At Ultimate Collaboration, a sub-project of Hermes' Loom, we start off by collecting links to projects in similar realms, i.e. everything around holistic regenerative transformation. By checking out the mentioned links, you might get a better idea of what that means.
Another main intention of this page is to illustrate that the ideas supported by Hermes' Loom are certainly not new â after all, the mission of Hermes' Loom is to weave together and to connect what already exists, not to reinvent the wheel. At same time, so far the mentioned projects don't seem to be interconnected in the all-addressing way we intend.
If you would like to add any links, please raise an issue on GitHub or contact [email protected].
Note that all links stem purely from online research. Being listed here does not necessarily imply endorsement, and some links are here to show how NOT to do it. This list is still pretty messy, I know. Some links might be in wrong categories.
Generalized frameworks
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language
- https://www.u-school.org/
- âto activate a shift in individuals and collectives from ego- to eco-system consciousness, for the healing and regeneration of self, society and planetâ
- https://www.u-school.org/acupuncture-points
- really nice that it always says âHow are we addressing it?â
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_U
- The essence of presencing is that these two selves â our current self and our best future self â meet at the bottom of the U and begin to listen and resonate with each other. Once a group crosses this threshold, nothing remains the same. Individual members and the group as a whole begin to operate with a heightened level of energy and sense of future possibility. Often they then begin to function as an intentional vehicle for an emerging future.
- https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/home
- https://weltethos-institut.org/
Mapping efforts
- https://web.archive.org/web/20211024000905/https://enrichlist.org/the-list/#.YXSkI-zP32c
- https://wiki.secondrenaissance.net/wiki/An_overview_of_related_ecosystem_mapping_efforts
- https://kumu.io/Naryan/the-flourishing-of-all-living-things
- It's like how there are Complexity Theory folks and Embodied Complexity folks. I'm using maps like they are a part of my body, not like a tool that exists independent of the mapper.
- https://rsdsymposium.org/embodied-complexity-exploring-complexity-and-playing-with-tensions-through-embodied-experiences/
Communities
Community building
- Foundation for Intentional Community: https://www.ic.org/
- Federation of Egalitarian Communities: https://www.thefec.org/
- Global Ecovillage Network: https://ecovillage.org/
- resources
- platforms
- https://cityoftelosa.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhalanstĂšre
- https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Global_Village_Construction_Set
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fissionâfusion_society
Real communities
- Burning Man community
- Radical Faeries
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_Faeries
- https://blog.queerburners.org/2-tribes-burner-v-faerie
- https://burningbooks.com/products/witchcraft-and-the-gay-counterculture
- https://www.folleterre.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/2022-FETCH-Book.pdf
- https://www.folleterre.org/en/about-radical-faeries/
- https://www.nomenus.org/faerie-links/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atarashiki-mura
- http://www.acorncommunity.org/?page_id=134
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findhorn_Foundation
- https://www.instagram.com/crunchy.town
- https://chuffed.org/project/help-save-crunchy-town
- failed because of lack of location and money
- https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auroville
- https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damanhur_(Lebensgemeinschaft)
- different membership stages and "paths"
- https://www.kliemannsland.de/
- https://www.teh.net/
Organizations and leadership
- https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/
- https://www.kollektivefuehrung.de/ueber-uns/
- https://presencinginstitute.org/
- https://www.holacracy.org/
- https://www.responsive.org/manifesto
- https://patterns.sociocracy30.org/principles.html
- https://www.sociocracyforall.org/
- overlap with Youth and education, Permaculture, NGO and non-profits, Activism, Free & Open Source Contents, Intentional Communities, Cooperatives
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_organisation
- https://www.kollektivefuehrung.de/ueber-uns/
- dialogue
Movements
Second Renaissance and Game B
- https://lifeitself.org/
- according to a member: The reason âLife Itselfâ is chosen for this organisation though, as far as I can tell, is that itâs a community of people who for the most part believe that the foundational views and values of modernity/postmodernity/the enlightenment, while not inherently bad, encourage a world and way of being which donât fully capture the fullness and possibilities of human life or life in general, and tend to neglect things like inner development, the interconnectedness of all things, and the inherent mystery of being here. A lot of people here think that we need a civilisational transition into something else, and this space acts as a way to explore what these shifts in views and values looks like.
- https://wiki.secondrenaissance.net/wiki/An_overview_of_related_ecosystem_mapping_efforts
- https://www.ama-project.org/explore/?vis=map
- https://www.gameb.wiki/index.php?title=Category:Projects
- In short, the goal of GameB is a metastable society emphasizing human wellbeing built on good values that we will be happy to call home and we will be proud to leave to our descendants. (https://medium.com/@memetic007/a-journey-to-gameb-4fb13772bcf3)
- https://www.limicon2024.com/
- https://www.philosophyforlife.org/blog/the-florentine-moment
Effective Altruism
Commons
Secret societies
- free masons
- wandering
Monists
Unified science
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystematizitÀt_(Wissenschaftstheorie)
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einheitswissenschaft
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Encyclopedia_of_Unified_Science
Wikimedia
Educational resources
- https://www.globalonenessproject.org/ (mostly focused on educational resources, not so much community building or other action)
- https://www.mindvalley.com/ (but very âAmericanâ)
- https://theshiftnetwork.com/about (even more almost disgustingly American with its âCEOâ and âCIOâ)
- https://worldcitizen.school/
Mapping and measuring well-being
- https://worlddatabaseofhappiness.eur.nl/
- https://hedonometer.org/timeseries/en_all/?from=2008-09-09&to=2023-05-26
- Qualia Research Institute: attempting to formalize the subjective experience: https://qri.org/
- https://www.happinessresearchinstitute.com/
- WALY = Wellbeing Adjusted Life Years: A revolutionizing wellbeing metric for greater happiness returns on investment
- https://www.happinessresearchinstitute.com/happinessresearch
- âBroadly speaking, three categories influence the happiness level of people. Those we cannot change (biology), those we can change over time (policies), and those we can change tomorrow (behavior). Our focus is on policies and behavior.â
- https://www.oecd.org/statistics/OECD-Better-Life-Index-2013-definitions.pdf
- subjective well-being is just an afterthought on the last page for them (!)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK189562/ seems like they used very simplistic questions to measure well-being!
- the World Happiness Report 2016 argues that well-being inequality has a stronger negative impact on how we feel about our live than income inequality. (!!!)
- https://worldhappinesssummit.com/como-wellbeing-manifesto/
Policymaking
- the Finnish government creating a âCommittee for the Futureâ with members from different Finnish parties, which envisions what people want their future to look like and stimulates policy-making accordingly
- âItâs not enough to gather knowledge of things that might happen in the future. People also need the energy, and hope, that only positive visions can give. We should envision futures that people really and truly want to be a part of. That enables empowering public engagementâ (Joakim Strand, Chairman of the Committee for the Future, see here)
- European Union
- https://erc.europa.eu/homepage
- cohesion politics
- https://www.bmwk.de/Redaktion/DE/Artikel/Europa/eu-kohaesions-und-strukturpolitik.html
- but problem: the EU only intervenes if goals cannot be achieved at national or municipal level! huge distance between decision-makers and the population due to centralization!
- https://www.beyond-growth-2023.eu/about-beyond-growth/
- https://bhutan-hcg.org/en/about-bhutan/culture/gnh
- https://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/blob/2585008/d444590d5a7741acc6e37a142959170e/ll-ffp-data.pdf (ab Seite 16: Leitlinien unseres auĂenpolitischen Handelns)
- organizations advocating for political change towards humanism (especially through rationality)
- https://freiheitsrechte.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polity
Changemakers
Orientation
- https://www.charitynavigator.org/
- https://www.every.org/about-us
- websites linked to in âActive Hopeâ by Joanna Macy
Personal
- https://innerdevelopmentgoals.org/framework/
- https://www.heartmath.org/about-us/hmi-mission/
- Our Mission: To co-create a kinder, more compassionate world by conducting interconnectivity research and providing heart-based, science-proven tools for raising humanityâs baseline consciousness from separation and discord to compassionate care and cooperation.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Childre
- https://www.viacharacter.org/
- https://www.museumofhappiness.org/
- https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/
- https://www.urban.org/about/mission-and-values
Death
- https://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/
- https://welcome.storyworth.com/
- https://octopuslegacy.com/
- https://www.empathy.com/
- https://www.dghs.de/
- https://www.wecroak.com/
- https://www.iwgddb.com/
- https://www.adec.org/
- https://amp.focus.de/familie/erziehung/kita-auf-einem-friedhof-abenteuerspielplatz-zwischen-graebern_id_4302572.html
Sexual health
- https://thepleasureproject.org/the-pleasure-principles/
- https://www.omgyes.com/
- principles to create sex-positive spaces from Felix Ruckert: https://player.vimeo.com/video/429595410?loop=0&_=1&
- https://pixiepeemagic.com/
- https://www.domina-portrait.com/
- https://intimateartscenter.com/
Societal
- https://sdgs.un.org/goals
- https://www.moralambition.eu/
- https://thesocialchangenest.org/our-story/
- https://www.ashoka.org/
- https://dosomething.org/
- https://www.ted.com/about
- https://actionforhappiness.org/10-keys
- the fact that they have an app with an integrated social network is amazing!
- https://transitionnetwork.org/about-the-movement/what-is-transition/principles-2/
- https://practicalaction.org/our-aims/
- https://okfn.de/profil/
- https://www.rotary.org/en/about-rotary
- https://www.oneyoungworld.com/our-values
- https://earthcharter.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/echarter_english.pdf?x68525
Human rights
- Free speech: https://www.pen-deutschland.de/pen-charta/ â âChartaâ for writers
- Peacebuilding: https://www.sfcg.org/
- https://transformdrugs.org/
- https://hri.global/
- Global Network of Sex Work Projects: https://www.nswp.org/
Children
- https://www.potenzialriesen.de/
- https://campuspress.yale.edu/infantlab/
- https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Zuckowski
- Zuckowski ist der neue Knigge!
- https://www.superheldenkids.de/
Economy
Alternative economic models
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_economics
- Initiative fĂŒr NatĂŒrliche Wirtschaftsordnung: https://inwo.de/, Fairconomy: https://fairconomy.org/
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinwohl-Ăkonomie, Economy for the Common Good, https://www.ecogood.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy
- https://centerforneweconomics.org/about/our-mission/
- https://www.consciouscapitalism.org/mission-and-vision
- https://www.gabv.org/ (Global Alliance for Banking on Values) â also look into all the member banks!
- https://weall.org/
- https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/movement/theory-of-change/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amartya_Sen
- https://postgrowth.org/
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Globales_Wirtschaftsethos
- https://worldcitizen.school/event/marktplatz-fuer-gute-geschaefte-2024/
- finsubs
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soziale_%C3%96kologie_(Bookchin)
- mutual promotion and support of businesses: https://hundert-prozent-amerang.de/gewerbeverzeichnis/
Alternative currencies
- https://brixtonpound.org/
- https://www.private-banking-magazin.de/investitionen-in-lokalwaehrung-bleiben-interessant/
Land ownership
- Bodenstiftung: https://www.stadtbodenstiftung.de/ueber-uns-2/
- Community Land Trust: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Land_Trust
- Land stewardship: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_stewardship
Alternative financing
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endowment_(Finanzierung)
- Exit to community
- Fördermittel und Fundraising fĂŒr die politische Bildung: https://www.bpb.de/die-bpb/foerderung/akquisos/
- inheritance fundraising: https://www.bpb.de/die-bpb/foerderung/akquisos/286785/checkliste-voraussetzungen-fuer-erbschaftsfundraising/
- financing through donations and dividends
- prefer donations from wealthy private individuals rather than applying for funding from bureaucratic foundations
- concept of dreams: https://coda.io/@hugi/freud-2024-public
- Investors
- https://www.carbonequity.com/
- https://www.valleyforgecapital.com/philosophy
- https://www.fastcompany.com/world-changing-ideas/list
- https://philea.eu/
Asset managers
Legal forms
- vermögensverwaltende Stiftung (asset-managing foundation)
- https://www.hausdesstiftens.org/
- https://www.freiburger-vm.de/vermoegensverwaltung/fuer-stiftungen
- Deutsche Stiftungsagentur
- vermögensverwaltenden Stiftung & Co. KG als nicht gewerblich geprÀgte Personengesellschaft: https://www.pe-magazin.de/bfh-klaert-offene-rechtsfragen-zur-vermoegensverwaltenden-stiftung/
- âIn der Praxis taugt die Stiftung & Co. KG insbesondere als interessante Gestaltungsvariante, um die Nachfolge und das unternehmerische Vermögen innerhalb der Familie zu sichern, dabei aber gleichzeitig eine externe â und gerade nicht durch die Familie ausgefĂŒhrte â GeschĂ€ftsfĂŒhrung zu erlauben.â
- Stiftungsfonds: https://www.private-banking-magazin.de/stiftungsmanagement-private-banking-kundenstiftung-vermoegensverwaltung/?page=3
- âRechtstechnisch handelt es sich bei einem Stiftungsfonds um eine Zustiftung zu einer bereits bestehenden Stiftung und nicht um ein selbststĂ€ndiges Stiftungsvermögen im Sinne einer Stiftung. Der Kunde grĂŒndet somit keine eigene Stiftung, wenn er den Weg ĂŒber die Gemeinschaftsstiftung wĂ€hlt â er richtet einen Stiftungsfonds innerhalb einer bereits bestehenden Stiftung ein, ist somit Zustifter. Privatkunden können das Stiftungsvermögen beziehungsweise ihren eigenen Stiftungsfonds sowohl zu Lebzeiten als auch ĂŒber eine entsprechende testamentarische VerfĂŒgung aufstocken. Daneben sind Spenden â auch in den einzelnen Stiftungsfonds hinein â möglich.â
- âDer Staat belohnt gemeinnĂŒtzige Stiftungen mit der Freistellung von Schenkung- und Erbschaftsteuern. [âŠ] Die ErtrĂ€ge, die die Stiftung alljĂ€hrlich erzielt, sind von allen Steuern befreit.â
Insurance
Corporate values
Food production
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantagon
- https://dieconvergence.de/: brings together agriculture and permaculture
- urban farming
Psychology
- positive psychology
- https://ippanetwork.org/
- https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_resources/documents/a-to-z/s/Seligman_10.pdf
- âthere is a growing literature on positive interventions that suggests that what I am going to define in a moment as the positive side of lifeâPERMA: positive emotion, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishmentâis actually buildable.â
- https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_resources/documents/a-to-z/s/Seligman_10.pdf
- https://positivepsychology.com/flourishing/
- Occupational therapy: https://www.aota.org/
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozialmedizin
- logotherapy
- https://www.klett-cotta.de/produkt/spiritualitaet-und-spirituelle-krisen-9783608430578-t-2524
- spiritual enlightenment
- https://www.igpp.de/allg/welcome.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_principle_(psychology)
- step models
- https://www.uua.org/re/tapestry/youth/wholeness/workshop2/handout1-stages-faith-development
- http://www.jugendarbeit.ch/download/ewk_oserstufen.pdf
- https://eriksholisticcornucopia.wordpress.com/2013/05/04/stages-of-faith-intro-to-m-scott-peck/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Dynamics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_theory (incl. neo-perennialism?)
- https://www.amazon.com/Ego-Dynamic-Ground-Transpersonal-Development/dp/0791422569
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jorge-Ferrer-3/publication/41547200_The_Plurality_of_Religions_and_the_Spirit_of_Pluralism_A_Participatory_Vision_of_the_Future_of_Religion/links/589cb0ed92851c599c974964/The-Plurality-of-Religions-and-the-Spirit-of-Pluralism-A-Participatory-Vision-of-the-Future-of-Religion.pdf
- https://www.sloww.co/ego-development-theory-cook-greuter/
- https://www.simplypsychology.org/erik-erikson.html
- https://www.simplypsychology.org/kohlberg.html
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egologie
- https://www.forselfactualization.com/
- https://www.eomega.org/
- https://beyondhealingcounseling.com/beyond-play/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Piagetian_theories_of_cognitive_development
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soteria_(psychiatric_treatment)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopsychosocial_model
- https://monotropism.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_psychology
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktualisierungstendenz
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posttraumatisches_Wachstum
- https://focusing.org/felt-sense/what-focusing
- drei wichtigste Reaktionsmuster auf Ă€uĂeren Druck oder EinschrĂ€nkungen
- Relationships
- https://www.heshmatiwellbeinglab.com/
- on narcissism
Ecology
- https://smallearthinstitute.com/
- https://kalliopeia.org/
- https://www.globalonenessproject.org/
- https://humansandnature.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature_deficit_disorder
- https://pragya.org/about-us
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis
- https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/
- https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Ian-L-McHarg/dp/047111460X
- https://regeneration.org/
Philosophy
- Plato
- https://uni-tuebingen.de/fakultaeten/philosophische-fakultaet/fachbereiche/altertums-und-kunstwissenschaften/philologisches-seminar/forschung/tuebinger-platon-archiv/
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egil_A._Wyller
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protologie
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonische_Akademie
- Pragmatism
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_(Literatur)
- âSie regen vielmehr weitere literarische oder intellektuelle Produktion an, die die FrĂŒhromantik programmatisch als gesellig-gemeinschaftliche, nĂ€mlich als âSymphilosophierenâ verstanden hat.â
- https://www.kevindorst.com/
- âI develop and deploy better models of rationality to help refine our interpretation of the empirical results, and square them with our own experiences of (ir)rationality.â
Architecture and design
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Urbanism
- âThese ideas can all be circled back to two concepts: building a sense of community and the development of ecological practices.â
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Calthorpe
- https://verein-stadtbild-deutschland.org/
- https://www.amazon.de/Timeless-Building-Center-Environmental-Structure/dp/0195024028
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persischer_Garten
- https://www.biophiliccities.org/
- bioarchitecture, âEngineered Living Materialsâ
- https://www.terreform.org/home-alive, âdeveloping restorative building methods to enrich flourishing multi-species ecosystemsâ
- https://valldaura.net/
- arborsculpture
- https://www.lawnstarter.com/blog/tree-care/introduction-arborsculpture-advanced-tree-training-techniques/
- https://humanecology.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk161/files/inline-files/TLink.pdf
- book: How to Grow a Chair - The Art of Tree Trunk Topiary
- https://www.abebooks.com/Anleitung-Formobstzucht-Sonderabdruck-praktischen-Ratgeber-Obst-/18313175945/bd
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wissenschafts%C3%A4sthetik
- https://wissenschaft-kunst.de/irene-daum-psychologie-und-kunst/
- âa designerâs job is not to have all the right answers, but to know the right questions and who to askâ
- â something to become expected as a mark of quality
Religion and politics
- https://religiondatabase.org/landing
- BahĂĄâĂ
- https://buddhastiftung.org/
- https://www.orderofmalta.int/about-the-order-of-malta/spiritual-commitment/
- three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BodhipakkhiyÄdhammÄ and especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BodhipathapradÄ«pa, three stages
- listener: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ĆrÄvakayÄna
- solitary buddha (enlightened, but not teaching): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PratyekabuddhayÄna
- enlightened and teaching: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahayana (BodhisattvayÄna)
- According to the BodhipathapradÄ«pa (A Lamp for the Path to Awakening) by the Indian master AtiĆa, the central defining feature of a bodhisattva's path is the universal aspiration to end suffering for themselves and all other beings, i.e. bodhicitta.
- https://www.rael.org/happiness-academy/ (note that Raël is an UFO cult)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_virtues
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Principles_of_the_People
- https://inst-east-and-west.org/en/about/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alevism
- https://www.forum-grenzfragen.de/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_factors_(Buddhism)
- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_durch_Freude
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology_of_religion
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_origin_of_religion
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_religion
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_behavior_in_animals
- â science currently seems quite scared of taking religious emotions seriously!
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technopaganism
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BudĆ
- âModern budĆ has no external enemy, only the internal one: the ego that must be fought.â
- https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/332555/jewish/Maimonides-13-Principles-of-Faith.htm
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenism_(modern_religion)
- https://www.religion-online.org/book-chapter/chapter-1-the-possibility-of-belief/
- The first step in bringing back to modem man the possibility of belief is a negative one â the destruction of the hellenic legacy of a dualistic reality.
- A second negative step is to give up the notion of truth as unchanging and immutable.
- https://www.google.com/search?q=religious+moderation
- https://www.oikoumene.org/
- https://www.uri.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahamudra#Extraordinary_meditation_practices
- https://christianbdsm.com/
- https://www.thesymbolicworld.com/
- https://metaphysicalhumanism.org/our-beliefs/principles-of-belief/principles-at-a-glance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_propaganda
- https://eckharttolle.com/
- https://www.churchofeuthanasia.org/
Transhumanism
Psychedelics
Language
- https://panlex.org/
- Universal Esperanto Association: https://uea.org/