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February 1st, 2022 - This proposal has not been ratified by the Citizens of SEEDS
Creating a Regenerative Civilization isn't a marathon nor a sprint, there is no end where suddenly 'we're done'. With this idea in mind, Seasons is a pattern for us to sustainably and joyfully continue this journey without burning out (from trying to run the whole time).
Seasons is a model for us to start living in a Regenerative Culture today. Where in these cultures we would have generative patterns for how we set priorities, organize efforts, create balance, enjoy life, and shift focus throughout the year.
Seasons provide a pattern for measuring progress and success. So, instead of defaulting to old patterns of measuring success (what's the exchange value of a token) that's driven by short-sighted market cycles we can instead adopt a "cathedral building" mentality and use Seasonal cycles to measure progress across a wide diversity of indicators (well beyond the exchange price of various tokens).
When we adopt our own organizational rhythms, we step out of the default organizational rhythms of the dominant economies that are driven by market cycles of 'boom/bull' and 'bust/bear' and the myopic focus on quarterly finances. This model could also help our ecosystem earn a "countercyclical" status where if there's a "bear market" in the old economies it's an opportunity for capital to flee into more stable economies that aren't tethered to the boom and bust cycles of those economic models.
For example, instead of making a changes to our economic protocols to serve short sighted interests ("number go up" mentality) Seasons provides us a container to make decisions based on what's best for transitioning into a Regenerative Culture and our economy. This way SEEDS creates it's own economic rhythm.
provides a container for momentum and focus to better align our efforts;
reduce potential burnout of the expectation for some members to be "always on all year round";
model and experiment with creating more generative patterns for humanity (affording for diversity of life experience, seasonal shifts, balance, and more)
What follows is an overview of an economic tool we call "Renaissance Seasons"
"Seasons" is a protocol to consciously and collaboratively focus our efforts each season (currently proposed to start/end on each solstice/equinox with our "Regenerative Renaissance Roundtables" or R3) to foster systemic balance - opposed to attempting all priorities at the same time, all the time.
Citizens steer SEEDS by choosing seasonally what work they want done. They do this by selecting which DHO's they want to participate in each upcoming season to steward the SEEDS Commons treasury (when anyone buys Seeds from joinseeds.earth you're trading Seeds with the SEEDS Commons and they sell the other tokens to fund Citizen directed operations).
You may participate in one season, all seasons, or anything that best suites you.
The seasons model provides a clear time for people to enter and exit active participation or change roles our organizations within the ecosystem.
The seasonal pattern provides a diversity of unique ways to contribute throughout the year to members of our community - and helps us avoid the trap of hyper-focusing on just one domain (such as focusing too much time on building tools and not enough time actively regenerating our planet).
Each season has an ecosystem theme that DHOs are encouraged to align with. However, there is no requirement for them to do so as some things the ecosystem needs may not line up with the stated theme. For example some technology providers may need to have support roles active all year round.
Stagger our learning journey's (so we can focus momentum and align them in the larger context of what we're doing). For example the various learning journey's within SEEDS:
Tools of the Regenerative Renaissance: When: By inspiration and demand. What: Ecosystem out-reach programs that help share all of the incredible things happening in the Regenerative Renaissance and help them understand the wider ecosystem in which SEEDS exists.
Ambassador academy: When: During expansion seasons. What: Ecosystem in-reach programs to facilitate orienting new people into the vast world of SEEDS. A resource to help us cultivate our purpose and find or create the right role for you in the movement.
Renaissance explorers: When: During grounding seasons. What: Ecosystem co-learning journeys that facilitate deep internal (personal protocols, mental habits and beliefs, etc landscapes) and external (collective protocols, governance, economic, etc landscapes) explorations.
Focus our orientation and onboarding efforts into clear seasons where everyone who's new and wants to join can all do so together in a collection of cohorts. This way we can build collective momentum where a critical mass of people is on a similar page in their journey.
Focus our governance evolution and discussions in a single season. This way we are only asking people to commit to these deep dialogues once during a year (opposed to at any time) which may make it more obtainable of an ask for Citizens and those wanting to be a part of architecting and deeply considering the protocols of SEEDS.
Seasons work as all cycles of life do, in cyclical balance.
In breathe & out breathe
Summer & winter
Spring and fall
Yin & Yang
Global & local
Expansion & contraction
Inspired by this balancing pattern we can consciously shift the focus of each season to bring balance throughout the course of the year and provide a foundation for a rhythm that our community can continue to modify as we learn and grow.
A significant service of the SEEDS ecosystem is building tools and technology to help our movement coordinate.
As we discuss in our Constitution a regenerative culture is one living in harmony with the natural world.
Good internet hygiene (consciously creating periods where humans are encouraged to be "off line") is a fundamental exploration we can navigate together.
Setting expectations for internet use for each season (and adding seasons where internet use is expected to be at a low) can help us set rhythms as a community to take this time off (much like the various global efforts of the working class to turn a 7 day work week into 5 and now 4...).
That way we aren't expected to be "on line" year round to welcome in new people, engage in governance discussions, and everything else Citizens are encouraged to participate in.
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Day 4 - Citizens vote for Commons Organizations
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Day 5 - Selecting the SEEDS Commons Council
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Day 7 - Budget established - start of a new Season
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For each R3, Commons Organization's provide:
Updated space in Section 7 under the SEEDS Commons Organization's detailing:
How members may contribute to your organization and join you.
What domains and focus area's your organization is holding.
Any other relevant information that may inspire Citizens to select you to hold a spot in the Commons.
Hint, use existing organizations for inspiration.
A 7-15 min presentation of what was accomplished the last Season (recapping the previous stated goals) This is where you build trust with the Citizens by demonstrating your ability to execute on goals and add value to the ecosystem.
A 7-15 min presentation of key learnings from the last Season This is where you share key learnings and insights with the SEEDS Community and help our ecosystem learn and evolve.
A 7-15 min presentation for the next 1-3 major goals for the upcoming Season This is where you want to inspire the Citizens with your offering so that they support your work for the next season.
What you need to make it happen (10 forms of capital).
Who you need to make it happen (what roles can people fill, this is how they know to contribute to and join your organizations).
Note: These presentations don't need to take a lot of time and organizations are encouraged to only focus on preparing these resources during the last 1-2 weeks of a Season.
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Day 7 - Budget established - start of a new Season
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Organizations who participated in the last season share what they accomplished (one speaker) and learned (another speaker).
Organizations seeking funding and/or members for the next season present.
Citizens vote on which organizations will become the SEEDS Commons for the next season (some core organizations may be consistent members of the Commons if the Citizens choose).
Each day is 90-180 minute sessions.
[Sense-make] Days 1-3 are open to all participants in SEEDS
[Decision-make] Day 4 is where Citizens Vote These 4 days represent the minimum viable and high-impact route to contribute to SEEDS (1-3 major sessions every 3 months and 1 day of thoughtful deliberation)
[Coordinate] Days 5-7 the 'Commons Council' members create a budget and a new Season begins
a recap of what they did last season;
and presentation on what they learned last season.
a proposal for what they would like to do next season. 1-3 main goals.
Notes:
Who and what they need to make it happen!
Organizations seeking to be part of the next Season present their proposals to the SEEDS Citizens.
Organizations can participate in the Commons back-to-back as long as the Citizens keep voting them in.
An "Organization" is any coordinated group of 3 or more people.
Citizen assemblies. Day 3 will offer a variety of breakout groups focusing on a variety of discussion topics that emerged in days 1 and 2.
The Citizens vote for which organizations they want to participate in the SEEDS Commons for the next season. This action is how the Citizens collectively steer the ecosystem by choosing which organizations (and the goals they represent) we fund for the next seasons.
After the organizations have been selected the 5th day is when those organizations select 2 representatives to participate in the "Commons Council" for the next season.
The first Commons Council Assembly where the members start the work of defining a budget for how the resources being stewarded by the Commons are to be delivered to the Commons DHOs for the next season.
Deliberations conclude and the Commons Council sets a budget. At this point the operational work of the Commons Council concludes and operations move into the respective organizations of the Commons.
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[Optional] The Commons Council may coordinate working groups amongst organizations and Citizens. These groups are not compensated directly by the Commons but rather they are through one of the Commons Organizations. In this way Commons Council members aren't expected to do DD on a variety of diverse contribution requests - but rather these requests go through Commons Organizations that are most suited for the contribution (e.g. Storytelling related working groups would be compensated through storytelling related organizations versus technology building (e.g. Hypha DHO), or protocol designing (e.g. Renaissance Explorers) groups, etc).
"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished" - Lao Tzu
A protocol to consciously shift where we're focusing our energy throughout the year. To more effectively and joyfully give space to the wide diversity of threads that we're stewarding as a movement.
Spring - Global - Yang - Out - Expansion
Equinox
Summer - Local - Yang - Out - Expansion
Solstice
Fall - Local - Yin - In - Consolidation
Equinox
Winter - Global - Yin - In - Consolidation
Solstice
Inviting and onboarding new people into the organizations designed last Winter Season
Focus: community calls and activations, onboarding sessions, etc.
Prepare, propose, vote, and execute on a variety of 'invite campaigns' to welcome new people into the Regenerative Renaissance.
Tool developers: Release, Track & Monitor Fixing bugs and moderate improvements from the previous season's deployments
Prepare and run crowd pooling campaigns for Regenerative Civics projects Where communities pool a variety of the 10 forms of capital needed to run villages, cooperative food systems, material libraries, or any socially or ecologically regenerative project...
Focus: storytelling campaigns, alliance building, forming teams, pooling resources, preparing for the summer actions, etc.
Ambassador Academy active - Renaissance Explorers inactive
High to Moderate internet & computer use.
Archetype of the
Space for new - inviting new energy in
Emergence - realising potential
Developing trust and cultivating community
Nurturing and guardianship
Offering invitations into foundational systems
Archetype of the
Click here to learn more about the SEEDS Commons and how your organization can participate.
Bioregional and local activation The SEEDS Community selects a diversity of bioregional projects (how many depends on our capacity) to collectively focus our efforts in helping each new community make a joyful and successful transition into new economic systems.
Focus: Local and in-person events and activations.
Regen civics raising festivals for in-person regenerative activations Physically coming together in community across the globe and doing the work of ecological and social regeneration. This is where we put our tools to the test to see how they help us with the real work of on-the-ground systems change.
Focus: Fresh air, sunlight, hands in the soil: build, repair, & regenerate
Tool developers: Rest and discover new requirements Learn from the communities using tools for local activations.
Ambassador Academy active - Renaissance Explorers inactive
Moderate to low internet & computer use.
Archetype of the
Space for action and doing
Hands-on learning
Stewarding the emergence
Ripening of fruit
Grounding potential
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Family and village wellbeing and thrivability The group work, ensuring we're consciously giving active space to co-create with our families and local communities
Personal wellbeing and thrivability Intentionally leaving space for the incredibly important inner work and regenerating our inner landscapes
Reflect on SEEDS economic & governance protocols 3 month period of reflection for how our Governance systems served us (or didn't) in serving our purpose the previous seasons
Focus: Reflect, research, explore, & sense-make
Tool developers: Rest, plan and design new features Prepare for the development sprint next season.
Renaissance Explorers (Inner space) active - Ambassador Academy inactive
Low to no internet & computer use
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Ensuring our harvest - the value we create - is flowing through our whole ecosystem
Reflection, deep learning, and slowing down
Letting go of maladaptive patterns
Opening up space for new patterns
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Our season of deep governance design.
Evolving our global economic & governance protocols 3 month period where Citizens participate in governance discourses and vote on any changes or directly select other Citizens to represent them.
Discuss, align, & make thoughtful decisions
Crafting and designing our organizations (and new DHO/DAO structures) With the lived experience of the last 3 seasons and coming off a reflective season we then consciously upgrade and design our organizational patterns.
Focus: Creating templates, making fliers, creating the DHO/DAO structure, roles, quests, initial policies, etc
Tool developers: Develop and build Build the new features and push code.
Renaissance Explorers (Outer Space) active - Ambassador Academy inactive
Moderate to high internet & computer use
Archetype of the
Evolving the systems we're operating within (economic, governance, organizational, etc)
Introducing, co-creating, and grounding new patterns
Preparing new patterns for energizing in an upcoming seasons
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Day 4 - Citizens vote for Commons Organizations
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Day 5 - Selecting the SEEDS Commons Council
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Day 6 - Commons Council Assembly
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Day 7 - Budget established - start of a new Season
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