Welcome!

Findhorn Community Change Working Group

Purpose of tonight

• Present what the CCWG has created
• Introduce our proposal for community-wide collaboration and governance
• Launch a new community map
• Complete the 9 months of our original mandate
• Introduce next steps - the consultation phase

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Running order

• Recap of CCWG mandate and activities
• Launching Interactive Community Map
• Questions and comments
• Introducing the proposal: A new model of co-creative, community-wide self-governance for the Findhorn Community
• End of original CCWG, launching consultation phase
• Questions and comments
• Integration time & gathering feedback
• End by 21:15

Mandate - What was the Community Change Working Group actually meant to do?

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• Propose new structures for collaboration, collective decision-making and information sharing
• Suggest a way to implement those structures
• Together with the community
• For the community to decide on
• By Spring Equinox 2016

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What did we do?

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• Clarify our mandate and sense of why
• Develop efficient ways of coworking, using both familiar and new tools and systems
• Community meetings
• Community Survey - 339 respondents (thank you Jan, Annie, Amanda and team!)
• Interviews with 11 organisations
• Meetings with NFA Council and FF Management
• Constellation work (thank you Lucy!)
• Asking the subtle realms (thank you Imme!)
• Collaborate on Transformation Game purpose (Thank you Mary, Judy and Susie!)
• Co-held solstice meditation
• Ongoing conversations with friends and experts

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What did we cocreate?

• Forums for discussion, feedback and collective sensing
• Open Archive
• Survey database and results
• Research Report (coming)
• List of topics we feel the community would benefit from addressing

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• Organisational community map
• Proposal for a new model of co-creative, community-wide self-governance for the Findhorn Community
• Plan for next step - consultation Phase

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See all the outputs in our Open Archive - findhorn.cc/ccwg

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Interactive Community Map

For:

• Increasing transparency
• Clarity and understanding
• Up-to-date information

To:

• Facilitate participation
• Enable self-organisation
• Show bigger picture

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Map Demonstration

findhorn.cc/map

Questions about the Map?

5 min

The Proposal!

A new model of co-creative, community-wide self-governance for the Findhorn Community

Next steps:

consultation and feedback

5 months of harnessing collective intelligence

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Proposal - Basic Intention

Efficient, effective and transparent co-creative self-governance embodying the community’s core values for the benefit of the whole as well as its many parts

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• Building on what is there - and what is missing
• Aiming to foster creativity, synergy and self-organisation
• Striving for simplicity, flexibility, clarity

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Full proposal text can be downloaded from the CCWG website - findhorn.cc/ccwg

Proposal - changes and consequences

• Solving a tension by separating 2 functions currently held by NFA
• Individual members’ organisation
• Umbrella organisation
• Solving a tension by splitting the current Forum of Organisations into two circles with different degrees of responsibility and involvement
• Creating a forum for community-wide coordination
• Introducing a new system for collaboration, planning and decision-making relating to community-wide issues

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Proposal - New Circle Structure

Concretely, introducing the following circles and functions

• Coordination Circle - a platform for transparent collaboration, addressing community-wide issues and holding the vision, wellbeing and direction of the whole of the Findhorn Community in focus
• Individual Members Organisation - inheriting and developing already well-functioning NFA services, forums and meeting points for individual community members
• Stakeholder Organisation Circle - clarifying and coordinating the role of organisations actively involved in running day to day activities and services in the community
• Associated Organisations Circle - organisations wishing to be associated with the community without being directly responsible for day-to-day running of common services and assets

Proposal - Coordination Circle

• Members: 2 people each from the Individual Members’ Association, the Stakeholder Organisation Circle, and a few specific organisations responsible for services and infrastructure in the community
• Holds vision, wellbeing and direction of the whole of the Findhorn Community at heart
• Meets as needed to find co-creative solutions to common issues
• Coordinates decision-making involving multiple community stakeholders
• Facilitates flows of information, ideas and resources supporting the community to become more coherent, efficient and purposeful as a whole
• Organisationally light, needs-based, flexible community-wide coordination

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Proposal - Coordination Circle: Mission (partial)

• Embrace attunement, inner listening and co-creation as core aspects of governance and decision-making
• Provide a platform for teamwork between different community stakeholders
• Harnesses the power of synergies and win-win situations involving multiple community stakeholders
• Enable efficient, timely, wise and supported common decisions
• Facilitate the coordination of key community functions
• Uphold the standards, ethics, common ground and purpose of the whole community
• Facilitate self-organisation, distributed leadership and active community citizenship

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Proposal - Coordination Circle: aims (partial)

• Suggest strategic directions and planning for the long-term development of the Community
• Address matters that concern most of or the whole of the Findhorn Community, as needed
• Ensure access to clear, up-to-date information about the community and its different parts, their roles, rights and responsibilities
• Ensure existence of a community-wide peacekeeping service
• Act as a point of connection for regional actors
• Ensure provision of community education for a common vision, coherent whole and active community citizenship and self-organisation

Proposal - Individual Members Organisation

• An active collaborative community citizens’ association supporting the collective and its members to realise their potential in the co-creation of a thriving, vibrant community
• An evolution of the part of the NFA concerned with membership, belonging, activities and services for individual NFA members
• At least one and potentially two full time Listener Conveners, or possibly one Listener Convenor and one full time director or coordinator of services
• Full decision-making rights on the Coordination Circle
• Big change! Many details to discuss in the coming months

Proposal - Organisational Stakeholders Circle

• Members = organisations directly involved with everyday running of the Community
• Strengthens and highlights already existing needs-based, mutually supportive networks
• Adding a more formal and transparent forum for decision-making when needed
• Increasing awareness of vital work held by these organisations
• More mutual win-win situations, synergies and efficient coworking between members, and through them in the community as a whole

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Proposal - Organisational Stakeholders Circle

Role

• Platform for coordination between members
• Forum for decision-making in matters relating to the Coordination Circle

Rights

• Full decision-making rights in Coordination Circle
• All rights of an associated organisation

Responsibilities

• Adhere to agreements and use the community’s peacekeeping service
• Collaborate with the Coordination Circle
• Potentially finance and elect an organisational Listener Convener

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Proposal - Associated Organisations Circle

• Organisations based in or closely affiliated with the Findhorn Community, but whose operations do not directly concern the running of the community
• Have some common interests but not many intersections in everyday operations
• Provides members with clear link to the Findhorn Community
• Provides a forum to communicate, collaborate, develop common standards, organise peer-to-peer learning etc. as and when desired by members
• Does not have members or decision-making rights in Coordination Circle
• Less responsibility for cofinancing and holding community services and infrastructure

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Proposal - Associated Organisations Circle

Membership

• Based on location and shared values

Rights

• Inclusion in community map and website
• May represent themselves as officially associated with the community
• Inclusion in community telephone directory
• Access to community peacekeeping service

Responsibilities

• Provide up to date information about organisation and contact person
• Pay an annual registration fee
• Adhere to the values and agreements of the circle

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Phew! Now what?

Consultation Phase!

• Feedback and dialogue
• Refining the proposal
• Cocreate a clear and concrete implementation plan
• Deciding for or against implementing the finished proposal
• Community ritual
• Extended and modified CCWG - new roles, new tasks, new team, new mandate
• 14 work weeks from mid April - end of September

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Consultation Team

Roles

• 2 x NFA/FF/Org. connections
• Coordinator, Synthesiser & Admin
• Fundraiser

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Funds

• £4300 (£7/hour) - £6000 (£10/hour)
• Raised by fundraiser, guaranteed by NFA
• Total cost to NFA & FF for offering LCs and 2 coworkers at 0.2 = £2500

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Questions?

Thank You!

findhorn.cc/ccwg

• Download the full proposal
• See the Community Map
• Explore the Open Archive

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