilitate is to elicit, sustain, and enhance self-organizing change. To facilitate a meeting, for example, is to let go of controlling others toward pre-defined results and to help them accomplish what they want. This is what is meant by the word creative . Self-organizing change cannot be planned.
Progress happens through breakthroughs of different kinds.
Not only might there be original insights, but the people involved are changed by the creative process. They might enter the meeting feeling one way and leave feeling the opposite. In a self-organizing dynamic people grow in trust, in their desire for responsibility and in their systems understanding. Just as an analytical process helps people understand the elements of a system, the self-organizing dynamic builds understanding of the whole system. The results of a self-organizing process can seem magical because change happens by itself.