# The In & Out

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**How this helped:**\
It helped us avoid burnout when we tried to continually stay in a "expanding" phase for too long. When people were no longer on different phases than each-other our coordination costs decreased. 
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## Structure

### One Phase Expanding

For example one phase may be 2 weeks where teams are working externally:

* **a greater focus on the operations of the organization;**
* create new relationships, attend events, etc;
* write and share code & articles, etc;
* etc

### One Phase Contracting 

The contracting phase is of equal length and priority where teams work internally:

* **a greater focus to the people, purpose, and governance processes of the organization;**
* following through with existing relationships and build community;
* gain feedback, sense needs;
* design new features;
* find inspiration;
* rest;
* etc.

#### Authored by Rieki Cordon, Hypha DHO