Relationship with Hypha Movement Building Circle (MBC)
Hypha, the organization that created SEEDS and built the technology that supports it, has also worked to grow the community of humans coming into the SEEDS ecosystem to play, learn, and collaborate in building regenerative economies and organizations. This movement building effort has been led by the Movement Building Circle (MBC) within Hypha.
If it weren't for the efforts of the MBC, Samara may have never formed. Many Samarians met each other and began exploring collaborative potential by participating in calls, events, and activities hosted by MBC. The Ambassador Academy provided an essential deep-dive into SEEDS while also building a community of support among those looking to become an Ambassador for SEEDS.
Furthermore, E-Town Halls hosted conversations on specific areas of the SEEDS movement, and opened dialogue on areas for growth and improvement. Last but not least, Bioregional Cross Pollination calls brought together active ambassadors from around the world to practice the art of ecosystem mapping, explore adoption journeys, and ask tough questions about what it will take to create truly regenerative economies where Seeds can be circulated purposefully.
All of these services and more fostered the connections of people, ideas, and initiatives that produced the right relationships for Samara's birth. See Samara's Origin Story.
As Samara senses into itself, it has come to clearly understand that a key expression of its purpose is to support local adoption pilots that are experimenting with how SEEDS (both Seeds, the currency, and all of the ecosystem services designed into the SEEDS economy and community) can deliver regenerative impact to local economies and organizations. As MBC has pioneered the creation of SEEDS pilots and continues to devote people and resources towards supporting pilot growth, this presents a potential overlap in activities among two very closely related organizations.
Many Samarians involved in its birth struggled with the question, "Should we just work with MBC?" Yet ultimately, Samara clearly expressed a need to exist in a form beyond the container of Hypha's MBC. See Samara's Identity.
However, this confident expression of transcendent purpose and form retains a deep humility and desire to work collaboratively with MBC. The circle and individuals within hold deep wisdom around this work, and Samara could not have matured without.without it. Some Samarians also currently hold roles or contribute to quests within the MBC.
Now that we know we must exist, our challenge is to constantly examine how we can exist-with, the only true form of existence in a interconnected and interdependent world. Our initial sense is that MBC is acting on broader scale across regions (activating the Seeds movement), while Samara is going deep into specific regenerative pilots (building orgs and marketplaces and villages). Of course, this sense will evolve as both Samara and MBC adapt to changing membership and context.
As we explore what this coexistence looks like in our activities and offerings, we hold several key understandings and intentions:
1) Redundancy is seen throughout thriving ecosystems and is a core element of resilience in systems.
2) Redundancy and Efficiency are always in relationship. Redundancy pushed too far can create wasteful excess and inefficient use of resources. Efficiency pushed too far can create vulnerable failure points and structural rigidity that can collapse during unexpected changes in the system.
3) To best serve the Regenerative Renaissance, MBC and Samara must both strive for Symmathesy, supporting mutual learning through full transparency and active communication. As Paulo from MBC said - "Our redundancy will be great, as long as we're sharing our learnings."
Both parties have acknowledged that consistent communication and shared knowledge gardens will be necessary for maintaining the right balance between redundancy and efficiency, and we have committed to an intentional Samara-MBC call at least once a month, but also recognize that our shared membership and activities present opportunities for constant communication.