If you don't mind answering, what's it like to be part of a large system? Are there people that don't show up that often?
It’s pretty different from being in a small system dynamic-wise, at least in my experience. Instead of the small close-knit family of 2-5 individuals we used to be, our function has shifted to be closer to that of a workplace. Most of my systemmates feel more like coworkers as opposed to family members now. I don’t know some of them too well, some of them I don’t get along with, but almost all of us have a common goal: keeping the body functional.
As opposed to one big group of people or a big friend group like our system used to be, everyone has their own friends and people they like to hang out with within the system, just like how you probably wouldn’t find a group of 90+ people all being great friends with each other in the physical world. Generalizing here a bit, but we tend to find that smaller systems are all in one (or sometimes two) groups as opposed to a lot of different groups of friends.
There’s some people that hardly, if not never show up to the front. Those people sometimes interact with people inside, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they’re just kind of there and don’t have any interest in doing much outside or with the system, but they either want to stay to do their own thing, or they can’t leave for whatever reason. We’ve had a few people leave over the years, and most of our members have the ability to, they just choose not to.
Organising the system is a bit of a pain sometimes because of all the separate groups, which is why we have three hosts (people in charge of the body and system) and are planning on asking a few more people to be hosts too. If not more hosts, appointing “representatives” of the groups within the system to attend system meetings is something we’re looking into doing, to make everyone’s opinions count without getting all 90+ of us into one area to discuss things.
Other than that, sharing front time between the members that do want to front is a bit hard to organise sometimes, which is why we’ve been debating making a fronting schedule at some point. It’s not too much of a problem right now, but perhaps in the future it’d be something for us to set up.
I rambled a bit there, but if you have any more questions, definitely feel free to ask!
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