Masterminding Around A Cause

Most of the Mastermind Groups that I've seen involve each member of the group coming to the meetings with different goals and challenges. They are hoping that through the collective experience and wisdom of the other members, they will get answers to their questions and strategies to help them move forward.

In reading the Transforming the Planet blog this morning I came across another use of a Mastermind Group - have everyone come together for the same purpose and same goal. As blog founder Julian Murphy puts it:

Recently I took part in a 'mastermind group' experiment. Mastermind groups are groups of people who come together and focus their energies on the accomplishment of a certain goal or outcome. The idea is a group comes together with a certain outcome or desired state. The group I worked with set the intention to see $25,000 come to the International Institute for Global Leadership in order to fund the project over the coming months. How? Well that's the funny part about setting the intention, the 'how' is not something that has to be known. All that must be known is the desired result. The details of how the outcome is brought about is left open, as putting limits on the method of deliverance can often get in the way of the result being achieved. Set the intention and each day spend some time visualising the desired outcome and soon enough the method of achievement will become clear.

Has anyone else had success with this kind of Mastermind Group?