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A framework for the self-organization of our community's social system

We are here, in Evolutionary Nexus, because life calls us to be here. We don't know exactly why. We lean into the middle, attentively listening to the meaning emerging from our conversations in-person, in the forums, by email, skype, IRC, synch room, etc.

The awakening social field wants to now itself and has only us to provide it with self-awareness. Conversing with it, as we talk with one another, and reporting back to the community what we hear, are two practices that we need to improve and spread throughout the Evolutionary Nexus ecosystem.

Here are some questions that my antenna picked up in various conversations, recently:

1. Who are we? What are we members/contributors of?
What visions of the future inspire us?

2. How to best organize what we know together, so that it can be available to any of us, members and guests alike, anytime, from anywhere?

3. How to connect and configure our various technologies so that they can fully support the expanding nervous system of our social body – our connected and intertwining conversations?

4. How shall we fund the cost of the rapid scaling up that will be required when we open the doors so widely that Evolutionary Nexus can realize its full potential in service to the evolutionary movement?

Those four questions are part of four different and interdependent dynamics that I name as:

Social
Learning
Technology
Business

The purpose of the suggested framework is to enable us to concurrently attend all four dynamics, which is a pivotal condition of our community's sustainable growth.

To that end, those who feel called to support our collective sustainability and thriving, will need to bring those four dynamics and their interrelatedness into the focus of their shared attention.

I will lean more  into what actually that 4-fold dynamics is asking from us now, and will share relevant information, if you tell me that you want to be in this "framework for self-organization" conversation and, which of the four dynamics attracts you the most.

Submitted by George Por on February 11, 2006 - 19:27.

Four dynamics?

Submitted by Halim Dunsky on February 14, 2006 - 07:07.

I wonder if it's useful to consider learning as a separate dynamic, since in my view it describes the living emergence in all the other areas. None of the other dynamics is evolutionary if there is no learning!

I see a relatively large area where social and technology dynamics must be considered together to be really interesting.  At least, the technological without the social is less interesting to me. And the social without the technological encompasses huge areas of our humanity, but is that where the Nexus project lives?

I also think business deserves more attention than it has gotten, but I wonder if it's the right framing for our need to find a way to do this work while we manage to pay the bills. (Or if that's even what you mean to refer to here.) We have the for-profit and the not-for-profit and the social credit and the hybrid or social enterprise models to start with. We have the need to restrain the destructive mindlessness of business while retaining and redirecting its ability to mobilize huge amounts of creative action.

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