This article was first published in our Cocooners N° 15 and is part of the How we work series.
If you would like to receive updates on this and other topics related to the evolution of the world of work, subscribe to our newsletter here: https://cocoon-pro.com/#subscribe
If you want to know more, or engage your organization with this approach, please get in touch, here: https://cocoon-pro.com/get-in-touch/
How can ecosystems of organizations catalyze collective positive impact on business towards a better society?
In the last few decades it’s become clearer that our civilization is facing a huge system of complex challenges, what some have called a meta-crisis. They are putting at risk our survival as a species and, in the meantime, increasingly wreaking havoc on the life conditions of billions of people and on the whole biosphere. None of these challenges can be solved on their own. They are deeply interconnected and they are rooted in how our species is choosing to relate to life itself. Yet, they can possibly be overcome all at once by evolving this very relationship.
Groups of people have been autonomously organizing the world over, giving their contribution to this evolution. A culture of regeneration has been rising everywhere in a multitude of forms. Permaculture, bio-regions, regenerative finance, collaborative governance, solarpunk, for example, are just a few of the names these efforts have taken. Awareness and motivation have sprouted. The technological tools exist. It’s about time to allow all of it to coalesce, to come together and give birth to the first examples of a better way.
Within this context WEIRD, the World Evolution Institute for Regeneration and Development, was born. An emergent playground in which caring people can embody a better type of society together. A living ecosystem of people, principles, values (assets), and organizations, with simple and bold rules of engagement based on the full awareness of our deep interdependence and on embracing diversity and reciprocity as the precious seeds of regenerative emergence. It is meant to support new generations to thrive in stewarding all life on Earth.
In practice, it’s a space of belonging for different organizations and communities to come together around streams of work through an open-governance system that allows shared sense-making, direction and resources allocation, and an economy of non-scarce value to be fostered among people and enabled by the latest tech.
In 2012, LiquidO –the open governance framework– was being designed, and since then we’ve been learning and improving, along with the ecosystem, better ways of organizing. In the past year, we held 4 polycentric meetings with different people and organizations around the world to design WEIRD. Now, 2024 begins with the first governance team formed. It has begun!
What is it that you and your organization would like to implement towards a better way of organizing as a living ecosystem?
If you are interested to know more, contact us.
This article was first published in our Cocooners N° 15 and is part of the How we work series.
If you would like to receive updates on this and other topics related to the evolution of the world of work, subscribe to our newsletter here: https://cocoon-pro.com/#subscribe
If you want to know more, or engage your organization with this approach, please get in touch, here: https://cocoon-pro.com/get-in-touch/