Process 2023-12-20 Meeting notes scratchpad

[catherinet1]

2023-12-20

• [x] Meditation
• [x] Check-in
• [x] Agenda
• [ ] Updates follow up on previous next actions
  • [ ] Exemplars: https://github.com/life-itself/ecosystem/issues/186
  • [ ] Contributors guide ...see issue https://github.com/life-itself/ecosystem/issues/144. Obsidian contributors guide has been put in google docs here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kgf4zQ58c6iJFRU5KXz24KFcjAlgFvmHVn-SJkfpcis/edit?usp=sharing Elisa has reviewed, Catherine needs to review, and screen shots still need to be added. + See qs below
• [ ] Plan of work
  • [ ] Project status
  • [ ] Next steps
• [ ] Get clear on next actions for now until the end of the year
  • [ ] Gap Analysis @catherine
  • [ ] interviews complete. Did >10
  • [ ] Send out a survey in the new year?

Updates re past actions

• [ ] Create an archived version of the contributors guide. Archived version can be found here: https://github.com/life-itself/ecosystem/blob/main/content/contribute%20guide1.md As soon as the obsidian guide is complete and reviewed, the new will guide will be put in replacement of the existing contributors guide.
• Process existing backlog submissions: issue has been closed https://github.com/life-itself/ecosystem/issues/170

Questions/comments re exemplars

• In 42 acres examples there are a lot of backlinks- we are making stubs for all of them? Yes I think I made stub pages for all that were new. Some already existed as notes.
• Just flagging that the 'picture' on CSA is in a slightly different spot than 42 acres I think it's okay as is. We could try to come up with standard guidelines for formatting but I think in a wiki hard to ensure that everyone will stick to these all the time
• The format for each one is individualized- I assume that's how we want to do it for now? Yes--see Principles of Mapping section, wiki over database
• Joysong collective seem US-based? What presence do they have in Europe? I included them because they described themselves as a "global" community but not sure of specific presence in Europe

Rufus

• Add short description (maybe in frontmatter)
• Move overall discussion/reflection to another thread?
• Retreat centres ?
• Does "integrated" do enough work for us?
  • Many people in postmodern and metamodern tick this box
  • What is the subtle kind of "integrated" approach that is closest to the centre?
• Post modern and metamodern both want paradigmatic change. How do we distinguish between the two?
• Regeneration (green) vs evolution (teal)
• McGilchrist - integration of intuition and reason
• Wellbeing
• Inner development as political/ontological politics/politics of being as a signifier of "metamodernism"
• What are the aspirations of post modernism? (Wellbeing? Definitions are anathema) What are the aspirations of metamodernism? (Evolution?)
• Modernity mostly neglects the inner
• Postmodernity remembers some of the inner and often connects this to outer change in some way. And connecting with nature rather than dominating.
• Later we might want to distinguish between postmodern and metamodern
  • e.g. out of word clustering
• Postmodern - you have to respect differences of opinion/perspective. Metamodern can re-integrate multiple worldviews/multiple truths. Resolved into a meta-systemic holding or context. E.g. in an evolutionary path.
• Postmodern is current dominant edge flavour of our society
• distinction between framing/worldview/theory of change/vision and what they're actually doing,
  • e.g. 42 Acres former is upper left and action is more lower
  • CSA action is more lower left and worldview is more lower right

Catherine

• Spirituality?
  • Rufus: spirituality comes back in postmodernism. Intuitively, metamodern/teal has religion rather than spirituality. Spirituality in postmodernism tends to be quite individualised. Return to an agreement on a cultural spiritual frame. cf Church of Interbeing (on a scale that coheres a society)?
• Rename Theory of Change something like Principles of Change?

Questions re contributors guide

• [x] Do we want to include configuration settings as well? Or just point to the github discussion? This stuff will go in Markdown guide
• [ ] We only have a spot for 'additions' and 'organizations'. Should we include 'editing' and 'topics'?

Next Actions

Catherine

• [x] Close initial set of exemplars https://github.com/life-itself/ecosystem/issues/186
• [x] 5-6 more profiles (create new issue). Issue created: https://github.com/life-itself/ecosystem/issues/204
• [ ] Process today's meeting notes
• [ ] Review and tidy/update Labs issues @catherine
  • [ ] Gap Analysis @catherine

Matthew

• [ ] 2 new profiles by tomorrow sync w Rufus
• [ ] contributor guide
• [ ] clearing up ecosystem backlog of issues

[rufuspollock]

FIXED. This happened to the extent it happened.