I devised this unique ‘check-in’ choreography as part of a project with some people who wanted to work together creatively. I encouraged them to model their self-organisation on swarm :

participants lie on floor in a wheel formation, heads together as a ‘hub’. They are encouraged to think of [the] space above their collective heads as the space of hivemind, and to put their thoughts (considered or random), dreams, desires and wishes, creative ideas and free associations into that space. It is emphasised that once a thought is placed in hivemind it becomes part of it, and is not retraceable back to its thinker, ie thinker cannot be held responsible for the thoughts in hivemind, and thinkers can let go of troubling or difficult issues by placing a thought in hivemind and allowing it be a ‘symptom of the system’. After plenty of time for free hivemind work, group are asked to place specific ‘totems’ into hivemind which help shape field of future instances of hivemind, and by extension, work done by the group in the coming time period.

I suggest starting with small durations eg 1-3mins, and buiulding in small increments. The collective focus required by hivemind is hard to sustain. Practice is rewarded.

Structural elements of this choreography arise from my experience of Social Dreaming Matrix, as devised by W. Gordon Lawrence www.socialdreaming.org