The CHRIIS Model
Below is the latest version of the model. The first letters of the actions spell CHRIIS. To remember the acronym, you could think “CHRIIS has two I’s.”
CHRIIS involves a series of activities for an organization's members to engage in, each initiated by a triggering question(s). The logic is clearer when reversed, for example, “in order to imagine ideals, it is necessary to release assumptions that maintain the status quo.” Or “in order to release assumptions (or engage in any other activity), it is necessary to honor values.”
As you can see above and in the table below, each of the two-word statements in the model has an action and an object. And each asks a different question and emphasizes a different type of inquiry, that is, a different way of knowing and a different way of being with one another. So, applying CHRIIS is an attempt to answer the questions by engaging in activities associated with different types of inquiry.
Also in the table below, you can see that the steps can be associated with a variety of dimensions of mind, body, and spirit. These might be incorporated into a group's process, for example, in the way that the colors have been used for the verses on this site.
As described in the explanation for Iterate CHRIIS, successive cycles do not begin in the same place. Notice above that CHRIIS resembles but is not an infinity symbol, and see below how cycles can be thought to expand in terms of scaling up, out, and more deeply.
