The LIØNSBERG Quick Start Guide

Your First 90 Minutes Together

You Are Here

You have received The Invitation and answered it. You have gathered your circle of 3 to 13 resonant souls. You are sitting together — in person or connected by video. The Walk begins here.

This guide will walk you through your first 90 minutes together — what to read aloud, how to sense-make as a group, and how to choose your first quest.

By the end of today, you will have:

  • Consecrated your circle with a name and simple agreements
  • Read and reflected on The Story and The Great Game together
  • Chosen your first Seasonal Quest
  • Set your ongoing rhythm for gatherings and communications
  • Passed the Flame — identified the 2-3 others each of you will invite next

Let's begin.

Your First 90 Minutes

Minutes 0-10: Welcome & Opening

One person facilitates. Rotate this role in future meetings.

Welcome (~2 min):

  • Acknowledge everyone has received and read The Invitation
  • We're here to step into The Story and The Great Game together
  • This is a threshold moment—we're beginning the crossing from the Old World into the New

Opening Round (~8 min, ~1 min per person):

Go around the circle. Each person briefly shares:

"My name is _____, and I'm here because _____."

Keep it short. This is connection and witnessing, not explanation.

Minutes 10-45: Reading Together

One person reads aloud while others listen with full attention. Don't rush. Let the words land. Rotate readers between pieces or paragraphs if you like.

Reading order:

  1. AURELLIØN's Prolegomenon (~6 min) — the welcome at the threshold
  2. The Story of LIØNSBERG (~10 min)
  3. The Great Game of LIØNSBERG (~18 min) — the rulebook, in one sitting. If time runs short, read The Game on One Page instead, and read the full rulebook together at your next gathering.

Don't worry about understanding everything. Let the story and the game wash over you. Sensing comes before understanding. Some will resonate immediately, some will need time to unfold.

A note for the facilitator: The Story contains a passage on death and transformation that might be challenging for some. No one needs to explain it. No one needs to believe it. Simply let it land, breathe together, and continue when the group is ready.

Minutes 45-70: Sensing & Forming the Circle

Round 1: Individual Reflections (~15 min, ~2-3 min per person)

Go around the circle. Each person shares:

  • What resonated most from what we just read?
  • What questions arose?
  • What gifts do I bring to this circle?

No cross-talk during this round—just listen and witness each person's sharing.

Round 2: Forming the Circle (~15 min)

Now discuss together and decide:

1. Circle Name (~5 min)

Choose a name for your circle—or use a placeholder until one emerges.

Examples:

  • Circle of [Your Location] (e.g., "Circle of Sandpoint")
  • Circle of [Your Focus] (e.g., "Circle of Healing Arts")
  • Circle of [Your Intention] (e.g., "Circle of the Sacred Flame")
  • "Vision Weavers"
  • "Map Weavers"
  • "The Fellowship of the Ring"
  • etc.

Or simply: "Our Circle" until something better emerges.

2. Simple Agreements (~10 min)

Agree on 2-5 core commitments that will hold your circle together.

Suggested starting agreements:

  • Chattam house rules: Participants can share non-confidential information they hear, but they must not name the speaker or those in the meeting.
  • Respect: Honor each person's voice and journey
  • Show up: When you commit to attend, attend
  • Universal Principles and Values: Uphold universal values such as Truth, Love, Justice, Stewardship, and Wisdom
  • Communication: Agree to check in and contribute regularly between meetings to keep the energy and flame of the group alive. Consider setting up a basic platform for asynchronous communications (text, Signal, Discord, Matrix, messenger pigeons, smoke signals, etc.)

Add any others that matter to your specific circle, but keep it simple—2-5 maximum. You can always add more later as needs arise.

Minutes 70-90: Choosing Your Quest & Setting Rhythm

What is a Quest?

A Quest is a tangible act of goodwill you'll accomplish together before the next solstice or equinox (~90 days or less from now max depending on when you begin).

It should be:

  • Real: Something that actually transforms your lives or community
  • Achievable: Within reach with several hours per week from your circle.
  • Meaningful: Connected to needs you see and gifts you can offer
  • Together: Requires collaboration, not individual action

Quest Brainstorm (~10 min)

Go around the circle. Each person suggests one possibility:

  • What need do we see in our community or lives?
  • What gift could we offer together?
  • What's practically achievable between now and the next solstice or equinox?

Example First Quests:

  • Plant a community garden in a neglected space
  • Plan and host a neighborhood gathering to build connection and discuss this initiative
  • Create a mutual aid network for elders or families in need
  • Document local wisdom from indigenous elders or long-time residents
  • Build or repair something needed locally (playground, bench, library box)
  • Teach a skill to youth (music, martial arts, gardening, coding)
  • Clear and maintain a local trail or natural space
  • Map and begin a directory of local offers and needs

Choose a Quest (~7 min)

Discuss which quest resonates most with the group. Look for:

  • What lights people up when they talk about it?
  • What aligns with gifts people named earlier?
  • What's realistic given time and resources available?

Choose your first quest. Keep it simple—you're learning to play.

Set Your Rhythm (~3 min)

Decide together:

  • How often will we meet? (Suggest at least weekly for 90 minutes to begin)
  • What day and time? (Choose a consistent slot that works for everyone)
  • Where? (Physical location or video link)
  • Who will send reminders? (Rotate this role or assign to one person)
  • Who will tend your corner of The Gameboard? (By your Circle's consent, add it to the Board and take your weekly Turn — a few lines from your Circle to the Whole)

Pass the Flame (~5 min)

Before closing, each person answers one question:

"Who are the 2 or 3 people I already know who are ready for this?"

Write the names down. This is the heartbeat of everything. Within one week, each person shares The Invitation with their 2 or 3. Those who resonate gather their own circle. Those circles pass the Flame forward. This is the ancient organic pattern — not campaigns, but trust passed from hand to hand, always at the pace of trust. This is how The First Three Percent are reached on schedule. (If the week slips — begin where you are. The Gate does not close.)

Ideally, you are now part of two Circles: the one that invited you, and the one you form with the 2 or 3 you invite. This is the double helix through which the DNA replicates and the movement becomes unstoppable.

Close with Gratitude (~2-3 min)

Go around one final time. Each person completes this sentence:

"I'm grateful for _____."

What Happens Next

Send Word

Your Circle now exists — let the body know. Send word through any door on Reaching Us, and — by your Circle's consent — take your place on The Gameboard. This is how the lineage of the flame stays visible, and how the body knows a new cell is alive.

Your Weekly Rhythm

Every week, same time: run Play — Run the Weekly Turn — the full choreography, from arrival to gratitude, including taking your Circle's Turn on The Gameboard. The LIØNSBERG Playbook holds it, and every other Play your Circle will need.

Your Seasonal Rhythm

Every solstice and equinox (~every 90 days):

1. Complete Your Quest

  • Celebrate what you've accomplished together
  • Acknowledge the transformation in your lives and community
  • Harvest the Quest into a Story on The Gameboard — every Quest becomes a Story; every Story becomes a Prophesy of even greater things to come

2. Retrospective — the Seasonal OmniSpection

  • What worked well in our circle?
  • What would we like to do better in the future?
  • What did we learn that we can carry forward?
  • What would we like to offer or share with other groups?

3. Choose Your Next Quest

  • What's calling us now?
  • What's the next tangible act of goodwill we can offer?
  • How do we want to grow or evolve as a circle?

4. Join Seasonal Gatherings (as they emerge)

  • Connect with other circles in your region
  • Share stories and learnings
  • Celebrate together as the movement grows
  • Begin aligning Circles into Assemblies, Communities, Guilds, and Bioregions from the bottom up

Passing The Flame

This is not a later step. It begins now — in the first gathering.

Each person in your circle already named 2 or 3 others who are ready. Within one week:

  1. Share The Invitation with them — a single link is all it takes
  2. Support them as they read and gather their own circle
  3. Be present for their first gathering if they ask

Each person you invite becomes a carrier of the full DNA. They don't need to be convinced. They already know. They need to be found and invited.

This is how The First Three Percent emerges — through the ancient organic pattern of flame passed from hand to hand, Circle to Circle, community to community. Not through campaigns. Not through central control. Through trust.

The mathematics are the mathematics of life itself — seed by seed, Circle by Circle, at the pace of trust, until the sacred organism shelters and nourishes the world.

Resources for Your Journey

Core Documents (You've Read These)

Practical Guides (Use These Weekly)

Strategy & Depth (Explore When Ready)

The Workshop (For Later)

  • The LIØNSBERG Workshop - The living construction site of the deeper works — the Codex, the Guidebook, the Gates, the Ascent. Explore freely; hold lightly; everything is a Work In Progress.

Closing Word

You have everything you need to begin.

The Golden Seed is in your hands.
Your Circle is formed.
Your Quest awaits.

The rest will emerge through living it together—week by week, quest by quest, season by season.

Heaven On Earth is not a distant dream.
It is the Game you are now playing.
Right here, right now, together.

The Great Game has begun.
It is now your move.

Proceed to your first quest with courage and joy.
The world awaits what your circle will co-create.

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