Overview of Groups

HOW THE GROUPS RELATE AND THEIR FOCUS

In CHOICE we are developing the foundations of abundance-based agreements fields and energizing these foundations through practice-based reflection and experiments. CHOICE does this through the interweaving of long-retreat foundational labs and periodic, short-retreat advanced study groups.

In the Foundational Labs, we bring together a small group of scholars-in-practice, in long-term retreats (2-6 months over 2-3 years), to uncover the building blocks of human agreements in their particulars and as a whole. The Foundational Labs currently focus on:

Impact Resilience -- measure the outcomes and experience that guide abundance-based, collaborative approaches
Symbolic Acknowledgement of Vibrancy Experienced -- the systems people use in their interactions, initially focused on understanding "money"
Agreements Fields -- the underlying set of agreements influencing human interactions, initially as seen through the economic, political, cultural, and social lenses

While these three Labs ask interrelated questions, about one experience that Homo lumens has, we are approaching their initial framing and field-testing as separate, related questions.

In the Advanced Reflection Groups (ARGs), we bring together a small group of seasoned reflective practitioners, in short-term (1-2 weeks periodically over 2-3 years) spaces of deep reflection and extended conversation, to untangle the embedded agreements that determine the success of our efforts to shift societal systems. The Advanced Reflection Groups currently focus on:

Who is engaging in what context -- The WECAN (witnessing ecologies of consciousness and nature) ARG focuses on understanding what a human being is, the ecology of consciousness they have and work within, and how this is evolving, and on understanding the context human beings work within, the reality of their context, and how this too is evolving.
What the context of agreements fields is actually like -- The ASHES (agreement structures in health and environmental systems) ARG takes the context of many of our overlapping projects in health and environmental systems as a practice field for actually learning about how to shift whole systems.
How we shift agreements fields -- The PICNIC (platforms for integration through collaborative networks and integrated conversations) ARG explores what we are learning about how to realize abundance-based shifts in large-scale societal change through platforms for integration, collaborative networks, and integrated conversations, working through the societal, community, and organizational levels.
Why we do all of this -- the SHAPC (standards of health and points of choice) ARG uncovers and abundance-based reframing of why we take on these efforts, to realize healthy systems with greater choice for everyone everywhere every day.

These four, deeply interrelated ARGs bring together seasoned reflective practitioners who influence all four ARGs and tend to focus their efforts and reflections in one to two of them.

FRAMING THE BIG QUESTIONS -- IN EACH GROUP

To see more specifically how the Foundational Labs and Advanced Reflection Groups relate and what they are working on, we briefly frame the big questions that we have seen so far emerging in each group. You can see much more detail about each by clicking on that group in the menu to the side.

Foundational Labs

The three Foundational Labs focus on Agreements Fields, Impact Resilience, and SAVE.

AGREEMENTS FIELDS

Primary lens – philosophy of man in society, addressing 4 big Qs (lenses EPCS)
Origin story and framing of each lens, scarcity to abundance
- Basic structure of agreements, AEMaps, agreements fields, memetic structures
  - Reframe
    - framing a perspective and process that could become an initial agenda
    - the whole existing model is wrong
    - requires tangibilization power for infinitely expansive and ever-adjusting-to-witnessing network-power moves at the core and the periphery to realign resource power
- E – micro, meso, macro
- P – political systems for Homo lumens
  - Primary lens – who decides and enforces
  - Origin story
    - state of nature of man, how man is in law of nature, before society
    - what rules need (evolution of answer – not developmental, from one historical level to another, rather what able to see)
    - social contract
  - Framing – experience-in-relationship of unconsciously accepted and consciously chosen agreements, 5 primary relationships
    - Historical Development of Rule (see developed doc, tying to JRawl, Kant, Marx, Hegel historical dev dialectic, what is next?)
      - What rules – one-multiple spirit being(s), nature beings
      - Who rules – monarch, church
      - Who else rules -- self-autocracy, other-sociocracy, group-?, nature-?, spirit-theocracy
      - other forms – oligarchy, rule by few – hierarchy, sacred rule – anarchy, without trule – plutarchy, rule by wealthy – aristarchy, rule by best – hagiarchy, rule by holy – timocracy, rule by propertyowners
      - Why rule – rule = straight line-resource-power, probocreatio – tangibilization-power
  - Process – field experiments (most people, positive deviants, ours), data (type, amount, demographics)

Language – social contract, constitution, rule

Social – from Latin socius "companion, ally”
Contract – from Latin com- "together" (see com-) + trahere "to draw"
Constitution – from Latin from com- “with,” + statuere "to set," from PIE root *sta- "to stand, make or be firm"
Rule – from PIE root *reg- "move in a straight line"

C – values in agreements fields
- what we know from our own experience, of what we agree to
S – social systems for tangibilization
- Primary lens – how interact, rules of game
- Origin story – now that people rule (level 3 – who else rules), inequities emerge in:
  - E surplus definition and distribution
  - P power to decide and enforce
  - C whose values, including mostly my needs
  - S rule setting that includes me
- Framing – design principles, standards, rules – for segregating, flocking, uniting

Process – projects, data
- Agreements – the book
- Global social topography of human agreements
  - Global Initiative to Map Ecosynomic Deviance and Impact Resilience (MEDIR)
  - Metamemetics and epimemetics

IMPACT RESILIENCE

Framing
- Define Impact Resilience
- Costs of scarcity
- Return on Impact Resilience Co-investment
Language
- Etymology – sustainable, resilience, impact, outcome, investment
- What is in the terms used
- What is forgotten in terms used

SAVE – symbolic acknowledgement of vibrancy experienced

Primary lens – simplicity of money
Origin story – who controls surplus
Framing
- Observed phenomenon
- Existing explanations
- What existing explanations miss
  - Evidence from field experience
  - Evidence from each of the four lenses—lens-based experts, ecosynomic perspective
- Alternative explanation
  - SAVE
  - How to test
Process
- Projects
  - Field sites – complementary currencies (FLOW Africa), banking (Brazil), wealth (Nexus, PPI), Return on Impact Resilience Co-Investment (Vibrancy)

Advanced Reflection Groups

The four SWAP Advanced Reflection Groups focus on WECAN (who), SHAPC (why), ASHES (what), and PICNIC (how).

WECAN – witnessing ecologies of consciousness and nature

Primary lens – who is choosing what/how in what context
Origin story
- Shift from – evolving story of ecology of consciousness and nature
- Shift to – story of evolving ecology of consciousness and nature
Framing
- Picture of Homo lumens
  - Now
  - How we got here—stages of evolution of consciousness
  - Next stage of evolution
  - Ecology of consciousness (book of human being)
- Picture of context Homo lumens lives in
  - Interpenetrating dimensions from the spiritual world
  - Manifestation of the natural world we live in
  - Current context—assumption bas
  - Emerging context—future we will most likely live in
  - Emerging forms of agreements fields
  - Ecology of nature (book of nature)
- Picture of co-witnessing tangibilization
  - Emerging human consciousness co-evolving with emerging context
- Picture of new geometry
  - Working with the hierarchies to manifest new forms, pathways, possibilities
  - Working with the Spirit of Inspiration through “ἐγώ εἰμί logos” ritual and I AM shrine
- Qs arising
  - In WECAN communities, what are they struggling with?
Process – projects, data
Language
- Etymology – witness, ecology, consciousness, nature, tangibilization, know, self
- What is in the terms used
- What is forgotten in terms used

SHAPC – standards of health and points of choice

Primary lens – decision by best informed
Origin story – complexity of individual and public health, require deep study and licensed experience
Framing
- Kernel of wellbeing
  - 4-fold strategy, with balance feedback mechanism
- Lumens surplus dynamics
- Standards of health
  - Absolute and relative standards and indices
  - As measures of impact resilience, outcomes and experiences
  - Existing definitions of health, physical and mental — from medical journals and association website
- Qs arising
  - In SHAPC communities, what are they struggling with?
Process – projects, data
Language
- Etymology – health, medicine, standard, choice
  - Health – Old English hælþ "wholeness, a being whole, sound or well"
  - Medicine – possibly from PIE root *med- "take appropriate measures" or from Latin medeor (“heal, cure”) +‎ -icus
- What is in the terms used
- What is forgotten in terms used

ASHES – agreement structures for health and environmental systems

Primary lens – health effectiveness and efficiency for and through mind, body, planet
Origin story – work harder (1^st, more E resources) and smarter (2^nd, include inequities C and inclusionary process PS)
Framing
- Stocks, netflow of inflows and outflows – prevention and treatment
- Positive deviants
  - What is surprising us, from the periphery
    - About what is possible
    - About what is normal—actually happening, even when called collaborative
- Power continuum AEMaps
  - Resource power, network power, tangibilization power
  - What see through 4 lenses
- Integrative model
  - Transcend and include environment and health
- Model of “health” (human and environment) outcomes, experience, process
  - Impact resilience
- Qs arising
  - In ASHES communities, what are they struggling with?
Process – projects, data
Language
- Etymology – health, environment
- What is in the terms used
- What is forgotten in terms used

PICNIC – platforms for integration through collaborative networks and integrated conversations

Primary lens – SCALE 1.0, strategic clarity to accelerate large-system evolution
Origin story – how to impact much more with what have
Framing
- Continuum
  - Scarcity-based resource extraction power designed for accumulation
  - Abundance-based tangibilization power designed for collaboration
- Collaborative network AEMapping
  - Seen through the 4 lenses
- Process-design maturity
  - HV Move Process
  - Design level – segregating, flocking, uniting
  - O Process
- What outcomes and experience look like
  - Impact resilience
- Qs arising
  - In CN work—why need this space for reflection
Process – projects, data
Language
- Etymology – collaboration, network, integrated, conversation, platforms
- What is in the terms used
- What is forgotten in terms used

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