The Container:  Holding Space and Weaving Worlds

What

• Cross-Community Digital Event Space (Coordination)

• The Container: A Holding Place for Holding Space.  (Membrane for Wellbeing and Welldoing)

• The Weave: Psycho Tech · Social Process Tech · Digital Tech · Cultural Co-Evolutionary Process (Cultural DNA and the Interstitium of the Cultural Soma)

Function

• Organizational Ecosystem Cultivation - cultural curation, coordinating communities, holding container, building and maintaining high trust relationships

• Learning Community - showcases various people, projects, and communities building out the societal technologies and invites participants to practice with and apply the technologies together

• Community of Practice - invites participants to join in an ecology of collaborative practice oriented toward intrapersonal and interpersonal communication

• Communication: Sharing Video Zooms/Podcast Communication of sessions on mainstream platforms

How

• Uses consistent format to clearly articulate complex technologies, making them accessible to a wider audience. (e.g. see Upgrading Society Podcast communications framework and Wired 5 Levels of Difficulty ).

• Invites participants to learn about the technologies at various levels of complexity and then use the novel tech, ask questions, and offer feedback.

• Collects content on a platform portal, like a youtube channel or podcast for asynchronous information dissemination.

• Right Orientation: situates each technology in its proper relational context with a loose and descriptive ontology for coordinating and cultivating cohesion within emergent culture.

• Offers a participatory component that includes the intrapersonal dimension. (e.g. see The Stoa and Meditating with Vervanke community of practice model or even Real Life Programs and potentially apps like Positive Intelligence )

• Offers a participatory component that includes the interpersonal  dimension. (e.g. see Collective Presencing , Prosocial World , Authentic Relating , World Cafe , Emergent Dialogue facilitated community of practice models or even potentially apps like Warm Space )

• Communicates specifics about what has been mapped – projects, people, and relationships. This content can function as a model for sharing a multidimensional view of the CTA space (e.g. see holochain “ Ecosystem Sessions ” communication model David Atkinson.)

Theory of Co-Evolutionary Emergence

Four areas of exploration, inquiry, practice, and co-evolutionary development for coordination (informed by a four quadrant model ):

1. Psycho Technologies can be categorized as subjective processes that develop internal human capacity ( examples include mindfulness, yoga, meditation, sensory deprivation, psychoactive compounds, neurofeedback, etc).

2. Social Process Technologies can be categorized as an intersubjective process that determine how groups come together and take action (examples include delegative democracy, Bohmian dialogue, liberating structures, Sociocracy, etc)

3. Social Technologies can be categorized as interobjective networks of information technology that use digital resources in order to influence social processes (examples include the internet, social networking platforms, social media, IOT, Govtech).

4. Emergent Technologies can be categorized as complex interdependent meshworks of psychotechnology, social process technology, and social technology (examples include cultural tech, societal tech, wisdom tech, hyperstructures, etc.)

The above model is something I have uniquely developed with intent to communicate complex collaborative process and societal technology stacks. A significant portion of my work with The Container has been dedicated to surveying and mapping a set of resources, methodologies, modalities, tools, frameworks, communities, and technologies for application and implementation with regard to orienting attention, dialogical group process , data visualization, participatory culture , open source learning , and civic technology / gov tech informed by cultural evolutionary theory and digital memetic theory .

I’ve created this cultural framework and online curriculum outline from applied studies in the following areas:

• Wisdom Sciences - Psychology & Cognitive Science

• Social Psychology & Knowledge Management

• Information and Communication Sciences

• Organizational and Management Sciences

• Educational Theory

Considerations and Clarification

The Container is not trying to reinvent the wheel within its own enclosure, but instead function as a relational network to coordinate communities already doing good work. One asset of this project is the existing mapping of communities and technologies that I have done that has synthesis with The Collaborative Technology Alliance. Additionally, personal relationships with the stewards of these communities exist and may be further developed if it is in service to the goals of the CTA.

For example, imagine a cross community event that coordinates The Stoa with the CTA, whereby the CTA engages in wisdom practices while The Stoa learns about Prosocial technologies or uses a decision making or sensemaking app. This is intended to push the boundaries and capacities of both communities and potentially build trusting relationships across relational fields and network clusters.

Other potential community network cross-pollination examples include: The Human Data Commons, ParTeck (Participatory Technology), Liminal Dao, The Stoa (Peter Limberg), The Liminal Web (e.g. Maple (Daniel Thorson), Awakening From the Meaning Crisis Community (John Vervaeke), Regenerative Communities, Web 3, Authentic Relating and Circling Communities, Kernel Community, Mutations Salon, Emergent Commons, Game B, Integral Communities, Denizen (Jenny Steffanoti), and many more.

The Container is open to exploring various legal models for structuring, resourcing and agreements (e.g collaborative, consortium, cooperative, partnership network, DAOs, etc.)

Intended Outcomes

• It may be able to function as an audio-visual media-centered participatory and educational knowledge base for the CTA and overlapping communities

• Episodes and sessions may function as a cultural pattern repository for the field

• Sessions may be able to enable participants to:

  • meet and build trusting relationships with new and adjacent communities who hold shared values and missions

  • enable CTA participants to expand their capacity for wise discernment and deepen their embodiment practice

  • offer CTA developers space to share their projects, users to experience and offer feedback (e.g. needs/feature use cases, ui/ux, light testing QA) on their platforms, and potential future community adoption

  • offer non technical participants access and understanding about new, unfamiliar, and/or novel technologies, potentially with onboarding support

  • offer coordination, access and transparency across communities of mutuality

  • attract the attention of others for consistent and steady growth, continued funding and mainstream support from

Name(s)

Primary Proposal Contributor: Turquoise Sound 

Team Composition: Currently Open; Funding Contingent Commitment  (List of potential team members includes: Turquoise Sound, Laure X Cast, Jared Lucas, Adam Wright, Dounia Saeme, Kim Willis, Naryan Wong, Tibet Sprague, Keala z Young, Day Waterbury, and others?

Email Address 

Booking@TaoTeTurquoise.Com

Select your name from the list of CTA Membership

Turquoise Sound

Have all project team members signed the CTA pledge? * 

Yes

Project Name  *

The Container

Project Area * What project area does this proposal align with? Feel free to select more than one.  

Social interoperability 

Other  

Project Summary * 

• Problem being addressed: Coordination, Communication, Funding

• Who the problem is being solved for: Ecosystem

• Proposed Solution: See Above

Feel free to add links to websites, documents, and other relevant information as applicable. 

Website:  https://TheContainer.io

Donations: http://FutureCulture.Fund

About Me: TURQUOISE SOUND - ABOUT ME

How does this project align with CTA principles? 

• Wellbeing is relational. This intends to intimacy across the vectors of trust and transparency.

• Co-creation this project intends to be an emergent collaboration whereby the whole community can participate.

• Agency is supported through developmental process of being, doing, and becoming (e.g. learning, growing, practicing, and , 

• Justice, 

• Openness is fostered by brave, courage, and safe-enough spaces that lean into open-mindedness, imagination, creativity and insight. Communities of practice may facilitate play to encourage these shared experiences of belonging.

• Emergence is built into the framework of the offering and is open to shift, change, develop, and co-evolve with others in and around the space.

What is the long-term and short-term desired outcome?  *

• It may be able to function as an audio-visual media-centered participatory and educational knowledge base for the CTA and overlapping communities

• Episodes and sessions may function as a cultural pattern repository for the field

• Sessions may be able to enable participants to:

  • meet and build trusting relationships with new and adjacent communities who hold shared values and missions

  • enable CTA participants to expand their capacity for wise discernment and deepen their embodiment practice

  • offer CTA developers space to share their projects, users to experience and offer feedback on their platforms

  • offer non technical participants access and new, unfamiliar, and/or novel technologies, potentially with onboarding support

  • offer coordination, access and transparency across communities of mutuality

  • attract the attention of others for consistent and steady growth, continued funding and mainstream support from

What are the key milestones to accomplish in a 3-6 month period? *

• Build relationship with team, find our synergistic puzzle pieces, see in what ways we can move forward together

• Attend the Social Cohesion event with Tibet, Laure, and anyone else.

• Consider strategy and deliverables.

• Potential Test Case: Invite Emerge Bay Area and Emerge Toronto participants to engage with CTA in Container.io context.

• Create a funding dependent number of events, sessions, and content.

• Present, share or feature this project at future local and global events (ex. Emerge Toronto, Emerge Bay Area, etc.)

What team and funding requirements are needed to accomplish milestones?  *

I would offer that there may be potential synergy between the following people: Douma Saeme, Laure X Cast, Kim Willis, Jared Lucas, and myself (open to others and changes). Between the six listed above, I believe we have the skills for the following (some of which we may have already scaffolded and built out):

• Technology (e.g. website creation, business infrastructure)

• Coordination Communications Across Groups/Communities

• Operations & Digital Event Planning

• Hosting, Facilitation, Presentation

• Production/Content Creation

• Marketing Brand Strategy

• Other

Because this potentially bundles at least 3 proposals (or more) and would be oriented towards promotion, resourcing, and funding other project proposals, I would suggest between $15k - $30k depending on needs of other proposals.

This proposal could also be seen as two paired and highly coordinated teams/projects: (a) facilitated social process practice and (b) communications content generation as cultural artifacts for dissemination.

Budget:

A fulltime team of 6 employees might cost roughly $30k USD a month at median salary in the United States. Team needs, time commitments, skill set, timeline, deliverables, and other factors are all yet to be determined. This is a decision that ought to be made by the team that organizes and coalesces around this potential. Additional considerations for other proposals will impact the budget and prioritization of deliverables such that the collective decision making governance process will likely define its own needs and budget.

Is this a proposal for an existing or new project? *

Both - I’ve been holding frame, strategy, relationships, and intention for this offering for at least 3 years, but it just seems as if this year may be the first opportunity for it to manifest in a physical way.

Existing New How does this proposal build on existing efforts in the collaborative tech space? 

It facilitates network weaving across what exists via organizational ecosystem cultivation, coordination, and relationship building. We will need and would like to use the mapping projects and potentially the resource libraries that exist or will be built.

Is there anything else you would like to include in this proposal that has not been asked already?

I love you. You're a beautiful human being and dear soul and I'm so grateful you exist.

Proposals Willing To Collaborate

Primary Potential Collaborators:

• Fractals

• Collaboration + Inclusion 

• Ontological Commoning to Support Collaboration

• Integral Interoperability Framework

Secondary Potential Collaborators/Helpful Tools:

• WING

• CTA Resource Library

• Interoperable & Dynamic CTA Ecosystem Map

• Seriously web app and plugin

Is there anything else you would like to include in this proposal that has not been asked already?

I love you. You're a beautiful human being and dearly beloved soul and I'm so grateful you exist.