SolSeedCharter/Values

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Discussion at Seed 2009

Brandon's intro: Values are the "container" for participation; we can only include people who, for instance, are open to change.

Arthur Brock's ideas for values (from recording):

• Not just people but the organization must be able to adapt to change at the speed that it's happening today
• Willingness to distribute (not concentrate) power, intelligence, and wealth within the group
  • concentrated power corrupts institutions
  • open-source community is an example: share control and access
• Diversity of expression
  • accept the use of different symbol sets, including different religious views

Kevin: diversity is a form of strength/wealth

Julie:

• Honesty
  • Kevin: Radical Trust
• Family feel
• Finding common ground and common images across cultures
• "Use oneself to cherish others"

Shelley:

• Be nice
• Self-expressed
  • Bonnie: Maintain a place for self-expression

Lion:

• Being active
• Connecting heart-to-heart
• Being sensitive and intuitive
• Inclusion
• Valuing intelligence and wisdom
• Being purposeful
• Being ready to change at all levels
• Committing to the mainstream, because our future is not different from everyone else's
• Readiness to be surprised
• Sacrifice (paradox)
• Economic
• Artistic
• Humorous
• Clean
• Forgiving
• Clarity

Bonnie:

• Being accepted for who you are, even if it's different than what people are used to
• Avoiding intimidation--allow people to ask about things you're discussing that they don't understand
  • Ted: Quality of listening

Ted: Being "in the world"

Regula:

• Respectful
• Playful
  • Lion: Imaginative
• Walk the walk
• Letting go of ego and limits

Brandon:

• Openness to possibility
• Defending difference in others
• Inquisitiveness
• Creatorship

Kevin: Protecting, supporting, and nurturing life

• Brandon: Life is precious

Brenna: Personal fulfillment/caring for yourself

Questions:

• Do we want to exclude people who don't have these values?
  • We are building spaceships for everyone, even those outside SolSeed as a group of people (see "committing to the mainstream" above).
• These values are not aimed only at TheDestiny. TheDestiny exists partly to motivate the expression of these values in the goal of making the world a better place?
• Does SolSeed have to include only people who are committed to TheDestiny, splitting others off into people within the broader network of allied organizations? Or does SolSeed as a group of people include everyone who shares our values, regardless of what they think about TheDestiny?