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Collective wisdom Laboratory

Luvina — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:06:35 CDT

This is the space for the collaborative process for the Collective wisdom Laboratory (COWL). Some people invited here are intimate to our process and our unfolding. Here you will find unstructured thoughts, conversation transcripts, quotes and randomness. I am hoping for a dynamic harmony as we build what is needed as a co-creative space which balances chaos and order, feminine and masculine to realize the full potential for COWL.

I also have no expectation on co-creators writting in this wiki (half true) even though I would love it, its not a requirement. I am accountable for ordering the space and the content. Though I feel it is interesting for the wealth of the 'WE' to go ahead and collaborate in a WIKI space like this one.

This is what you will find in this site for now:

The business model Where you can read what is currently in my awareness. Not written in stone
First proposal for Research Methodologies and Technologies to use during the co-creation process

The skeleton of the Business plan where I am adding pieces all the time to be able to complete it. I don´t expect my dear co-creators to get into the BZ plan mess but you can track changes, make suggestions, see what is needed and what is that you would feel like contributing too.
Quotes that may be used for the different materials that will be produced for COWL
The Conversation journal where you can trace the creative juices of talking about COWL.
The collective intelligence and wisdom section where I am integrating pieces to add to the business plan for investors to understand what CIW is. Some will also be part of the ICON site and others may be transformed to other art objects along the way.

Some questions that need to be addressed are:

What is the best space architecture possible for collective intelligence, consciousness and wisdom to emerge?
Which are the best platforms, processes (practices, tools, technologies) that can help COWL reach its highest potential?
What is the role of music in CIWC and what does COWL need to harness its full potential?
What does COWL need to integrate to become a learning and resource center for ICON residents and extend locally, regionally and globally?
What needs to be developed in COWL to harness Global collective intelligence and support the human emergence movement?
What kind of web architecture will empower COWL in its vision towards being a player in the GCI field?
Which are the different stakeholders that will benefit from COWL? From visionary circles to organizational and community circles that can be empowered by COWL?
What is most central to the work?

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS??? PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ADD

Creation Process

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 18:15:05 CDT

In this section I will post about research methodologies, process arts or social technologies and tools we are using for our unfolding.

ANY SUGGESTIONS PLEASE ADD

Evolutionary Salon

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:46:35 CDT

An initial collection of salon types
Submitted by Tom Atlee

A. Strategic Conversations - Convened for evolutionary leverage

1. Sector Salons - well-networked people in a field gather to explore the evolutionary implications for that field (e.g., business, philanthropy, education, journalism, religion, etc.)

2. Evolutionary Thinktank Salons - experts gathering to produce intellectual products on a specific topic (e.g., social software, disaster response, collective intelligence, etc.) - as done by ISSS: in the months prior to the event they have an organizing committee open to participation from attendees, thematic threads, personal and online work pursuing shared inquries and preparing intellectual content, a well articulated schedule that follows multiple threads, opportunity to focus in a thread or go from thread to thread.

3. Convening the Convenors Salons (e.g., evolutionary retreat centers, umbrella organizations, etc.)

4. Storyfield Salons - Open Space gatherings of futurists, social thinkers, and experts in sustainability, collective intelligence, evolutionary dynamics, etc., along with society's storytellers -- novelists, movie people, journalists, historians, etc.

B. Emergent Evolutionary Salons -

1. Open Emergent Evolutionary Salons: wide-range diversity of participants in open space and world cafe gathering around broad themes for community-building, grounding in evolutionary framework, and generating creative/wildcard emergent dynamics. This approach may include some experiments in deepening together (e.g., through ritual)(see C, below).

2. Focused Emergent Evolutionary Salons: Intentional multi-sector diversity gathering in sector and cross-sector conversations similar to Barbara Marx Hubbard's Syncon conferences.

C. Experimental Deepening Evolutionary Salons - Experiential workshops that deepen and develop people psychologically and spiritually; personally, interpersonally, and/or collectively; and strengthen their connection to the past, the present, and/or the future and to the whole, the center, the middle. Some give people experience in tried-and-true approaches, but many work on the growing edge, exploring new possibilities as experiments.

D. Public Evolutionary Salons

1. Evolutionary Chataquas - big events which anyone can attend and learn about and talk about evolutionary issues

2. Ongoing Evolutionary Cafes - Marc Tognotti's idea of an ongoing public conversation (probably world cafe) held out in the open for example in Washington DC

3. Evolutionary Living Room Salons - weekly, biweekly or monthly discussion groups in the tradition of the Utne Salons or Conversation Cafes

E. Online Evolutionary Salons

1. Synchronous Online Salons (including variations of all the above)

2. Asynchronous Online Salons (including variations of all the above)

3. Hybrid online/face-to-face Salons - online before, during, and after face-to-face salon

And of these can be local, regional, national, global, etc. Some, especially local ones, may be able to be organized with do-it-yourself templates we develop...

CIW practitioners

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:45:33 CDT

Which are the competences required to become a CI Practitioner? How important is designing experiences versus being able to connect to the collective brain while the experience is happening? How does one cultivate the ability to perceive the collective fields in every level or stage? What are the conditions that make this presence happen more effectively? How far are we from becoming CI Practitioners? Each of us and then as whole.

It is very interesting that many philosophers talk about the emergence of a new science aligned to spirituality and a new spirituality that grows from mind to heart with science. I can see ourselves connecting scientific and spiritual practices in our CI programs. I can also get some bytes about some qualities that resonate to me as appreciated in a CI practioner.

Commitment to serve the Whole
Flexibility and will to learn and unlearn
Being a disciplined self-instructed learner
Being open to share knowledge and expertise
Self cultivation, personal mastery, individual practice
Thirst for knowledge in scientific, social and spiritual domains
Evolutionary vision (Kosmocentric)
Intention to participate in the development of the CI Field
Will to resonate with the collective and flow with the evolutionary fields
Compassion and understanding
Passion and impulse to evolve
Communication and language skills
Technology power user
Expertise in designing and/or facilitating experiences
Open mind, open heart, open will

Anyone adding to the list?

Market research- Why

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:44:03 CDT

Two kinds of market research: primary and secondary

Secondary research means using published information such as industry profiles, trade, journals, newspapers, magazines, demographics.

Primary research: Social networks, loal competitors, focus-groups, consultants

RESEARCH

eWork
Some studies show that the prevalence of new types of work is high today. Gaeries, Lilischkis and Mentrup show that telework including home-based work, mobile eWork and freelance telework in SOHO (small office home office) increased six per cent in 1999 to 13 percent in Europe. The trend has liberated work from being bound to a particular time/space. For this phenomena we propose the term 'multi-locational tele-work'

Communication tools are changing the media. Look at how the print, radio and TV changed the world.

SocialMedia potential
Products like:

Collective Intellect's Media IntelligenceTM service filters and ranks bloggers and posts, so you only see the most credible sources of information -- and only when it's relevant to your trading strategy. (has financial intelect product).

Online social networks and specific Twine.com are serving us in crowdsourcing research for all areas of ICON development. We use our socialmedia skills for finding, collecting, synthesising and filtering information that serves the creation of COWL.

Since we began the work on collective intelligence in 2005 we targetted to get in the center of the idea production of this field. Right now we know, or have a one degree relationship with most influential leaders in the collective intelligence field from a wide array of domains. We will interview influential thinkers that can reflect this diversity.

The power of organizing without organization. Socialmedia and companies

Incredible data on linktounitedrelations

Products and services

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:43:26 CDT

Describe in depth the products and services (technical specifications, drawings, photos, sales brochures, and other items)

What factors will give you competitive advantages and disadvantages? (quality, distance, time)

What are the pricing, fee or leasing structures of your products and services?

COWL open the possibility for ICON residents to create products/services for generating income as all needs for individual and team work will be provided as well as collective intelligence and integral tools.

Clients criteria:
(See Sergio`s work on this field)

COWL will generate:

Conferences, seminars, process arts and retreats

Training on topics like CIW, integral models, socialmedia
Train local people in ITC (as a wealth exchange model)
Train organizations on how to reach the full potential of distributed work (internet-mediated collaboration using socialmedia)
Organize local, international and regional conversations to encourage a dialogue culture in Valle in support of civic networks, personal and government initiatives.
Evolutionary salons
Unified learning field for ICON people to leverage the community social capital
Invite speakers from our international network (organize retreats, seminars, bootcamps)
Rent the space for others to produce retreats, conferences and seminars
Design and facilitate innovation processes for organizations using social technologies (presencing, appreciative inquiry, openspace)
Alternative reality games
Facilitate systemic and personal development games (Tao, harmonizer)
Leardership programs

Production and Broadcasting
Produce media and broadcast to support the human emergence movement and ICON development
Produce socialmedia campaigns for organizations/communities

Consulting
Socialmedia for communities and organizations
Community Currencies implementation
Community development (online-offline)
Integral sustainability

Coaching
Business coaching

Product and business development
Develop CIW toolkits to sell to organizations
Community Currencies toolkits (how to implement currencies)
Elearning content and distribution models with the content of our fields of expertise for the spanish and english speaking markets
Develop socialware (opensource potential)
OpenMoney
Business incubator

Entertainment and PR
Integrate a 'Social Transformation cafè' to attract people, generate informal events as a relational marketing model.

Research and development
Visionary circles researching for the source of the creative process
Creation of Wisdom driven organizations (based on the CIWC work)
Community currencies
Governance models
Integral models for solving global challenges

Multilocations workers
Office model for the multi-location workers that move from Mexico DF to Valle

Parking lot

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:42:22 CDT

We are restructuring this site. All information that is not belonging anywhere will stay in the parking lot meanwhile.

The opportunity

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:35:30 CDT

The short term goal is to have the most essential spaces of COWL Valle built by the time the first residents move into the community in 2009. We will continue to build as it grows reaching the completion of the proposed infraestructure by 2010.COWL DF will open its doors in 2009 to fully support our goals. It will be able to recover the investment needed for its infraestructure in ( time space) plus a 15% for risk... (need help with this)

COWL is not a business in the traditional sense. The income it makes will be directed towards supporting its operations, working people and incubating evolutionary projects to serve humanity and pursue its Vision. Its potential can´t be measured with traditional value tools. It will need higher models to measure its wealth. COWL is highly strategic to ICON´s social capital and vision, reason why its of crucial importance that certain percentage of ICON`s revenues in the Sustainable Village sales as well as a residents maintenance fee is directed towards covering COWLs operational costs.

Nevertheless, opportunities are extremely vast and serve a large number of market segments. It has a highly potential in Latin America and the spanish speaking countries but also worldwide as its unique in its approach.

The growth goes further than our imagination. We seek market opportunities as we serve local, regional and global communities in multiple fronts such as:

Hosting and convening pioneer circles exploring our individual and collective cutting edge

Highly creative people create new forms which is essential for ICON`s vision. Searching for clarity on what what we have no understanding of how to solve as humanity, COWL wants to reach visionaries and pioneers in all fields of human knowledge and the arts, seeking for the collective exploration of wisdom and the creative process in a depth hardly ever attempted. Our goal is to illuminate this level of human consciousness which has not been articulated in a way that can be harnessed for: a) the recreation of new forms/systems, b) the harvesting and awareness of the nature of the evolution of consciousness c) creating technologies, in its broadest sense, for the emergence of collective wisdom and the source of creativity.

For ICON to serve its residents, and fulfill its vision/mision fundamental questions need to be answered. The lab is like an hourglass, answering the most important questions, illuminate the deeper levels of a human being such as: what does it mean to be a human being? Which are its deeper capacities? What is does it mean to be a collective human being? what is wisdom? Before we can answer any question on education, what is a child? Before we know what is a child, what are the potentialities? We can access this through the exploration of a) wisdom b) the creative process which leads to innovation. Aiming to discover a depth of wisdom far beyond what is available to individuals alone. What would happen when people who have already been seekers, and can be their own source can be together in this work? What would happen if a global community of pioneering souls realizes their potential for self and social Conscious Evolution?

To serve this potential COWL presents itself a vessel for visionary/pioneer circles to work on collective explorations and a new sense of the entry of Wisdom from reality (the realm of Being beyond space-time) into actuality (the space-time domain). Explorers seeking for the source (s) of inspiration,creativity, revelation, descent of consciousness, collective wisdom, invisible architectures. Circles of people which vibrate at the same frequency. Who are in resonance to one another and to the space they are at. This includes profound individual work of transforming at the level of consciousness and the collective dimension of working together to create a new foundation for human life. COWL Valle is the space where to bring these people and allow them the opportunity, support and underlying foundation for this unutterably important exploration. Potentially uncovering answers to essential questions of our time.

This circles will serve visionaries, pioneers and transformational leaders as well as ICON and the local, regional and global communities and organizations. We would explore cutting edge domains such as: Collective intelligence/wisdom, creativity and innovation processes, integral frameworks, social sciences, scenario planning, consciousness, evolutionary enlightment, noetic sciences, wisdom arts, money and more. There are numerous market opportunities such as:

Action research and the potential to uncover answers to many of the essential questions, dynamic problems and dysfunctions of our society. Tapping to a source of innovation in all areas of human endeavor particularly focused on social systems.
Events, seminars, conferences, workshops to be offered at COWL-DF and COWL Valle to extend the influence and reach of this leaders within our communities of interest. ICON residents will benefit very closely from this circles and its visitors.
Expand the knowledge gathered and the reach of the events through cyberspace (webcasts, teleconferences, virtual worlds)
Production of pieces of media featuring influential leaders and broadcasting to the world. We will offer top of the line harvesting in forms like visual graphic facilitation, maps, audio/video recordings and interviews.
Content production. Art reusable objects to be transformed, replicated, extended through the power of the networks. All under creative commons licence.
Reusing the art objects to produce e-learning, games, film, music and whatever forms we can imagine with the best of our creativity.
Developing and designing kits which integrate tools, processes and practices for the collectives to be able to access the sources and deep structures of creativity, consciousness and wisdom to expand imagination and the creative expression into manifestation of the new forms.
Development of inner technologies to bring people into meditative ecstatic experiences and into the possibility of recognizing the deep structures of consciousness and life. This has been explored with music therapy or technologies like the holosync and has enormous potential for research in the areas of healing and the evolution of consciousness.Illuminating the inner structures of consciousness through music.
Development of programs targeted to different segments such as corporations, children, elders, dysfunctional communities, people with disabilities, addictions.

There is an enourmous potential in targeting spanish speaking populations since must of this influential leaders have their materials and broadcast mainly for english markets. We can generate alliances with magazines, research centers and media outlets such as What is enlightment, Shift in action, Global mind-shift and the Integral Institute.

With our current understanding of collective intelligence tools and practices we can convene, host and facilitate creative and innovation processes with social technologies such as:

Presencing 'The U theory'
Worldcafé 'The power of strategic conversations'
Openspace
Appreciative Inquiry
Enlightened communications
Quakers clerking processes
TAO Game

And other whole system change methodologies we have awareness and experience with. Our current network allows us to call some of the most influential thinkers and evolutionists of our time. Circles have already been started in movements like the Evolutionary Salons, Worldcafé global circles, Geeks bootcamps, TheTransitioner pioneer circles and others. It is very unlikely to find circles that gather for more than 7 days in a row. ICON`s fractional ownership model opens the possibility to bring these visionary/pioneering circles together for extended periods of time since it allows for pioneers to come with their families and have spaces for work and recreation with a feeling of being at home.

The realm of the pioneers go beyond the social technologies we currently know of and into the cutting edge of human potential, which means exploring new territory and wandering into the unknown. It means being willing to let go of old beliefs and forms that no longer serve us, and to linger in formless places as new forms emerge. It means being willing to let go of what we think we already know and reach into the very nature of human consciousness where these unknowns reside.

ICON`s full time and part time residents potentials

ICON wants to explore individuals and collectives highest potential as a group of practitioners which actually live together in a constant process and support of individual and collective practices, in a conducive environment, which allows for conscious evolution in an integral way. For this to happen COWL needs to be a center for learning and human potential. Being able to serve its residents in their unique path towards higher levels of consciousness, aiming towards the discovery of their authentic self and the competences needed to serve the evolutionary impulse. Higher expressions of harmony and beauty to being able to operate and manifest from a deeper source.

For COWL, residents are the blood that circulates through its body and are the most intimate stakeholders. We empower people by letting them be involved in suchnew processes as the ones described. The people who really get that they are pioneers, researchers in a new realm of consciousness will be aware of their movement into a continuous self-reflective process and will be able to empower the collective with their experiences, sharings and manifestations. Opportunities are vast as people move into the Social learning field and receive support, resources and knowledge to feed their own projects. COWL will specially support those who are strategic to ICON`s development, such as a kids school, green technologies demonstration center, wisdom arts, new currencies implementation. Other opportunities we foresee are:

Full and Part-time residents and visitors from the LOHAS and cultural creatives market will be visiting and buying fractional ownership in ICON to explore consciousness, art, creativity and live the experience of a community exploring new environmental, social, economical and spiritual forms. All in a highly cultural and mexican context.

Visitors and fractional ownership residents will be coming to delve deeply into who they are and to move their own self-realization into a deeper realm and finally to a collective serving. This is a major offering for people to become involved because they will be guided and helped through their own personal searching.

Most of these intentional communities are not sharing the wealth of what they discover. Many are in a closed collective not open to connect with others for a number of reasons. ICON is different. We begin with a grounded foot in the current paradigm and the intention to push our edges and place as much intention and attention into what we discover and the skills to share it through our socialmedia expertise. The good and the bad. This will allow us to connect to other communities which are also interested in this kind of conversations and create the 'Global network of communities'.

As we explore invisible architectures we will be able to illuminate them to the world in diverse forms such as new language, currencies and others.

Measurement of the social capital of the community will catch the interest of many visitors worldwide and allow ICON to raise the potential for its Sustainable village sales in the second and third stages.

Our vast approach will enable for a good percentage of ICON´s residents to work in COWL as they align with its vision and develop the capacities to serve them. COWL will empower its residents to create their own visions and pursue economical sustainability by holding people in their highest future potential.

COWL will enable ICON to operate as a Wisdom-driven organization, aiming towards an integral development and full spectrum wealth generation where all levels of consciousness in the Richard Barrets pyramid are honored.

Consulting in our best practices...

For organizations and communities

As organizations continue to focus in profit they keep replicating the old social forms which continues to poorly manage the accelerating stresses being placed upon them including the deterioration of the global ecosystem, overpopulation, chronic poverty, and racial and ethnic fears. As COWL advances its research, development and implementation on new froms it will be able to replicate, teach and empower others in applying this innovations, enabling a smooth evolutionary transition process.

In our current experience in collective intelligence we have observed the potential that manifests from a groups of people concentrated in working together for a period of 3 to 5 days. When they go back home, individuals face the limits of old architectures and modes of being and doing which are unable to support them in their goal towards higher aims. The collective body which was built with a lot effort is hardly sustained without the right practices, tools and architectures to support them, specially when they are separated across time/space.

ICON brings Global collective intelligence as a path towards helping organizations to learn about distributed intelligence and ways of being and doing that will empower them when they are not physically together or want to scale in number. By reaching into cyberspace and, by becoming a leading example, we teach others what we learn by doing. Breaking the limit of time/space.

Mentoring programs

For local and regional communities
In our commitment to serve the planet we want to enable spaces and dialogue processes to empower civil society in the creation of the future. We will do programs to serve local communities and generate different levels of wealth for ICON.

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To the extent leaders, activists, and other change agents realize the
central role of this conscious, participatory re-creation of
institutions, the "great turning" that we seek will progress
naturally as old systems fail in their attempts to address people's
needs and people look for alternatives.

David Gershon
The Empowerment Institute

The Big idea

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:34:16 CDT

The Big idea is to create a state of the art laboratory that integrates the best of:

Physical architectures which enable people to engage with all their planes of being (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual) in contact with the energies of nature, music and art. Top of the line designed spaces for reseach, learn, teach, work, collaborate, dialogue and practice.

Internet architectures to empower individuals and groups in Global collective intelligence and socialmedia practices to break the time/space barrier and expand collaboration, harvest knowledge, extend reach and enable scaling to larger numbers of people.

To fully enhance ICON`s work we will build two laboratories which complement each other, augment opportunities for market reach, innovation and sustainability. One located in Mexico city and the other inValle de Bravo.

The main laboratory is located in ICON-Valle de Bravo. It will serve ICON to realize its full potential as it provides for:

Research and development to map the outlines of the emerging field of domains, which support ICON's strategic interests or those of our partners, such as leading edge tools, platforms and practices that empower us to replicate or create new social, environmental, economical, spiritual forms.

Opportunities to implement and transmit research findings and new developments through our community of residents, local and regional communities (with a high focus in Valle de Bravo and surrounding communities), organizations and global networks.

The physical and internet infrastructure (architectures, platforms, methodologies) to learn, teach, coach, collaborate and practice on all ICON's domains and grounds of experience. Spaces for ICON local residents (children, youth, adults, elders), the local community of Valle de Bravo and organizations worldwide.

Collaboration spaces for the implementation, development and consulting on global collective intelligence and socialmedia.

Weaving the social fabric by hosting events and processes for conversations that matter (reach agreements, solve problems, innovate, create) for local/ regional communities and organizations.

Generative architectures, technologies and processes for hosting visionary, pioneers and leadership circles.

Empowering evolutionary projects which have an strategic interest for ICON vision.

Library covering the leading edge evolutionary topics (Hard cover and audio books, magazines, journals, audio technologies).

Socialmedia Infraestructure to produce and broadcast conscious media to the world. Opening engaging opportunities with conscious networks.

Harvesting technology and facilitation with top of the line forms of collecting, synthesizing and accessing data for further processing.

Multimedia lab for events and learning support in domains such as music and music technologies, audio, film, documentaries, live broadcasting and webcasting.

Wisdom arts and noetic sciences laboratories (spiritual perception of reality and actuality expressed through music, art and science).

Spaces to practice meditation and integral yoga

COWL DF (Mexico city) is the space to expand our circle of influence, offer our products/services, attract transformational leaders, decision-makers, social powerful people, social entrepreneurs. It is also the link to offer extended services in COWL-Valle. COWL DF will integrate some of the spaces designed for COWL such as: meditation and training dojo, collaboration space a childrens dojo as well as a fully organic/sustainable café.

COWL-DF will provide for:

Training center for leaders interested in our knowledge fields and network
360 degrees internet-mediated spaces for experiencing distance collaboration, events and networking
Conducive space for hosting networking events and conversations that matter
Convener space for leaders and social entrepreneurs dialogues
Social Transformation café in alliance with project Maya
Attractor for the services and fields of work of COWL Valle
Library with the leading edge evolutionary topics
Networking Hub targetted to Mexico`s cultural creatives
Childrens dojo (catalyst for the expansion of feminine power)

Proposed infrastructure

The solution

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:33:37 CDT

The main stakes for humanity are not hunger, poverty, sustainability, peace, healthcare, education,economy, natural resources or a host of other issues but our capability to build new social organizations that are able to provide solutions. Our main stake is Collective Intelligence.

Jean-François Noubel

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Project ICON is sustained by two sub-projects aiming to different specific objectives. They both complement each other as they are strategically aligned with ICON`s general vision and mision.

These two projects are:

The Sustainable Village SUVI, a Residence Club for the lohas segment, is the residential development of ICON. It is a state of the art environmental co-housing development of about 50 houses in full and fractional ownership. The Village is designed following lohas values, such as good weather, low ecological footprint, air quality, culture, balance between the private and the communitarian, security and health, personal development, closeness both to nature and to big cities, and in general a healthier and more meaningful life.

The Collective Wisdom Laboratory (COWL), an integral learning, teaching and research space which integrates leading edge technologies, tools, frameworks and architectures for the purpose of enhancing collective intelligence and wisdom (CIW) locally, regionally and globally. Our cyberspace infrastructure and expertise will contribute to spreading the work and scale it in a planetary level. COWL is a womb for reaching ICON's vision/mision aiming towards a sustainable future.

ICON knows that in order to empower local and regional communities while creatively transforming the planet and creating the new forms, we must be attuned to the organic evolution of consciousness and tap into our collective intelligence and wisdom. The world needs to know what happens when we really do tap into a common held revelation, not available to one alone.

'Stop being seekers, start being finders'
Ram Dass

The problem

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:33:03 CDT

Civilization is in a critical state and mankind is at an evolutionary crossroads.
On one hand, problems have arisen which are global in scale and have brought society to a condition of escalating planetary crisis.
On the other hand, humankind’s potentials for creative change, fulfilment and
benevolent control of our environment have never been greater.”

Edgar Mitchell, Astronaut
Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

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I display various areas/levels of work in ICON and the questions are a way of accesing the problems. I love the questions but they are probably too many. Which of them, of each area seems the most powerful ? Try to read them with the observer placed in two sides, one is you, the other is the investor. Questions can vary according to who are we targetting. (please answer as a thread)

ICON emerges from the deep intention to serve the transition towards a sustainable future. Our level of commitment is in the local, regional and global spheres. Thus our challenges are:

In our commitment to our global efforts. In the midst of a systemic crisis:

How can we participate in speeding the collective stream of evolution of human consciousness and its institutions in a more effective way? How can we guide our selves through this planetary crisis? How can we begin to cooperate as a global society towards a positive future?Which tools and frameworks need to be tested, invented to augment our collective capacities for innovation in a global scale? Have only the creative genius had access to the realms of consciousness where high creativity resides? What is this realm? How deep does it go? What’s the information there? How do we get masses of people tapping into this? How can we give language to it? What language do we need?

There are still unanswered questions of human consciousness that impact so many areas of who we must be...

ICON is an integral community wanting to transcend and include what has been done in the past. Mindful of the need to not replicate potentially limiting patterns of intentional communities. Some of our challenges are:

How do we help people to become the central vortex of idea generation. Where people take responsablity for their personal growth and collective capacities in an integral way? How do we work with invisible architectures and become architects of our future? Which learning system will empower ICON residents in their personal development and to gain capacities for collective outreach? Which is the best governance system for our community? How to generate wealth that brings us close to the good, the true and the beautiful? How to expand and replicate what we learn to benefit communities and organizations?

In pursuing its goals ICON is committed to serve the local community of Valle de Bravo in its whole spectrum (vallesanos, people from Mexico city as part time and full residents, foreigners) to open possibilities to weave the different initiatives currently taking place and potentiate the new as the community gets organized and taps into its collective intelligence. Questions to answer are:

How can we help the community to align to a shared intention of serving the health of Valle? How can we create a culture in which people can come together in alignment in the face of disagreement? How to create a conducive environment for ideas, creativity and innovation? How to empower s culture of dialogue in Valle de Bravo?

COWL envisions organizations and their leaders as one of the most crucial segments to work with. As we do we ask ourselves:

What processes, tools, frameworks best serve organizations and its leaders in the movement towards conscious business? How does global wisdom-driven organizations looks like? What kind of leadership is needed to drive change while preserving the integrity of the organization?
What is the role of the internet in pursuing this goals?

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What do you think of this quote?

The Very Edge of the Possible

I am endlessly compelled by the notion that higher stages or levels of development do not preexist, that is, they are not “given” but are literally created by brave individuals who actually venture into new, uncharted territory, laying down “grooves” that others follow, which eventually become actual new structures or stages. The fact that the future, even at the most subtle metaphysical levels, literally does not yet exist challenges our most fundamental spiritual/religious notions in every possible way, but if we're ready for it, it can be the source of enormous inspiration and promise. I think potentially what's the most thrilling for the postmodern self is the discovery that we are literally creating the future, which means we are not separate from the creative principle or God-impulse itself—God is evolving as we evolve. And this moment itself, assuming that one is leaning into it with all of one's being, reaching for the future, is potentially the very edge of the possible.

Andrew Cohen

Vision / Mision

Luvina — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:32:49 CDT

Integral Communities Network (ICON)

VISION

A network of integral communities, an icon of human emergence where the manifestation of new social, economical, spiritual and environmental form is enhanced, empowered and midwifed in service of humanity.

A community led by circles of collective intelligence practitioners which attract proactive co-creators aligned to its vision. Its masterpiece is the individual and collective practices as pioneers of the new Era.

Collective Intelligence is the capacity for a group of individuals to envision a future and reach it in complex contexts.

MISSION

Generate a fractal image of the next evolutionary wave conformed by healthy visions and manifestations about the highest human potential, in both its interior and exterior dimensions, honoring Wealth (the Good, the True and the Beautiful) in its whole spectrum.

COWL's MISSION

"The Collective Wisdom Laboratory is the generating principle, and creative essence, which will empower ICON to reach its Vision and Mission as well as serve to illuminate and crystillize the emerging movement for the conscious evolution of increasingly conscious social systems."

Conversation with Kay Buring

Luvina — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:47:55 CDT

Notes of the exploration process for right placement with Kay. From skype notes

Topics

Support system for individual growth (inner development, discoveries, royalty within). Our moment and unfolding
Formless intention
Manifested intention
How to bring that in the material plane
Present the ICON field
How will the resources come to manifest the intention

Shared formless intention

Become a better medium for the divine, for the collective...
From the divine knowing into sparks that will become manifested intention.
Iam convinced that part of the collective wisdom is knowing about the right order to inspire people to make the right steps.
Be in a position to listen to the voice of the divine and translate what I hear into fueling the manifestation of that intention.
Magnify the potential of the collective
Joyfully and in a state of grace. The state of grace is the main enabler of quantum influence

Kay short term dream...
To find, think of, an initiative that I can really pull my shoulders under and have a serious contribution to exploring 2 possible paths:

1. own ideas mustly through my travels.
2. the people I meet, their works and how does this arouse my passion (heart pumping and beats). DoI recognize I can be me, without little chance to damaging each other?

ICON is appealing because I know its true, good and beautiful. Through Fer I implicity trust JuanP.
I trust myself for not loosing track of the original purposes when going into the implementation phase. (this is a characteristic of a project managment)
Not loose track of the original goal. Keep the connection to source and the formless intention.

Question from Kay to Fer
Why is ICON appealing to me and what do I want to achieve with it?
What is your dream for ICON to become?

conscious community, container for pioneers
laboratory for the soul, the collective soul
People who have gone f ar enough in personal development to start exploring the collective
Midwife the new paradigm
Appreciate and support how women and man are coupelling in cocreation
A space of balance feminine and masculine, with honoring of each other
Kingdoms of kings and queens cocreating
Relating with nature in all its splendor
Attract influential thinkers and fearless mutants
Asmall circle that explores new realms in supramental stages (Sri Aurobindo)
New urbanism, new property ways: ICON becoming a role-model
The manifested intention that I am working at
Become a powerful and successful transforming conduit from the old to the new paradigm for money
Find clarity of intention into facts of life
ESSENCE

Parking lot / Possibilities

Geographical map, a coverage grid of ICON
3 dimensional grid of what ICON world/universe is and then we can observe where we are, where we are growing and see if the architecture can hold that.
Serves to guide the work and voice it for others.
Be guardian for the original intention

Recommendations

For sales

Someone needs to become the visible, tangible voice of icon. Ambassador
Hibrid in between a sales person and the evangelist spreading the voice

For the business plan and growth of ICON

2 languages for SUV businessplan through geographically separated groups of houses
Two business plans for the manifestation of differences between voicing something in the old and "new" language.
Translation into 2 different worldviews...
SUV can then attract 2 evangelists, one that goes to the modern investor world and the other presented into the postmodern investor world. Example ANH
Be aware of bringing corrupting influences for the kind of money that comes in from the modern investors.
By having 2 Biz plans we can geographically contain any risk.
Find differences in between the area populated with the old money and the area populated with the new money.
Hygiene in the context of authenticity and integrity
Hygenic architectural patterns in place to preserve and grow authenticity and integrity.
Needs to be carefully addressed to become as complete and healthy as we can possibly can and therefore creating the conditons for something good, true and beautiful to manifest.
Be aware of the corrupting influences and potentially limiting architectures
Corrupting influences seduce us to fall out of the state of grace

Notes for COWL
Offers great minds an integral space … which incorporates

Collective intelligence circle
Tapping into collective wisdom
Allow for guidance and manifestation through the collective/universal/divine
Much more than sharing knowledge through the web
A deliberate and intentional well for harvesting directions, suggestions and key solutions to bring to the individual and collective consciousness in order to fuel the emergence of the New Humanity
Creation of the original seeds of the new society
“meet and feed the great minds”
Mind as a bridge between the formless and the tangible
Mind as a conduit for creative energies
Mind as the residence of awareness and therefore the connecting plane of existence

Notes from "The State of Grace" documents
There is a clear relationship between the clarity of intention and the state of grace

We work together
In a state of grace.
Our strengths are
The gifts we bring.
Our weaknesses are strengths, too.
My weakness invites
Your infusion of wisdom,
As yours does mine.

-- Marie Knapp

FOR NEXT MEETING:
Bell and camera

How complete do you sense this present SUV bzplan is to present to a modern investor?

50% to find pristine wording.
Make a cleaner cut in between SUV and COWL.
Project plan for the program and 2 business plans. One for SUV one for COWL and a separated document to explain the synergy in between the two. The interdependence and synthesis.

Project- Vehicle of certain duration (SUV 3 years) COWL (5 yrs) but will last over life time.

Kay pls keep this notes in the back of your mind when reviewing the COWL wiki to see which pieces are already visible in the architecture.

WAS FOR KAY-Fer
Wealth generation ... aknowledge our time and what we have built so far.

Conversations 5hours. What wealth have we created so far?

Strategy

Luvina — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:29:34 CDT

Outline the marketing strategy

The rapid rise of popular Web tools that facilitate conversation and interaction online by allowing millions to share ideas, insights, experiences, perspectives and media has left enterprises everywhere scrambling to come up with strategies to leverage the unleashed power of social media.

No longer do companies talk and customers passively listen. A report from Universal Mc Cann reflects the growth of social media and its huge impacts.

The vast majority of users are producing content and there is an ongoing shift towards participation.
Media consumption is internationalising along language lines thanks to global social platforms.
Consumers are moving to on-demand media such as video clips and podcasts.
The role of advertisers and brands has never had so much potential -branded applications, content and services all offer huge potential in social media.
Emerging internet markets are leading the way in usage, closing the gap with developed countries.

What is social media?

Social media is a global phenomenon happening

Internet reach / Channels

Twitter

Socialmedia

Consumers today not only consume media, increasingly they create and share it. 25% of all Internet users publish content online¹. 40% read blogs regularly²; 120,000 blogs are created daily in the U.S.³ Increasingly, this crucial word-of-mouth starts and spreads online. Knowing who is saying what is now vital business intelligence.

We will use socialmedia measurement tools to help us with:

Capture core data on consumer behavior online
Quietly track investor sentiment, monitor competitors and potential allies and preparequarterly reports
Find unique perspectives from credible sources
Product managers monitor and evaluate the response to new products and protect their brands online
Content producers track exactly who is seeing their valuable digital content
PR professionals monitor and act on coverage, trends, sentiment and themes in social media
Crisis communications experts identify potential crises based on changes in volume and sentiment, plus correct misinformation online
Customer service potentiates witht the monitoring and use of socialmedia monitoring tools and techniques

How fast is social video growing?
http://www.relationship-economy.com/?p=1016

Notable findings from the March survey include:

73.7 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience viewed online video.
84.8 million viewers watched 4.3 billion videos on YouTube.com (50.4 videos per viewer).
47.7 million viewers watched 400 million videos on MySpace.com (8.4 videos per viewer).
The average online video duration was 2.8 minutes.
The average online video viewer watched 235 minutes of video.

Online Video Viewing Surges

List of socialmedia strategies for enterprises and corporations

Promotional budget

Luvina — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:18:40 CDT

How much budget is needed to promote the lab?

Before startup?

Ongoing?

PRICING
Pricing as a competitive factor

PROPOSED LOCATION
Why is it important to clients?

DISTRIBUTION CHANNELS
Direct, sales force, agents, independent representatives, ambassadors

PHYLLIS KORKKI writes in the New York Times: “The idea behind viral marketing is irresistible: plant your message in the right place, then sit back and watch people spread it through social networks, e-mail and word-of-mouth.”

COST OF:

Socialmedia monitoring/measurement tools

The laboratory architecture

Luvina — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:13:49 CDT

Architecture

Physical architectures must enable people to engage with all their planes of being (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual) in alignment with high harmonics and the energies of nature to accomplish a connection which contemplates all dimensions (interior/exterior, individual/collective) in its must subtler expressions widening the potential for the emergence of collective intelligence and wisdom.

In the realm of architecture there is an exploration on those artists/architects like Buckminster Fuller (geodesic dome) which study the way in which shapes hold energy in a harmonic way or Sacred Geometry or Selfic technology of Damanhur. Another part of the research for the space is radiestesia as a way of locating the best space for the Lab which connects to the meridians of earth.

In the realm of harmonics the exploration goes into the resonance with the perception of universal vibrations (what meditation allows) as we become part of the music. Opening up an area of research for the lab that can be expanded to all our circles of influence.

We will enter in full exploration of the possibilities of expanded consciousness through sound and light.

We need to answer to questions such as:
What structure does it need? What kind of architectures, what kind of sound? What kind of geometry, spaces, how many spaces? Is it small, intimate? How many people could potentially participate in such the largest processes?

Note: Remember Les Auquiers. What is the advantage of a white, clear room?, how to bring the energy of the ancient? (Les Auquiers is filled up with the energy of the templars and druids (protection, safety) which left a protective space. Can we be the templars for this new space?)

Cyberspace (Internet infraestructure)

In regards to the distributed vector of the lab there is an interest on knowing, for what purposes (tasks), how (modes of communication and collaboration) and where (places) and with whom (networks) distributed workers and teams act and communicate for being able to design the spaces that will support them in their work.

Methodologies

Luvina — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:04:31 CDT

For the purpose of designing COWL, various methods are needed to collect data, analyze it, describe and model environments and later to analyze their quality. Some methods we are using are Social network analysis, socialmedia, collaborative research, generative interviews, art processes and action research.

Tools

In the next page there is a 'technology stewarding' page to point out the different tools we will be using for COWL co-creation.

Interviews and process arts

Interviews are being conducted using the 'Generative interviews' model developed by Generon.

I am also interested in following the `Presencing` methodology. Look at Conversation with Tara and Lorin Hollander

Who else?

As research methodology I will be interviewing process artists, gamers, geeks, community builders, harvesting people, visual graphic facilitators. Ahead of the game, Dave Pollard, Tom Atlee, Juanita Brown, Nancy White, Peggy Holman, Bernard Lietaer, Michael Ben-Eli, Pablo Boneu, Arthur Brock, Ethan, Arnab Chowdury.

Look for the explorers and fruits where collectives tap into the creative source. Into seeing the structures of human consciousness and what they are made of. What has been the experience of the Presencing institute?

Other fields to complement the study:

Knowledge Managment Juanita study on how process arts are good for qualitative research Elearning Communities of Practice Collaborative space labs ESPACIOS Online / Offline / Hybrid
Fetzer (mentioned by Lorin)

What is the Institute of Noetic science doing?

What is the Global innovation commons doing with the Global innovations lab?

Rolex mentoring structure (Ashes and Snow)

Robert Goodwin

Rupert Sheldrake

Wilber 'The worldsoul' 'The oversoul'

Evolutionary Enlightement

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Which architectures do you believe are the best for descended wisdom?
What is a meta-architecture?

Lundy

Luvina — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:30:34 CDT

Individual psychological and consciousness development
Physical and behavioural (Physical well-being, energy level, skills and abilities, activitivities, program participation, consumer behaviours, diet and fitness)
Collective development (culture, diversity, participation, trust, belonging, collective intelligence, creativity, shared intention to manifest.

Capitalize individual skills, healthy ecosystem and sustainable living.

Educational programs, organizational infrastructure and systems (socialware to manage our complexity e.g. project managment, reputation, distributed collaboration and internal communication) implementation of new systems (currencies, ev

Do: training

Addictions

Support personal sustainability
to work in emotional intelligence, shadow issues, attitudes, beliefs, intentions, self-esteem and an
Developing skills for participation and contribution
Governance systems and architectures for collective action
Innovative economical systems (integration of new currencies)
values,

Capacities to handle complexities

Structures, processes and tools to enable collective intelligence and participation aimed towards achieving a healthy communication and culture, social capital for leveraging the value of the community....

Shared meaning, collective norms, shared stories, intention and attraction

Inner health and well-being, self-esteem, mental models, cognitive intelligence

Ego, emotional and aesthetic development

Atmosphere of openess

Fear and distrust

Developing, tapping into bioregional collaboration

Technology stewarding

Luvina — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:57:30 CDT

TWINE is a Semantic web application. One of the leading technologies whose intent is to transcend 'social networks' into 'collaborative or intentional networks. We have a TWINE for COWL collaborative research and development. Social bookmarkings, documents, notes, pictures, audio.

In a second stage this TWINE will be shared with larger groups of people so the research might be enriched.

ELLUMINATE is our synchronous collaborative space for having more complex meetings where we need to share desktops, ppts or have dialogues with larger groups about our task at hand.

EDITGRID is our tool for Submission for aknowledgment.

SKYPE and GIZMO are our two voice over IP tools. They have different characteristics which will be further explained. The most relevant one is that in gizmo it is possible to record conversation with a lot of ease. Its good to have both options installed for the moments when the technology challenges are tough.

RECORDER For Voice over IP conversations. Fer is trying several.

TOOL for harvesting notes live during conversations. In research.

08.06.02 Tara Lorin and Fer

tarah34 — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:36:43 CDT

Synthesis of our conversation

Transcript and initial editing by Tara Hollander

Comments on the synthesis: A large portion of our conversation focused on going over pages of the COWL Wiki - explaining, reviewing, reading, discussing and collectively editing. What is presented here includes:

• Acknowledgment and analysis of the creative state and process as COWL and its business plan unfold,

• Emergent ideas - both those that are new and others unfolding at a new level of depth.

Meeting Sequence
Presenting current status of the COWL business plan. Review pages:
Vision/Mission, The Problem, The Solution, The Big Idea, The Opportunity

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We began by looking at how the pieces have been placed to gain a broad perspective of the current status of the business plan.

Discussion of the process:
Share about, from where (inner subjective) it was generated, not just the product of the generation.

When writing, feel the experience of when you connect with a transcendent force. A big idea and ground of work. I go into this space where I dance between deeply connecting with my source and with the collective work we have done and place it into words that fit in a business plan. So the process is to use meditation before moving into writing. Stop in the middle, meditate and ground in the space. I see myself deeply concentrated with a lot of certainty of the power of the work. In terms of process…its been a beautiful journey.

Interesting to notice the different relationship between the monitor vs. seeing the writing on paper. The interesting relationship between paper and pen, vs. what we see or type on the screen. I find it important to work with paper also. The feeling that you get all over your body and the structure felt clear. It is that we truly are stepping/tapping into that structure. The reality that we have spoken so much about, that it is out there, that cosmic intuitive reality which is who we are. It is as if we are sculpting away the pieces of who we are not and see the structure that was there all along, but could not see until now.

Your state in the moment is crucial, that’s 70% I would say. And the environment you create around that space, the intention to do it, the music you listen to.

One of the most powerful, important fruits of what we can bring forward in the lab, is that we explore the state of when we are seeking that most core central place from where the creative stream comes from. And to realize when we are not there. But, to know the inner territory well enough, so that we can, through contemplative practices and lucid knowledge of the shape of the territory, discover and see the architecture and folding of that inner complexity. To be able to move ourselves down into that place, then fully ourselves, creative and open to always new illuminations. You saw on you sacred plants experience the realm of places you could be in that infinite variety of fractal dynamic spaces. To know where we are when, as Rumi says, the veils close in, we don’t know exactly where in that infinite space we are located. If it doesn’t feel right, we know it’s not right. Our absolute focused, oriented position within that spiritual space. It that, since we now can bring people through contemplative exercises – and through substances, but more through visionary experience – that we can bring together those pioneers of inner space to map out this territory once and for all and equate it to those few mystic masters who have done it. Now do it in a modern term where only the most recent technology is able to graphically represent this space of what you and I have seen. Where we can finally teach it to others, especially children who are so close to it.

This languaging is so beautiful and flows like a river.

You have to realize that you are partners in the enabling of me to enter into this place. I make myself vulnerable. And in that vulnerability I can feel both of your openness – that’s what we’re speaking about, that is the collective. I am simply using my mouth to give the words to what we all have access to, but none of us alone. I’m not usually like this, I usually stutter to say my own name.

Vision/Mission page
Trying to create a unique mission for COWL distinct from ICONs. See what emerges in terms of what the COWL mission could be.

Its interesting to note that the word ‘conscious’ is used in two subtly different contexts. Process of evolution and state of being of consciousness. Increasingly conscious social systems which is a state of being. Suggestions: “Illuminating and empowering” the emerging…

[About COWL]
The collective wisdom lab. Is huge. Not only is it a resource, it is the vision, it is think tank, seat of knowledge, the generating principle of, it is the living essence, power and purpose which ICON and others will be depending on. So, it’s not small just supporting ICON. Yes it does that, but it is so much huger than this. Its very interesting because the COWL can be a small division of ICON, but ICON can be one thing that the collective wisdom laboratory is involved in or helping. Unless I’m turning this totally around, it seems that is what’s powerful for a laboratory, because the research for the survival of the world has not yet been done. And it will only be done in such miraculous new entities such as collective wisdom lab.

Vision and Mission is shared. Because ICON is huge. It cannot exist without COWL.
Possibilities: enable, succeed, empower... Evolved to–
New idea: “crystallize”

...generating principle and creative essence which will empower ICON to reach its vision and mission as well as serve to illuminate and crystallize the emerging…

The Vision and Mission is terribly important, because it is who you are.
Yes, it is what you are for and what it is you are serving.

Those who know human beings say about human beings, we have never created for ourselves a vision and mission. And if you want to know what you vision and mission is, look around you – at all the stuff you have, all the ways you’ve hampered your life, that is what your vision and mission is. So its about time you really created one [vision/mission] consciously.

Based on conversation with S. Trevino and J. Peterson, it became clear that vision – it cannot be just one vision, but many visions. It takes many visions to serve the emerging movement. That's the inspiration. There have to be many, which are healthy for humankind.

Although it can't be all visions and missions, because there are some focused on evil. Its the process of envisioning and the process of missioning that we’re dealing with here.

That's why its “healthy.”

The Problem page
Ideas and threads which can be placed in this page.
Please add questions that emerge for you as you read the pages.

Started to find layers and levels that ICON will target. What I mean for this, is there are different levels of commitment. Local, regional, and global spheres. Our challenges, our opportunities and our markets are in those three.
Local, what ICON does for its residents, full time, part time or visitors, or in the community of Valle de Bravo. The more people we know in Valle – they know how things are moving in the area. A lot of influential people have bought land there and don't do anything with it so to protect it. So there is a very interesting community that do not live there but are stakeholders in how the place grows. Influential, socially powerful people. So a very interesting space. The other is those who migrate to Valle de Bravo. Cultural creatives, people creating new things, organic farming, aromatherapy, university for consciousness, etc. There is this network of people doing things but are not seeing each other or cooperating with each other. That is in local.

In regional - Mexico - particularly Mexico City. In discussion with Juan Pablo, decided to have to have two labs. One in Valle de Bravo and one in Mexico City. Valle de Bravo is the main lab. The mexico city would be an attractor. We want to have an alliance with Paul Taylor of the social transformation cafe. So we can attract transformational and social leaders - those who will get close to that hub. Mexico city is just ready for that. There are two holders for that lab for here in Mexico City who are interested in carrying it on, making it grow, expanding it, etc. They both have a very beautiful match on what we can do. Support each other not just in terms of sustainability but also reach potential.

Reference back to Juan Pablo's thesis, that the reaching out and sharing what is happening in the community is where the other communities fallen short. This goes much further when you have a state of the art research laboratory sharing what will be of importance to, as we’ve discussed, virtually every area of human consciousness. Mexico City has an extraordinary community of people exploring consciousness. Beyond that you will be connecting with other labs for consciousness – which are not many on this level, but some – that will then become a more mega-organic, larger laboratory. But the hub establishes, and provides what Juan Pablo pointed out that the others were not providing, that ability to send out and receive communication.

General observations and comments should be submitted when we read it separately.

Solution page

Two parts, strategically aligned with ICON. Sustainable village and collective wisdom laboratory. What is important is the integration of words 'learning' 'teaching' - which give a first sense of possibilities. Leading-edge technologies, tools, frameworks, architectures, etc....
More and more levels of inclusion.

Sustainable Village: The mnemonic SUV. Suggestion: SUVI. Play on words of “Sufi” and “Sustainable”

The Opportunity page

Create it with different resources than SUVI. This is not business as usual. Not business in the traditional sense.

This bring us to fundraising. Won’t go into detail, but somewhere on first page – on the “Big Idea” page – all that you’ll be doing, somewhere, to be researching the underlying causes of the dysfunctions in children. In Mexico City it is huge and its global. I bring this up because there is an incredible amount of money available to research, childhood alcohol, suicide, drug addiction, violence. Suddenly money opens up from people who realize there are so many problems in the world. And this research center is going to do something to find answers to these problems And since its doing it through creative means and research, and that it will be done at deeper level then ever done before. Where a huge amount of money can come from. For people who are saying yes, but what really are you going to do to help the problems of the world.

First paragraphs directed to investors. When you read it, you may find holes in it and suggest ways to make it better. Wanted to synthesize different opportunities that allow this.

Target Spanish speaking populations. There is great amounts of potential but not enough exposure.

The Latin people, have for the many reasons we discussed, a closeness to, an intimacy with, and access to aspects of humanity– a oneness with the forces of the earth, and nature and spirituality – that western’s intellectual man has severed himself from. We desperately need to be reawakened and re-enlivened by the Latin peoples as to what is that force which comes out through their inherent rhythmic, artistic, musical, spiritual, communicative resonant, empathic connection with other human beings.

Yes, I want to include that piece in here. Have audio recording with Juanita Brown. Latin American understand magic and the intimacy of conversations. It can bring heart to this work.

Also rights of passage. It goes into the darkness of their souls. They live their myths and don’t deny they have them or term them emotional disturbance.

And in particular, Mexico has guardians of traditions and all this knowledge that is just now coming through because it had to be protected for centuries. Spaniards practically destroyed all the knowledge from the priests and priestesses. Placed in the hands to keep a secret and right now is emerging in different circles and in different ways. We have the shamanic practices. Castanada. His work on transegrity. On multiple domains. Spiritual work that crosses multiple dimensions to bring answers to what we’re needing.

What you are speaking about now, is among the most important foces possible for the work you are doing. We as a planetary civilization need those secrets. Not to have them to sell to WIE, but for those who have the integrity and soulful love and caring to know these secrets with the deepest reverence and awareness of how easily they can be co-opted and destroyed. But to bring forth spiritually wisely– being given out with a deep intuitive sense for the sacred timing. Bring forth this information– we can't save the world without it.
Personally, I would like to know where I can find some of this information which is written now. Some that is being come out. What has been translated, what you feel has not been sensationalized. What is touching on some of these secrets.

"Factor Maya" Jose Arguelles [sp?]. Scientist. Beautiful view. Will ask Juan Carlos who is very emerged in the Gardens of Traditions.
In regards to what is being written right now that is not sensationalist, I think we are just at that edge. We have to bring it and honor it and it still is not fully exposed. Find what Mayas did with circles of leaders. Or you can find small piece– with Aztecs, not a lot. In that space of the priests and sacred. I will keep that in mind for you.

Very important for my own personal work and for integrating it into the unspoken soul and life of what we are doing here.

My other colleague, JC is serving a woman that has the knowledge of a body practice that is ... In Amsterdam. Strong woman have practices with a stick. Martial art, tai chi kind of thing.
The work that Carlos Castenada did was amazing in terms of shamanic architectures. Transegrity.
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So then I go into giving the investor a sense that we now can also be doing things in regard to this work. Not only as we convene these works. But with our "current understanding"

I think it is extraordinary harnessing and wonderful implementation of the visioning.

It did blossom. I read that conversation so many times. I know the content by heart. Also what is exposed here is not the full of it. For example there is this space, new one...
Laboratory Architecture.
First stage is we research. Different wording of what was in the opportunity page.
In “Business model” – first stage in lab is to create the lab, research what the lab is going to be. First stage is not open the doors, no we research. So the place where I’m writing that down is in the lab architecture. A different wording of what was in the wording of “Opportunity” page.

So there is this language and depth that sometime I felt I needed to - control, diminish - in order for it to be readable and understandable in a business plan. I certainly hold those pieces in other spaces. Like in our conversation. In our lab architecture page. We know.
For the business plan, the investor knows that part of the business model is to engage in a very deep reflection of what the architecture for the laboratory should be as the first stage of the project.

I don't know how the world understands now the expanded and enhanced understanding of architecture. The way that it is used, and the way J-F uses it, is a specialized use. I don't know our audience well enough. I would hope that since the world is heard now more often, I hope it would be understood that it means also archetypal forms, a priori, in consciousness. Then those can be allowed to extend into the real world. As hidden looms or frames on which we build external architectures.

I need to place that in an appendix. So to offer a broader perspective. I do want an investor to understand what 'architectures' are. There are some basics that I think are crucial for the source of the money.

It can get confusing for someone, because when seeing Buckminster Fuller– who they can without being spiritually awake – know that he was an architect and therefore we are talking about buildings. It is those who were aware that he built those on inner visionary experiences. Also with Frank Lloyd write on inner spiritual experiences, even spiritual dance experience. But not sure exactly how to keep it clear because I don't know our audience. It must say all things to all people, but different levels of awakeness and awareness for this to be languaged in a different form.

Yes, I think we should expand as much as we want. Do need to be our inner repository for shared collective awareness of it.

I also think it should be expanded to complete extent of our capacities and then edited, modified and language it.

In regards of our audience. That's where I think SUVI is easier to sell because it can be any investor. But COWL doesn't. It needs a deeper understanding, or at least sensing the potential for it. More conscious capital than would be required for SUVI.

"Executive Summary" is where the work has been done. And "Business model"

Thinking about the U-process. We went into that Presencing. The crystallization of that conversation is already here in many places. Some are notes, some quotes, some part of business plan. Its beautiful. I feel we did a whole U. Now we are in cleaning that, making it more pure. Into its more completeness and its full depth. So I'm very happy with what we've been doing so far.