Seeding a global maternal gift economy
NGL started in September 2017, and we have been experimenting, ever since, with how far we can go purely on the basis of the core principle of resources flowing from where they exist to where they are needed within willingness. At present, this means the following:
- All the work that happens within NGL is based on this principle, except where our own patriarchal conditioning interferes, something we engage with ongoingly. All our work is done within teams. We have no bosses. No one tells anyone else what to do. When capacity isn’t there, we don’t mask it with incentives or pressure and we mourn the voids that then exist. Decision making is widely distributed and our ways of functioning arise from organic learning.
- Every last bit of what it takes to sustain our work, both in terms of human capacity and in terms of financial resources, comes to us through gifting. Some money comes to us when people attend learning events or when we work with individuals, groups, organizations, communities, or movements. Then, three times a year, we ask for financial gifts in the following way:
- We make our needs known within NGL, as individual and as pods. At present, there are over 30 people who are invited to make requests based on their engagement with NGL who are living on three different continents.
- We make the totality of the needs known to our larger community, and then, as a whole, we ask our community for support.
- We distribute what we have aiming to give everyone their minimum request and, beyond that, prioritizing vital functions.
In all these ways, we see ourselves as bringing reverence to the material plane of existence, caring for everyone who works with us within capacity, and seeding a global maternal gift economy, starting with 30 people on three continents for whom all or part of our sustainability is dependent on what comes to us.
Much of what has emerged from these experiments is now available in various packets within the “Restoring Flow” category: “Restoring Flow Using NVC”, “Practical Aspects of Restoring Flow”, and “Working for Transformation without Recreating the Past”.
Do you feel called to support us financially? Click here.
NGL started in September 2017, and we have been experimenting, ever since, with how far we can go purely on the basis of the core principle of resources flowing from where they exist to where they are needed within willingness. At present, this means the following:
- All the work that happens within NGL is based on this principle, except where our own patriarchal conditioning interferes, something we engage with ongoingly. All our work is done within teams. We have no bosses. No one tells anyone else what to do. When capacity isn’t there, we don’t mask it with incentives or pressure and we mourn the voids that then exist. Decision making is widely distributed and our ways of functioning arise from organic learning.
- Every last bit of what it takes to sustain our work, both in terms of human capacity and in terms of financial resources, comes to us through gifting. Some money comes to us when people attend learning events or when we work with individuals, groups, organizations, communities, or movements. Then, three times a year, we ask for financial gifts in the following way:
- We make our needs known within NGL, as individual and as pods. At present, there are over 30 people who are invited to make requests based on their engagement with NGL who are living on three different continents.
- We make the totality of the needs known to our larger community, and then, as a whole, we ask our community for support.
- We distribute what we have aiming to give everyone their minimum request and, beyond that, prioritizing vital functions.
In all these ways, we see ourselves as bringing reverence to the material plane of existence, caring for everyone who works with us within capacity, and seeding a global maternal gift economy, starting with 30 people on three continents for whom all or part of our sustainability is dependent on what comes to us.
Much of what has emerged from these experiments is now available in various packets within the “Restoring Flow” category: “Restoring Flow Using NVC”, “Practical Aspects of Restoring Flow”, and “Working for Transformation without Recreating the Past”.
Do you feel called to support us financially? Click here.
NGL started in September 2017, and we have been experimenting, ever since, with how far we can go purely on the basis of the core principle of resources flowing from where they exist to where they are needed within willingness. At present, this means the following:
- All the work that happens within NGL is based on this principle, except where our own patriarchal conditioning interferes, something we engage with ongoingly. All our work is done within teams. We have no bosses. No one tells anyone else what to do. When capacity isn’t there, we don’t mask it with incentives or pressure and we mourn the voids that then exist. Decision making is widely distributed and our ways of functioning arise from organic learning.
- Every last bit of what it takes to sustain our work, both in terms of human capacity and in terms of financial resources, comes to us through gifting. Some money comes to us when people attend learning events or when we work with individuals, groups, organizations, communities, or movements. Then, three times a year, we ask for financial gifts in the following way:
- We make our needs known within NGL, as individual and as pods. At present, there are over 30 people who are invited to make requests based on their engagement with NGL who are living on three different continents.
- We make the totality of the needs known to our larger community, and then, as a whole, we ask our community for support.
- We distribute what we have aiming to give everyone their minimum request and, beyond that, prioritizing vital functions.
In all these ways, we see ourselves as bringing reverence to the material plane of existence, caring for everyone who works with us within capacity, and seeding a global maternal gift economy, starting with 30 people on three continents for whom all or part of our sustainability is dependent on what comes to us.
Much of what has emerged from these experiments is now available in various packets within the “Restoring Flow” category: “Restoring Flow Using NVC”, “Practical Aspects of Restoring Flow”, and “Working for Transformation without Recreating the Past”.