LLL Work Products 2000-2002
Purpose Statement
...Realize, deepen and share the love and wisdom inherent in breastfeeding
Set of Organizational Principles
Participants*...
...Honor each others':
- Right and responsibility to:
- Determine their own identity and needs, and
follow their own judgment and instincts.
- Protect what belongs to them, what is
important to them and their privacy.
- Inform their choices considering scientific
knowledge, experience and intuition.
- Voluntarily connect with others to pursue their
goals.
- Right to:
- Create new parts of the system.
...When working with others:
- Make room for family.
- Honor obligations.
- Educe, not compel.
- Are open to and look for opportunities for
generosity and joy.
- Work through and resolve conflict without
threats, coercion or intimidation.
- Freely and fully exchange information.
- Are explicit about values.
- Are mutually affirming, supporting and
accountable.
- Deliberate and make decisions in ways
that reasonably represent those affected
without any one dominating.
- Entrust only sufficient authority and power
as necessary to accomplish common
work.
...Work as a system to:
- Remain open and welcoming to new
participants and parts.
- Ensure diversity and health.
- Create conditions which foster learning,
development and growth.
- Keep or shift power, authority and
resources to the smallest or most local
part that includes those affected.
- Create no built-in advantage or
disadvantage for any part or participant.
- Remain coherent and disciplined as a
whole.
- Protect, not undermine, breastfeeding,
mothering and family.
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*Participants can be individuals or parts of the system.
Participants
| Largest possible participant pool |
All individuals and institutions seeing their purpose within the purpose statement. |
| Essential participant pool |
Accredited LLLI Leaders (mothers who have experienced the full, normal course of breastfeeding). |
Organizational Concept
General Concept
When creating any part of the organization, participants should:
- Identify the consensus agreement to which all participants are and will be willing to adhere,
- Establish a system of personal and mutual accountability to give everyone confidence that the agreement is, in fact, being observed,
- Organize into a distributed system to make sure that all other decision-making stays as local as possible.
Structural Building Blocks
Legal structures, incorporation |
Self-org groups of participants |
| Learn, share, support purpose and principles |
| Breastfeeding purpose and principles |
Universal purpose and principles |
Learning, sharing and supporting |
| Breastfeeding relationship |
Connections among caring women
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Informal and personal layers are the foundation for layers of purpose and principles, which themselves are the foundation for the structural layers.
Common Threads
- All structures are in service to people, not the other way around. It’s the people who are responsible for the purpose, etc., not the structures.
- All formal structures are in service to informal or instinctive structures, not the other way around.
- All structures should be an expression of
- consensus (a common feeling at the informal, personal pre-formal layers),
- commonality (recognizing what is shared in the context of purpose and principles), and
- agreement (formalizing what is shared).
Visual Depiction
Consensus "councils" are shown as nested, pyramidal structures within each agreement "entity". Activities and accountability are shown as distributed networks across and among participants.
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