The Synchronous Respect Tree (SRT)- Live is a live meeting format for Eden Fractal where every participant discusses every agenda topic. The agenda is fixed before the meeting. The meeting itself is used to surface perspectives, compare understandings, and produce structured, ranked signal.
The game does not make decisions, pass proposals, or assign authority. Its purpose is to create a high‑fidelity shared record of how the community thinks right now, so that later governance actions can be grounded in reality rather than vibes.
If you understand the Respect Game, this uses the same logic — random small groups, equal voice, repeated reshuffling — but applies it to topics instead of people.
These constraints are what make the game work.
The agenda is fixed before the meeting. No new topics are added, and no topics are reframed during the session.
Every participant engages with every topic. There is no specialization, no topic ownership, and no splitting the group by interest.
All breakout groups are random and contain no more than six people. Groups reshuffle between topics.
There are no delegates and no synthesis authority. All roles exist only to keep the process moving.
Small groups are used to think clearly and surface perspectives. The full group is used to align on what surfaced.
At any moment, everyone is discussing the same topic. Breakout groups exist only to increase signal per minute, not to produce outcomes of their own.
The moderator manages time, moves the group between phases, and maintains the shared record. The moderator does not interpret, summarize, or decide.