Hi community! the above title is on the home page of @Maria do Céu Bastos website and the tagline for her rural coworking and co-living space! And yes, we want to invite you to Come Grow Something With Us in Portugal, > this September (21st till 27th)! 🌞🌱< Besides helping with the farm, preparing for Saturday's European Day of Sustainable Communities event and cooking, dancing & laughing together we also want to talk about about how we can actually grow something together. And for everyone who can't join us (there are 4 available bedrooms) we will livestream the first Organizational Impact call with @Maria do Céu Bastos live from Portugal, about the topic of Regenerative Farming & Survival Skills. Here's more information on the location & venue: https://nowhere-desk.com/ Any questions? Share them in the comments! We await with curiosity who's feeling called to join us! Warmly Sarah & Nadene

a few weeks ago we invited you to co-design what the new Organizational Impact Calls, starting in September, could look like. Thanks to everyone who showed up - we recorded the first one, see attached recording. Here's where we landed: These sessions are becoming part of the 8$/month membership, twice a month. You bring a real experience, challenge or showcase of how you're implementing the IDGs (directly or indirectly) into organizations, schools, communities, coach clients etc. Structure: - 10 min. Context: what challenge were you facing? - 15 min. Practice: what did you try, and where did inner development show up? - 20 min. Community inquiry: questions, reflections, other angles. - 15 min. Harvest: takeaways and what's still open. Hosting gets you visibility, a held space, peer feedback, and a recording to use elsewhere. You don't need to have it figured out going in, because the session is built around figuring it out together. We're building our roster of hosts now. If you'd like the spotlight and the collective intelligence from this group, reach out to @Nadene Canning or @Sarah Santacroce We start in September, with a spotlight on @Maria do Céu Bastos and her rural coworking and regenerative farm in Portugal. More on that soon (it's super exciting ✨)

Hello Community, It's summer where we are - and we're taking a break from our weekly Skillbuilders for a few weeks. But we can still hang out 🌞 ☀️ ⛱️ 🌅 - and you can join from the beach, from your balcony, your walks or your home. Join us on one or all the following dates for a casual check-in & get to know one another: July 7 at 12.30 with Nadene July 14 at12.30 with Sarah July 21 at 12.30 with Nadene July 28 VACATION Aug 4 at 12.30 with Sarah Aug 11 with Nadene at 12.30 Aug 18 at 12.30 with Sarah and, Aug 25 at 18.00 with Nadene *** Also, a big warm welcome to new members who joined us in June: @Jay Arasu, @Alex Poppleton , @Howard Eisenberg, @Luciana Fajardo, @Mujo Othol, @Eleonore Détaint, @Karin Nistl, @Flip Brown. We look forward to getting to know you via your introduction post ;-) We hope to see you at one of the hangouts! Sarah & Nadene P.S. And if you need some other kind ideas for July, you'll find them below.

I'm working on a 'Human(e) AI Creed' and crowdsourcing some feedback in different communities and thought I'd share here too. It starts like this: 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭, 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬. AI is something we use, not something we become. 𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩. Nothing leaves our hands without passing through our own voice, our own judgment, our own care. We are accountable for what we put into the world, AI-assisted or not. 𝐖𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐰. Some things are ours to do, not AI's: telling our own story, deepening our values, doing our inner work, and building real relationships. Human maturity becomes the competency of the future. 👉Here's the rest of the Creed. What's missing? Especially related to Inner Development? You can comment directly in the doc or put your thoughts in the comment section. Also, I thought this video is interesting about envisioning a positive AI World.

Three weeks ago I wrote about data and statistics; the cold architecture of global inequality. Two weeks ago I wrote about imagination, whether we can understand a person we’ve never met, and what kind of imagination actually gets us closer to someone else’s reality. Last weekend the course “The World as a Village of 100 People” moved into its third chapter: Transformation. **Now that we understand and now that we’ve imagined, how do we act without reproducing the very dynamics we’re trying to dismantle?** It is, I’ve come to believe, the hardest question of the three. In our village of 100 people, one of the villagers stopped me in my tracks this past weekend. She is a young woman, aged between 20 and 24. She lives in the deepest poverty: one of 68 people who together control just 3% of the village’s wealth. She has no housing, no education, no water, no sanitation, no internet. She has electricity. That is all. When asked what she most wanted, she didn’t ask for a donation. She didn’t ask for a handout. She said: "Don’t just help me. Make sure no other person can ever land in my position". She was asking for systemic change. She was asking us to go to the root cause. Not treat the symptom, not make ourselves feel better with a gesture, but fix the conditions that made her situation possible in the first place. It is a completely different ask. And most of our systems (aid, development, philanthropy) are not designed to deliver it. This is not a new problem. It is an old one, repeating itself with remarkable consistency across generations of well-meaning effort. A striking example is PlayPumps International, a project that installed merry-go-round water pumps in rural African communities, designed so that children playing would simultaneously pump clean water. It was ingenious, it was photogenic, and it attracted significant funding. And it failed because nobody adequately consulted the communities who would use them. The pumps were harder to operate than hand pumps, broke down without accessible spare parts, and placed an unexpected burden on women and children to keep them running. A solution designed without asking the people it was designed for.