The Connectathon
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24 Hours for Humanity
This is an information page for the 24 hour proof-of-concept event we are organising with ecocivilisation.eu on September 22, 2022. Below you will find a brief introduction to the various hours and relevant links for individual sign up.
Before we start...
Create a profile and join the circle
To assist with the connecting, which is the purpose of the Connectathon, after all, we will be testing an alfa (i.e. very early) version on co:do. Everyone joining in the Connectathon, be it as a host, speaker or participant, is invited to create a profile and say a few words about themselves.
In order to create a profile on co:do you will need to fill out this form, after which you will be redirected to our proof-of-concept site.
Once you have a profile, join the Connectathon 22 circle and sign up for the events you might want to be part of or join a circle that interests you.
On co:do you can at present read a bit about the other the other participants and the circles they have created and see where they are in the world.
If you'd like help us develop co:do, don't hesitate to reach out! You can even fill out your details in this form and we will contact you in person after the Connectathon.
Thanks!
The Connectathon team
Pre event mingle! 13 UTC Thursday 22 September
As a pre-event, Regeneration Pollination will be hosting a meet and greet before the official start of the Connectathon. We'll be mixing group talks with random one-on-one sessions in break out rooms. It's great fun and a great opportunity to connect with other participants. Which is the whole point of the Connectathon after all!
Your host will be Lauren Minis from Regeneration Pollination.
If you enjoy this session, Regeneration Pollination will be hosting a regular session that coincides with the Connectathon hour 20, 9 UTC to 10:30 UTC. You can pre-register for that here.
Hour One, 14 UTC, Thursday 22 September
Opening Ceremony
Our opening ceremony, during which we will present the purpose and goals of the Connectathon as well as the tools we will be using.
Your hosts will be Violeta Bulc, Alexander Laszlo and Tim Olsson
Please use the link below to sign up, not just for the opening ceremony but if you plan to be part of any hour of the event!
Thanks!
The Connectathon team
Hour Two, 15 UTC
We hold space for all of us to come together to intercede on behalf of our ancestors.
We will ask for forgiveness for any role they may have played in contributing negatively to our evolution.
We will forgive those who have enslaved us, murdered us and stole our land. But we will also ask for restoration from those who are able to do so.
We will acknowledge the ancient wisdoms our ancestors have shared with us and commit to remembering those wisdoms as part of our shared human knowledge.
Come and join us for a sacred moment that we will celebrate together with beautiful indigenous music, artistry and song from around the world.
Hour Three, 16 UTC
Networked Autonomous Organisms (NAOs)
Networked Autonomous Organisms (NAOs) are autonomous organizations embedded with networked decision-making. They are network co-operatives, self-owning, self-governing trust networks. They are a necessary condition for improving our capacity for collective sensemaking and coordination. They overlap, interoperate, and federate. They grow naturally by invitation, creating chains of accountability among all participants. Links in the network can be used as domain-specific delegation for collective decisioning via liquid democracy. They dovetail well with DAOs and Web3, but work without them.
This session is hosted by Brad dGraf with Charles Bass.
Hour Four, 17 UTC
Solutions for a Regenerative Economy
In this session we will explore a few novel ideas on how to create and share wealth in a way that supports and build the commons instead of exploiting and extracting from them. The two systems we will explore are the Altruistic Wallet and the Appreciation Sharing Holons.
The session will in part consist of brief presentations, in part be a panel discussion and in part a Q&A.
The intended outcome is to create a circle focussed on bringing together a number of practical projects on the systemic level to see if we can co-create an ecosystem to experiment within.
The session is hosted by Tim Olsson of Social Systems Lab and Roberto Valenti of Liminal Village.
Ancient Future Wisdom - Africa session
In this session we will begin to explore the connection between indigenous knowledge and our future civilisation.
This is the first of six dialogues across various time zones and will allow participants from all around the world to share their indigenous knowledge and wisdom about leadership and decision-making structures, uncovering their underlying structures and embedded messages.
The session is hosted by Eleftheria Kakambouras and the Ecocivilisation movement.
The Regenerative Development Goals
The Regenerative Development Goals, RDGs
Sharing and discussing proposals for Regenerative Development Goals.
The session will be a panel discussion hosted by Robert Schram and Hack Humanity.
Gaianet Community : Growing the roots of a New Earth
GaiaNet will lead us in a session designed to connect and unite heart-driven individuals and projects in the co-creation of a New Earth. To gather the visionaries, changemakers and futurists who together can help humanity transition to the next step in evolution.
This session will be hosted by Bart Hoorweg and GaiaNet.
Bloom Network : Global Community of Regenerative Culture makers
Introduction text pending..
Hosted by Meg Rivers and Bloom Network.
Ancient Future Wisdom - Americas session
In this session we will continue to explore the connection between indigenous knowledge and our future civilisation.
The Americas are rich and diverse in wisdom of the ages. This session will feature generational diversity, racial and ethnic richness, gender balance, and an opportunity for full-spectrum humaning! What does indigenous wisdom from across the Americas have to gift us for the generation of the future? Join us as we explore Ancient Future Wisdom from the Americas, together!!
Ancient Future Wisdom - Far East Asia session
In this session we will continue to explore the connection between indigenous knowledge and our future civilisation.
This is the third of six dialogues across various time zones will allow participants from all around the world to share their indigenous knowledge and wisdom about leadership and decision-making structures, uncovering their underlying structures and embedded messages.
The session is hosted by Yuko Kodo and the Ecocivilisation movement.
Hour Eleven, 24 UTC
Politics of Being
Thomas Legrand will present his book “Politics of Being. Wisdom and Science for a New Development Paradigm” in which he advocates to reorient the development of our societies from “being” to “having”. He will present the rationale for that, an integrative framework including all relevant claims and initiatives, and concrete, actionable policy agendas in many sectors.
This space is an invitation to co-create the new development paradigm we need: one that is focused on “being” instead of “having”.
Your hosts will be Thomas Legrand and you can read more about the politics of being here.
Equinox Meditation
In this session we will connect minds across the globe in mediation, led by Suzie Jenkins.
Hour Thirteen, 02 UTC
Regen Alliance : Transition Hubs
Information pending...
Ancient Future Wisdom - India and Indonesia session
In this session we will continue to explore the connection between indigenous knowledge and our future civilisation.
This is the fourth of six dialogues across various time zones that will allow participants from all around the world to share their indigenous knowledge and wisdom about leadership and decision-making structures, uncovering their underlying structures and embedded messages.
The session is hosted by Khin-Ni-Ni Thein and Rajni Vorha and the Ecocivilisation movement.
Ancient Future Wisdom - Europe session
In this session we will continue to explore the connection between indigenous knowledge and our future civilisation.
This is the fourth of six dialogues across various time zones that will allow participants from all around the world to share their indigenous knowledge and wisdom about leadership and decision-making structures, uncovering their underlying structures and embedded messages.
The session is hosted by Sonja Klopcic and Ferial Puren the Ecocivilisation movement.
Ancient Future Wisdom - Wrap up session
This is the final session that looks to the ancient wisdom from a future context.
The session is hosted by Violeta Bulc and the Ecocivilisation movement.
Challenge 18: Gamifying the Change
Hour Nineteen, 08 UTC
The Peaceful Futures Project
The Peaceful Futures project explores principles and methods that can establish a global peace-based society. With 27 wars raging on our planet today, and with the war the human population continues to wage on our Mother Earth, the dream of ecocivilization may still seem a utopia. Learning to live peacefully is a precondition and a pathway to create the “world that works for all”, where new harmony is found.
We ask a bold question: can wars be done away with, once and for all? Can we begin living into our peaceful futures? It is time to change the story that has been moving our civilization for centuries, the one perpetuating oppression, exploitation, segregation, and discrimination. We need to cocreate a new story that will not require wars and destructive conflicts to be the “engine” of history or economic development. The “culture of peace” should be the new basis of our relationships. The call to stop ongoing military conflicts “once and for all” raises the need for the voice of future thinkers to understand how we can prevent such conflicts from happening in the future. This discussion needs to happen globally and lead to actions done to anticipate and mitigate such dangers.
During this hour of Connectathon, we will share first findings of this ongoing project, and will invite participants to dream, inspire, and offer prototypes of the peace-based society.
This session will be led by Pavel Luksha and Olga Remneva.
Exploring Citizenship, hour one
The first of a two hour Interactive social theatre experience that explores citizenship as a verb, hosted by Ferial Puren,
Exploring Citizenship, hour two
Stories of Hope
We are holding space for four innovators from around the world to share their stories of hope about the successful projects that they have been apart of catalysing. Hosted by Nadim Hamdan.
100 Years Foresight
Today, the world is full of challenges that threaten our collective existence and wellbeing. Yet the most significant threats are lurking our possible futures: the possibility of global thermonuclear warfare, the expected fallout from the ongoing climate and biodiversity crises, the anticipated breakdown of the social order, famines, water shortages, new pandemics. The wave of upcoming dangers rises as a tsunami that may nullify our human world in the matter of sheer decades. These threats are all produced by humanity itself, they proceed from the “unhealthy” civilizational model we continue to profess.
But if we divert from the myopic focus on current affairs and take a long-term perspective, we can start to see these existing and future crises for what they are: symptoms of the massive ongoing transformation of our civilization, our species, and possibly the whole planet. We can recognize that we are facing an “evolutionary crisis”, and that it challenges our species to evolve beyond what we are today. We need to find the new way of being that will establish us as “future ancestors” of the next stage of human and planetary evolution.
The purpose of Hundred Years Foresight project is to explore evolutionary pathways that can lead into the thrivable future for all, including non-human beings and planetary systems. These pathways will involve a paradigm shift that will transform our economies, our political and legal systems, our cultures, our ways of acting and thinking, our consciousness. This “evolutionary leap” is a collective journey that will invite every human being to learn and transform. The emerging vision suggests that we need to change our stories of the future - and to begin prototyping them here and now, cultivating “future practices” that amplify our chances to move from survival into thriving.
During the hour of the workshop, current results of the Hundred Years Foresight will be shared, and participants will be invited to debate and cocreate their ideas of pathways into the next stage of human evolution.
Hosted by Pavel Luksha
Post- Connectathon Hangout
For those who'd like to continue discussions with the hosts and other attendees after the closing ceremony, we'll be keeping the zoom room open. For how long? That depends on how long everyone wants to engage!
The post Connectathon hangout will be hosted by Lauren Minis from Regeneration Pollination.
Does the eco civilisation beckon you too? Come add your thread to our story!
We are always keen to explore new ideas and potential opportunities to create together.