Podcasts about enspiral

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Play Episode Listen Later May 20, 2022 53:57

Sasha Dimitrevic & Tucker Walsh are part of the organising crew for Nuanu: a new intentional village in Bali which could eventually grow to 2000 people. They interviewed me seeking advice for their community constitution. Themes - multi-level addressable nested identities - epistemic conflict between oral & literate culture - using tempo to find the sweet spot between chaos and order - enrolling community members into polarity management - subsidiarity - training community members in conflict resolution, communication skills, etc - dual org charts for working & relating - designing to prevent people falling thru the cracks: loneliness, invisibility, disengagement - synchronising across the digital vs physical divide - encouraging active citizenship - what to do with low engagement - power dynamics, accountability for people in leadership roles - leadership succession References: - The Hum online course for getting into all these topics in more depth: https://www.thehum.org/guided-program - Dee Hock, Chaordic Organisations: https://thesystemsthinker.com/the-nature-and-creation-of-chaordic-organizations/ - Scaling Agile at Spotify: https://blog.crisp.se/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SpotifyScaling.pdf - How we design retreats for Enspiral: https://medium.com/microsolidarity/congregation-how-to-ffe35c65d70 - Loomio (text-based group decision making) http://loomio.org - Ted Rau podcast: https://anchor.fm/roz-savage/episodes/Ted-Rau---Sociocracy-for-All-e1a718s and book: https://www.sociocracyforall.org/many-voices-one-song/ - Jakob Nielsen 90-9-1 ruel for participation inequality: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/ Thanks Joe Lightfoot for the intro! www.joelightfoot.org

Ep. 73 Kate Beecroft on the critiques and possibilities of DAOs

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2022 56:36

Kate Beecroft works on ecosystem and community building at Centrifuge, the decentralised asset financing protocol. She has been involved in Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) since 2018 and brings to them her experience of self-managing organisations as the co-founder of Greaterthan and a long-time member of Enspiral. We talk about common critiques of DAOs and Web3, as well as how we could share learning more across the worlds of self-managing organisations, DAOs and cooperatives. For listeners totally new to the world of DAOs and Web3, here are two starting points: This Forbes article: What Are DAOs And Why You Should Pay Attention The Brave New Work podcast episode with Chase Chapman (see also their DAO mini-series) Resources: The paper Kate co-authored, The Dissensus Protocol The episode of the ‘On the Other Side' podcast we mention Elizabeth M. Renieris' article ‘Amid the Hype over Web3, Informed Skepticism Is Critical' Richard D. Bartlett, Stephen Reid and Rufus Pollock on Critical Exploration of Web3 (YouTube video) Enspiral's website

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Richard D. Bartlett & Stephen Reid on Critical Exploration of Web3

The Life Itself Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2022 84:44

Just what is Web3, why are people so excited about it, and how likely is it to really change the world? In this episode, Life Itself co-founder Rufus Pollock talks with Rich Bartlett and Stephen Reid on the promises, possibilities and pitfalls of Web3. Learn more: https://lifeitself.us/web3/ Richard D. Bartlett Has operated in the space of decentralised governance for some time through projects such as Loomio, The Hum and Microsolidarity. He is also a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral - a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work. Richard is a recent convert to the power of Web3 in supporting decentralised governance. Stephen Reid is a teacher and technologist devoted to the flourishing of Life on Earth who has trained in the fields of complexity science, physics, software development, meditation, psychotherapy, plant medicine, conscious sexuality and political activism. He is currently teacher of the How to DAO, Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance, The Promise of Decentralisation & Introduction to web3 courses, and a member of the not-for-profit worker co-operative Dandelion Collective, where he leads the development of the Dandelion platform for ticketed events and co-created gatherings.

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EP 149 Joshua Vial on Enspiral

The Jim Rutt Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2021 86:42

Jim has a wide-ranging talk with Joshua Vial, co-founder of the multifaceted social-impact support network Enspiral. They discuss Enspiral's origin story, its organizational structure, tradeoffs between exploration & exploitation, coherent pluralism, how to do a company without bosses, keeping product & consulting companies separate, the origins of Loomio in Occupy Wall St. consensus processes, how to invite … Continue reading EP 149 Joshua Vial on Enspiral → The post EP 149 Joshua Vial on Enspiral appeared first on The Jim Rutt Show.

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Frontiers of Coordination #1 with Richard D. Bartlett The Pre-DAO DAO OG

Where Are We Now?

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2021 59:42

Richard D. Bartlett, aka “Rich dB”, has been working in pre-blockchain “DAOs” since the 2011 Occupy Wallstreet Movement. An engineer by training, Rich has merged his problem solving skills with his passion for compassionate, intelligent and inclusive ways of being together. He is the co-founder of Loomio and The Hum, and a director and longstanding member of Enspiral. Rich is rich with thoughts about “small-scale, high-trust cooperative organizing” and is now on a mission to fill in his knowledge gaps about what is happening at the cutting edge of DAO tech in web3. In this episode, Peth picks Rich's brain about pros and cons of decentralized orgs, pros and cons of hierarchical orgs, DAO benefits and drawbacks, common DAO misconceptions and... Wtf even are DAOs?! There is a huge focus on the core values and needs of members within decentralized groups, and how we can use these to create and scale projects. Some of the Topics: Occupy Wallstreet movement Pros/Cons of Hierarchy Scaling of leadership within armies Leadership within decentralized orgs Conflict Transformation & Reflection Trusteless Orgs Voting & Decision Making Processes What makes a DAO? How to create meaningful change Peth & Rich explore a wide range of DAO concepts and perspectives. Rich explains some critical lessons learned from his experiences with decentralized orgs, in particular, the necessity of building and maintaining trust. When conflicts arise, there needs to be a process to resolve them and, better yet, reflect upon them to make organized change for the future. The episode concludes Rich's advice to metagamers to consider “the microscale”. Before completely redesigning society, consider the relationship between just two people: How can you increase mutual trust and support within that relationship?. “Organizations are just a big stack of human relationships,” so what you learn about trust and coordination between individuals can teach you a lot about organizing as a decentralized team. References Rich's Site Loomio The Hum Enspiral Microsolidarity Multi-stakeholder Cooperatives Team of Teams Book Agile Project Management Emergent Strategy Book The Tyranny of Structurelessness --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/metagame/message

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Community & Uncertainty - repost from Reach Truth Podcast

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2021 97:14

Richard Bartlett speaks with Tasshin Fogleman about Enspiral, microsolidarity, collapse, cults, DAO's, and more. Originally published on the Reach Truth Podcast: https://tasshin.com/podcast/

Community and Uncertainty with Richard Bartlett

Reach Truth Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2021 97:14

Tasshin speaks with Richard Bartlett (@RichDecibels) about Enspiral, microsolidarity, collapse, cults, DAO's, and more. Rich on Twitter Enspiral Microsolidarity The Hum Loomio Robin Dunbar on the Jim Rutt Show If you enjoyed this episode, consider supporting Tasshin and the Reach Truth Podcast on Patreon.

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New Myths for Humanity: With Alina Siegfried, author of 'A Future Untold'

Accidental Gods

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2021 61:09

We are the stories we tell ourselves - about who we are and where we're going. In our small day to day decisions, we think how our stories of ourselves will be enhanced by the things we do. So when all our stories have been about scarcity, separation and powerlessness, and how we can fight to gain more than those with whom we are in competition - how can we build healing, whole, healthy stories that will bring us forward to a flourishing future? Alina Siegfried is a performance poet, storyteller, and advocate for systems change. She has worked at Enspiral, in the New Zealand Government, and for the Edmund Hillary Foundation. Her book, 'A Future Untold' brings our stories to the heart of our systemic change. Alina's website: https://www.alinasiegfried.com/Aina's TEDx Talk: https://youtu.be/PM_xnvTVyEsIntroduction to Johan Rockstrom: https://youtu.be/yBjB-w5HD_M?list=PLxTt2Nm5dTv3awnK1ren4BtHNctW_v7zYCommon Cause Foundation: https://commoncausefoundation.org/about/The Long Now Foundation: https://longnow.org/Don't Think of an Elephant: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-All-New-Dont-Think-of-an-Elephant-by-George-Lakoff/9781603585941

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Enspiral Europe - 1st Gathering

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2021 59:51

Silvia Bastos is one of the co-hosts of the recent Pico Island gathering: https://anchor.fm/Microsolidarity/episodes/Pico-Island-Congregation---1st-Summer-Gathering---June-2021-e136g6k She interviewed Richard Bartlett, one of the co-hosts of the recent Enspiral Europe gathering. Video of this conversation is available here: https://youtu.be/W6T65zm2Jl4 Mentioned in this conversation: https://visakanv.gumroad.com/l/friendlynerdbook https://LifeItself.us https://en.lacuisinedelabienveillance.org/les-messagers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology https://www.liberatingstructures.com/8-troika-consulting/ https://epiccollaboration.com/approaches/mg-taylor-practiced-anz-paz https://www.thehum.org/post/how-do-we-want-to-be-together https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1145867.Sitting_in_the_Fire https://www.moodcafe.co.uk/media/50868/1.1%20Trigger%20Logs.pdf http://microsolidarity.cc

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Joshua Vial & Richard D. Bartlett: the journey of a community founder

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2021 65:02

Joshua Vial is the founder of Enspiral: we talk about what it's like to be a community founder, how to decentralise power, creating adult-to-adult relationships, vision, experimentation, safety & harm, freedom & responsibility... and lots of other good stuff :) If you're not familiar with Enspiral, here's some introductory links: a 2 min video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY6eZIbgNrM a 30 min presentation from Alanna Irving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ABqCgKi4X0 an interview with Jim Rutt and me https://www.jimruttshow.com/rich-bartlett/ More links: http://microsolidarity.cc/ https://joshuavial.com/ https://handbook.enspiral.com/ Video from this conversation available here: https://youtu.be/1_3OxvUkPPo

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29: Notes on the Future of Decentralized Organization with Richard Bartlett

Agora Politics

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2021 59:23

Richard Bartlett is an expert on decentralized organizations as well as cofounder of The Hum Team, Enspiral, & Loomio. We talk about practical anarchism, the Occupy movement’s experiments in radical democracy, escaping domination and coercion, Patterns of Decentralization, debt, and the future of work. You can follow Richard on Twitter: @richdecibels You can follow me on Twitter: @amurshak -- Agora Politics is dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. Subscribe on: Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58?si=fY-OxZqASPWtxFnAqyLCbg Wherever you get your podcasts

Brent Lowe and Susan Basterfield: How Innovative Organizations Lead and Scale - No Managers Required

The Empathy Edge

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 35:38

Innovation is such a buzzword in many companies and organizations, but how often do we think about innovating our organizations and the way they run? What if your organization had no managers? What if everyone was committed to a mission, stepped up to lead, and collaborated effectively, with honesty, to get things done and move forward? It's not a pipe dream. It's possible and many organizations are making it happen with great results today. In my conversation today with Brent Lowe and Susan Basterfield, two of the authors of Lead Together, we answer these questions and look at new, innovative ways of running these organizations. We'll talk about what it means to be a Lead Together organization, dispel myths about what it means to remove job titles and managers, and what are the most critical skills required by everyone involved to truly make this work. Key Takeaways:Anytime you throw people into an equation, things become unpredictable. We need to be present and aware of that in a way that allows everybody to bring all of who they are to the problem. That is a way to start leading together.It is more about roles than about job descriptions. Job descriptions are a static document, roles are dynamic and can change as people can have multiple roles at the same time.To make a Lead Together organization work, everyone on the team must make the commitment - together. "There needs to be a willingness to do the work, and to see the workplace as somewhere where we go, not just to do the task that's in front of us, but also to develop our own skills." — Brent Lowe About Brent Lowe and Susan Basterfield, co-authors of Leading Together:Brent Lowe is a performance coach helping leaders show up as their best selves within thriving, purpose-driven teams. As the Scale Coach for Founder CEOs, Brent works with entrepreneurs and leaders who are growing the size and impact of their businesses to tackle local and global challenges. Many of his clients are motivated by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and a desire to lead in ways that feel authentic, inspiring and personally fulfilling. He and his clients share a belief that leadership goes far beyond delivering financial returns, with ecosystem stewardship being a core responsibility.Susan Basterfield is catalyst and convener who believes that awareness and discernment can unblock drains and move mountains. From 35-plus years in business—spanning global multinationals, startups and schools—arose experiences that drive her work as a systems transformation partner. Her work includes standing shoulder to shoulder with leaders and organizations on their transformational journeys, often over many years, and convening virtual development programs, including the Practical Self-Management Intensive. She is an educator, coach, facilitator, writer, and collective entrepreneur. Obsessed with building the capacity to build capacity, Susan seeks out that which is life-giving, dances with complexity, and weeds-out constraints to potential. She practices with Greaterthan and Enspiral. Learn more about Susan's work at greaterthan.works and enspiral.com. Lead Together: The Bold, Brave, Intentional Path to Scaling Your Business By Brent Lowe, Susan Basterfield, and Travis Marsh Get the book: leadtogether.co Connect with Brent:Website: brentlowe.comTwitter: twitter.com/BrentLoweTweetsLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brentloweconnects Don't forget to download your free guide! Discover The 5 Business Benefits of Empathy: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria's brand strategy work and books: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaTwitter: @redsliceFacebook: Red Slice

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Brent Lowe and Susan Basterfield: How Innovative Organizations Lead and Scale - No Managers Required

The Empathy Edge

Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2021 35:38

Innovation is such a buzzword in many companies and organizations, but how often do we think about innovating our organizations and the way they run? What if your organization had no managers? What if everyone was committed to a mission, stepped up to lead, and collaborated effectively, with honesty, to get things done and move forward? It's not a pipe dream. It's possible and many organizations are making it happen with great results today. In my conversation today with Brent Lowe and Susan Basterfield, two of the authors of Lead Together, we answer these questions and look at new, innovative ways of running these organizations. We'll talk about what it means to be a Lead Together organization, dispel myths about what it means to remove job titles and managers, and what are the most critical skills required by everyone involved to truly make this work. Key Takeaways:Anytime you throw people into an equation, things become unpredictable. We need to be present and aware of that in a way that allows everybody to bring all of who they are to the problem. That is a way to start leading together.It is more about roles than about job descriptions. Job descriptions are a static document, roles are dynamic and can change as people can have multiple roles at the same time.To make a Lead Together organization work, everyone on the team must make the commitment - together. "There needs to be a willingness to do the work, and to see the workplace as somewhere where we go, not just to do the task that's in front of us, but also to develop our own skills." — Brent Lowe About Brent Lowe and Susan Basterfield, co-authors of Leading Together:Brent Lowe is a performance coach helping leaders show up as their best selves within thriving, purpose-driven teams. As the Scale Coach for Founder CEOs, Brent works with entrepreneurs and leaders who are growing the size and impact of their businesses to tackle local and global challenges. Many of his clients are motivated by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, and a desire to lead in ways that feel authentic, inspiring and personally fulfilling. He and his clients share a belief that leadership goes far beyond delivering financial returns, with ecosystem stewardship being a core responsibility.Susan Basterfield is catalyst and convener who believes that awareness and discernment can unblock drains and move mountains. From 35-plus years in business—spanning global multinationals, startups and schools—arose experiences that drive her work as a systems transformation partner. Her work includes standing shoulder to shoulder with leaders and organizations on their transformational journeys, often over many years, and convening virtual development programs, including the Practical Self-Management Intensive. She is an educator, coach, facilitator, writer, and collective entrepreneur. Obsessed with building the capacity to build capacity, Susan seeks out that which is life-giving, dances with complexity, and weeds-out constraints to potential. She practices with Greaterthan and Enspiral. Learn more about Susan's work at greaterthan.works and enspiral.com. Lead Together: The Bold, Brave, Intentional Path to Scaling Your Business By Brent Lowe, Susan Basterfield, and Travis Marsh Get the book: leadtogether.co Connect with Brent:Website: brentlowe.comTwitter: twitter.com/BrentLoweTweetsLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/brentloweconnects Don't forget to download your free guide! Discover The 5 Business Benefits of Empathy: http://red-slice.com/business-benefits-empathy Connect with Maria: Get the podcast and book: TheEmpathyEdge.comLearn more about Maria's brand strategy work and books: Red-Slice.comHire Maria to speak at your next event: Red-Slice.com/Speaker-Maria-RossLinkedIn: Maria RossInstagram: @redslicemariaTwitter: @redsliceFacebook: Red Slice

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Richard D. Bartlett: Meaningful work, social fabric, and flourishing

Origins: Explorations of thought-leaders' pivotal moments

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2021 60:59

We find ourselves in a world that feels incongruent and unfamiliar, changing socially and technologically at paces that expose conventional explanations as inadequate. Climate change, pandemics, political unrest have punctuated this new century and feel like clarion calls for new ways of being and being together. Enter Richard D. Bartlett — someone who has been a pioneer in thinking about these new modes.Show Notes:Apologetics (06:30)What is community? (06:50)The concept of flourishing (08:15)Having a gift/role in the world (12:00)Robin Wall Kimmerer Braiding Sweetgrass "The most important thing that each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world" Occupy movement (12:00)J.P. Lederach's "Critical Yeast" from The Moral ImaginationGovernance strategies for our time (18:30)What it takes to scale community authentically? (25:00)Does change need to be orchestrated from a central point? (28:00)Complexity (31:00)Microsolidarity (31:30)Enspiral'Crews'How to weave social fabric blog post (43:00)Morning routine (43:10)Adrienne Maree Brown We Will Not Cancel Us (44:00)Writing practice (45:00)Sendhil Mullainathan Scarcity (49:45)Lightning Round (50:30)Books: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Robert PirsigThe listening society Hanzi FreinachtSandtalk Tyson YunkaportaOn Orality and Literacy Walter OngTomas Björkman Origins episodePassion: inventing instrumentsSonification - Matt Russo Origins episodeHeart sing: nonlinear and nonlogical use of languageScrewed up: Cheating on a partner, violating the terms of a relationshipFind guest online:Twitter: @RichDecibelsFollow Richard on MediumRichard's websitehttps://www.thehum.org/'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series Richard’s playlist

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#14 Stephen Reid On DAO's, Psychedelics & The Regenerative Renaissance

The Lightfoot Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2021 87:17

This week I'm joined by Stephen Reid, he is a co-operative technologist and cultural changemaker who has trained in the fields of complexity science, physics, software development, meditation, psychotherapy, plant medicine, conscious sexuality and political activism. He is currently a co-director of Dandelion Collective (the not-for-profit worker co-operative behind the Psychedelic Society, which he founded in 2014), the lead developer of dandelion.earth, founder of the Autopia DAO and associated AUT token, teacher of the Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance and Introduction to Crypto & DeFi courses, and a contributor to Enspiral. We delve deep into the fascinating world of the blockchain, zeroing in on DAO's and some of the more progressive projects emerging in the space. We also explore the state of the psychedelic movement and the potential for the integration of community cultivation and psychedelic medicine distribution. Finally Stephen shares his Taoist perspective on the merger of the political and spiritual. Enjoy. https://stephenreid.net/ https://autopia.co/

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Self-Organizing Collaborative Governance Q+A with Richard D. Bartlett

Future Thinkers Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 94:52

Our guest in this Q+A session on self-organizing governance is Richard D. Bartlett. This session was originally live-streamed on December 4th 2020. Richard is a co-founder of a digital tool called Loomio, and of a decentralized consulting company The Hum. He is also the Director at the Enspiral Foundation, a collective of people working on meaningful projects around the world. As an open source enthusiast, he writes about how we work together at any scale, from our relationships to organizations to social change. He is a contributing author of the book Better Work Together, and he is writing his first book called Patterns for Decentralized Organizing. Complete show notes: http://www.futurethinkers.org/136 To join future Q&As with thinkers & visionaries, become a Future Thinkers member at http://www.futurethinkers.org/members Members get access to courses, workshops, and private group calls for a deep dive into practicing sovereignty, resilience, and shadow work. To help us with the property search for the Future Thinkers Smart Village go to http://www.futurethinkers.org/landsearch SIGN UP for our mailing list and get a FREE 50+ Page Adapt to the Future Guide: http://www.futurethinkers.org/signup

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Ep. 58 Richard D. Bartlett and Natalia Lombardo from The Hum on going from a domination to a partnership society

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 15, 2021 66:40

Rich and Nati are the founders of collaboration consultancy The Hum and part of the Enspiral network. Between them, they have a background in activism, engineering, community organising and entrepreneurship and are well-respected thought leaders when it comes to decentralised organisations, self-managing teams and collaborative culture. We talk about personal shifts, ‘trojan horse’ radical practices, and ideas for moving from a domination society to a partnership society. How to follow Rich and Nati: Twitter: @RichDecibels and @LombardoNati Resources: The Hum’s online course (next guided programme starts on the 11th of March 2021) Learn more about Riane Eisler, who Rich mentions at the start The microsolidarity programme Nati mentioned The Enspiral website Loomio’s website

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#3 Nati Lombardo & The Enspiral Network

The Lightfoot Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2020 56:23

In this third episode of The Collective Blooming Series I speak with Nati Lombardo, co-founder of the The Hum and member of the Enspiral network. We cover all sorts of fascinating topics including Nati's insights into the importance of cultivating self awareness in non-hierarchical contexts and the many benefits of participating in a Collective. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. https://www.thehum.org https://enspiral.com

Deconstructing Decentralised Organizing, with Richard D. Bartlett

Buddhist Geeks

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2020 65:36

In this episode, Vince Fakhoury Horn is joined in conversation with Richard D. Bartlett. Rich is the author of Patterns for Decentralised Organising and a contributing author for Better Work Together. He is a co-founder of Loomio and The Hum. He is a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral. In finding where convergence resides among them, Vince and Rich explore many interesting topics including Decentralised Organising, Microsolidarity, Fractal Narcissism, and the Occupy Movement.Memorable Quotes“In a time of massive disruption, where the stakes are really high and everyone has skin in the game, who is saying stuff that feels sensible? That feels like it’s giving me guidance?” - Richard D. Bartlett“The world is great when there is a huge variety of different ways of being and they form some complex, uncontrollable network. That we’re all enmeshed together and we’re all playing different parts…” - Richard D. BartlettEpisode Links

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All Power To The Imagination #4 | Richard Barlett on Organizing and Metamodernism

Non Serviam Media

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2020 70:09

Frank interviews Enspiral co-founder Richard Barlett on decentralized organizing, the primacy of experience, metamodernism, the failings of postmodernism, and radical alternatives. Organizing beyond organizations: Good news stories from Spain and Taiwan - https://c4ss.org/content/50824 Rethinking Humanity, Rethinkx - https://www.rethinkx.com/humanity The Culture - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cul... The Listening Society - https://www.amazon.com/Listening-Soci... Lumio - https://www.loomio.org/ Scuttlebutt - https://planetary.social/ Walkaway, Cory Doctorow - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkawa...) How to change the Course of Human History, David Graeber and David Wengrow - https://www.eurozine.com/change-cours... Enspiral network - https://enspiral.com/ OODA loop - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop --- Thanks for watching! Please like, comment, subscribe, and share! --- Listen to the Non Serviam Podcast on your favorite podcast platform! iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, Soundcloud, and more. If you'd like to see more anarchist and anti-authoritarian interviews, please consider supporting this project financially by becoming a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/nonserviammedia Follow us on Instagram @nonserviammedia View our full, downloadable catalog online at https://nonserviam.media/

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Horizontal Organisation: Ants at Enspiral #changemakers

Onions Talk: Change making through Socially Engaged Practices

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 27, 2020 58:29

enspiral.com / betterworktogether.co How can we work differently? How can we work horizontally without hierarchies? How can we support each other to create change? This episode is about Enspiral and the power of networks. Enspiral started with a vision to support more people to spend their lives working to solve the greatest challenges of our time. It is a network of groups and people, a DIY collective of social enterprises, ventures, and individuals working collaboratively across the world while fulfilling their purpose. Enspiral is now something like a living laboratory that has been testing ways of working together with trust and respect to share money, information and control as openly as possible for nearly a decade. As a community they've supported hundreds of people to launch and build all sorts of initiatives, projects and world-changing ventures. Ants Cabraal has been working inside, alongside, around, on, under and through various parts of Enspiral since 2012. He has a background in marketing and creative production and now most of his work involves helping startup teams find their feet and grow. He loves to turn thinking and feeling into words that create action. Follow his work at: whiskeyfixstudios.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/onionstalk/support

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#14: Rich Bartlett — Micro-solidarity, Growing Up and Reconditioning Our Relational Inheritance

Spaces Between with Al Jeffery

Play Episode Play 30 sec Highlight Listen Later Aug 12, 2020 74:48

In a world where it can seem we have lost touch with what it means to be together, to live, work, and grow in community, practices to remember and recondition our relational patterns seem crucial. Rich is a Co-Founder of Enspiral, The Hum, and a brilliant thinker and facilitator when it comes to re-thinking social systems, designing spaces for meaningful culture, and practical ways to re-build community from the ground up. Join us as we explore questions of building "micro-solidarity,” circles of practice, and emotional intimacy for “growing up together.” We touch on some of the intrapersonal threads that need to be acknowledged if we are to re-pattern our ways-of-being-together for community, as well as what we might learn from feminism and grassroots activist movements when it comes to community resiliency. This is a good’n - grab a tea and join us for a hope-giving conversation. --Show-notes and links hereConnect with me on InstagramConnect with me on FacebookMusic by RhoneSupport the show (https://aljeffery.com/podcast/)

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Decentralised Organisations with Richard Bartlett

Talk of Today

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 26, 2020 80:58

In this episode of Talk of Today we're joined by Richard Bartlett. Richard is an expert in bringing people together and catalysing decentralised forms of organising. He's co founder of Enspiral (Enspiral.com) - a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work. He's currently working on a project called Microsolidarity (microsolidarity.cc) that's focused on building and sharing a collection of methodologies for community building, answering the questions of How can we build small scale, high trust, mutually developmental groups. I'm a huge fan of Richards work and the joy he seems to exhibit in living and interacting with people. I first came across his work on twitter — I highly recommend following him. For show notes and links to Richard's work and other things discussed in our conversation, head to my website website (samhbarton.com) . I'm excited to share this conversation with you all. Our ability to tackle the grand global challenges we face ahead is dependent upon us, all of us, coming together in the places we call home, and taking action. Links The Hum (https://www.thehum.org) Enspiral (https://enspiral.com/) Microsolidarity (microsolidarity.cc) Richard's Website (http://richdecibels.com/) Richard's Twitter (https://twitter.com/RichDecibels) Richards newsletter (https://richdecibels.substack.com/) Rich's Book: Patterns for Decentralised Organising (https://leanpub.com/patterns-for-decentralised-organising/) Support this podcastSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations

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033 Richard D. Bartlett – Small Social Experiments and Macro-Scale Social Transformation

State of Emergence

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2020 100:35

Social entrepreneur and community innovator Richard D. Bartlett joins Terry to explore the dynamics, challenges and potentials of conscious communities, and the possibility for small-scale social experiments of “micro-solidarity” to scale in a way that meets our global challenges. Richard D. Bartlett is on a mission to help catalyze a more compassionate, intelligent, more co-creative way of working together. In 2012, he co-founded Loomio, a digital tool for deliberation and decision-making in groups, and in 2016, he co-founded The Hum, which advises organizations without managers. Rich is also a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral — a network of people supporting each other for doing meaningful work — and his most recent project is called Microsolidarity, a mutual aid community of peer-to-peer support for people working on personal development. He also writes about how we work together, at any scale, from relationships to organizations to social change. You can follow his insights on Twitter, read his articles on Medium, and access his first book Patterns for Decentralised Organising online (though it’s not finished). Here are some of the questions Richard and Terry discuss in the episode: How might “collective intelligence” or “democracy” processes pervade societies, so that small conversations can more easily become beneficial initiatives? Which community processes and dynamics are most effective in fostering mutual support, shared understanding, and practical action? How might traditional institutions evolve from dominator relationships to partnership relationships? Can our innovative prototypes scale and influence global organizations? For more information on Richard D. Bartlett and Terry Patten, check out the following resources: Rich's new project Microsolidarity: https://microsolidarity.cc/ Rich's book, Patterns for Decentralized Organizing: https://leanpub.com/patterns-for-decentralised-organising/ Enspiral: http://enspiral.com/ Loomio: http://loomio.org/ The Hum: http://thehum.org/ Rich on Twitter: http://twitter.com/richdecibels Rich on Medium: https://medium.com/@richdecibels Terry Patten's website: https://www.terrypatten.com/ Learn more and join our social experiment at A New Republic of the Heart, visit BeingofBenefit.com. Visit BeingofBenefit.com Join Our Community of Listeners and Supporters If you haven’t yet, we welcome you to join us as a monthly contributor here and become part of our community of listeners dedicated to uplifting our public discourse.

Virtual vs Physical Relationships - Rich Bartlett

Ari in the Air

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020 88:58

Rich, co-founder of The Hum (a non-heirarchical business consultancy), is back to talk about the differences, both positive and negative, with virtual and physical relationships. We talk about how geographical location affects his work at Enspiral and how a 'home base' can alter our feelings. We talk about a ton of stuff in this episode, so tune in and enjoy. Here’s some of Rich's articles that we talk about. You can find him on Medium. https://medium.com/@richdecibels https://medium.com/microsolidarity/how-to-weave-social-fabric-9385a841559f Please support this show by sharing, subscribing and by leaving a review! It helps! Support by donating! 100% listener supported show. www.paypal.me/ariintheair Thanks so much for your time and insight Rich! Really fun interview and some really great things to think about. From Loomio's website about Rich "I have a background in open source hardware (as Rich Decibels) and creative community organising (with Concerned Citizens Collective). I got swept up in the Occupy movement when it arrived in Wellington in 2011. I’ve always been pretty concerned about the so-called ‘wicked problems’ facing society: runaway climate change, resource depletion, ecosystem collapse, and the pervading sense of alienation throughout society… This Occupy experience totally transformed my view on all that – it was the first time I’ve ever really had any hope for the future. My participation in that movement lead me to believe that there’s no problem that can’t be solved by an engaged community of empathetic equals. Occupy totally changed my life, and my hope is that Loomio can make that transformative experience much more sustainable, and accessible to millions of other people."

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Courage & Cooperation - Rich Bartlett

Ari in the Air

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2020 71:42

In this episode, Rich, the co-creator of Enspiral and Loomio(complex collaborative systems) and I talk about about why people have such a hard time working together, from how we were raised, our cultures, our biases, all the way to how we think of ourselves. We talk about how systems change, from the individual then outward. We talk about non-hierarchical organizations, non-violence, small groups and the importance of group size, the dunbar number, microsolidarity, sovereignty, networks of trust and love, courage-how we get it and how we give it. We talk about some problems in the United States, scalability of tight night groups, the obsession of scalability, about rhythms instead of scheduling, practicing partner relationships, accepting all the parts of ourselves, self love and shadow work and so much more. Please support this show by sharing, subscribing and by leaving a review! It helps! Support by donating! 100% listener supported show. www.paypal.me/ariintheair Thanks for listening, thanks for sharing, thanks for donating! Thanks so much for your time and insight Rich! Really fun interview and some really great things to think about. Here’s some of his articles that we talk about, you can find him on Medium. https://medium.com/@richdecibels https://medium.com/microsolidarity/how-to-weave-social-fabric-9385a841559f Rich is a bearded kiwi. He’s a self-described nerd. He has been living in Italy and has been in full lock-down mode for more than 3 weeks. He says he's going a bit crazy, but you can’t tell from this conversation. He has created a number of really cool companies/projects/systems, the line between these terms blurs around this guy in a really nice way, and he has written some very astute articles about creating more resilience and support in small groups. I’d say he’s championing for growing up, for emotional maturity and intelligence. He’s championing inclusion, efficiency, encouragement and equality at a level of thoughtfulness that is exceedingly rare. He’s championing a world where we all support each other to do more meaningful work.

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Onwrd Ep. 28 - On How We Work with John Gieryn of Enspiral Network

Onwrd

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2020 44:18

Great work places inspire hope, foment change and are fertile grounds for creative thinking. Great work places and organizations are too far and few in between. Enspiral is changing that by ensuring their clients and partners are practicing effective patterns of collaboration. As we start this next decade, societies around the world seem to be at an inflection point, and new solutions are needed to the new challenges we face. Old tools and tricks are no longer sufficient. That is why Enspiral, a network of people working on stuff that matters, with the mission to support people to do the same, strives to make work more humane, more collaborative and more sustainable. By approaching our work, our passions and one another in novel ways, new solutions can be uncovered, new possibilities unleashed and new patterns created. In this episode, I chat with John Gieryn, Catalyst at Enspiral to explore the what, how and why of the work of Enspiral. Learn more: Website - https://enspiral.com/ Twitter - @enspiral / @CoopChange LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/enspiral/

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#10 Susan Basterfield: decentralized team structures and participatory decision-making

ENLIVEN, with Andrew Skotzko

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 11, 2020 86:04

Show notesHow Susan went bungee jumping... and met her husband [0:03:42]What is Enspiral? [0:08:39]What are the different types of roles and engagement within the Enspiral network? [0:10:45]"What we really are at Enspiral is healthy power relationships and practice" [0:17:41]How do things get done in Enspiral? [0:18:02]The greatest gift Enspiral gave itself: culture first, THEN tools [0:19:37]How their decentralized governance tools (Loomio & CoBudget) emerged [0:20:03]How should we think about consensus? [0:24:18]"The most important thing about decision making is deciding how you want to decide, making that transparent, and then also deciding what actually does a real block mean?" [0:25:11]Scaffolding vs frameworks [0:27:21]How does a new venture get set up in Enspiral? [0:29:41]Do ventures have to contribute X% of their profits to the foundation? [0:34:52]How is Enspiral building a deliberately developmental culture? [0:36:20]"If we want to change the possibility for the future, we need to be prepared to come together in configurations and groups of people we've maybe never met before, to do things we've never done before. Organizations provide all of the fodder for us to do our ongoing development, we just don't frame it that way." [0:38:46]How learning & development (L&D) thinking needs to evolve [0:43:28]"We need to create the conditions for us to experiment, to play, to fail, to notice, to reflect." [0:48:46]Why is this an idea whose time has come? [0:50:02]The power of using a check-in to start meetings [0:53:59]Are these ideas that can be added to an existing organization? Or do you need a clean slate? [0:57:09]"Nobody leads all of the time, everybody leads some of the time. Followership is as important a gift as leadership." [0:59:54]Why is it worth it to transition to this way of working? [1:01:53]"You might never change the system, but if you can change the experience for yourself and your comrades, that's a great outcome too." [1:03:58]How can product leaders start implementing this? [1:05:23]How do we make it safe to try practices like this, if it doesn't feel that way? [1:13:51]Why is most feedback unhelpful? [1:20:52]People, books, companies, resources etc mentioned in episodeSusan Basterfield (@OpenToGrow)GreaterThanEnspiral FoundationBetter Work Together (Susan's book)Better Work Together AcademyLoomio - tool for collective decision makingCoBudget - tool for participatory budgetingCompuServeMichael Schenker - UFO - Strangers in the Night (album)Susan's interview on Team Human podcast with Douglas RushkoffDeliberately Developmental Organizations (DDO)Reinventing Organizations - Frederic LalouxTeal OrganizationsSelf-managementWholenessEvolutionary purposeBryan Ungard - Operationalizing LoveSeth Godin's altMBALiberating structures & appPyxis agile consultancy (Montreal/Paris)Decurion Climate-KICConsensysDAOstackBrené BrownYash Papers (Chuk brand) in India - styrofoam & compostable tablewareCut the bullshit: organizations with no hierarchy don’t exist - Francesca PickBooksBetter Work TogetherReinventing OrganizationsAn Everyone CultureGoing Horizontal - Samantha SladeBrave New Work

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Nati and john talking about pods at Enspiral

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2019 32:07

More info at http://microsolidarity.cc/crewing and http://handbook.enspiral.com/guides/pods.html

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Episode 77: en(gender)ed Reflections on feminist practices in business

en(gender)ed

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2019 40:29

In this "Reflections" episode,Teri and Michael reflect back on episodes on feminist practices in business: Episodes 72 & 73: CV Harquail on her book “Feminism–A Key Idea for Business and Society,” Episode 74: Vanessa Dawson of the Vinetta Project on investing in female tech founders, Episodes 75 & 76: Susan Basterfield and Gina Stevens-Rembe on Enspiral and its feminist business ecosystem. Teri and Michael co-host the en(gender)ed reflections episodes which serve to help curate a series of past episodes, usually around a specific theme. We hope these episodes help listeners coming in at that point of the podcast identify particular episodes and themes that they may want to explore. During our reflection, we talked about these additional resources: An article on "How the US employee benefits compares to Europe's" "What caused the decline of unions in America?" The practice of "land acknowledgement" shared in Episode 72. Radiolab's "Dolly Parton's America" series Rush Limbaugh's coining of the term "feminazi" to silence women and contribute to a decades long assault on discrediting women's efforts for equality and women's rights The Netflix documentary on the history of women's reproductive rights called "Reversing Roe" Senator Elizabeth Warren's proposed wealth tax plan and calculator The video Michael referenced with the wealthy man balking at the idea of a wealth tax The high rates of domestic abuse within the law enforcement profession --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

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Episode 76: Susan Basterfield and Gina Stevens-Rembe

en(gender)ed

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2019 42:30

On today's episode, our guests are Susan Basterfield and Gina Stevens-Rembe, collaborators in the Enspiral Network, a collective of social enterprises, ventures, and individuals working collaboratively across the world to support people who want to spend their lives changing the world. Enspiral builds collaborative tools and processes to facilitate the sharing of money through participatory budgets, the sharing of control through collaborative decision-making, and the sharing of information through their Handbook of agreements and guidelines. Aside from her role as Enspiral's Foundation Director, Susan also co-founded Greaterthan, a professional training and coaching organization at the forefront of decentralized, self-managed, and participatory work. Gina's passion for equity and justice led her to her current role as Operations Lead of Enspiral's Developer's Academy. We speak to Susan and Gina today about the work they do, the vision they bring, and how they are leveraging both to transform the way we think and go about work. Part 2 of our conversation continues our discussion with Susan and Gina and delves into the examples of initiatives and ventures within the Enspiral Network and how they are building cultures that support agency, autonomy, and self-organization. During our conversation, Susan, Gina, and I referenced the following resources and topics: The network's book, "Better Work Together" "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" by Jo Freeman The Enspiral and Loomio Cooperative Handbooks, Software Mill's Handbook for New Employees A company in the US called Ouishare questioning and experimenting with social models based on collaboration, openness and fairness Mingyur Rinpoche's book, "The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness" and his Tergar meditation community who is featured in the recent Netflix special, "The Mind, Explained" Frederic Laloux's "Reinventing Organizations" --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

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Episode 75: Susan Basterfield and Gina Stevens-Rembe

en(gender)ed

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2019 43:04

On today's episode, our guests are Susan Basterfield and Gina Stevens-Rembe, collaborators in the Enspiral Network, a collective of social enterprises, ventures, and individuals working collaboratively across the world to support people who want to spend their lives changing the world. Enspiral builds collaborative tools and processes to facilitate the sharing of money through participatory budgets, the sharing of control through collaborative decision-making, and the sharing of information through their Handbook of agreements and guidelines. Aside from her role as Enspiral's Foundation Director, Susan also co-founded Greaterthan, a professional training and coaching organization at the forefront of decentralized, self-managed, and participatory work. Gina's passion for equity and justice led her to her current role as Operations Lead of Enspiral's Developer's Academy. We speak to Susan and Gina today about the work they do, the vision they bring, and how they are leveraging both to transform the way we think and go about work. During our conversation, Susan, Gina, and I referenced the following resources and topics: The concept of "emotional labor" Loomio, an open-source collaboration platform for collective decision-making, part of the Enspiral network The "Parihaka" movement of non-violent resistance The "Treaty of Waitangi" Jo Freeman's "Tyranny of Structurelessness" The network's book, "Better Work Together" --- Thanks for tuning in to the en(gender)ed podcast! Be sure to check out our en(gender)ed site and follow our blog on Medium. Consider donating because your support is what makes this work sustainable. Please also connect with us on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Don't forget to subscribe to the show!

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Building organisations that work for people with Phoebe Tickell

The Happy Startup School

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2019 77:12

Phoebe is one of those true multipotentialite with a finger in many pies. She's involved in many projects including being a member of the social change freelancer network Enspiral. She's on a mission to understand what it means to be human in this technological age and sees life as an experiment with no 'wrong' answer. She believes that we could be offering a far richer, more holistic and innovative education to our young people and that we need to re-think business and work, and personal development. I found this to be a rich and at some points technical conversation but if you want to build a company but not use the outmoded hierarchical templates of the past then I recommend you have a listen. You'll get some interesting insights and questions to ask yourself about the horizontal organisation you want to build. Seven questions to ask yourself if you're interested in building a horizontal organisation (from Going Horizontal): Autonomy- how are you going to give people in your organisation autonomy? Purpose- what is the purpose of the company and how do you make it explicit in every interaction within the organisation? Meetings- how do you host, organise and manage meetings so that the right people are involved and everyone knows and accepts their role? Transparency- how will you create a culture of openess and fairness so that everyone has access to the necessary information so that they don't feel manipulated? How will you encourage this? Decision Making- have you consciously chosen the models of decision making that are applicable to the decision at hand? Does everyone understand how this model works? Learning and Development- how do you empower people to take responsibility for their own learning and personal development? How do you make people feel accountable for their choices of what form that learning takes? Conflict and Relationships- which approaches and rituals will you put in place to help deal with conflict and foster deeper relationships?

UD Live - STIR to Action Festival 2019 #3: Mental Health and Healthy Work

Utopia Dispatch

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 12, 2019 29:20

In this third episode from the STIR to Action festival, we hear about mental health and the economy, as well as new decentralised, collective ways of working. Sally Zlotowitz, from Psychologists for Social Change tells us about the ways in which the economy invisibly shapes our mental health and what needs to change. Nati Lombardo and John Gieryn talk to us about Enspiral, the collective that is exploring new ways to work that centre on trust, respect, and openness, sharing money, information and control, all while working on things that matter. The STIR to Action Festival: Playground for the New Economy ran in July 2019 and featured a packed programme of thinkers and doers running workshops and giving talks about the new economy. Find out more about their New Economy Programme of training with the link below. Links - Psychologists for Social Change http://www.psychchange.org - Enspiral https://enspiral.com/ - STIR to Action New Economy Programme https://www.stirtoaction.com/workshops

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4: Microsolidarity: How A Cult-Lite Structure Could Lead To Happiness, with Rich Bartlett

Make World

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 10, 2019 53:45

This episode is a loose exploration of Rich's personal and political background, as inputs to the key themes of the Microsolidarity proposal. We discuss his early life in a fundamentalist Christian church in New Zealand, and how leaving this cultish environment actually proved an important lesson in how to move beyond limited or unproductive belief systems. One of the key factors in Rich being able to get out of that church was an early bout of what he terms 'performative agnosticism' -- a deliberate engagement with ideas that may run contrary to one's own. Imagining a world in which God did not exist put Rich on a whole new track, one which determines his path to this day. What could we be gained by taking a similarly open mind towards others' ideas, whether to integrate or jettison them down the road? Could this be healthier than the left's puritanical, so-called 'cancel culture', obsessed with negating anything it dislikes or disagrees with? And what is it that makes some people able to audition 'dangerous' ideas in relative security? Finally, we look at the organization and methods behind Enspiral, the prototype for the microsolidarity proposal. Rich sees producing social change as extremely urgent, given existential threats to our world in the form of ecological disorder, social atomisation, and pervasive loneliness. Could Enspiral, with its 'cult-lite' approach to nurturing and sustaining social connections amongst disparate humans, be a template for a happier, more satisfying existence -- one that could form the basis for a counterculture capable of fighting existential risk?

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Ep. 35 Alanna Irving on leadership, decisions and money in bossless organisations

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2019 54:39

Alanna Irving is a facilitator, entrepreneur and community builder and is the Executive Director of Open Source Collective. We talk about her chapter in the new book Better Work Together about growing distributed leadership, working together in bossless organisations, collaborating with money, and her own journey, including how to run Agile Scrum on your personal relationship. How to follow Alanna: Twitter: @alannairving Resources: Alanna’s website Alanna’s course on Full Circle Leadership on the Better Work Together platform The Better Work Together book Running Agile Scrum on our relationship (Alanna’s blog) Enspiral Loomio - collaborative decision making tool; Cobudget - collaborate budgeting tool

Building organisations that work for people with Phoebe Tickell

The Happy Entrepreneur

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2019 77:12

Phoebe is one of those true multipotentialite with a finger in many pies. She's involved in many projects including being a member of the social change freelancer network Enspiral. She's on a mission to understand what it means to be human in this technological age and sees life as an experiment with no 'wrong' answer. She believes that we could be offering a far richer, more holistic and innovative education to our young people and that we need to re-think business and work, and personal development. I found this to be a rich and at some points technical conversation but if you want to build a company but not use the outmoded hierarchical templates of the past then I recommend you have a listen. You'll get some interesting insights and questions to ask yourself about the horizontal organisation you want to build. Seven questions to ask yourself if you're interested in building a horizontal organisation (from Going Horizontal): Autonomy- how are you going to give people in your organisation autonomy? Purpose- what is the purpose of the company and how do you make it explicit in every interaction within the organisation? Meetings- how do you host, organise and manage meetings so that the right people are involved and everyone knows and accepts their role? Transparency- how will you create a culture of openess and fairness so that everyone has access to the necessary information so that they don't feel manipulated? How will you encourage this? Decision Making- have you consciously chosen the models of decision making that are applicable to the decision at hand? Does everyone understand how this model works? Learning and Development- how do you empower people to take responsibility for their own learning and personal development? How do you make people feel accountable for their choices of what form that learning takes? Conflict and Relationships- which approaches and rituals will you put in place to help deal with conflict and foster deeper relationships?

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Part Two: Lien Truong and Lucas Cullen and the Great Crypto Divide BTC/BCH on Crypto Clothesline Podcast

Crypto Clothesline's Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2019 47:27

In the final instalment of this two part series on the Great Crypto Divide we chat again with Lien Truong of Huobi Australia, and Lucas Cullen: blockchain developer and CTO of Civic Ledger, about the Great Crypto Divide between Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Lightning Network, BSV, Bitcoin ABC and the wars within the crypto community. Lien explains the history of Bitcoin Cash and the subsequent forks leading to SV and ABC while Lucas explains the necessary need for adoption and the fact that the banks are likely laughing at the squabbling crypto community. Both Lien and Lucas agree that whoever will win the great scaling race will need to take a crack at some pretty good marketing if they want to succeed. We also chat with our first-ever guest on the Clothesline, JP Parker, about how to solve the issues within the community. JP discusses with Abheeti the messages from Joshua Vial, founder of Enspiral who talks about 'Escalating the Bandwidth' in order to solve conflict. We also hear from Hayden Otto, voice of Bitcoin Cash in Australia and Executive Editor of CoinSpice, where he emphasises the importance not wasting time on changing people's minds but rather focusing on crypto adoption. This episode is an attempt to shed some light on the ever increasing divide within the crypto community and to perhaps offer some tips on how to resolve the drama. Check out all our interviews on the Crypto Clothesline Podcast HERE.

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Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change

Stephen Reid In Dialogue

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2019 87:19

Audio from the event Psychedelics, Extinction and Social Change with Stephen Reid and Gail Bradbrook (co-founder of Extinction Rebellion) at Conway Hall on Tuesday 15th January 2019. Video with slides at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jttWq4WjY Mentions The Psychedelic Society, Extinction Rebellion, Charles Eisenstein, Alan Watts, Rupert Sheldrake, Metamoderna/Hanzi Freinacht, Frederic Laloux / Reinventing Organizations, Noyanete/Jakon Rate, UK Uncut, New Economics Foundation, Green Party of England and Wales, The Labour Party, 350.org, 38 Degrees, Greenpeace UK, Shambala Festival and Nowhere. Recent inspiration from Daniel Schmachtenberger, Jordan Hall, Bonnitta Roy, Nora Bateson, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Jamie Wheal, Max Borders, Daniel Thorson, Richard Dennis Bartlett, Phoebe Tickell, David Luke, Robin Carhart-Harris, Enspiral, DAOstack, Emerge, Rebel Wisdom, Future Thinkers, Inner Truth, Alter Ego, The Future Is Beautiful, The On Being Project and For the Wild. OLD STORY → NEW STORY Geomechanical → Gaian Sustainable → Regenerative Linear → Nonlinear Complicated → Complex Rivalrous → Antirivalrous Fragile → Antifragile Materialist → Idealist/Animist Postmodern → Metamodern SLIDES https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1t07v3vftAElIcXXqBpiKeqQhwBr8-pqyf_EI5dA7CIk/edit?usp=sharing RECOMMENDED LISTENING/READING http://stephenreid.net/recommended GET CONNECTED The Psychedelic Society Website: http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/ Email signup: http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/sign_up Become a Member: http://psychedelicsociety.org.uk/become-a-member Facebook page: https://facebook.com/psychedelicsuk Facebook groups: Extinction Rebellion @ The Psychedelic Society https://www.facebook.com/groups/347835902441253/ The Psychedelic Society's Homerton space https://www.facebook.com/groups/487893758345691/ The Psychedelic Society discussion group https://www.facebook.com/groups/psychedelicsuk/ Extinction Rebellion (XR) Website/email signup: https://rebellion.earth/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ExtinctionRebellion/ XR Volunteers Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/228044261159153/ Stephen Reid Website/email signup: http://stephenreid.net Facebook: https://facebook.com/stephenreid321

Experimental, multi-disciplinary approaches to systems change and social innovation | Episode 6

In Too Deep

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2019 58:30

We’re joined today by Sam Rye. Sam is a self-described unapologetic generalist who has left his mark on a number of different organizations. Enspiral, Social Labs, Lifehack to name a few. In today’s conversation we’ll touch on a variety of topics. Anything from the role of nature in encouraging greater presence and leading to strategic insight. How to have a more experimental focus and combine systems analysis, strategy, and prototyping. And the need to focus way more than we do on relationships. Let’s dive in.Head to the In Too Deep blog for the full transcript.

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009 - How to use your Inner Critics to your advantage

UNTAPPED - Live Up To Your Potential

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2019 14:23

Do you have "voices" in your head criticizing you, telling you you're not good enough, not smart enough?These damn inner critics, as they're called, are extremely talented at plaguing us everyday.Personally, mine are ruthless, mean and demand a lot of me. I've always battled with their judgements, until recently.Over the weekend, I joined an amazing retreat led by Enspiral, and one particular open space session held by Katy Grennier on understanding our inner critics.⠀It was during this workshop, that I had this big Ah-Ha moment on how to reframe the story I've been telling myself about my own inner critics.After answering a series of questions, I came to my own conclusion that they could be used as a force for good and a whole new way of looking at them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Discussion about Crews at Enspiral Summer Retreat 2019

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2019 71:43

Here's a conversation recorded at the big annual gathering of Enspiral, talking about the very practical side of starting and running Crews. This recording is annotated with lots of links, over here: https://www.microsolidarity.cc/discussing/enspiral-summer-retreat-feb-2019

Anthony Cabraal: Tackling a broken culture of work

RNZ: The Weekend

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2019 23:50

Anthony Cabraal is a member of Enspiral, a collective of businesses and freelancers that aims to support people who want to spend their lives changing the world. He is co-editor of the book Better Work Together, which discusses harnessing the "power of community" to transform businesses. He is interested in helping communities of people approach governance of companies, profits, leadership, staff retention, and other structural issues that make workplaces dysfunctional, in new and innovative ways.

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How #microsolidarity can build small groups that change the world - Interview with Rich and Nati

Alter Ego

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2018 72:20

This is an Interview with Rich Bartlett and Natalia Lombardo, of Loomio and Enspiral, who share their thinking on how small groups can harness the power of emotional and economic #microsolidarity to feel connected and financially secure as they do the often hard and poorly paid work of changing the world. Recently Rich wrote a series of Medium articles packed with brilliant thinking on how small groups can weave together emotional and economic micro solidarity. By creating spaces of belonging and financial security, we build our collective capacity to change the world. In this episode, I interview Rich and his partner Nati who has been instrumental in co-developing these ideas. We unpack the 10,000 word article for those who don't like long reads, and speak with vulnerability about the inner work we've had to do to overcome the engrained individualism that holds groups back. The original article series can be found here: https://medium.com/enspiral-tales/courage-before-hope-a-proposal-to-weave-emotional-and-economic-microsolidarity-87bc81372a09?fbclid=IwAR0TEpOwyImc10bJVUztMiWWtCMmbxZL6ceO1mpeOdVg82c_nlTgpfoTObQ Support us to make more podcasts on Pateron: https://www.patreon.com/alteregonetwork

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Ep. 24 Sarah Houseman on new governance for the Anthropocene

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2018 46:19

Researcher and entrepreneur Sarah Houseman shares insights from her PhD research into new governance systems in not for profit organisations. Looking at the lived experiences and practices of four non-hierarchical NGOs, we explore questions like “How we can see our organisations as systems?” and “How can we participate differently and unlearn dominative behaviours that have previously been rewarded in hierarchical organisations?” (The companies featured in her research are: Friends of the Earth Melbourne, Sustainable Economies Law Centre, The Pachamama Alliance and The Enspiral Foundation.) How to follow Sarah: Twitter: @housemansp More resources: Sarah’s blog Enspiral’s website Friends of the Earth Melbourne’s website Sustainable Economies Law Centre’s website The Pachamama Alliance’s website If you enjoyed this episode, you might enjoy episode 19 with Simon Mont on why changing the structures of our organisations isn’t enough.

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Enspiral: "Better Work Together"

Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2018 74:29

Playing for Team Human today: Susan Basterfield and Anthony Cabraal. Susan and Anthony share the open secrets of bottom-up collaboration as we celebrate the publication of Enspiral’s book, Better Work Together. It's a conversation about the power of working together, building on ideas “good enough to try,” and creating a space where it’s “safe to fail.”Looking for collaborative and participatory ways to create social change? Enspiral has collected and opened up its learnings for all to replicate.Douglas opens with a monologue about moving beyond “master plan” interventions. What does democracy look like on a human scale?If you enjoy this episode, check out Episode 23 with Enspiral teammate Silvia Zuur:https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-23-silvia-zuur/And Episode 41 with Richard Bartlett:https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-41-richard-d-bartlett-there-is-no-enemy-team/You can find Team Human episodes and more from Douglas at Medium.com/@Rushkoff Music Credits: Mike Watt: beak-holding-letter-man , Herkimer Diamonds , and closing music by R.U. Sirius: President Mussolini Makes The Planes Run On Time See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Richard Bartlett - Occupy Wall Street as Bootstrapping Collective Intelligence

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2018 70:56

In this conversation, I speak with Richard Dennis Bartlett. Richard is an author, organizational consultant, and founder of Loomio and The Hum, as well as a member of Enspiral network. He and I share an identity as former participants in Occupy Wall Street, me in NYC and Richard in New Zealand. Together we reflect on whether Occupy Wall Street could be seen as a ‘bootstrapped’ collective intelligence, the rise of the vTaiwan movement and digital governance, and the need to leverage both social and digital technology together to create robust expressions of benevolent collective intelligence. The Hum https://www.thehum.org/ Enspiral www.enspiral.com Loomio http://loomio.org Richard on Medium https://medium.com/@richdecibels --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/emerge/support

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Nathan Schneider "A Place Where It's Easier To Be Good"

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Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2018 72:25

Playing for Team Human today is platform cooperative activist, journalist, and author of Everything for Everyone: The Radical Tradition that Is Shaping the Next Economy, Nathan Schneider.With contemporary examples and historical context, Nathan makes the case that the co-op movement is not mere utopian idealism, but a very real and vital economic shift that is being harnessed for social good. It’s a conversation that embraces the co-op transformation as a path to a more just and equitable society and a more participatory approach to life overall.Douglas opens the show with a reflection on the limits of both our communication technologies and language itself. On Team Human, what matters is not just the content, but the context. Team Human is the “sound of engagement,” the “sound of solidarity.”If you enjoy this show, you might also like these episodes from our archive:Episode 68 on the P2P Foundation “The Commons is the Glue” w/ Stacco Troncoso. https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-68-stacco-troncoso-the-commons-is-the-glue/Episode 03 with Esteban Kelly of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives: https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/episode-03-esteban-kelly-solidarity/Episode 23 with Silvia Zuur of Enspiral: https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-23-silvia-zuur/Episode 07 with Marina Gorbis from the Institute for the Future https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/episode-07-marina-gorbis/Episode 41 Richard D Bartlett from Loomio” https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-41-richard-d-bartlett-there-is-no-enemy-team/For more on Nathan Schneider visit nathanschneider.info.Also mentioned on today’s show: Visit the New Economy Coalition https://neweconomy.net/and the P2P foundation https://p2pfoundation.net/Photo of Nathan by Emily HansenOn this episode you heard Fugazi’s “Foreman’s Dog” in the intro, Herkhimer Diamonds “Xmas Underwater” and our closing music is thanks to Mike Watt. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Bonus Episode: Richard Bartlett on Decentralised Organising

Code Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2018 52:44

Show notes: https://codepodcast.com/posts/2018-09-17-richard-bartlett-on-decentralised-organising/ This is the interview we did with Richard, founder of Enspiral, Loomio and The Hum. We got introduced after our episode on peer-to-peer tech was out. We thought it would great to talk about decentralisation in the social context, and that's what Rich has a lot of experience in. We talk about benefits and challenges of working in an organisation where responsibility, risk and reward are distributed across members. This is not a technical discussion, this is a conversation about how can a group of anarchists work together towards common goal.

The Power of Community

Happiness at Work

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2018 36:18

What is so important about community in business? Kate Beecroft, the “doer” at Enspiral, talks community, money, transparency and bibliotherapists. For more, visit www.management30.com.

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Josh Forde – Rabid about software and social good

Access Granted NZ

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2018 41:17

Josh Forde (@JoshForde) co-founder of Rabid Technologies the tech company behind many of New Zealand's online companies such as PledgeMe. Raj and Josh talk a little about what they do but focus more on where they are taking the company, the challenges within (re)focusing a fairly well established company. Josh explains how they have grown out of their Enspiral roots and are now looking at supporting "social good" using the skills and experiences they have at their fingertips.They also discuss the growth of Rabid, it's future and how to expand outside of New Zealand - everyone wants to do this so listen and learn as to how Rabid are tackling this particular challenge.------------------------------------------------------Access Granted podcast featuring Mike Riversdale, Raj Khushal, Pascale Hyboud-Peron, Vaughan Rowsell and others sharing the NZ people from tech, social media, startups and upstartsAll our past shows are on our websitehttps://www.accessgranted.nzFollow and Like us on:https://twitter.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://facebook.com/AccessGrantedNZhttps://linkedin.com/company/access-granted-podcastSubscribe to the show however you want:https://www.accessgranted.nz/subscribe/

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Ep. 2 Susan Basterfield from Enspiral on self-management

Permission to Speak - Leadership & Management Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2017 34:17

Susan Basterfield is a Foundation Catalyst and Ambassador within the self-managing collective Enspiral and helps individuals and organisations worldwide experiment with new ways of working and being. She is also co-author of Reinventing Startups and has developed a a five-week immersive online programme called Practical Self-Management Intensive. We talk about self-management and learning through doing. How to follow Susan: Twitter: @opentogrow Blog: https://medium.com/@opentogrow Website: http://opentogrow.co.nz/ Book of the week: “An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organisation” by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey Other resources: Susan's latest Practical Self-Management Intensive course Here’s the website for Loomio, the collaborative decision-making tool Susan mentions they use in the self-management intensive Susan's blog about Enspiral's organisational refactor Here’s Jo Freeman’s piece on The Tyranny of Structurelessness The quote I mentioned (“Relationship work... is one of our evolutionary assignments”) comes from the book “Everything is Workable: A Zen Approach to Conflict Resolution” by Diane Musho Hamilton To learn more about Enspiral and how their Catalyst working group is set up, check out the Enspiral Handbook

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Episode #33 - Rich Bartlett on Self-Managed Organizations - Permission to Speak - Leadership Podcast - Interview with Kelly Vandever

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2017 54:41

Permission to Speak Podcast. Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever. Episode #33 - Rich Bartlett. Permission to Speak is the video blog and podcast that loiters at the intersections of leaders who want their people to speak up, technology that facilitates connections, and results that serve an organization’s higher purpose. Topics covered in this episode include: - Giving people a voice, particularly in decisions that affect them - Occupy Movement - Imagine what a better society could look like - Consensus decision making - Collective intelligence - Enspiral - Loomio started as a decision-making tool for activists - Soon city governments, companies and NGOs started asking about using Loomio for decision making - Example of the curmudgeon who would have taken up a ton of time at city meeting, but instead of while using Loomio, actually felt listened to and it made a difference in how he was listened to, and how he contributed - Facilitator role in these decision groups - Go to Loomio.school for resources for facilitators and others in the decision-making process and using Loomio - The tool can be slightly confrontational because anyone can start a discussion, anyone can start a proposal, everyone is entitled to a vote - Intentionally constructing a non-hierarchical organization - Principles at Loomio: (1) Loomio exists to maximize the positive social impact we can have and to do that, they have to be a financially independent, thriving organization and (2) We’re a democracy tool so we can’t exclude people who don’t have money - Loomio is a social enterprise - How all of Loomio has fired themselves - Googles research on best teams - The importance of psychological safety - Equal distribution of turn taking leads to high performing teams - Care about the thing we’re working on and we care about each other and we’re considerate about the way we communicate - Every 6 months Loomio has a retreat, longer they’ve done them, the less work and more bonding - Seeing people as a holistic person - Regular retrospectives, relieving tensions frequently rather than letting it build up - Loomio uses an agile coach - Looking for local partners to connect with Loomio and do workshops on self-managed organizations Questions Answered: - How can we create self-managed organizations? - What happens if we bring our whole self to work? - How do self-managed organizations work? - How does work get done when there are no bosses? - Is there any decision-making software I can use for people spread out geographically? - What do you do when there isn’t enough funding? - How do you relieve tensions that build up on a team?

Ep. 23 Silvia Zuur “Progress Through Collaboration”

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Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2017 50:25

Playing for Team Human today is Silvia Zuur. In 2012, Zuur founded Chalkle to reignite adult education in New Zealand. Today, Zuur serves as a director at Enspiral, a social impact network that builds community driven solutions for a diverse set of issues including education, funding, and cooperative organizing. Enspiral is famously home to Loomio, a cooperative founded 2012 to create more effective tools for collaborative decision-making. Zuur joins Douglas Rushkoff to talk about the value of open, people-focused organizing strategies and her efforts to facilitate sustainable solutions for positive social change.Enspiral offers a number of resources from accounting strategies, metrics, apps, volunteer resources, and decision making tools on their ventures page.Visit handbook.enspiral.com for a model on how Enspiral has structured their business. Enspiral also relates the details of both their successes and struggles on their blog, blog.enspiral.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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