The Quilligan Seminars

The Emergence of a Commons-Based Economy *º
- Commons Rising -- Working Group *
  - 1. What did we learn? *
    - Signs of a healthy ecosystem *
      - Large number of interactions between nodes
      - Large number of nodes *
        
        How to draw in more nodes? *
        
        ► Mainstreaming *
        
        How to increase the number of interactions between the nodes? *
        
        ► Mainstreaming *
    - Commoning offers a way to heal the schisms *
      - Boundaries between silos are melting
      - Commons Rising group can galvanise networks *
        
        Idea of the commons is resonating
        London as a propitious base
      - Desire to co-operate beyond the monetary system
      - Find ways to communicate concept to people with different mindsets *
        
        Many don't perceive their mindset as a mindset - but as the truth *
      - Need to start shaping a prototype of change
      - Occupy movement was a reaction to crisis *
        
        Need for systemic fiscal reform
        What might a new currency look like?
    - Commons framework makes sustainability tangible
    - The economics of replenishment
    - The immediacy of the problem
  - 2. Are we a commons, and if so, in what ways? *
    - Presence of commoning doesn't imply presence of a commons
    - We are a commons *
      - Demonstrated common commitment to be here
    - We are not a commons (yet) *
      - Commons are defined by resources - we haven't identified our resource *
        
        Commons: resources that need to be stewarded to be sustainable *
        
        What is our commons? *
        
        Governance and Production flowing together
        The Commons Knowledge Garden *
        
        A social-cultural connection as well as the knowledge
        How do we make it accessible to ourselves and others
  - 3. What resources do we need? *
    - Long-term resources? *
      - Build on the evolving insights from the journal Kosmos
    - Short-term resources *
      - A map of the commons - with different points of entry
      - A metaphor for schoolchildren
      - A stakeholder map
      - A visual symbol *
        
        What would the symbol convey? *
        
        A replenishing economy vs a degrading economy
      - Add a summary to each segment of the roundel *
        
        Basic handout - answering 3-4 things
      - Connection with others who are converging *
        
        It's a global movement
      - List of recommended reading *
        
        Who is the audience for this list? *
        
        Active engagement - going to where the readers are
        Passive readers - making it available for those who seek it out
      - Need to connect with and build upon local resources
    - What am I prepared to offer?
    - What do I expect from others?
  - 4. What is our purpose as a group? *
    - What is the difference that we can make? *
      - POPSE
      - Work with the people are seeking to change the system?
      - Working for a common transition
      - A catalyst for the larger group *
        
        Enabling and facilitating conversations between the other nodes *
        
        Focus on the next contact outside of the existing group
        Risk that the conversations become inwardly focused
    - What principles and practices do we need to work together?
    - What's the timeframe?
    - Commons Rising *º
      - A holding environment
      - Commoning: action towards common well-being
      - Mainstreaming *
        
        Buddying up
        Make people aware of where they are already commoning
        Making efficiency life enhancing - craft
        Need exemplars of "How it works"
        Sharing stories - learning together rather than experts talking at
        ◄ How to draw in more nodes? *
        ◄ How to increase the number of interactions between the nodes? *
  - 5. What results do we want to emerge from the seminars? *
    - A Mental Bulwark
    - As many people as possible know of the resources available
    - Clear next steps
    - Electronic platform to keep the network alive *
      - Innerlink with the Occupy economics group
    - Enthusiasm to outreach and continue
    - Groups of co-creation
    - Hooks for people with narrow interests
    - Identify the divergent and convergent streams
    - Know who are the people to widen the conversation
    - Making the elevator clear
    - Maximum sharing of experiences
    - Strongly resourced platform - Charters, Trusteeship
    - Subject specific working groups
  - ► Commons Rising *º
- Background Material *
  - Glossary *
    - Commons º
  - Key memes *º
    - Trusteeship replacing Ownership
    - Co-production and Co-governance
    - Widening Fiduciary Trust
    - A basket of Commons as the basis of a standard of monetary value
    - Distinguishing Creatable, Depletable and Replenishable Commons
    - Location Value Capture
    - Building and sharing a Commons Knowledge Garden
    - Commons as Scale free – Local and Global
    - Differentiating and Reintegrating Commons, Market and Governance
    - Prior unity requires a time limit to tribalism and an end to egoism
    - Commons enthuse co-creation
    - Contrasting images of Degrading and Replenishing Planetary Economies
    - Differentiating simultaneous and single-nation initiatives
    - Guaranteed Basic Income
    - Hierarchies of local Commons
    - Covenant and Trusteeship revived
    - Standard of Value determined by interdisciplinary agreement
    - Holarchies *
      - Nature
      - Self
      - Society
    - Monetary / Banking Restructuring
    - Recovery of Commons
  - Managing the Local and Global Commons *º
    - ► Avoid tragedies of the commons *
  - Occupy the Commons º
  - James Quilligan º
- The Quilligan Seminars *º
  - 01: Democratising the Global Political Commons º
  - 02: Political Economy and the Inclusive Commons º
  - 03: Restoring the Commons or Terminal Decline º
  - 04: Financial Innovation and the Commons º
  - 05: Property, Value and Commons º
  - 06: The Crowd and the Commons º
  - 07: Covenant Stewardship and the Inclusive Commons º
  - 08: The Great Transition and the Commons º
  - 09: Organisational Practice and ‘The Commons' º
  - 10: The Commons and New Era Economics º
  - 11: Convergence Working Group *º
    - ► Commons Rising -- Working Group *
  - 12: Convergence for a Commons-Based Economy *º
    - ► Commons Rising -- Working Group *
- ► Stewardship of the Commons *º
- ◄ Economics *
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