A chosen or imagined belonging formed through shared signs, loyalties, practices, and boundaries.
Verb / doing: gathering; belonging; signaling; excluding
How?: How are we gathering, belonging, signaling, and drawing boundaries?
Form: Affiliation
Stage: Seed
Being
Gathering, signaling, affiliating, excluding.
Belonging
Practicing shared loyalties, symbols, and boundaries.
Becoming
Intensifying or loosening collective identification.
Begetting
Solidarity, protection, conformity, outsiders.