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Now What?!
Collective Members
October 14 - November 22, 2019
Individuals who commit to becoming members of the Now What?! Collective form the core group that convenes, hosts, and governs this global pop-up gathering
as a commons in service to LIFE.
To explore becoming a Collective Member, review the information below and then request a personal invitation conversation.
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Collective Member Invitation
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THE POSSIBILITY: help form a global “pop-up” community in order to...
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Co-create an experience of belonging and connection through a set of virtual and in-person gatherings that are awake and alive, make room for joy and grief, embrace uncertainty, and support us in transcending our fears
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Navigate the complexity of our current times by collectively sensing, making meaning, and taking action, via a highly flexible process based on live conversations that works for all time zones as well as multiple languages
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Generate an abundant flow of resources via a “pop-up gift economy” to nourish work we care about, and to support those of us who want to “work for the ‘movement of movements’ as our day job”
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Propagate this pop-up model in many forms, including the establishment of Now What?! as a regular semi-annual engagement
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THE REQUESTS: members of the Now What?! Collective are asked to make these commitments, estimated to require about seven hours of time...
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Participate in at least three ~90 minute rounds of Deep Dive conversation between October 14 and November 22, via these options:
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Large group calls with an open invitation, of which there will be several each week at various times
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Invitation-only calls that are convened by you or others
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Make and share some meaning, based on the collective harvest that emerges from the Deep Dive conversations
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Contribute to the Now What?! Gift Economy either financially via Open Collective, or with a pledge to contribute a specific amount of your “member dividend” back to the pool, or by gifting some time in support of the Now What?! gathering
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Endorse the Now What?! Declaration of Possibility
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Additional Invitations for Collective Members
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Receive a member dividend once this Now What?! edition is complete
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Participate in the deliberative process for allocating project funding, including the option to nominate a project
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Create one or more roles for yourself in support of the convening and hosting of the Now What?! Deep Dives and/or the Now What?! Pop-up Gift Economy, and request a financial gift in return (see some possibilities here)
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Personally invite others to become Collective Members
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Join conversations with Collective Members about the Now What?! processes and about becoming a community and/or “guild”
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