2023-01-04

2023-01-04

Present: ../../people/rufuspollock, ../../people/nathen-fitchen

notes/projects/life-itself-v3

Made two important choices re notes/projects/life-itself-v3

  • Go for School of Life onto-flavored
  • "Conscious coliving and communities" for initial campaign

Go for School of Life onto-flavored

  • It is more attractive to more people (vs e.g. lay awakening)
  • It obviously is part of creating a "wiser, weller world"
  • Yet it is a natural "one-level down" (i.e. more specific) - and we want more specific
  • Whilst broader than other options it is still distinctive and specific
  • other items nest naturally within it e.g. critical point relates to transforming society, lay awakening is for people to think/realize that off-the-charts happiness can come from awakening …
  • we can focus down for initial campaigns and effort

Conscious coliving and communities for initial campaign

  • Conscious coliving is distinctive and builds on several existing domains/tends
    • conscious coliving means: living in together/"community" (loose or formal) and and active inner development and collective practices [and awareness of impact on other's and the planet]
    • coliving
    • ecovillages
    • intentional communities
    • mindfulness and spirituality
    • loneliness and community
  • Having a single, more specific topic is a good idea
    • brings focus and clarity for team
    • ditto for wider audience
  • This is a good topic
    • Topic is concrete, "real" and important
      • important as relates to something important in people's live (where, how and with whom i live)
    • There is an audience for conscious coliving
      • Interest and lessons across the spectrum: from hard-core intentional community to a student shared house
      • ic.org and other sites show continued interest in intentional community
      • Growing interest in mindfulness, spirituality etc add that dimension
    • Topic is attractive
      • Personal is stronger than societal
      • Clear audience interested in conscious coliving (witness applications)
      • Topic is of interest to our core audience
        • e.g. people have come to coliving stuff
        • coliving connects with community more generally and even with ecology (e.g. ecovillages) which were 2 highly mentioned topics in survey
    • Topic Personal is distintive in "our space" (to an extent)
    • topic connects both "down" and "up" to key ideas
      • "down" to e.g. integral multi-dim stage theory
      • "up" to societal transformation e.g. we need to learn to live/work together (culturally, ecologically etc)
  • We can "execute"
    • We have relevant experience, knowledge and practical expertise
      • Have run hubs for 5y
      • Have researched coliving projects for 20y with 5-10y of intensive effort
    • We have existing content and can imagine good new content (see below)
    • We have capacity on marketing etc
  • Concrete application of the "big ideas" (e.g. stage theory, spirituality etc)
  • Connects with and has synergires with other activities Life Itself is doing
    • Connects with Praxis Hub
      • Attracting people to come to residencies
      • Can learn from residencies
    • Connects with research interest of team
      • Marc and Liubov explicitly interested
      • Rufus interested
  • Advances/explores key areas of our larger strategic objective of a wiser, weller world
    • (we believe) Coliving as a practice likely plays a key role in deeper transformation personally and collectively
  • We can make this financially sustainable
    • We can create masterclasses (e.g. we know experts like Rich B, Karl etc)
    • Coliving Counselling (shared housing therapy)

Blog brainstorm

  • Why do communities become cults?
    • Where did Osho go wrong?
  • The pros and cons of conscious coliving
  • Why living in community might be the answer to our problems
  • What is conscious coliving (DONE)
  • Do you have to live in an ecovillage to live in community?
  • How do you make living with other people more joyful?
  • Where can you try living in community?
    • Try before you buy: maybe you're fed up the flat-box in the big city and dream of X … but maybe you want to try before you buy
  • Is conscious coliving for you? (quiz?)
  • What is living in community hard … and the best thing you can ever do
  • Conflict resolution in coliving situations
  • Case studies: Tamera, Zegg, Findhorn, Auroville, …
  • How do you making living in community easier?
  • Non-violent communication and living with others
  • Conscious coliving with kids
  • Are cults always bad?
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