Vitality Steward
Vitality Stewards (Code of Resonance) walk closest to the community at the heart of every Living Lab: holding the dialogues where people see what is, re-imagine what could be, and find a step they feel moved to take, and accompanying the community from its portraits to Compass and through the seasons that follow. If you feel called to the role, this page is for you. If you are new to the Living Lab, begin with the Vision.
As a Vitality Steward, you are a whole, multidimensional person: perhaps a facilitator, coach, artist, healer, researcher, or member of a community, and more. You bring your own life, crafts, and ways of knowing, and you may carry lenses of your own. What Stewards share is a commitment to the Living Lab's values and a shared core, the same care, ethics, and rigor in every Living Lab, learned together through the Steward journey. Your gifts and that shared core meet in every dialogue you hold.
Who Stewards Are
Holding dialogues and portraits.
Hold dialogues. One-on-one dialogues with community members, listening through an ecological lens, from what is, to what could be, to a step each person feels moved to take, bringing your whole self to how you hold space.
Make sense, with care. Working alongside AI, with care for every voice and every safeguard, so findings stay true to what people shared.
Compose portraits. Shaping Vitality Portraits in your own voice.
Tend yourself. Noticing how your presence shapes what is heard, and honoring your own rhythms and vitality.
Developing the Vitality Signal. In Compass, the season in which the Vitality Signal grows from many communities' discoveries:
Carrying your community's Survey Seeds, drawn from its portraits, into the shared survey, keeping members' own words wherever possible.
Accompanying the pilot and the sharing, inviting a few members to try the survey, then sharing it within your community's own circles, with care and consent.
Reflecting on the bloom together, walking with your community as it receives its own Vitality Signal and makes sense of it.
Co-stewarding with the community, for the long term.
Walking alongside in motion, as the community tends its seeds of action, through light check-ins and the living action log.
Holding the Living Lab across seasons, welcoming each new cohort, and weaving its voices into the community's portrait and living story.
Carrying the vision, in the community's own way, closest to MAGICommons' vision and mission, while every choice stays the community's.
What you bring
A community of practice.
Fellow Stewards to reflect with, learn from, and grow alongside, so you need not hold it alone.
A deepening practice. Every dialogue deepens your craft of listening, holding space, and making sense, and the shared core gives your own gifts solid ground to grow from.
The Steward strand. An inquiry of your own, where your vitality and learning count in their own place, so tending yourself becomes part of the research, not apart from it.
Ready protocols, so you need not start from scratch:
Open protocols for consent, care for data, and every stage of a Living Lab, from preparing each season of dialogues to developing the Vitality Signal.
A full guide that gathers every step, prompt, and template in one place, with AI support already set up for you.
The Steward journey, a shared preparation walked alongside experienced Stewards.
A fair share, and a voice.
A share in the value of the Living Labs you hold. Stewards take part in the same revenue-sharing infrastructure as partner practitioners. One proposal is that shares be set project by project, for each Living Lab a Steward holds; its exact shape will be co-shaped openly, together with Stewards and the community. Any lens you bring stays your own, and is always credited.
A voice in the commons. A seat in shaping how the Living Lab and the Vitality Signal evolve, through the emerging stewardship circle.
Pathways to grow. Through the Play Space, the regenerative incubator, or partnership, you may develop your own lenses and offerings, and in time accompany newer Stewards.
What flows back to you
As a Steward, you walk a shared preparation in the Living Lab's practice and care: its values and research foundation, the art of holding dialogue, consent and care for data, working with AI, and composing portraits. The journey is still taking shape, together with our first Stewards. You may arrive through the Play Space or the regenerative incubator, as a partner practitioner, or from within a community that hosts a Living Lab. The journey in depth lives in the Steward journey.
Rooting into stewardship. Vitality Stewards are grown rather than certified: you root into the practice by walking the Steward journey and co-holding a cohort alongside an experienced Steward, until fellow Stewards welcome you to hold a Living Lab of your own.