Yes, we would love you to become an NGL Friend!
Fox, Sabrina and Yanae are the Welcome Crew which has the purpose of creating a bridge to ease prospective and new NGL Friends experience of landing within NGL. They run regular Welcoming Sessions where new NGL Friends can meet each other and ask any questions they might have. If you are experiencing difficulty with the sign-up process and are needing support you can contact them by writing to welcoming-friends at nglcommunity.org
So what is an NGL Friend?
An NGL Friend is someone who is inspired by our vision and moved to actively join us in manifesting this vision and enjoying its fruits. You are invited to access much of what goes on in NGL. You will be like an extended family member. Being an NGL Friend is all about being a part of the action and nurturing NGL, yet without the primary responsibility for designing and maintaining it. This means you are invited to:
As a member of the community, you become a vital element of NGL, nurturing a group of practitioners and leaders as active co-learners committed to Nonviolent Global Liberation.
We are still a young and rapidly growing group, and we need a lot more nurturing than we can give. We also know that the more you engage with us, the deeper our relationship will be.
In addition to nourishing all of our spirits and pulling us all forward into deeper exploration by gifting us with the energy of your presence, curiosity, and interest – here are some additional ways we know are sure to nurture us and support NGL’s thriving:
The invitation…
We invite you to take a front-row seat to see a group of people aiming for full collaboration and grappling with what it would mean to completely undo the patriarchal paradigm. This offers you the opportunity to witness first-hand how the community functions and very tangibly get things done.
This is, we believe, a unique invitation to interact with a project of which there are very few models. We are seeding the world, gifting it, to anyone who wants to come. We offer you the opportunity to contribute and be involved with something that has become deeply meaningful to each person involved in its creation so far.
Our requests to NGL Friends
As an NGL Friend, we request that you co-hold responsibility for our commitment to the gift economy, which permeates the functioning and spirit of the whole community. Operating in the gift economy means that what we give is neither given for free nor in exchange for anything. It is given freely in complete willingness and trust that when we share what it is that we need to thrive, within a group of people who share our vision, resources will organically flow to meet those needs. This is the fundamental trust that drives all those who choose to embrace the gift economy..
4 steps to becoming an NGL Friend
At the bottom of this page, when you click “Become an NGL Friend”, you will be taken through four sections.
1. At the end of each section you will be asked to give a number between 0 and 10 relative to your level of appreciation / alignment / willingness for what you have read, with 0 being ‘Not in alignment’ and 10 being ‘Fully aligned’
2. On the second to last page, you will be asked to make a monthly contribution towards NGL’s sustainability.
3. You will then be added to a google group and receive a confirmation email.
4. After that, you will be able to access the following resources available only to NGL Friends:
We suggest having at least 30 minutes to read and reflect on the following sections.
Let’s Go!
The following four sections are intended to initiate the process of alignment between you and NGL. Please take your time reading them. Our intention in communicating with you in this way is to bring clarity to your involvement in NGL as a Friend and for that clarity to live in both your mind and in your body. The more clearly you understand the invitation by which you are welcomed into NGL, the more ease we anticipate having in meeting our purpose together. For us, NGL Friends contributes to our intent to practice openness and build relationships that will mutually support our collaboration towards nonviolent global liberation.
Before you enter more personal data we want to inform you that in accordance with Article 13 of the GDPR:
The administrator of the personal data collected in this form is Nonviolent Global Liberation.
Your personal information is collected for the following purposes:
– Processing of your personal data is necessary to deliver our service to you, without this data we are unable to register you as an NGL Friend. Collected data will be stored as long as you are registered as NGL Friend and for 3 months after your unsubscribe as NGL Friend, for claiming and defending against claims, unless a longer period is required by law.
– You have the right to request to update or correct your personal information or to withdraw or limit your consent.
– You have the right to data portability, i.e. that on your request your data will be sent directly to another company, where technically feasible.
– Your personal data will be transferred to recipients, who will indicate the legal basis and legal interest, as well as to the following categories of entities: accounting firms, law firms, IT firms, public bodies resulting from the obligation to provide access on the basis of separate law.
– You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.
As we mentioned in the introduction to Join NGL Friends, we have a number of requests of you that we want you to engage with seriously as you decide whether being an NGL Friend is a fit for you.
The overall principle we are asking of you is that you recognize the limits of our collective resources as a community, and adopt the attitude of reverence and “do no harm.” We have worked for a long time with much care to create this space. We want it to be as welcoming as we know how, and we know it’s not perfect.
We want to learn from and with you, and our capacity is limited to engage with you beyond what we offer generally. We ask that you act with awareness of being a guest in our community. We have attempted to offer as much guidance as we can to support your journey into and within NGL, and we may have not given sufficient clarity.
If so, let us know when we ask for feedback, and we will aim to find a way to offer more guidance in new ways. We deeply believe that you will learn and get a sense of belonging from attending calls and we ask that you do this with care for all of our specific requests (which mostly focus on your overall intention and focus, not concrete actions):