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Monday, November 6, 2017
Open cooperative work and glocal governance
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8:59 AM
August 23 – September 6
FairCoop ecosystem open cooperative workThis module was intended more for people already experienced in the FairCoop ecosystem, and had as its goal the refinement and development of the already existing FairCoop protocols and ways of organising, plus some new additions to these. The workshop welcomed to Mont Soleil people from Switzerland, France, Austria, Catalonia/Spain, Argentina, Greece, Italy, South Africa, Philippines… and we were particularly happy to have some people from Bakur in Kurdistan (Turkish state), who had come to learn about merging their own style of self-organised cooperativism with our own. The focus of this summer camp was to develop five areas of open cooperative work. This areas are: welcome, communication, common management, circular economy and tech. In each one of the areas an assembly was created that is now taking care of the priorities of the area, and defining tasks to be done and paid for in a fair and open way – simplifing the way in which any participant of the ecosystem has the opportunity to be rewarded based on the time spent in doing useful tasks. A common budget was proposed (and approved later on in the September FairCoop assembly), in order to begin this innovative and inclusive method of collaboration. Most of the areas also activated roles of facilitators who will help the development of the assemblies and tasks, and some subareas were also introduced, looking forward to an even more decentralized open coop structure. We also learnt about dynamising assemblies and scrum/agile techniques, and applying these to the newly formed Areas of FairCoop. We concentrated quite heavily on the new Circular Economy Area, intended to increase participation in FairCoop at a local level, and this does seem to have been successful, judging by the number of new Local Nodes which have been formed since the Summer Camp. We also worked a lot on the Welcome Area, Media and Communication, and Tech areas. We couldn’t have left Jura without paying for beers in Faircoin at the fantastic Espace Noir bar, and the walk down from Mont Soleil to St. Imier was as much of a highlight as getting the cable car back up! We really feel that the Summer Camp was a massive injection of energy into the project, and we unblocked some longstanding issues which allowed us to move the whole thing up to another level. This process is ongoing since then and we will be seeing the results soon. It was also great fun to meet everyone who we may up until then have only known ‘virtually’. FairCoop is all about building trust and community, unlike many other ‘crypto’ projects which are focused on individualism, so it was vital to be able to interact face-to-face and in person with the other people building the project. There was a lot of cooking and cleaning, and also a Fair bit of dancing and laughing! September 7 – September 22 Developing a model of glocal governanceBeyond just the immediate steps of developing the organizational structure of the FairCoop projects for the next phase of the next months and years, we looked at ways to scale a governance culture to society at large. A governance culture that embraces autonomy and gives authoritative answers to what we collectively want to consent to doing. People from Switzerland, Finland, Spain, South Africa, Austria and Greece were involved in this part of the summer camp. We focused on collecting various governance best practices such as the Constellation Model, Sociocracy 3.0 and Occupy-Style Open Assemblies. The governance structure that resulted from these workshops is one that aims to be parallel to other governance structures. It does not aim to replace them. It is complementary to them. It has, however, the inherent power to transform them or to bring about new structures that make old ones obsolete. It is glocal, translocal in nature. It is decentralised, powered through the interdependent participation of local and translocal random groups of people. This governance culture does not make decisions. Its function is to facilitate awareness of current consensus in society. Once collective realization arises, there should be no need for making “decisions”. However, where decisions are made in other parallel governance structures, this collective realization is taken into account as part of agreeing on the chosen path forward. We defined ways to implement such a glocal governance culture that can be taken into account as we move forward. ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment Sunday, July 16, 2017
St-Imier Gatherings 2017: July 30 - September 22
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2:00 PM
![]() This years Beau-Sejour gatherings will stretch over 7 weeks of hands-on FairCoop related social permaculture workshops! July 30 – August 13 Introduction to FairCoop ecosystem. How to create a local node in your region.There are 12 places available for activists who wants to learn about FairCoop ecosystem and extend in their region. Priority for people coming from places where there are no local nodes. August 14-15 Glocal Governance BrainstormingGlocal Governance, mixing the mycelium model, the constellation model, sociocracy in a federated culture. This is a pre-session to the more extensive work that will be done on the topic during the weeks from September 7th to the 22nd. August 16 – August 23 Blockchain for womenBlockchain and cryptocurrencies are powerful technologies who already are changing the world; in this context their early adopters are getting more economic and political power for shaping how the future will be. Again women are heavily misrepresented amongst these early adopters. This further creates more inequalities, adding to the burden of already present inequalities in the world today amongst genders. August 23 – September 6 FairCoop ecosystem open cooperative workLets reorganize FairCoop and prepare the ecosystem for the challenges of the next period. September 7 – September 22 Developing a Model of Glocal GovernanceLet’s answer the call to for the Global Challenge with a proposal to a glocal model of governance in the spirit of grassroots local autonomy and global federated cooperation. We will focus during these days in September on collecting various governance best practices such as the Constellation Model, Sociocracy 3.0 and Occupy-Style Open Assemblies and combine them with the results from a series of work sessions on the topic we’ve done this year, including something we called the Mycelium Model of Glocal Governance. By the end of this work camp, we aim to have a finished, presentable proposal for a new governance best practice that can be followed as a model, at any scale, from local initiatives to global movements. A governance culture that embraces autonomy and gives authoritative answers to what we collectively want to consent to doing. Do you feel up to the challenge? You are welcome to take part! ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment Saturday, July 30, 2016
Come to GAS - St-Imier, Switzerland - September 16-18, 2016
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8:24 PM
![]() You are invited to come to GAS 2016, St-Imier Switzerland, where we want to co-create a culture inspired by permaculture principles. On the weekend of September 16-18 we will meet for the 5th time in the tradition of our Beau-Sejour gatherings. This year we want to gather our abundant energies to power something we are calling a "synergy hub" and change the world together. We will also celebrate the 5th anniversary of the Occupy movement on September 17th. The occupy movement has brought about a solid network that is collaboratively building towards nothing less than a new and better society. With the synergy hub network, we are setting up a platform available to you and your projects to connect locally and globally with like-minded people. GAS 2016 is an opportunity to self-organize and coordinate this powerful cultural change that we are igniting this autumn. Whether you are a change maker or want to become one, whether you are Occupy, Transition, Maker, Hacker, Peer-to-peer, Next Edge, Edgeryder, anarcho-this or anarcho-that, social entrepreneur, artist, philanthropist, guerrilla gardener, insider, outsider, this-activist or that-activist, this call is a personal invitation to you. Fill in the registration form to join us this September on Mont-Soleil, above St-Imier, in the Jura mountains of Switzerland. For GAS16, we will bridge together offline and online participation. So, you can also sign up to join us online via tools such as Telegram, Zoom and Trello. When: 16th, 17th, 18th September 2016 Where: La Décentrale, Mont Soleil, Switzerland Map and directions Participation is limited. Reservation required. Accommodation available upon request. Please contact: gatherings@st-imier.org +41 329 41 41 41 st-imier.org Registration fee: Friday through Sunday: 1200 Faircoins or CHF/EUR 64.- Sunday only: 300 Faircoins or CHF/EUR 16.- Limited, conditional sponsorships available. Registration form Preliminary program: Friday, September 1610h (optional)Open Space sessions for development of Workshop topics 16h - 18h (everybody) Last arrivals of participants. 18h - 19h Buffet Canadien 19h - 20h Short presentation of the proposed topics, followed by forming groups of participants for Saturday’s workshops. 20h - 23h Film in the Salle Principale: Fall and Winter (English with Spanish subtitles) Film on the upper floor: En quête de sens (French with German subtitles) Both films followed by open discussion. Saturday, September 1710h - 19hOpen Space workshops in the working groups developed together on Friday Followed by the evening meal and a full moon night around the fire, celebrating the 5th Occupy anniversary with a healthy dose of music Sunday, September 1810h - 12hPresentation of workshop results and directions 12h - 14h Gathering Meal 14h (open end) Open invitation to gather for informal sharing, with acoustic music. ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment Saturday, August 1, 2015
Decentralise Now Gathering for the 99%
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7:43 PM
![]() On the 17th of September 2015, the fourth anniversary of the birth of the Occupy movement, you are invited to come as you are to “the Mountain of the Sun” and join the first Decentralise Now gathering on Mont-Soleil, Switzerland. We need to synergise our efforts to become more effective in creating a new reality, a new world, a new way. It is time to “Occupy the World“ and create an alliance of the alternatives. This is a call for alliance! We do not sit idly by whilst we see countries being economically water-boarded by the banks. We cannot ignore the pressures on everyday people that these austerity measures have created. There is another way. We are prepared for a wave of synergism that decentralises the power structures. It is time to create a culture of self-empowerment, synergy and symbiosis between each other and nations. We are the people - we are the 99% Whether you already are a change maker or want to become one, whether you are Occupy, Anonymous, Transition, Maker, Greens, Pirate, Podemos, Permaculture, Rainbow, Hacker, Open Source, Electronic Frontier, Commons, New Edge, Edgeryder, Danach, Neustart, Anti-WEF, Panarchy, anarcho-this or anarcho-that, social entrepreneur, artist, philanthropist, guerrilla gardener, insider, outsider, this-activist or that-activist, or just somebody that is aware - this call for alliance is to you. It is time. Join us to Decentralise Now. In St-Imier, the home of anarchism... where it all began in 1872. We gather on the 17th of September to move ahead. The main event will be an intense collaboration and exchange that weekend, from Friday evening at 19:00 to Sunday at 17:00. This is an open ended gathering. We will continue beyond that weekend and you can join us at any time. You are also able to participate online, if you can’t join us at the Décentrale on Mont-Soleil, Switzerland. WHEN : SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2015 WHERE: DECENTRALE, MONT SOLEIL, ST-IMIER, SWITZERLAND We intend to make this event prix-libre. We will need your financial support. Please expect to expend what you can afford to pay for such an event. If you can give more, please do. If you know people that might be able to make a financial contribution, please encourage them to do so. Sign up and find more details here on the website decentralisenow.org, as they become available. facebook.com/groups/decentralisenow twitter.com/decentralisenow ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment Thursday, November 13, 2014
This year, we are taking it up a notch - are you joining?
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1:57 PM
In addition to this years main Beau-Sejour weekend gathering from November 21st to 23rd, we want to offer you some additional possibilities to join our discussions and brainstorm some ideas about how our societies should go forward. Just fill in this Doodle and let's see who is here during which sessions - and we'll spontaneously accommodate the topics to shared interests of the participants of each session.
Just fill in the times that work for you in the Doodle here: doodle.com ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Program of the 2014 Beau-Sejour gathering
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12:33 PM
Itinerary for the "Finding the Seed for the New System" Beau-Sejour weekend:
Friday, November 21, 2014 You are welcome to join us on Friday already at 17:00 for us to be cooking and eating dinner together. At 19:00 we all meet for our evening session. Together, we will review and discuss the topics that have emerged during the 2012 and 2013 gatherings and what has happened as a result with the creation of the Permavillage and La Décentrale projects on Mont-Soleil. We will talk about assumptions we've come to last year, like how the workings of current democracy, finance and civil society are all heavily influenced by a single defining pattern, circling around the way money is created, and how this pattern defines the evolution of virtually all aspects of our current societies. This will give us a head start, laying out the terrain we will be covering on Saturday. At around 21:30 we will end the Friday evening session. Saturday, November 22, 2014 At 9:30 we will start our morning session, prepare and eat lunch together around noon, continue with our afternoon session at 13:30 and end Saturdays session at 18:30. There will be the option of having dinner together as well for those of you that like to stick around Saturday night. Sunday, November 23, 2014 Again, at 9:30 we will start our morning session, prepare and eat lunch together around noon, continue with our afternoon session at 13:30 and end the 2014 Beau-Sejour gathering at 16:00 on Sunday. Accommodation There are beds available for you to sleep in the house of La Décentrale, so there should be no need to look for other accommodation. If you like to stay here during the nights, please let me know, so I can make sure there is a bed reserved for you. How to get here This year for the first time, the Beau-Sejour gathering will take place at La Décentrale on Mont-Soleil. decentrale.ch You can easily find your way to Mont-Soleil by public transportation, taking the funicular up from St-Imier: funisolaire.ch La Décentrale is located just 150 meters from the top station of the funicular. Looking forward to seeing you all! ![]() ... Link (0 comments) ... Comment ... Next page
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