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Example DNA, Parent and Ecosystem Genes

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ThereSo, we've outlined the vessel and learned about the fundamental building blocks of the DHO.
Some questions still remain for any intrepid explorer:

  • What seas do you plan to sail? (start to determine the vessel features required)
  • What type of vessel to do you need? (A deep keeled, slim vessel to cut through high waves, or a wide-bottom cargo vessel shorter coastal journeys?)
  • What fundamental building blocks should/could be transferred from a parent entity offering an incubation quest?
  • What building blocks will be explicitly coded from the ecosystem itself?
    • Some DHO's may form outside the SEEDS ecosystem as the phenomena spreads, but many of those we are addressing here will share the same ecosystem.
      • Will they simply be collections of individuals forming cells within a common ecosystem and some familiarity with the SEEDS constitution?
      • Will something more be shared amongst multiple DHO's?
      • What coding will be ecosystem-wide and how explicitly is this utilised in the overall DNA structure?

Some example building blocks now emerging:

Example RNA structures:
There are recent talkposts in the Samara space and discussion about taking inspiration from the SCARF model (Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness). Aims:

  1. Create processes on a group level that prevent or reduce a threat response in the individual.
    • (Outside in change: external 3rd person change > Individual 2nd & 1st person internal  change > org wide internal change)
  1. Agree standard learning processes specifically for higher/lower threat scan results; to help members grow and gain more insight as a result of tensions.
    • (Inside out change: Internal Individual 1st person change > Internal Group 2nd person change > external 3rd person learning recorded)

A model like this is like a piece of RNA with which an organisation can 'code' it's activities. 

Example DNA/RNA technology:

The Heroine's/Hero's Journey is another model discussed frequently in Samara meetings. This is traditionally applied to individuals or individual stories, but can be converted to speak to the archetypal journey of forming and growing a DHO.

This model could be used to judge the right time to use differentother tools and methods.methods At the same timebecause it not only speaks to being applied in specific situations, but to common stages in ongoing and perpetual cycles of learning. It could help Samarans and new and future DHO's to sense into and align around the stages we are already going through.through as individuals and groups. It could help members and different sub-groups to respond with awareness and acceptance of appropriate co-created, agreed game rules for each stage. 

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The hero/heroine's journeys are easy to see as just another model or methodology.
There is a fundamental difference, however, between these two types of modelling:

    1. A model that is formed to be applied to a specific set of circumstances or contexts. We see this with multiple highly effective models designed for a purpose. Some of these are widely applicable, but still 'outside-in' formulated.
    2. A model which is identified and refined from a deeply embedded, pervasive and longstanding pattern that already defines behaviour and perception. TheseThe 'mono-myths' of the Hero & Heroine's journeys are just that. These
      • The journey descriptions and phases describe the most basic cycles humans go through andduring howcycles of success against all odds.
      • They speak to the human needs and subconscious parts ofways our systemindividual perceivesand social systems perceive learning and success.

    The Hero/Heroine's Journey is an Emergent model. It has an ideal use case: determining how and when to use other models, tools, processes and cultural values. Checking what is happening in this way (which builds on Hypha's 'org scan' process), would channel rhythms dynamically to create safety or many other desired regenerative organisational 'states'.

    This dynamic way of adjusting rhythm:

    • Still gives structure and direction
    • Explicitly encourages a sense-and-respond process
    • Could prove useful in allowing flexible, yet fundamentally patterned tools for new DHO's. 

    It is interesting to reflect on this and see that Hypha seems to have more of a masculine cycle, at least with their focus on building and launching tools and services. Samara has created a much more feminine space for emergence and quality. Obviously any organization must balance masculine and feminine in order to both sense and act in an effective balance. An organization which is too stuck in action is missing opportunities and growthgrowth. and anAn organisation too focused on sensing may be too slow or ineffective. SomeBesides this balance, however, some DHO's will need to be primarily more masculine or feminine in quality depending on their purpose and activities. 

    Ecosystem RNA and shared DNA? :

    It would also be possible to combine these dynamic methods with some of the regenerative and thrive-ability patterns named in the SEEDS Constitution. The Constitution Part 1 is a compass, which is already used by many to navigate and actualize within the game of SEEDS.

    For example, the three principles of life (article 3 of the Constitution) relates to the expansion and contraction mentioned above in Samara. These are held and nurtured by the 4 suns (external) and 4 moons (inward) - which make the 8 values.

    Read through the Principles of Life copied below from the current SEEDS constitution. What connections do you see?

    "ARTICLE 3 - PRINCIPLES OF LIFE 3.0

    This Constitution is our compass for guiding how SEEDS grows, develops, and evolves in harmony with the evolutionary process of life, based on three essential life principles:

    3.1 We acknowledge how our universe exists and evolves as a single unified entity, an undividable wholeness. The universe is a single being.

    3.1.1 This evolutionary principle helps us understand how we each form part of that wholeness and how to design and relate from this wholeness.

    3.2 We acknowledge how our universe evolves coherently and is finely tuned to make life possible. The universe evolves through deepening coherence and increasing complexity.

    3.2.1 This evolutionary principle guides us how to evolve and embody complexity in a way that is coherent with the wisdom of life, to finely tune our systems to become more generative (as opposed to the degenerative growth of dominating systems).

    3.3 We acknowledge our universe as an expression of consciousness, a continual learning journey of discovery through which we develop our capacities to thrive together. We actualize our consciousness by learning, experimenting, collaborating, and sharing together.

    3.3.1 This evolutionary principle reminds us to honour systemic autonomy and autopoiesis (self-creation, regulation and adaptation) in the way we grow, expand and evolve this Renaissance as a consciousness increasing process."

    A final question: how would this apply in a more outreach/seeds spreading facing org like Samara, which does not primarily focus on building tools like Hypha?

    There are potential synergies here for collaboration with the Movement Building Circle within Hypha. Samara and MBC could be synergised in a way which links directly to the SEEDS constitution, while uniquely applying this synergy to their own context.

    Consider the huge wave of organisational change on the horizon.
    Consider unknown numbers of DHO's predicted to form very soon within the SEEDS ecosystem.
    We have used the analogy of new DHO's forming as in the mitosis of cells. The forming of a new cell retains almost all of the original DNA. IsHow much and in what way is that the case here? 

    Final questions to ponder:

    • How would this apply in a more outreach/seeds spreading facing org like Samara, which does not primarily focus on building tools like Hypha?

    • With numerous wildly differing DHO's forming and evolving their own DNA, what ties them all together? The ecosystem does in some ways. The origins do in others.
    • How do we foster flexibility and a fundamental cohesiveness in the structural and operational realities across the network?
    • How do we cohere our rhythms with something fundamental across the network and encourage a free and unique expression in each case?

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