What we do
We nurture the capacities and capabilities needed for inclusive and effective planetary-scale governance.
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As our violent and unsustainable systems begin to collapse, we seek to build the foundations for planetary-scale governance - the multiple governances that, when weaved together, can respond inclusively and effectively to planetary-scale problems.
We see this is a continuous and collective process of learning and finding coherence among the people, places and technologies needed for new systems to emerge. Through this process we embrace the deep personal, collective and institutional transformations required, in service to the people and places most affected.
Our strategic intentions
Engaging civil society leaders in experiential workshops that support them in responding to the poly-crisis.
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These workshops are co-designed and facilitated by experienced practitioners, who draw on methods from deep ecology, transformative justice and regenerative design. We engage existing communities and movements across our networks, and decentralise these workshops by offering training to new facilitators within a growing action-learning community. We believe this has the potential to help build the societal resilience and capabilities needed for new governances to emerge.
Learn more about our experiential workshops here.
Convening innovators and funders across boundaries to nurture new relationships and intersectional innovation.
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These convenings bring innovators and funders into deeper dialogue about the possibilities for weaving together different governances, enabled by our relational and cross-sector approach to mapping and matching. We believe this has the potential to strengthen transboundary relationships and unlock new funding and innovation pathways for addressing the poly-crisis.
Learn more about our innovator-funder convenings (TBA).
Publishing interviews with active members of communities about the emergent possibilities.
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These interviews form part of broader inquiries, which explore how communities are actively responding to the poly-crisis. We have partnered with Axiom News and are forming an alliance between organisations to train people how to conduct possibility-oriented interviews, and maintain a community of practice for peer-to-peer learning. We believe this has the potential to help expand our collective imagination and shift cultural narratives towards what is possible and emerging for people in and across their communities.
Learn more about the interviews we publish here.
Our guiding inquiries
Our core inquiry, which we use to help guide all of our work:
What if we could respond inclusively and effectively to planetary-scale problems?
Our foundational inquiries, which we use to help build the capacities and capabilities for planetary-scale governance:
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How can we create the conditions to practise new or since-forgotten ways of being that hold uncertainty and complexity, challenge notions of separability and human exceptionalism, and continuously move us towards new systems and paradigms?
How can we create, maintain and evolve systems of learning that improve our capacity to respond to planetary-scale problems, while being proportionately accountable to those affected?
How can we create and make accessible systems of governance that enable people to participate in response-making processes for the issues that they care about and which affect their lives, while ensuring sufficient coherence to interoperate at a planetary scale?
Our action-learning inquiries, which we use to help evaluate our work:
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To what extent have we honoured our values in this work?
How has our work resonated with the people and places we were working with?
What have we learned from this experience, and what might this change for us?
Our ecology of change
We approach our mission with an appreciation of the wider landscape and plurality of approaches needed to transform our systems - from direct action to relationship building, and from healing circles to innovation hubs.
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We also seek to contribute by modelling in our own structures the distributed and decentralised governances and response-making that we seek to create ‘out there’, as living examples of what’s possible. We are exploring, for example, new ways to establish commons with partner organisations and networks, to share and distribute resources, and to practise collective care with all whom we enter into relationships with.
