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MENTAL MODEL · M2919

Communitas

Communitas
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

An anti-structural social state that emerges during liminality or rituals. All hierarchies and identities disappear, and people experience a direct, equal, and sacred bond (e.g., at music festivals, pilgrimages, or mutual aid after disasters).

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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Reduce cognitive load

- Team spirit forging: The best team-building is not dining together but creating Communitas. By sharing extreme challenges (e.g., hiking through the Gobi Desert), break down superior-subordinate barriers and form life-and-death connections.

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Anchor fast decisions

Heterogeneous elements blend to create new qualities, not simple addition. It metaphorically refers to the creation through cross-disciplinary integration, but requires compatibility to succeed.

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