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Supplanting the Modern World

Ecosystemic Succession through CULTURAL ENGINES

Frances Rose Subbiondo -- NEPC 2012

Tuesday, July 17, 12

To Supplant:

to intentionally speed ecosystemic succession --

by growing conditions that undermine the current state’s

ability to thrive or survive.


A claim:

The Success of any project is dependent upon the cultural health

of the groups that the project touches.


What contributes to system failure in human endeavors?

Mill Basin, Brooklyn


And what contributes to system success?

Rancho Mastatal, Costa Rica


Remembering Gandhi’s epic, ‘Be the change you want to see’...

&, the rule of inertia that says, ‘More work is needed to change, or

overcome a path, than to sustain it’...


Remembering Gandhi’s epic, ‘Be the change you want to see’...

... I am left with these directives:

&, the rule of inertia that says, ‘More work is needed to change, or

overcome a path, than to sustain it’...


Work at HomeWork for Home

Work with Home

Share WorkShare LivesShare Food

Share Expense

I am left with these directives:


& Build Regenerative Culture


CULTURAL ENGINE-- Philadelphia --

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Vision

Themes

Goals

Streams

ProjectsProgram Elements

Program Yields

Future

Summary

CULTURAL ENGINE: CONTENTS


Cultural Engines empower communities to serve themselves,

by cultivating visionary local leadership;

creating pathways to access the unique & essential gifts in everyone;

& by driving a wider cultural paradigm-shift forward.

(one of abundance)

VISION


THEMES

Share what you have been given for the benefit of all.

(activities)

- Family Investment -

- Urban Reclamation -

- Regenerative Enterprise -

- Growing Community & Food -

(practices)

- Work w/nature spirits -

- Transparency -

- Co-Creation -

(ancient)

- Follow your Heart -

- Recognize & Gather existing

Indigenous Wisdom -

- Affluence & Abundance

is a Natural State of Being -

(larger baskets)

- Gardens that Heal -

- Living Systems -

- Gift Culture -


PATH:

- We feel the love, joy & nourishment inherent in this work.- We grow together a culture & practice of permaculture

& regeneration.- We affirm life in all its expressions & forms.- We link & weave our efforts to other home spaces --

& to our greater web of connected communities.- We plant seeds & watch them grow.- We heal & collaborate.- We build & grow connected, loving human community.

PRACTICES:

- We utilize our core gifts & discover new ones.- We transcend binary fields.- We express our honest appreciation of the service of allwho serve.- We face our unknown fates with loving abandon.- We co-create whatever unfolds.- We engage in myriad forms of union.- We create wealth & add value to all realms of capital.- We model our family after commonalities of earth-centered cultures across the world & across time.

GOALSTEAM:

- We find happiness in sharing more of our lives & works together.- We help one another to fulfill individual & collective goals.- We find vital engagement & collective collaboration.- We push our growing edges & support all in that practice.- We help one other create wealth & celebrate the success of all.- We self-organize into nested, whole units of commitment & responsibility- We practice clear, open communication & honesty.- We question practices & directives -- & agitate for evolution.- We feel our unity beneath our awesome diversity.- We create & offer safe spaces to explore our individual & collective human experiences.

INCLUSION:

- We practice Radical Inclusivity & Radical Hospitality.- We honor, embrace & utilize each of our unique talents & skills.

WHAT ELSE? WHAT ARE YOURS?


STREAMS

Permaculture

Nature Connection

D.I.O. (do it ourselves)

Radical Queer

Living Systems Architecture

Local

Yoga

Food

Ecosystem Design

Foraging

8 Shields

Life Design

‘the work that reconnects’

Regenerative Economies

Gardens

(Contexts)

(Practices)Regenerative

Enterprise

(Realms)

(Disciplines)


PROJECTS

Community Supported Kitchen

Radical Cultivation of Urban Landscapes

Two Public Eventsin the Summer & Fall

mapping

design

harvesting

plantingtending

cooking

sharing

sharing abundance

sharing skills

sharing selves

feeding

sharing vision

eating

loving

growing

sharing excitement

celebrating


PROGRAM COMPOSITION

EXPLORING REGENERATIONContextualization. Goal Setting.

GAIA STORYFlows. Strategies. Consciousness. Patterning.

Elements : EARTH & WATERSustenance & Support. Fluidity & Adaptation. Food. Culture. Physicality. Gender. Sexuality.

Elements : WIND & FIREExpression, Breath, & Open Systems. Passion & Spirit Connection.

Language & Spirit.

LIFE DESIGNCo-Created Exploration. Conscious Application of the Patterns

& Principles of Healthy Ecologies in Our Lives Together.

COMMUNITY / NEW CULTUREExplorations & Case Studies in Contemporary Indigenous Cultures.

BIRTH, LIFE, DEATH, RENEWAL, TRANSITIONPatterns Distillation. Learnings Harvest.

Application of Pattern Languages.

REGENERATION CURRICULUM

GARDEN TEAMS

KITCHEN TEAMS

EVENT TEAMS

SUPPORT STRUCTURES

(Participants remain at choice about focus areas)


YIELDS OF PROGRAM

- a shared, established, regenerative practice -

- our unique & essential qualities, amplified, with the strength, harmony, & grace of the

natural world coursing through us -

- greater personal & communal health -

- delicious food -

- finding a unique &contemporary indigenous -

- healthy soil -

- seeding an empire of regenerative industry -

C.E.

C.E.


FUTUREThis is a vocational training program.

Beautiful performance positions one to occupy a role in crews doing this work around the world -- adding value to naturally abundant

sources of beauty & productivity -- in any of a growing number of international landed communities (currently) in:

Peru, Sicily, Costa Rica, Italy, West Philadelphia, & Lesvos.


SUMMARY

• A Cultural Engine weaves a container in which we may develop core leadership skills, as we learn to bring the work of regeneration to all of our Home communities.

• Participants will learn hard skills in building, nourishment, organic gardening, community event production, & environmental education -- & soft skills in regeneration & permaculture. All remain at choice about their areas of focus.

• The installation of urban food systems & the creation of a Community Supported Kitchen at the Starship Lollipop are the program’s feature projects -- alongside the creation of two seasonal celebration events.

• Graduates emerge inspired, broadly-skilled, de facto community leaders, & comprise a troupe of social entrepreneurs.


Zone 0

- MEDITATION -

- YOGA -

- LIFE DESIGN -

PERSONAL HEALTH

(INNER & OUTER BODY)

Engine Curriculum -- Across Scale


Zone 1

- RELATIONSHIP DESIGN -

- CO-COUNSELING -

- NON-VIOLENT COMMUNICATION -

HOME LIFE &

BASIC COMMUNICATION

Engine Curriculum


Zone 2

- GARDENING -

- COOKING -

- & SO MUCH MORE -

BASIC NEEDS CARE

Engine Curriculum


Zone 3

- VOCATIONAL TRAINING

SKILLS SHARE

Engine Curriculum


Zone 4

REGENERATIVE ENTERPRISE

- EXCHANGINGPLAINLY VALUABLE

GOODS & SERVICES -

- GROWING A NETWORK OF PROVIDERS

& SUBSCRIBERS -

Engine Curriculum


Zone 5

SPORULATION...

(contagious & filled with love)

Engine Curriculum


... & NUCLEI MERGING


... & NUCLEI MERGING

Nesting Systems -- (Ecosystem Modeling) Growing in Complexity


So from one...


Grows many...


... & we grow a mycelial network of living systems.


But what drives the engine?!


With the sun as our model...

We offer the gift of ourselves -- without thought of reward.

We invite all life those around us to do the same.

We set spirals, & vast linkages of life, in motion.


And growing regenerativeeconomies...

We utilize, gift, & trade diverse forms of capital

Living

Material

Financial

Cultural Social

.. And grow fabulously rich

Intellectual

Experiential

Emotional Spiritual


So, what kinds of work can the Engine do?


But what about the challenges?


challenges include:

- busy, ‘full’ lives

- shortage of permies

- affecting the inertia of the modern world


What kinds of work can the Engine do, again?


Wanna move to West Philly & find out?

Or start another wherever you are?Tuesday, July 17, 12

Thank You.


Supplant the Modern World

Frances Rose [email protected]


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