JuliesConcept

CONCEPT: ''To engage heart to heart connection in supportive spaces (be it an individual or within a shared place, face-to-face or on-line). The development of a network of supporting roles, structures and activities that become the center (A Commons) of connecting, engaging and supporting people and partners to invest and contribute in their own well-being and the well-being of others.

• Our start-up centers begin with individuals as spaces. From which groups, teams and distributive networks (including their environments, activities and strategies)become centers that logically link and connect inviduals, groups and systems, based on alignment of principles and purpose for a healthy society.

• Our premise is to start small, and support the development of teams and generative leaders who orient, support and guide more start-ups and more leaders. Our mission is to seed our work in small ways, based on individual and team capacity, yet at the same time we are positioning ourselves to go to scale in a big interconnected way.

• The individual and collective work of our centers embrace the theory that individuals, families, organizations and community are part of an interdependent and connected human system. As such, everything else unfolds out of us (these individual spaces that become public networking centers that give life to the greater communities we live and engage within). Our goal, even if it is 40 years or more in the future, is to be part of the evolution of the Greater commons which is the unfolding of our common centers(cf GlobalChicago:PatternLanguage for reference to unfolding life out of design 'centers'). Consistent with the JourneyToPeace notion of 'zones of peace, in which ordinary people accomplish extraordinary acts of kindness for the betterment of humanity.'''

A SHARED SPACE

A shared space where everyone is visible and can be credited for their contribution. A place shared by multiple entities that facilitates mutual sharing of ideas, purpose and task in a trust-worthy environment free from any one agenda, yet educive to organizing around a unified and aligned voice for the collective good of the whole.