Inaugural Healing Circle June 23rd 2023
(one day after the Solstice)
@ 0800 PST – 1100 EST – 1500 UTC
Facilitated by Rieki Cordon 90-120 min (depending on attendance and flow)
Join our Discord for call links and future Healing and Gratitude Circle sessions.
Healers (or anyone who wants to be part of the Gratitude DHO/DAO which also involves making improvements to the Gratitude Token protocols) join the DHO here.
Introducing the Gratitude DHO/DAO and Healing Circles
POV: “Earth/Gaia has stage 4 cancer”.
Parts of Earth’s microbiome (e.g. humans…) are currently attacking healthy cells (e.g. other species…) and harming vital organ systems (e.g. forests, soils, oceans, etc). Consequently, Earth- our biosphere, our home becomes destabilized from this dis-ease.
Zach Bush MD, Gabor Mate MD, and countless other doctors have detailed extensively (Recommendation to look up any video interviews from either of those doctors!) that
“Spontaneous remission (miracle healing of cancer) happens often enough to no longer be called ‘a miracle’, but just another option that we have to choose from.” – Paraphrasing from interviews with Bush and Mate. Therefore, we CAN heal, no matter how dire the circumstances may appear to be. There is hope.
We don’t need to succumb to this “cancer”. We can heal – which is what Healing Circles are all about.
Spring is arriving in the SEEDS ecosystem!
The tools we’ve been focused on building over the years are ready (ready enough…) for us to start using them to coordinate our ReGenerative Renaissance and to equitably acknowledge each of us for showing up. This was a main hurdle before and why the community initiated the “Winter Season” to stop growing and pause asking more people to join and contribute as there wasn’t an easy way to equitably acknowledge those contributions.
You’re invited to join a Multiplayer Healing Journey
The launch of the Gratitude DHO and Healing Circles is an invitation for our movement to hone in and reconnect with the Heart of our Renaissance, which is Regeneration– healing from and with the heart, gut, mind, body and the whole family of systems that we call “ourselves” as we practice honoring and trusting our natural abilities and intuition.
Quick Details:
- 2-part video with Natalie (urtheguru) & Rieki (thealchemist) exploring Gratitude DAO, Healing Circles, and so much more!
Part 1
Part 2 - Gratitude as a way to accelerate sowing Seeds and restarting our Economy
Gratitude Circles will be another method for the SEEDS economy to acknowledge contributions to the ReGenerative Renaissance – anything from planting community gardens to hosting events and healing your bioregional community can earn Seeds! - The Gratitude DHO is being gifted Seeds from historical Campaigns
If you received Seeds for a Campaign, and didn’t finish gifting those Seeds to people yet, consider gifting them to the Gratitude DHO for topping up the Gratitude Pool each Cycle (these are the Seeds that will be distributed through Gratitude). - Request your historical contributions!
If you’ve been contributing to SEEDS at any point in the last 7+ years and haven’t already received tokens for your contribution, you’re encouraged to find the relevant DHO/DAO for your work (or to be part of creating a new one) and to request tokens for your contributions so far (for general contributions consider joining a role or making a historical contribution request in the SEEDS Collaboratory). - Previous Articles on Gratitude Tokens (for exploring this concept more)
Decentralizing Our Economies with Gratitude (article for how Gratitude Tokens technically work)- Rieki Cordon
Showing Gratitude at the click of a button – Seeds Gratz Bot – Guy Sedan
Why I shared my gratitude Seeds from the first round with the Project Incubator on Earth Regenerators – Kathleen Martsch
If all of this is foreign to you, or you’re not yet a part of SEEDS, then simply join our Discord and ask your questions and for an invite to the SEEDS Economy. Or, join an upcoming Healing and Gratitude Circle
Healing and Gratitude circles
Aim: Meetings as medicine – watching and participating in these session are intrinsically healing
Purpose: Celebrate healing, witness each other, connect with tribe, coordinate regeneration, and give Gratitude.
Healing Circle basic parts
Explore the end of Part 1 for an overview of this slide.
Each Healing Facilitator (a role in the Gratitude DHO) will bring their own flavour/approach to the space and hopefully we start to have many different flavours to this :). However, the basic parts are:
1/3: ~30 min
Facilitator offers a healing modality or holds space for another/others. This could be anything from a breathwork or guided meditation to song, dance, poetry or any other act of inspired creation that gives rise to healing.
1/3: ~30 min
Healing Share participants go in circle and share some healing we’ve experienced or witnessed or processes that have helped us (anything from “this is an unlock my partner and I just went through” to “I just learned something about microbiome and gut health I’d like to share with you all”). There is no direct response from any participants – if inspired, we’re all encouraged to connect directly with each-other after.
1/3: ~30 min
Gratitude Share each participant can share something they did or witnessed that they’re grateful for and was in support of the ReGenerative Renaissance (anything from “I just planted a community garden” to “I wanted to celebrate [name] for the work they’re doing to move our movement forward and the article they wrote in the SEEDS Library that inspired me”. Once again, there is direct response. Participants are encouraged to respond by sending Gratitude in Discord along with a message why they’re grateful 🙂 This way those folks can enjoy the messages and receive Gratitude and Seeds tokens.
Example of people sending Gratitude to each-other. See this article for details.
Extended Invitation:
Now is your invitation to come together and heal. An invitation to come back (if you’ve already been on this journey and taken a break) and get recognized for your historical contributions and to heal any traumas (stories that no longer serve us) that may have formed during our quest together. This has been a huge undertaking and an experimental playing field that we are all learning from, together, real time. Healing Circles will be a place to learn and heal from our past experiments and to start this next chapter of our journey together.
This is our call for a Spring Season and for the end of our long Winter in SEEDS.
The tools are ready enough for us to start using and to use them for their actual purpose. As up until now a large part of SEEDS has been centered around designing and building the tools (a massive undertaking!).
We didn’t set out creating SEEDS to spend all our time designing a cryptocurrency and economy.
We set out to coordinate a movement for co-creating the more beautiful worlds (a growing diversity) our Hearts know is possible!
For reference, SEEDS started off reimaging money because:
1. Money is the root of a lot of our society’s collective traumas and challenges from the “old world”.
2. There is a real need in present society that people have for economic security to contribute to this movement and to be equitably recognized when we contribute.
With these things in mind, starting with co-creating a new financial system seemed like a great place to begin our journey together.
SEEDS is an acronym for Sowing Ecologically and Economically Decentralized Societies. Just as Europe (a wild mixture of peoples, bioregions, cultures, cuisines, etc) is so much more than the Euro, the SEEDS (and the ReGenerative Renaissance we’re here to support) is so much greater than the Seeds currency. Seeds (the currency) are simply a tool to help us transition.
While Seeds are intentionally designed to be fairly close to national currencies. Gratitude is intentionally designed to be a major step towards a more beautiful economic system. Gratitude removes the zero-sum-win-lose scenario built into national currencies. For example, in order to pay you and appreciate you, I have to take from myself (spend my money where more for you is less for me). Gratitude rewires this dynamic from the beginning to make it so that when you give Gratitude to someone, you’re not worse off, in fact you’re better off because using Gratitude also earns you Seeds tokens!
So, participating and giving Gratitude and recognizing someone also benefits you and this is more connected to the reality of life. For example, when you hug someone and give them gratitude, you both get the dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, etc release. All these beautiful love hormones that heal and help us feel amazing are given to all participants in an exchange of Gratitude. This is a step towards an economy of life that is designed to be regenerative and healing.
So, just as Europe doesn’t exist to create the Euro, SEEDS doesn’t exist simply to create Seeds.
Further, our movement may eventually evolve beyond currency altogether (and SEEDS has been designed for this future reality) to reiterate the fact that the currency is not the main point and moving into Gratitude as a movement is a step towards this future.
So, if making a currency isn’t the point. What is the point?
There has been a collectively emerging image forming amongst us all over the years as more voices and beautiful humans have shown up to bring their piece of our vast puzzle.
However, If I could be bold in an attempt to name ‘the point’, I believe it’s our collective need to heal that’s most vital for us to coordinate around at this time. As it was many of our unresolved traumas that kept popping up over the years that also encouraged us to enter a “Winter Season”.
That healing includes healing ourselves, our families, our Bioregions, our Earth. We need to heal.
So, we start with Healing Circles to coordinate and help us along our healing journey’s.
There is much to do in this movement, with many people showing up in so many wonderful capacities and roles. For those who want to really dive in and contribute we have DHOs and DAOs for you to join now and start being acknowledged (earning tokens, pay, etc) for your efforts.
However, not everyone is prepared to take on roles right now, and how do we involve a wider community and those who are just getting started?
This is where Gratitude comes in.
Explore the end of Part 1 for an overview of this slide.
We can have Gratitude circles where we can celebrate each other and acknowledge our various contributions (while getting to know each other and consciously distributing our currency to those healing and supporting our movement).
Gratitude DHO and Healing Circles are a new chapter in SEEDS where chapters 1 – 3 were all about:
- Co-creating the vision, Constitution, Game Guide, etc
- Co-creating the tools, currency, apps, etc
- Co-creating the organizations, DAOs, DHOs, etc
- Co-creating our Healing Journey…
Chapter 4 is now about inhabiting these organizations for a wide diversity of purposes around the need to heal as a species and planet. Now is a moment to consciously decide who we want to be and to show up as this new self in new structures for coordinating ourselves to meet our needs and thrive with Earth. All in an effort to co-create the most beautiful worlds we can collectively imagine.
Which is where the other major function of these circles comes in.
Uniting with our tribes!
As many of us are interested in literally living in new realities and not just online.
I believe one of the many goals in SEEDS is the opposite of most tech-building organizations. It’s not a goal to have more people staring into black mirrors (phones, computers, etc) more. Instead it’s to use the internet as a portal to unite with our tribes – then with our tribe shift towards enjoying a growing portion of our lives healing together in our bioregions and physical communities.
Part of these circles is to be consciously connecting with those you resonate with as family and when we reach a critical mass this is where the ReGen Civics Alliance comes in to help you and your new family/friends/tribe to go through a journey to create a land project and start healing a physical piece of Earth together while reimaging what ours and our family’s experience on Earth can be. For example, it may be that after 5-7 people who resonate with each other decide they want to create a physical community and invite others to join them – they may go through the “ReGen Civics Incubator” to co-create a phyiscal community (startup towns, Kins Settlements, Ecovillages, etc, etc).
SEEDS and all the tools our movement is building is to serve this purpose of transition. Complete success is when humanity no longer needs artificial technology to coordinate at scale and within our Bioregions. However, we recognize the need today to use technology and the internet to coordinate our movement and help us transition into a diversity of Thriving civilizations together. Just like a bridge…
Explore Part 2 for an overview of this slide.
So much more inspiring and exciting than the need to heal is our opportunity to come together and reimagine a growing diversity of new types of realities, new types of ways of living and thriving on this Earth.
Starting from first principles design on what actually matters for a thriving life, we consciously step out of the realities that have brought us near another planetary catastrophe, and we consciously step into new realities that help us heal and connect.
Realities that are all about co-creating a thriving planet starting with ourselves, our families, our bioregions and then ultimately coordinating as an entire planet.
This is our goal. This is what we’re here for. Designing DAOs, DHOs, and building technology and tools, Web3, etc, etc and all of this stuff is only to give us tools to help coordinate this transition. If the tools aren’t serving us in this purpose or there are better tools – then we can go about creating or using the tools we need. Because the movement isn’t about creating tools. The movement is about co-creating a growing diversity of regenerative civilizations and realities for our families to inhabit.
With Love we invite you on this journey to heal together.
