What passes for wealth in our culture is a shallow, erosive, and cancerous accumulation of financial symbols typically at the expense of actual human, social, and natural resources. Instead, consider the parallels to the word health on the individual level of wellness -- wealth speaks to our collective wellness. To heal is to improve your individual wellness.
To weal is to create a win-win interaction
or pattern of relationship.
In this workshop, we will uncover all the layers of living systems wealth,
the types of current-sees needed to shape and activate healthy patterns
in each dimension, and how to apply advanced design principles to a project or community that you are working on. Although there are many design principles we'd like to cover, the format will be participatory, co-creative, and we will maintain a focus on the practical application to your communities over abstract theories.
Come build targeted currencies to nourish your projects which activate vital flows of resources, information, participation and trust in your communities.
Clear your calendar - It's happening!
Come one, come all, bring a guest, and lets design!
January 26th to 28th
Bay Area, California
Living Systems Model of Wealth
Currencies life cycles and principles of design
Currency Decision Map
Targeted Currencies & Targeting Process
Designing Social Flows
Case studies of successful and failed currencies
Small scale currencies
Non-digital embodied currencies
Spiral Dynamics & Incentives / Formalization
Deep Wealth II: Going deeper
Systems change and Expressive Capacity shifts
Social Contracts of Gift Economies
Wealth Stewardship Model
Life-Affirming Economies
Collective Intelligence Principles
Art builds targeted currencies which shape the social dynamics of our emerging post-industrial economy. He has created more than a hundred designs for multi-currency systems and his software company has built and deployed dozens of those systems.
He has started student-run schools and award-winning, employee-run businesses and discovered the engine that runs these types of organizations involve specific patterns of incentives and feedback. He began to unlock secrets of the Social DNA by which people operate and the critical role of currencies for programming these patterns.
Arthur’s designs include currency systems for: collaborative scientific research, sustainable fishery management, corporate compensation plans, employee stock options, community-based economic development, business barter and exchange, triple-bottom-line trade credits, open source software development, customer loyalty programs, water rights, recirculating gift certificates, community service, employee performance management, arts & culture development, efficient resource sharing & management, and community & environmental impact assessment.
He is the co-founder of 'The MetaCurrency Project'
Ferananda has a fulfilled career in the fields of Collective Intelligence and New Paradigm Economics. She expresses her work through multiple forms, coaching, speaking, facilitating and designing social architectures. Her path has led her to work in Mexico, USA and Europe.
She is co-founder of VillageLab, an organization focused on Regenerative Whole Systems Design for Communities of purpose, place and practice. She works closely with Intentional communites, land projects and communities of practice. She is devoted to the creation of Wisdom-driven organizations, applied Sacred Economics and Wisdom driven Economies where people and communities thrive and the planet can Regenerate.
Ferananda has experience implementing community currencies an is currently part of the board of the Post-Growth Institute and the South Oregon TimeCoop. She co-creates with 'The Metacurrency Project' since its birth. Arthur Brock builds targeted currencies which shape the social dynamics of our emerging post-industrial economy. He has created more than a hundred designs for multi-currency systems and his software company has built and deployed dozens of those systems.
Our shallow numeric ways don't allow us to see the deep value and flows happening in our communities, our ecosystems, our economies. To design a Regenerative System we need a comprehensive understanding of Deep Wealth that goes far beyond money into the realms of Living Systems. Right now, money is encoded to represent the likely rate of compensation for future transfer of ownership of an object. This means it doesn't do so well with non-objects or things that can't be owned. There are many other shortcomings of our current value mapping protocol (money) that should also be questioned (why configure it for central control, privileged token creation, unsustainable growth, etc.). The good news is that we can and are changing it. But it has such an entrenched monopoly, not just in the legal, structural, social context but in our imagination of what's possible that people will argue till blue in the face that it is the REAL way value flows work, instead of recognizing it as just one way of mapping and navigating them. The question is about what things we value enough collectively to build into the map (currency).
Spirit: We offer this workshop in the spirit of win-win reciprocity. We will offer as much value as possible in grace - putting the fullness of our hearts and Spirits and wisdom from our combined life experience into this very special event -
and we ask you do meet us in that Spirit.
Suggested Donation: $120-$500 - No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Transparency: We strive to have at least 12 people at this event. Our fixed costs and minimum requests from workshop leaders totals $1800 or a minimum $150 per person assuming 12 to attend. That said - no one will be turned away for lack of funds or level of donation and the identity of donations will be kept confidential.
Consideration and Process: We ask that you keep the fullness of the collective economics in mind - including that some may not be able to afford the suggested minimum yet will not be turned away. If required we will facilitate a process that empowers us all to find that right amount that rings true to our hearts and minds in all ways.
Thank you!
