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*anything underlined in these slides are hyperlinks - even if they’re not blue.
LAND LAND.
looks like rural and urban spaces that blend aspects of pre-existing models like intentional communities, co-ops, residencies, and collectives to practice arts-based research and ethical land stewardship. not a pastiche of the back-to-the-land communes. We integrate vetted technologies & healing modalities to enable a connected and active reciprocity with the wild world, its rhythms, its lessons, its mysteries. We will broaden the scope of our awareness to encompass critical inquiry and radical compassion.
We’re seeking others to join us who have the knowledge and experience of farming, facilitating, building, infrastructure design, alternative economics, healing, tech, cultural programming, accessibility, interpersonal / group dynamics and systems thinking to help develop systems of longevity within the community. Members will be encouraged to travel and rent their spaces or arrange for workstay trades to maintain a constant flow of energy and exposure to the new and the different. Additional collective spaces will remain available for artist residencies, screenings, workshops, talks, parties, harvests, collective selling streams, and ongoing educational programming in partnership with sister spaces / groups in cities across the globe.
Achieving all of this requires personal development tools and processes that allow for vulnerability, self awareness and an ability to share power. The land will be a place to practice all of this with intention in real time.
Our digital spaces, will allow us to share our best practices in all realms, help us connect individuals and groups to shared goals and progress made towards them, keep our fire lit and help us manage and redistribute the wealth of knowledge and experiences we receive.
We believe that liberation is possible by way of :
inner work & inquiry
creative expression
non-dogmatic earth-based spirituality / earth care
healing collective trauma
innovating generative and just systems
humor (a jester’s approach to navigating discomfort and conflict)
Imagination and pragmatism as compliments (not opposites)
beliefs
Our omnidisciplinary collective vows to create :
physical and digital spaces to practice the art of living in balanced reciprocity with everything / everyone that we depend on
accessible content, resources & strategies
It’s absurd to think that humanity can go on expanding and acquiring infinitely when we exist within the finite limits of our planet and bodies.
Our aim is not sustainability - to keep things going as they are - we are striving for regeneration & transformation.
Our health crisis, climate collapse, economic disparities, gender inequalities, racial injustice, crime and violence are all linked to the imbalance of power seeded by capitalism, supremacy and the delusion that we are separate from each other and the living world that enables our survival and flourishing.
root cause
goals
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Honor and respect the limits of our earth and participate in a reciprocal relationship
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Examine the limits of our ability to flourish under the currently dominant conventions/values and incite new methodologies for care, health and joy.
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Test the theory that it’s not belongings but belonging that we really long for.
Belonging may be achieved by :
*Equality vs. Equity :
I think the difference between equality and equity is taking into account diversity of needs, preferences, abilities, positions. Equality often means the same for everyone, whereas equity takes into account that the same inputs for everyone does not create the same outcomes for everyone. Equity is also explicit about underlying systems and policy decisions. An example from my discipline (public health) is that when we talk about health disparities or inequalities, we include the fact that many more people assigned female sex at birth people get breast cancer and the fact that cancer clusters exist in areas around toxic plants. The disparity in breast cancer is an inequality but not an inequity, because more people assigned female sex at birth people have more mammary tissue, but the cancer cluster is because a calculation was made that the lives of the people living around the plant are worth less than those of people who live in places where the plant owners would not dare locate. To get a bit more into the example, there is a racial inequity in breast cancer within the (sex-based) inequality. Black women have a higher risk of the more fatal types of breast cancer and a higher risk of fatality if they get breast cancer, which is due to a confluence of human-created inequities in society such as those cancer clusters, racial capitalism determining which neighborhoods are invested in and which aren't, which leads to more abandoned buildings in communities of color which has been shown to increase breast cancer mortality risk, healthcare worker bias, and economic oppression which means Black women are less likely to have regular high-quality healthcare. Even narrative stereotypes of the "strong, Black woman" contribute to this inequity as Black patients complaints of pain are often not taken as seriously. Here's a nice graphic that also shows these concepts: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Finteractioninstitute.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F01%2FIISC_EqualityEquity.png&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Finteractioninstitute.org%2Fillustratin
Values & beliefs (how we work towards our vision)
principles & practices
8. Intersectional Environmentalism—as stated by environmentalist, Founder and Creative Director of Intersectional Environmentalist, Leah Thomas—is “an inclusive version of environmentalism that advocates for both the protection of people and the planet. It identifies the ways in which injustices happening to marginalized communities and the earth are interconnected. It brings injustices done to the most vulnerable communities, and the earth, to the forefront and does not minimize or silence social inequality.”
principles & practices defined
1. Interdependence -
2. Decentralized -
3. Non-linear -
4. Iterative change -
5. Transformative justice -
6. Language of possibility -
principles & practices defined
7. Decolonized Non-Violent Communication - is speaking with clarity, authenticity, body awareness and trauma awareness, is not liberal language policing that denies invisible systems of power and homogenizes the flavors of language. “The decolonial lens asks us to remember that we do not exist in isolation, instead always living in connection and interdependence with the world around us”
8. Intersectional Environmentalism—as stated by environmentalist, Founder and Creative Director of Intersectional Environmentalist, Leah Thomas—is “an inclusive version of environmentalism that advocates for both the protection of people and the planet. It identifies the ways in which injustices happening to marginalized communities and the earth are interconnected. It brings injustices done to the most vulnerable communities, and the earth, to the forefront and does not minimize or silence social inequality.”
Incubation
We are currently in the phase of research and development with the aim of making public all findings & resources with opportunities to participate in the course of creation. Our financials, partnerships and processes will be fully transparent to ANYONE. Open book, open door, open source open window, open everything.
current status
Phase 1a : Micro Iterations
Trillium Micro Residencies :
Summer 2021 - Kendra Daily : Exchange Rate Workshop, Slow Fashion Image Making, Botanical Drawings
Fall 2021 - Kim Upstill : Respite & Recovery, Log Carving / Object Creation
Winter 2022 - Seb Choe : Sonic Collaboration, Solidarity / Cooperative Governance, Land Land & Manifesting Mutuals Development
Phase 1b : Affinity Group
LAND LAND could begin the work of forming by co-creating a container to grow our collective and individual awareness of one another, build trust, learn and practice being a group, understanding each other's needs and alignments.. In-short, an accountability-buddy system or praxis cohort paired with a content aggregator in the form of newsletters, IG feed, knowledge share / study group sessions
Getting to know lifelong community members, funding and finding a physical location takes time, let’s do it while enriching the human mycelia network.
In this phase we :
Phase 2 : IRL Activation
A rural space comprised of :
Community accommodations
Performance / Festival Space
Art Studios
Recording Studio & Bathhouse (same space)
Fabrication Spaces
Community Library
Seed Library
Gardens / Farm
Commercial Kitchen
Market / Farm Store
Community accommodations : Housing for Full & Part Time prime movers, visiting artists and guests.
Performance / Festival Space : indoor and outdoor spaces to gather and showcase work
Art Studios : Raw spaces as well as built out industrial shop spaces for fabricating artworks
Gardens / Farm : no-till regenerative growing to provide on & off site food (community supported agriculture boxes), carbon sequestration and biodiversity
Commercial Kitchen : enables the hosting of large scale event catering, the creation of food goods to be sold at the farm store and distributed as a community supported kitchen meal service
Market / Farm Store: stocking life supplies on site to prevent the need for frequent travel
Phase 3 : IRL Activation
An urban or suburban space comprised of :
Cafe / Kitchen
Garden
Community accommodations
Art Studios
Teen Space
Kids Space
Library
Bodega
Gallery
community agreements (based on activation residency, sister is and full bleed)
***Agreements are intended to be fluid and sturdy, shift with our needs, provide clear pathways for safer engagement, and center the most vulnerable always***
We are multiplicity
Meet people where they are or don’t come. Listen first, gather experienced based foundational knowledge. Suspend judgment and remain curious before becoming critical.
Honor Indigenous Knowledge
Find ways to honor the indigenous people, culture, lands and waters wherever you are; this means not just acknowledging herstory, but transmuting intention into action after thoughtful observation with consent or invitation.
Invest in BIPOC lives
Reparations are due. Solidarity not charity. Shift surplus, build equality, inclusion and access into systems and processes from the jump.
Value Rest and Physicality
Honor the magic that occurs when rest is centered. Rest wherever and whenever possible. YOU HAVE A BODY.
A basic expression of this agreement : listen and respond to body needs - food, sleep, stretch, “gut feelings”, pains and sensations.
The best expression of this agreement : encourage sensorial / experiential exchanges whenever possible - use as many parts of your body as possible on a daily basis. Consider the human bodies role in the larger ecosystem, respect and honor its capacities and limitations. Treat your senses.
Encourage Autonomy, Dismantle Hierarchy,
Clearly Define Roles and Collective Expectations for Each. Develop processes that limit people’s dependencies and help them meet the ones that are inherent and perpetual. Lift each other up.
community agreements cont.
***Agreements are intended to be fluid and sturdy, shift with our needs, provide clear pathways for safer engagement, and center the most vulnerable always***
What Else is True? (let’s practice the opposite of confirmation bias)
Accountability seeks to support healing without causing further harm, hold contradictory truths - that we can be harmed and cause harm at the same time - and provide safety in holding ourselves and each other accountable. Accountability processes can look like two folks chatting, BATJC pods, mediatory meetings, clearing circles, and conversations centering the needs of those impacted by harm.
Teachers Are students and Students are Teachers
We are not experts but rather, curious people eager to hold space for this work to be done.
Care Before Impact
Caring for yourself is caring for others and vice versa.
Consent
Act with respect for physical, emotional, and spiritual boundaries and needs. We can’t always know what’s traumatizing or triggering and we can’t always know how people will perceiving our words or actions so act with grace and understanding towards each other if consent boundaries are crossed unknowingly.
Antidiscrimation
Move with the intention to be and make actively anti-discriminatory choices. Challenge your own thought process, scrutinize your default programing.
Consider Abundance
We are building in opposition to the scarcity models of white supremacy, capitalism and oppression by sharing and creating resources. A basic expression of this agreement : feeling how rich we are in the present moment and embodying gratitude.
The best expression of this agreement : Enacting generosity without expecting a return on investment in the immediate future or ever and doing this within our means - if we don’t have money, maybe we have time, if we don’t have time maybe we have space, if we can’t offer labor maybe we can offer ideas.
community agreements cont.
***Agreements are intended to be fluid and sturdy, shift with our needs, provide clear pathways for safer engagement, and center the most vulnerable always***
CONSIDER EVERYTHING AN EXPERIMENT
We are not experts in human evolution, interpersonal affairs or world saving, playbooks are helpful but there is no hard or fast equation. We are creating and creation takes patience, dedication and exquisite risk.
A basic expression of this agreement : put into practice the understanding that every win and every loss are themselves coins with two sides with potential to fall with it’s positive or negative face up. The best expression of this agreement : Each experience has the potential to inform another. The difference between science and messing around is writing it down. Consider the role of the experiment in the scientific process and be attentive to documentation, submitting it for peer review and sharing your results in wider public spheres.
INTEGRATE!
We are complex web of ecosystems that are inextricably linked.
A basic expression of this agreement remembering that every action / non-action / interaction affects the collective. The best expression of this agreement : stop separation mindset before it starts, act like everything is connected because it is.
IF YOU WANT TO GO FAST, GO ALONE. IF YOU WANT TO GO FAR, GO TOGETHER.
An obsession with speed and productivity is a facet of oppression. Planning is best done in advance! Don’t impose personal accelerated timelines on others. Consider, accept and adjust for the pace of the collective.
MAKE NO ASSUMPTIONS
Speak directly, clarify, double check and confirm.
These are hyperlinks that you can click on to listen, watch, read more about these north star projects
references
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crushes
THE CREATIVE INDEPENDENT : BUILDING COMMUNITY
SOUL FIRE FARM emergence mag podcast feature
FEMINIST CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK
These are hyperlinks that you can click on to listen, watch, read more about these north star projects
references
/ resources /
crushes
These are hyperlinks that you can click on to listen, watch, read more about these north star projects
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crushes
These are hyperlinks that you can click on to listen, watch, read more about these north star projects
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These are hyperlinks that you can click on to listen, watch, read more about these north star projects
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These are hyperlinks that you can click on to listen, watch, read more about these north star projects
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These are hyperlinks that you can click on to listen, watch, read more about these north star projects
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COLLECTIVE INQUIRY
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* Ask the local / native residents near to the land what their needs and values are in order to reassess the object and purpose of the community / determine if its aligned with the land.
MEMBERSHIP PROCESS
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* Applying members have some prerequisites (like decolonized nonviolent communication training and others TBD) - if they don't have these they can train with us before starting a trial period
COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS & ACCOUNTABILITY
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* let’s focus on determining the Implicit vs Explicit agreements
DYNAMIC GOVERNANCE & DECISION MAKING
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* Establish a foundational Decision Making Matrix and how to assign and distribute units of value
(in progress)
ROLES
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*Establish foundational roles to be shaped by the individuals / committees that will fill them
GROUP STRUCTURE
WORKER COOPERATIVE
Downsides : Many states don’t allow outside equity therefore all funding has to come from worker-owners and in certain states like CA worker-owners are only allowed to earn minimum wage, as a result many organizations organize and LLC and implement cooperative bylaws and governance.
Upsides : Adding or removing new worker-owners only required that it be included in the meeting notes, but no additional action is required.
PERPETUAL PURPOSE TRUST
Excerpts from NEXT ECONOMY NOW ; Natalie Reitman-White: Restructuring Organically Grown Co. to a Perpetual Purpose Trust
How do we bring collective flourishing into every aspect of our endeavour from the product we carry or produce, to how we make decisions, to how we own and finance the project and share the return overtime? The purpose is to provide actual value to people and the earth not shareholder value, profit is the byproduct of providing actual value, profit is just one of the outcomes among other more important outcomes that your business creates. Mission first as the reason why we exist and we reinvest profit into that mission and the people who are carrying out that mission. The project is not a commodity to be sold to the highest bidder, it’s an engine for achieving the mission. There are no human beneficiaries of the assets in the Trust, the direct beneficiary is the purpose. No individual can claim personal property rights over the assets in the trust which is all of the company common stock, the trust directs the trustees to use 100% of the assets that are held in the trust to further it’s mission, the purpose for which the trust was established. The trust in this context, unlike a person, will never die and never need to extract income from it. There are 5 stakeholder groups that share in the returns of the company, employees, farmers, community allies and trade associations and investors - all of them share in the returns and the governance but none of them have the private property rights to sell the company overtime. There are no stock holdings, the stock is all held by the trust and since it will never exit none of the company’s money need to be used for stock buyback and 100% of the company money can be used to reinvest in the business and do annual governance and profit sharing with the stakeholders without the complication of stock buybacks, valuations, transfers etc. There’s a deep incentivisation all the way through the structure of your business, into the supply chain and workforce and even your customer base.
Perpetual Purpose Trust from Alternative Ownership Advisory Board
Perpetual Purpose Trust - special session of Next Economy MBA
L3C
An L3C is structurally exactly the same as an LLC. It has members, managers, an operating agreement, and flexibility with ownership rights. From a legal standpoint L3Cs differ from LLCs in one significant area: profit motive. In general, legislation authorizing the creation of low-profit limited liability companies has three requirements: (1) that the company significantly furthers charitable or educational purposes as defined by the IRS, (2) that no significant purpose of the company is the production of income or appreciation of property, and (3) that no purpose of the company is to accomplish political, legislative, or lobbying activities. This structure makes the L3C a more suitable vehicle for raising capital previously inaccessible to low-profit and non-profit organizations.
L3C model is only allowed in 7 states
L3Cs are geared towards attracting program related investments (PRI) which are like grants in that foundations use them to give money for charitable activities. ... PRIs can help foundations make low-cost financing available for other charitable entities such as social enterprises. Most PRI dollars support affordable housing and community development.
Above excerpt from : L3C - A Hybrid Low Profit Entity
What Is A Program Related Investment
DisCO (Distributed Cooperative Organization)
Some of the primary aspects of a DisCO are :
Making visible the invisible, understanding value in all labor, becoming a source of information sharing
Open-sourced technology that supports care work and transparency.
The belief that “If technology receives investment from existing power structures then it will inevitably reflect the motives of those power structures.”
The belief that Collecting data is challenging - reorientation and self discipline to pay attention to how you spend your time
Co-mentoring - a common responsibility to ourselves and one another to understand the mechanics of the organization- every aspect of its functioning even if it’s not our field of expertise or interest.
A reaction to DAO (decentralized Autonomous organization) because DisCO’s rely on more human to human resolutions and less automation / smart contracts.
Above excerpts from a deep dive into : DisCo Elements
B-CORP
Why would a company want to become a b-corp :
+ social signaling to consumers
+ attracting and retaining talent
+ B-corps have strong relationships with their suppliers so they’re less likely to incur costs in supply chain disruption.
+ b-corps comes with a built in framework for a growing entity to check themselves against.
Background :
In 2005 the founders of AND1 wanted to sell the company and reap their return. US law insists that companies sell to the highest bidder. AND1 wanted to sell to a company that was mission aligned, but if they did they could be sued by their own stakeholders. So they did sell to the highest bidder and within weeks those new owners striped away all of the social change programs that were embedded within AND1 so they decided to try and do something different.
B lab created a framework to assess an entire companies impacts instead of just the product which resulted in the “Benefit corporation and b corp”(available in 37 states in the US ) which allows you to legally consider more than just profits, it allows you to consider impacts. the benefit corp legal structure allows companies to consider workers, community, and the environment when making decisions, whereas standard US corporate law only allows the consideration of shareholders when making decisions.
A certification aspect and a legal requirement aspect - corporations are governed at the state level so they had to break them out into two different things.
Any for profit company can become a Certified B Corporation. No non-profits or government agencies can become B Corps.
But often, if a foundation wants to work w/ a corp, they’ll just do a mission related investment (MRI), which is often easier to do administrative
no tax benefits currently. Getting tax benefits can start to draw negative attention (from people who don’t believe they should receive tax benefits). B Lab wants the B Corp movement to succeed on the merits, rather than by getting tax benefits.
The impact assessment tool from B Lab is free - many companies that aren’t B corps use it.
Bcorporation.net
Deep Dive Into B-Corps from LIFT/NEXT ECONOMY
501c2
the c2 Agrarian Commons are locally governed. The National c3 has a board, structure
How 501c2 could lower your risk
Multi-Stakeholder Coop
Outside investors may own a shares in the company but have no control over governance which is determined and run by the worker-owners
ROLES / COMMITTEES
(PRIME MOVER OF) AGRICULTURE, ECOLOGY AND WILDERNESS
* Description
(PRIME MOVER OF) BIPOC SOVEREIGNTY
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(PRIME MOVER OF) OPERATIONS (space stewardship)
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(PRIME MOVER OF) ARTS PROGRAMMING
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(PRIME MOVER OF) EDUCATION
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(PRIME MOVER OF) ADMINISTRATION (organization and digital housekeeping)
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(PRIME MOVER OF) FINANCE
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(PRIME MOVER OF) GOVERNANCE & MEDIATION
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(PRIME MOVER OF) TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION
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(PRIME MOVER OF) HEALTH AND WELLNESS
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(PRIME MOVER OF) MEDIA AND OUTREACH
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(PRIME MOVER OF) ACCESSIBILITY
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Prime Mover Assessment
1. How do you identify? Who are your people? Where in the world do you reside? Where in the world can you imagine putting down roots?
2. What are you trying to birth into the world? What dreams, projects, roles, futures? How are you currently working towards them?
3. What do you need to fully manifest those futures? What barriers or obstacles block you from those needs being met?
4. What hard or soft skills do your friends, family, peers and clients ask you to provide?
5. What new hard or soft skills are you seeking to develop in the near future?
6. What brings you peace, bliss, joy? What gives you trouble or dis-ease?
7. How does being a land steward / community member embody your values?
8. Would you benefit from a group of kind beings creating a container for emergent strategy*, accountability and collective knowledge wealth? If so how much time do you have available to spend co-creating and participating in such a effort?
9. In your relationships, what qualities or behaviors do you consider strengths or gifts? Are there any patterns you’d like to unlearn? Have you identified any potential opportunities for growth?
10. What aspects of being part of a community do you enjoy? What aspects of being part of a community do you find difficult?
11. What types of resources would you be willing to contribute to growing a community? Knowledge and Insights? Experience? Connections? Monetary capital? Land or equipment? Time? Emotional, Social or Narrative Intelligence?
12. Do you prefer to dwell in rural, urban or suburban areas? If you prefer a mixture please elaborate.
13. Which of the following roles do you often play: weaver, experimenter, frontline responder, behind-the-scenes connector, seer / visionary, builder, caregiver, disrupter, healer, storyteller, guide, researcher, pragmatist, fairy, jester. *
14. Which of the following committees would want to help shape (see previous slide)? Are there committees you’d like to help shape that are not listed?
Google Form : https://docs.google.com/forms/d/17HtIlODkcr0VLe_W07_xeE1vNv7TqUZNVnimHnfwtgU/edit
Prime Mover Affinity Group Meeting
Meeting 1 Prep :
Meeting 1 Agenda :
Adjacent Projects & Orgs
INTERESTED FOLKS
KENDRA DALLEY ( she/her )
ENNEAGRAM TYPE 2
SUN virgo
MOON cancer
RISING sagittarius
AFFILIATIONS / LINKS :
(bio) Kendra Dalley is simultaneously a reverent ecologist, evocative futurist, systematic artist, and abstract scientist. A first generation immigrant, she is in the practice of embodying those same dualities her work hinges upon. She founded a biomimetic design studio, Imaginal Being, integrating nature’s laws and strategies alongside the values and requirements of a client. Bridging biology to technology and nature to culture. Above all, Kendra inspires to close the gaps of dissonance brought on by modern society, reconnecting your world to our common nature.
SHARON PARK (pronouns)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE XX
SUN xx
MOON xx
RISING xx
AFFILIATIONS / LINKS : xx
(bio) xx
INTERESTED FOLKS
Kim Upstill (pronouns)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE
SUN
MOON
RISING
AFFILIATIONS :
(bio) xx
Seb Choe (they / them)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE
SUN
MOON
RISING
AFFILIATIONS :
(bio) xx
INTERESTED FOLKS
Salimatu Amabebe (they/he)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE
SUN
MOON
RISING
AFFILIATIONS :
(bio) xx
Lauren Machen (pronouns)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE
SUN
MOON
RISING
AFFILIATIONS :
(bio) xx
INTERESTED FOLKS
Calvin Rocchio (pronouns)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE
SUN
MOON
RISING
AFFILIATIONS :
(bio) xx
Lexi Visco (pronouns)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE
SUN
MOON
RISING
AFFILIATIONS :
(bio) xx
Sophia Sandford (pronouns)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE
SUN
MOON
RISING
AFFILIATIONS :
(bio) xx
Cleo Barnette (pronouns)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE
SUN
MOON
RISING
AFFILIATIONS :
(bio) xx
INTERESTED FOLKS
INTERESTED FOLKS
KELLY RANDOLPH (SHE / HER)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE 4 (THE HELPER)
SUN GEMINI
MOON xx
RISING xx
AFFILIATIONS : MEALS 4 HEELS, ZENGER FARMS
Kelly was born and raised in San Francisco, but has lived in Portland for the past seven years. She inherited a deep reverence for food and plant magic from her mother, and applied it to her restaurant industry career, home cooking endeavors, and alternative medicine study. She is excited to learn food farming practices, and she hopes to bring her aggregated experience to her future endeavors of connecting communities of color with local, nutritious food to empower their health and autonomy.
TODD SHWAYDER (HE / HIM)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE 9 (THE PEACEMAKER)
SUN PIECES
MOON ARIES
RISING GEMINI
AFFILIATIONS : SEATTLE RECREATIVE, PNA COMMUNITY CENTER
Todd Shwayder is an architectural designer and natural builder/carpenter, jack-of-all trades and vanagon mechanic extraordinaire. A kind and gentle soul, he would be a cherished addition to any community. Todd loves animals and wishes to involve them in his future community dreams.
INTERESTED FOLKS
BABETTE DELAFAYETTE (SHE / HER)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE X
SUN TAURUS
MOON CANCER
RISING LEO
I build activated environments through my multidisciplinary work as an artist, curator, and producer. I utilize what I have learned as choreographer and performance artist to build body, sculpture, and multimedia based installations. I produce and support the work of artists who encompass intentional, investigative collaboration while building interdisciplinary immersive experiences for people. I believe in the kind of artwork that involves experimentation, complexity, depth, and a rethinking of traditional approaches to curation and presentation. My professional practice currently brings awareness to the significance and study of time through a multitude of cultural practices and artistic mediums while facilitating community involvement in historical and contemporary thought surrounding durational performance art. I try to practice this directly in forms of radical self-care and horizontal collaborative system building. I see the work of land curation aka being caretakers of land (not owners) central to my system of being and moving through the world.
JESSA SHWAYDER CARTA (SHE / HER)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE 7 (THE ENTHUSIAST)
SUN CAPRIQAURIUS
MOON AQUARIUS
RISING AQUARIUS
AFFILIATIONS : COLLECTIVE POWER, FULL BLEED
I’m a multimodal omnidisciplinary artist compelled towards the collapsing of categories, systems thinking and collective healing. My work/play traverses ecosystem and egosystem to trace the leading lines of value, ownership, authorship, identity, time, performativity, language and labor.
As a child my list of future occupations were fairy, geologist, potion maker, surgeon, and set designer. I became enmeshed in Seattle’s cultural landscape as a founding member of LOVECITYLOVE, a DIY artist collective now recognized by the city as a cultural landmark where I developing programming and produced exhibitions of my own work and the work of others. I am currently exploring the alchemy of mediums, the intersections of modalities via motion, sound, duration, performance, ceramic, printmaking, printed publications, site-specific work and community building. My work is a practice of externalizing an internal conversation about transitory phenomena and the crafted human constructs that surround them. I feel most compelled towards the union of opposites and the notion of the emergent third.
LANA SHARP (SHE / HER)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE 7 (THE ENTHUSIAST)
SUN CANCER
MOON LEO
RISING VIRGO
AFFILIATIONS : NAU
Lana is a musician and artist. She has lived in community now for the last 2 years. First a pirate colony in the forest area of Vienna Austria where the punks said she was fancy and next a commune country club. She is looking to build a home with others and live in peace and harmony with all beings, preferably in the most magical way possible.
JENN HOTES (SHE / HER)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE xx
SUN VIRGO
MOON ARIES
RISING LEO
AFFILIATIONS : UCLA Design|Media Arts, ArtSci
JENN is a multidisciplinary research scientist whose work aims to understand our cultures systemic failures by studying deep ecology, As a practicing artist, she uses the scientific method to experiment with what conditions bring out authentic creativity in order to build environments that invite the muses to come play.
INTERESTED FOLKS
INTERESTED FOLKS
Lisa Fitzhugh (SHE / HER)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE 7 (THE ENTHUSIAST)
SUN
MOON
RISING
AFFILIATIONS : Creative Ground
https://www.lisafitzhugh.me/story
Jillayne Hunter (SHE / HER)
ENNEAGRAM TYPE 4 (THE HELPER)
SUN pisces
MOON virgo
RISING taurus
AFFILIATIONS : huntress yoga / the house of ia
I have always been drawn to the harmonization of body and earth, especially in relation to receiving. The offerings of the sun, the functions of our organs, our heart beat. I feel the responsibility of re-educating and re-membering the art and practice of listening, pausing and responding accordingly with precision to the present moment. My personal calling and focus is on the cultivation of the one body vessel we are given in this life-time and how to be with it, within it, access it, heal it by way of bringing ourselves into wholeness, fuel it and use it to serve. Through consistent studies and practice of yoga, pranayama & meditative movement, I am slowly learning how to be, at peace, in my body, on this planet. A radically simple yet deeply complex process I have found.
FURTHER LEARNING
OCCIDENTAL ARTS & ECOLOGY CERT COURSE LINKS
INTERPERSONAL / COMMUNICATION / GROUP PROCESS
LOOMIO - group decision making platform
Essential Tools for Conscious Communication - Lisa Fitzhugh (Postcast)
Decolonizing NVC Workbook - Meenadchi
Social Change Ecosystem Mapping - Deepa Iyer, SolidarityIs and Building Movement Project.
White Supremacy Attributes and their Antidotes - Tema Okun
Toolkit for Cooperative, Collective & Collaborative Cultural Work
We The People - Implementing Sociocracy
Boundaries and Consent Practice
Moral Imaginations - Group Imaginal Process
“A COMMUNICATIONS PRIMER” BY RAY AND CHARLES EAMS
EARTHSPEAK COLLECTIVE COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS
Planetary CARE Multi Stakeholder Cooperative Doc
Roxy Manning ( CENTER FOR EFFICIENT COLLABORATION)
Are.na Commons - Codes of Conduct
AORTA ANTI-OPPRESSION FACILITATION FOR DEMOCRATIC PROGRESS
Phoenix Soleil
INTERPERSONAL / COMMUNICATION / GROUP PROCESS cont.
Leadership & The New Science, Margaret Whealty
SOLO PRACTICE / COURSE / CLASSES
ONLINE COMMUNITIES / ORGANIZATIONAL PLATFORMS
Loomio
Arena
Miro
Monday.com
Hylo
NEW ECONOMY RESOURCES
The New Social Contract - Joseph Steiglitz
Against Creativity - Oli Mould
Perpetual Purpose Trust from Alternative Ownership Advisory Board
Perpetual Purpose Trust - special session of Next Economy MBA
Solidarity Not Charity Report from Art.coop
LOOMIO - group decision making platform
Sustainable Economies Law Center
People Powered Solar Cooperative
NEXT ECONOMY NOW MBA RESOURCES
REMATRIATION & REPARATIONS
TECH ETHICS
FOOD & FOODS
BODY-BASED PRACTICE RESOURCES
ECOLOGY / EARTH RESTORATIONS
Recompose - end of life care for our bodies and the earth
Community Driven Climate Resilience Report by Pandora Thomas
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
2014 National Climate Assessment Report
Water Aikido #1 (swails, ponds and permaculture water collaboration)
Water Aikido #2 (swails, ponds and permaculture water collaboration)
Occidental Arts and Ecology Permaculture Certification workbook
Permaculture Designers Manual by Bill Mollison
ONTOLOGY
ACCESSIBILITY
ARTS & DESIGN
BUILT WORLD / INFRASTRUCTURE / CONSTRUCTS
DEN OUTDOORS - A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO BUYING LANDS
PACIFIC DOMES PRICING BROCHURE
CJI GROUP “SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPERS”
DOME INTERIOR DESIGN PROPOSAL FROM OTHR INTERIORS
Home Biogas - Composting System
Du Chanvre - Canada based hempcrete
MISC
COLLECTED COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS
ALL UP READING LIST
The Web of Life
Circe
The Goddess Versus the Alphabet
Against Creativity
Mother Earth Spirituality
What the Nose Knows
The Jazz of Physics
Stealing Fire
When Women Were Birds
Home Going
The Doors of Perception
How to Change Your Mind
Milk and Honey
The Sun and Her Flowers
The Pond
The Secret Life of Trees
The Power of Myth
Inner Work
Eco Dharma
Why Fish Don’t Exist
Silent Spring
My Grandmother’s Hands - Rasmaa Menakem
Braiding Sweetgrass
Women and Nature
Radical Dharma
Becoming Wild : How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
Emergent Strategy
A Natural History of the Senses
Sacred Economics
Widening Circles - Joanna Macy
Courting the Wild Twin - dr. Martin Shaw
Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work
Joyful Militancy : Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
The spell of the sensuous
The botany of desire
Feminism is for Everyone
Wolf Milk : Cythonic Memory in the Deep Wild
Scatterlings : Getting Claimed in the age of Amnesia
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
ALL UP READING LIST cont.
Confessions of an economic hitman
The Revolution Will not be funded
Games for Actors and Non-Actors
How To Do Nothing ; Resistance in the Attention Economy
Learning By Heart - Sister Corita Kent
A History of the world in seven cheap things
ALL UP READING LIST cont.
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded
The Trouble with Wilderness- William Cronon
Racism is Killing the Planet- Hop Hopkins
Reading list from INSTITUTE FOR INTERSPECIES ART AND RELATIONS
The flowering Wand - Sophie Strand
Resources from Miguel Cinta via Pocoapoco Material Studies
Symposium of the Whole
A Range of Discourse Toward an Ethnopoetics
by Jerome Rothenberg (Author), Diane Rothenberg (Author)
Blackfoot Physics
RELATED PROJECTS
Association Index
Urban Community Hub, Studios, Kitchen,
Residency & Production Accommodations
LAND LAND
Physical community / rural residency space
& studios
NATURAL NAME
Digital & physical bodega / essentials for the shift
Creative agency / publishing / artist representation
Full bleed is not longer intact perhaps this is SĪ
XX FARMS
Food sovereignty center
WATER WAYS
Bath House + Recording Studio + Watershed Restoration
ADJACENCY
Study
GOALS / ETHOS
| MODEL | NUMBERS 94+-acre |
VALUES embrace every aspect of collective existence 1) our relations to the environment, 2) our relationships with each other, 3) challenging systems of labor, 4) forms of dwelling, 5) inventing new design apparatuses, and importantly, 6) critical and creative domesticating – all of which compose the Mildred's Lane ethics of comportment – WORKSTYLES. Being IS the practice revolutionary-rigorous-rethinking | MEMBER REQUIREMENTS | OFFERINGS
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MILDRED’S LANE
GOALS / ETHOS
Events.
| MODEL Perpetual Purpose Trust Kasba owns the property Tiered Membership for various levels of involvement / investment � Members purchase/own the dwelling AND pay an annual membership fees Kasaba facilitates frequent and short term rentals of the dwellings and shares profits with Members Members participate in decision-making on capital expenditure prioritization, the Village Code and other village initiatives. | NUMBERS 150-200 people can live in the community (depending on property size) 80 acre property 24 mins from a medical facility 2.5 hours from a major city $130,000 - initial cost of membership & dwelling $300-$600 - monthly facilities fees |
VALUES Tolerance Inclusivity Generosity Rewilding Sustainability | MEMBER REQUIREMENTS Purchase Agreement Lease Agreement Village Code Agreement Non-Refundable Deposit | OFFERINGS Permaculture Food Forest & Communal Kitchen Ongoing arts & culture programming |
GOALS/ ETHOS | MODEL | NUMBERS |
VALUES | MEMBER REQUIREMENTS | OFFERINGS |
WOMEN’S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK
MISC
5/8/2020 Meeting Notes
Mind maps, how do individual goals overlap for the common goal of World Garden
Pacific Grove Language Dump (to be sorted)
-online subscription slide income based platform delivering daily content for the (R)evoltion.
- mystical in the mundane
-Drivers Manual
-world map pass the mic morning routine/recipe/
we know that through making experiences and media, we can help people shift and move further toward empathy and ecstasis (timeliness, selflessness x, x,) and embodied success
+we want wider, deeper platforms; we want to expanded networks; we want to feed hungry audiences with nourshing ideas and understandings
be a sizeable, knowable, evocative change in culture by making and elevating positive messages
create work that lands effectively in the ears of baristas and CEOs; young and old; citizens of the world; lovers and fighters of every shape, size, color, creed, and conviction
COMMUNITY HAS MEDICALLY PROVEN BENEFITS TO HEALING AND WELLNESS
In a time of unprecedented uncertainty many look to world leaders and health experts for guidance through the unknown. While these valued experts are necessary for the working knowledge of how to run institutions, it disproportionately settles the bulk responsibility of healing a wounded world onto a select few. Small communities wait anxiously for widespread solutions to gain access to the simple necessities of life. Quality food, shelter, and the support of each other.
What I hope to accomplish with this grant money is to distill the complex intellectual work of leading ecological scientists and visionaries into a simple expression of song so their lessons can be absorbed through beauty. I have spent the last 5 years actively studying the work of thought leaders and have found myself with both a wealth of knowledge as well as a gift for content creation that I feel called to share. Not everyone has the access to the intellectual resources that I have been given, as it takes time and money to learn this material of deep ecological awareness and how to activate on an individual level to take responsibility into our own hands instead of relying solely on those in office.
We live in a wasteful world. While many focus on the waste associated with food, energy, and natural materials, many forget that all of these resources are harnessed and poured into growing a human life, only for the potential of most human life to lay dormant in individuals not knowing how to harness their own power.
Land Land is communal, but not mob mentality
Land Land is steeped in respect and adoration for ancient indigenous people’s knowledge, but not cultural appropriation
Land Land is experimental, but not unhinged
Land Land is anti-capitalist, but not resource starved
Land Land is analog, but not technophobic
Similar but different
Ethel’s Club
Herban Cura
THE COMMUNITY LA
EXPERIENCE LOG
EARTHSPEAK reflections :
I joined as a member for 3 months and had a recurring scheduling conflict with the regular group meetings. The digital-only space didn’t satisfied my craving for community and was the last modality in which I wanted to exist in amidst so many other engagements that required me to be on a screen and in a zoom format gathering. I craved more of a balance between the ultra magical topics/workshops/prompts and some grounded hard/soft skill building and critical discourse. The frequency of meetings & email were a lot - Jessa
EARTHSPEAK community guidelines :
1. This is an inclusive and anti-racist space that is intended to be safe for all people. Any behavior that violates this will not be tolerated.
2. What happens in the Collective stays in the Collective. Feel free to share your own thoughts and experiences publicly, but keep other people's shares confidential.
3. We have no agenda for you, and we ask that you have no agenda for anyone else. We’re not here to fix or be fixed. We’re here to be witnessed in presence.
4. Ask consent before providing advice, or reflect on what someone else has shared in a live call,
5. Trust yourself - if we’re doing an activity or you’re being guided in a meditation and something doesn’t feel right for you, trust that.
6. Make no assumptions. If something is not clear, ask for clarity.
7. Please only promote your business or invite people into professional sessions with you in the “Share Your Biz-Art-Services” forum space.
CEDAR BLOOM reflections :
In short, it felt like a really exceptionally dreamy state park campground but not an activated community. - Jessa
Draws :
Really great interiors in the dome
Lovely flat spacious forested area that did make you forget about the neighboring "civilization"
Sauna / outdoor shower
river with lots of pebbled bank spots for posting up with a book
Tea Shack with beautiful bulk herbs / botanicals, cups and kettles where you honor system venmo paid the host for your tea that you could cruise to the river or the sauna with
Awesome looking little A frame structures
Little mini analog kitchen unit in the dome with a large 5 gallon glass water jug and ceramic dispenser set over a little basin that could be moved / tossed outside
Drawbacks :
The surrounding area / town / RV park was pretty off-putting / sad
Busy & noisy main road right across the river bank
Very campground style layout with not much privacy inetween spots
The host was very aloof
The wasn't an air of activation / vibrancy
OCCIDENTAL ARTS & ECOLOGY reflections :
Online Permaculture Design Course
CAL EARTH SUPERADOBE CERTIFICATION reflections :
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LIFT ECONOMY MBA reflections :
FREEDOM GEORGIA COMMUNITY LAND FINANCING reflections :
(their land) 96 acres - 20 friends - no specific criteria but intentional unspoken requirements - “no matter what” mentality, “when they can’t get their way they still want what’s best for the group”
(their guiding question) *Does this decision brings us closer to generational wealth?
(their process) *majority vote rules
Step 1. meet with a lawyer to set up the basic incorporation requirements (an llc) bylaws, Memorandums of understanding.
Step 2. revenues projects / costs / business plan partner
Step 3. who has the highest income and best credit and name them the managing partner
Step 5. (year 1) Water, run off, waste management utilities, civil engineer for surveys, environmental impact
Step 6. (year 1) disaster preparedness
Step 7. (year 2-3) build structures needed to develop revenue streams
Step 8. (year 4) build community homes *People aren’t allowed to build structures until they pay off their entire share of the groups fee
(their committees)
Special needs & education committee
Economic & business dev committee
Emergency preparedness committee
Health & wellness
Innovation & technology
Architecture and infrastructure
Arts and culture
FREEDOM GEORGIA COMMUNITY LAND FINANCING reflections cont. :
RESOURCES
hub zone locator - will show you tax benefits and write-offs
GENERAL LEARNINGS
+ THE BEST way to ensure peoples involvement is to get their money in the pot.”
+ The south is mostly unincorporated and has no building codes or zoning restriction
+ lots of USDA loans and farming grants available for ag
+ the land itself is an asset even if it’s not activated, buy it as a group and sell it later
+ Owner Financing - the owner was not reporting the mortgage to the credit union. - only closing fees are to closing attorney doing title work / title insurance
+ People aren’t allowed to build structures until they pay off their entire share of the groups fee
+ as long as you have a mortgage you can’t subdivide the land.
+ a “resolution” is the designation of who can do what - appointments
+ The land trust can’t be established until the land is owned outright
NEW RESOURCES : YET TO BE CATALOGED
Drop in text, images, or links on the follow pages with any suggestions on where you think in could live and Jessa will reformat the doc to include the new resources.
MANY THANKS!
ROLE OF THE ARTIST
I see the creative world or the world of the imagination as the other world or the spirit world, I think they're the same place. Artists and mystics both go there, they both travel there. Going into this interior world is a one of the most important things that artists do, it's what they do for our world, opening and keeping open that portal between the worlds. - Amanda Yates Garcia
the relentless striving expected of us in modernity, and what that does to us how it erodes us as humans and as a culture. - Beth Pickens
In the Jewish tradition on Shabbat, we have an extra soul. And when I learned that from my rabbi, I thought immediately of artists, and I have a belief that artists are actually born with an extra soul. And they are traveling through the world with this extrasensory ability to see, observe, feel, hear, articulate, consider. And it's also what makes the world very harsh and difficult to be in sometimes, because of this extra sensory soul traveling with you. And that extra soul is what allows artists to do the deep mining of the interior, and pull from all that extra sensory experience. That soul has to be really taken care of…because we also live in modernity, where the whole world wants to take you from your practice, including you, there will always, be a reason not to make your creative work. But place yourself as an artist engaged in your creative work in the same pot, as taking care of your body, cleaning your home, feeding yourself, anything required for your mental health. If you're an artist, one of those things is also showing up for creative practice. All of the reasons not to show up for your practice, other people's needs, not having enough time, working demanding paid day jobs. All of those could also be reasons to not drink water… but we know what happens when we don’t take care of ourselves. It gets bad. fast. - Beth Pickens
Artists are here to help us process grief, to help us understand the meaning of our life, to give us a sense of purpose, to understand our relationship to the mystical. Artists are doing very important, spiritual, creative, intellectual, philosophical labor that is essential to us living, like otherwise, why go through all of this living? Artists are really helping us make sense of it all. And our culture is constantly trying to convince us that the only thing that is important is that relentless striving towards the amassing of capital, not even really for ourselves, for the powers that be. The values of the dominant culture are so skewed, and they make us feel so afraid that if we don't participate, or if we focus on other things that are of value to us, that we will be severely punished, we will end up homeless, we will end up in debt, we will end up sick, we won't have anyone to take care of us, no one will take care of our kids. I mean, we all know all the things that could happen and what the threats are. So, I feel there's a lot of valor in the artist, remembering constantly to connect with what is deeply important about their work and why they're investigating it. And to me, that's one of the reasons why they have to have that studio time to make work because that is the place when they enter into that other world, when they cross that threshold, they get reminded, that is where they feed at the the flower, they get the nectar of that inspiration, which fortifies them against the dominant power structures that are trying to delude them all the time. - Amanda Yates Garcia
It's astonishing that we collectively ask artists to try to make sense of the ineffable, of our life and times and of all of the simultaneity of what it means to be alive, process that and then make work about it and put it out into the world. All the while providing no infrastructure of support. Artists are the only laborers to my knowledge, who work jobs in order to make their work. And the artists who are able to make a full time living, sometimes lucratively, out of their creative work pay a high price, and they all know it. I've worked with many artists who make all of their income and are very commercially successful from their creative work and they often have a spiritual crisis about that, because that's what happens when capitalism intersects with the spiritual nature of living. And that's what artists are doing all the time, living at the intersection of capitalism and their deep, deep spiritual interior. - Beth Pickens
Creative expression is good for everyone, but I find that artists require it in order to have a fully realized life. - Beth Pickens
But what about people who feel like art isn't enough? We're facing a huge crisis, police brutality, environmental collapse, the erosion of democracy, children locked in cages at the borders, all sorts of things that are truly horrifying. A lot of artists that I know feel that they need to either be chaining themselves to the White House fence or going door to door petitioning because their art is not enough right now. So what have you say to those people? - Amanda Yates Garcia
You can't do anything to make the world better if you're not well, and all social change, all social engagement, all political work is a marathon is not a sprint. It is going to be throughout your entire lifetime. And in order to show up consistently throughout your entire life, to show up for your values, in community and in the world, you have to be fortified, you have to be resourced and well. So for the artist, again, one of the ways you are fortified and well is by making your creative work. That's one of the essential things you have to do to take care of yourself and the more you take care of yourself, the more you can show up for public engagement, and not become burnt out. So no matter what your work is, whether or not you think it is politically engaging or not, whether you think it’s contributing to somebody's life or not, no matter what, you just have to keep making it. It will give you the energy to continue showing up in service of your values in the rest of the world. - Beth Pickens
Many of us suffer from racial trauma, class based trauma, disability based trauma, gender based trauma, this is a huge burden that you have to attend to and heal from before you even get to the starting line before even realizing you have the desire or capacity to make creative work. So it can feel like a big struggle or burden. We need as a culture to slow down, we need to enjoy our lives, we need to have time off, we need to recognize the value of our friends, of our work, of our communities. And that we are making a statement by claiming that joy for ourselves and refusing to feel bad, guilty or ashamed no matter how much our culture says we should be. Finding other people, other artists who can help us remember that when we forget is so important. - Amanda Yates Garcia