EPOCHAL TRANSFORMING COLLECTIVE NETWORKS
Written Sept 2013.
A new form of social movement
continues to evolve on the margins in the East
Asia Oceania Australasia Region and beyond.
Caring Nurturing folk are acting together supporting global transition
to a new caring nurturing loving Epoch on Earth respecting the people of
Earth’s inalienable rights. Energy is emerging consistent with guiding principles for three
overlapping Networked Collectives at
the Continental and Global levels. A Model evolving in the Region may have global relevance.
In brief, this Model of Three interwoven Collectives may have the
following Form, Foci and Loci (plurals of ‘focus’ and ‘locality’):
Wellbeing Collective
A.
Supporting
all wellness aspects of life in the Region
B.
Collaborating
with other continental Wellbeing Collectives at the global level in a Global Wellbeing
Collective
Honorary Collective
A. Supporting all aspects of life in the Region including,
families, governances, groups, individuals, societies, and villages using wise value underpinnings which are largely evolving from news
of what works well being shared locally and laterally by local folk
B.
Collaborating
and sharing wellbeing ways that work with other continental Honorary
Collectives at the global level in what may be termed a Global Honorary Wellbeing
Collective
Advisory Collective
A.
Support all
aspects of life in the Region including
among others:
a.
the social life world
b.
the inter-cultural life world
c.
the economic life world
d.
the governance life world
e.
the natural life world, and
f.
the inter-spiritual life world
B. Collaborating with other continental Advisory Collectives
at the global level in a Global Advisory Collective
These Collectives are evolving in a context where:
A. Many and varied social forces
have stripped dignity and limited peoples’ capacity to realise their essence,
potential, and their rights
B.
Action research has been undertaken to realise
the possibility of encouraging a new caring, nurturing and loving Epoch,
demonstrating that individuals are:
a) Realising
their potential and transforming themselves by using self-help and mutual-help
in living well together with
others, and playing a part in determining their own life ways in
self-governance
b) Realising, demonstrating
and sustaining caring nurturing loving ways
c) Realising their
inalienable rights in ways enriching theirs and others’ lives
d)
Practically demonstrating the principles
outlined above, so that others too can be stimulated toward this enriched life
Collectives
continue to expand in contexts where common folk are currently:
a.
Prevented from self governance
b.
Hindered in engaging in self-help and
mutual-help
c.
Have little or no say about what and how
services are provided.
The
Collectives’ evolving frameworks acknowledge the natural inter-connected
characteristics of the world we live in, i.e. flora, fauna, wildlife &
environment, hence the mirroring of these aspects. Key features of the frameworks include the
principles of self-organising, pervasive co-operating, co-nurturing and
co-learning.
a) The Collectives both
mirror and engage with evolving wellbeing networking already in action on the
margins
b) They are massively
interconnected and interdependent both within and between the three
Collectives’ players and their foci and loci
c) The Collectives are flat
structures with local and lateral spread comprising
a massive number of nested networks with significant nodes (network people with
multiple significant links to others in the network(s)
d) News of what works well
spreads widely and rapidly between Collectives and within Community Wellbeing
Networks and is used or adapted by others in the Collectives and overlapping
Community Wellbeing Networks
e) A feature is the
pervasive co-operating, co-nurturing, co-learning, and co-action within and
between the Collectives and between the three Collectives and Community
Wellbeing Networks in meeting their many and varied needs and wants according
to interest, experience, competence and passion
f) Significant natural
nurturers may participate in one, two, or all of the collectives
g) The Collectives like
community networking for wellbeing engage well at the micro and macro levels
h)
The Collectives’ are not fixed structures;
rather, like whirlpools in the stream, structure is continually transforming as it is
sustained as flowing process in action:
i) Actions involve the
survival of the fitting
j) Patterns are fractal and
repeated throughout
k)
Like natural systems, a
key feature is the presence of self-organising processes with feedback and
feedforward
l)
The Collectives comprise
a massive number of nested networks with significant nodes
m)
Like natural systems,
actions are holistically embracing:
1. part and whole
2. chaos and complexity
3. randomness within constraints, and
4. work well in these contexts
n)
Also, increasingly people
experienced in mutual help action are becoming well-placed to meet,
complement, and facilitate service delivery approaches. For example, by
providing consensual small, medium and large scale project proof about what
works, the local and lateral mutual-help approach can support service processes
by allowing opportunities for top-down studies to be restricted to what does
work, rather than studying and sifting through lots of things that local mutual
help action research has revealed will not work.
o)
Mutual-help action may support service delivery people see scope
for multiple lateral integration between lateral/bottom-up and top down
processes, or appreciate the scope for shifting from vertical integration to
lateral integration.
p)
The three Collectives
mirror each other’s form and way though differ in foci – Wellbeing, Honorary,
and Advisory - and link with other resonant Wellness Collectives with differing
foci and loci in the Region
q)
The Collective
Participants are themselves significant Nodes in extensive networks of networks
extending through the Region, and as such are largely self selecting of their
Collective Roles by their emergence and being widely recognised as significant
trusted nodal elders of high degree engaging in loving wisdom in action. It
follows that these Collectives (as interacting people) are pervasively
intertwined with common folk sense and sensibility in action through every
aspect of life in the Region.
r)
The complementary nature
of action is evidenced by the common set of verbs used as descriptors (refer
below)
Given
the extensive and growing capacity of these Collectives, people’s needs are
being increasingly met by community based mutual-help action, thus potentially lessening scope and size of service delivery by government,
semi-government or non government service providers.
As mentioned above, the three Collectives in
structure, process, form, and action emerge from existing, competent,
experienced, naturally nurturing folk in nested networks of networks engaged in
community mutual-help action for wellbeing at the margins. The fractal quality
of these three Collectives’ structure, process, form, and action may well serve
as a model for wider transforming action towards a New Epoch on Earth.
EMERGING
COLLECTIVE ROLES
Three Collectives:
a) Wellbeing Collective
b) Honorary Collective
c) Advisory Collective
In differing parts of the Region these Collectives may be known by
differing names or be unnamed.
Resonant with systems in nature, the Roles within
and between the three Collectives are pervasively
integrated recognising the inter-connected, inter-related, inter-dependent and
interweaving nature of all aspects of human activity.
This integrating of roles differs markedly from the splitting
and disconnecting of everything into so-called ‘sectors’ that is an inherent aspect
of old paradigm bureaucracies. That disconnect led to the notion of ‘silo’,
where ‘public servants” in metaphorical concrete bunkers live in separate
worlds, and collaborating between sectors, and even collaborating between programs
in differing sections of sectors rarely happens.
A feature of networked network action research has
been the continual evolving of competences in social relating, cooperating, and
collaborating in mutual-help Action Research.
WELLBEING COLLECTIVE
FOCI:
The Wellbeing
Collective’s foci:
Supporting all aspects life in the Region including communities,
cultures, economies, families, governances, groups, individuals, societies, and
villages in:
o Archiving
o Clarifying
o Co-reconstituting
o Discovering
o Documenting
o Enabling
o Envisioning
o Establishing
o Experimenting
o Exploring
o Following
o Forming
o Fostering
o Gathering
o Informing
o Maintaining
o Mentoring
o Monitoring
o Negotiating
o Practicing
o Promoting
o Promulgating
o Re-Forming
o Remembering
o Restoring
o Reviewing
o Revitalizing
o Supporting
o Sharing, and
o Storytelling
o Translating
of:
a)
Wellbeing ways that work in all of the
varying wellness domains, including communal,
connecting with and to place, economic, emotional, environmental, family,
habitat, inter-cultural, inter-personal, locality, nutritional, physical,
psycho-social, relational, and spiritual.
b)
The finding and
enriching of local nurturers and wellness support people, along with supporting
their networking, gatherings, and celebrations.
c)
The
recognizing the complex interconnectedness of life, working very closely with
the other two Collectives in matters that cross over between the three
Collectives
FORMING WELLBEING COLLECTIVE(S)
They are formed with and by folk who embody a widely known, widely
respected long history of impeccable extensive integrity and practical wisdom
in Community Action for Wellness, as well as being the exemplars, holders, disseminators and users of exquisite
competencies in Community
Action for Wellness Ways.
COLLABORATING WITH OTHER CONTINENTAL
WELLBEING COLLECTIVES AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL IN THE GLOBAL WELLBEING COLLECTIVE
A.
Extending
the Wellbeing Collective’s role to the global level in providing transfer of
news of what works between continents.
B.
Ensuring
that the Global and Continental Wellbeing Collectives both reflect each other.
GLOBAL WELLBEING COLLECTIVE
The Global Wellbeing Collective mirrors the Continental Wellbeing
Collective’s Roles at the Global Level.
Participants emerge from Continental Wellbeing Collectives
HONORARY
COLLECTIVE
FOCI:
The Honorary
Collective’s Foci:
A. Supporting all aspects of life in the Region including
communities, cultures, economies, families, governances, groups, individuals,
societies, and villages in:
o Archiving
o Clarifying
o Co-reconstituting
o Discovering
o Documenting
o Enabling
o Envisioning
o Establishing
o Experimenting
o Exploring
o Following
o Forming
o Fostering
o Gathering
o Informing
o Maintaining
o Mentoring
o Monitoring
o Negotiating
o Practicing
o Promoting
o Promulgating
o Re-Forming
o Remembering
o Restoring
o Reviewing
o Revitalizing
o Supporting
o Sharing, and
o Storytelling
o Translating
of:
a) Wise value underpinnings which are largely evolving from
news of what works well being shared locally and laterally by local folk
b)
Using as a guide
to action the criteria guiding the drafting of the Thriving Earth Treaty
c)
Pervasive
Extensive Integrity
d)
Lore and law
e)
Relating
well with others and all life forms in all spheres and domains of life
f) Processes that work well in relational mediating
alongside the Honorary Collective Participants being the holders and
disseminators and users of exquisite competencies in relational mediating
B.
Providing
extensive integrity oversight to all of the above processes
C. To keep its own role under continual review to ensure
that it continues as an impeccable role model and in an enabler role, and not an imposer
role in violation of the people’s inalienable rights to determine (a) their way
of life together and (b) their governance.
COLLECTIVE ROLES
ROLE A
SUPPORTING
COMMUNITY, CULTURAL, INTERCULTURAL, ECONOMIC, FAMILY, GOVERNANCE, GROUP,
INDIVIDUAL, SOCIETY, AND VILLAGE TRANSFORMING PROCESSES AT THE LOCAL THROUGH TO
CONTINENTAL LEVEL
a)
Maintaining
community, cultural, intercultural, economic, family, governance, group,
individual, society, and village wise-value
underpinnings that are largely evolving from local and lateral sharing of what
works well (MUTUAL-HELP)
b)
Gathering,
promoting, exploring, and clarifying wise values and supporting others to do
the same
c)
Monitoring
and fostering pervasive Extensive Integrity
d)
Supporting
the forming, re-forming, and following of wise value-based guiding principle
criteria
a.
In forming,
re-forming and informing lore and law
b.
In relating
well with others and all life forms in all spheres and domains of life
e)
Be the
holders, disseminators, and users of exquisite competencies in relational
mediating
f)
Supporting
processes consistent with Guiding Principles of The Thriving Earth Treaty
g)
Recognizing
the complex interconnectedness of life and working very closely with the other
two Collectives in matters that cross over between the three Collectives
ROLE B
COLLABORATING WITH OTHER CONTINENTAL HONORARY
COLLECTIVES AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL IN THE
GLOBAL HONORARY COLLECTIVE
A.
Extending
Role A to the global level in providing transfer of news of what works between
continents.
B.
Ensuring that
Roles A and B both reflect each other
GLOBAL HONORARY COLLECTIVE
The Global Honorary Collective mirrors the Continental Honorary
Collective’s Roles at the Global Level.
Participants are drawn from Continental
Honorary Collectives
FORMING
HONORARY COLLECTIVE(S)
They are formed with and by folk who embody a widely known, widely
respected long history of impeccable extensive integrity and practical wisdom
in loving action, as well as being the holders, and
disseminators, and users of exquisite competencies in relational mediating
ADVISORY COLLECTIVE
FOCI:
The Advisory
Collective’s Foci:
Supporting all aspects life of in the Region including
communities, cultures, economies, families, governances, groups, individuals,
societies, and villages in:
o Archiving
o Clarifying
o Co-reconstituting
o Discovering
o Documenting
o Enabling
o Envisioning
o Establishing
o Experimenting
o Exploring
o Following
o Forming
o Fostering
o Gathering
o Informing
o Maintaining
o Mentoring
o Monitoring
o Negotiating
o Practicing
o Promoting
o Promulgating
o Re-Forming
o Remembering
o Restoring
o Reviewing
o Revitalizing
o Supporting
o Sharing, and
o Storytelling
o Translating
of:
a)
Ways enriching the quality of life in the
nurturing, playfully enriching, relational interplaying, between various worlds
and realities. including among others:
a.
the social life world,
b.
the inter-cultural life world,
c.
the economic life world,
d.
the governance life world,
e.
the natural life world, and the
f.
inter-spiritual life world
b)
Linking to all of the varying wellness domains
including communal, connecting with and
to place, economic, emotional, environmental, family, habitat, inter-cultural,
inter-personal, locality, nutritional, physical, psycho-social, relational, and
spiritual.
This also includes
supporting the finding and enriching of local nurturers and wellness support
people in these varying worlds, realities,
and domains, along with supporting their networking, gatherings and
celebrations. Recognizing the complex
interconnectedness of life, working very closely with the other two Collectives
in matters that cross over between the three Collectives
FORMING AVISORY COLLECTIVE(S)
They are formed with and by folk who embody a widely known, widely respected
long history of impeccable extensive integrity and practical wisdom in Advisory
Action, as well as being the exemplars, holders,
disseminators and users of exquisite competencies in Advisory Action for Communal Wellbeing.
COLLABORATING WITH OTHER CONTINENTAL AVISORY
COLLECTIVES AT THE GLOBAL LEVEL IN THE GLOBAL ADVISORY COLLECTIVE
A.
Extending
the Advisory Collective’s role to the global level in providing transfer of
news of what works between continents.
B.
Ensuring
that the Global and Continental Advisory Collectives both reflect each other.
GLOBAL AVISORY COLLECTIVE
The Global Advisory Collective mirrors the Continental Advisory
Collective’s Roles at the Global Level.
Participants are drawn from Continental Advisory Collectives
NATURAL
NURTURER NETWORKING, THE THREE COLLECTIVES, AND INTERFACING WITH THE PREVAILING
WORLD SYSTEMS
Natural
Nurturer Networking (NNN) and Linear World Systems
If we flip NNN as in the
image below we access the Wellness side and have the Wellness Collective
emerging (left hand - heart side) from the networks‘ perspective
If we flip the Wellness side
as in the image below, we have the Honour Collective emerging (left hand –
grounded side) from the networks‘ perspective
If we flip the Honour
Collective side as in the image below we have the Advisory Collective emerging
(right hand – action side – as in the right hand man of old) from the networks‘
perspective
Note the exquisite
symmetries occurring between any two quadrants and the even more exquisite when
the four quadrants connect. Without the above image set, only the discerning Eye can perceive
the Three Collectives. Notice that the Wellness Collective tends to
emerge from the Natural Nurturer Networks, the Honorary Collective from the
Wellness Collective and the Advisory Collective from the Honorary Collective.
Evolving Transforming Relational
Networks
Community Ways
for healing the World
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