Fronting is the act of one or more members of a plural system taking control of the shared body and acting through it in this world.
If more than one systemmate is fronting at the same time, that is called co-fronting.
Different systems may experience fronting in different ways, and each system may discover their own metaphors to describe the process of switching and being in front. Some examples include:
Co-fronting is a state of being where more than one systemmate is in front at the same time. Different systems may experience co-fronting differently in different situations. Some ways that co-fronting may work include:
Some systems find that co-fronting is tiring, and have difficulty maintaining it for long without a lot of practice. Other systems may find that co-fronting happens naturally or even unintentionally unless a specific effort is made to distance the one person who is in front.