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What Has Worked so far and What we would do Differently
To be Archived for now.Assigned: all Samara for input (deadline Friday) + Joachim for editorial reviewIrina: Reconsidering if we are ready for this chapter now. Feel that Samara needs to go through some further reflections to come with a collective assessment ...
Samara's Governance
Samara's decision making protocol Samara has successfully passed a proposal for this protocol on April 14, 2021 v0.1 Aims of governance in a decentralised environment No participant, or group of participants should be able to dominate discussions or control...
Our Relationship with Hypha Movement Building
Hypha is the organization that created SEEDS and built the technology that supports it. They have also worked to support and grow the community of humans coming into SEEDS. These Humans come into an ecosystem designed to encourage play, learning, and collabora...
Samara's Structural Elements
The path to the current phase of Samara It took us a while in Samara, to define the work that needed to be done and where to start, in order to create a DHO. Some of the initial steps that proved to be helpful on the way: We started identifying some key...
Local Adoption Pilot Projects
One of the essential ways we envision supporting regenerators is via supporting local Regenaissance adoption pilots. What is our understanding of a Pilot Project? A pilot project is defined as "an activity planned as a test or trial" [1]. As such, local a...
About DAOs and DHOs
Samara is using a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) to coordinate all of our important activities, such as assignments for roles, claims on contributions or votes on proposals. A DAO records token-based transactions of an organization in a ledger tha...
Our DNA and RNA and our Code
The Samara DHO is encoding its basic building blocks in a kind of organizational DNA that can be easily replicated to other DHOs. DNA is the material in cells that contains the genetic information used in the development of all known living organisms. The info...
Our Symbiosis with Hypha
While there had been many preliminary discussions within and outside of Hypha to create a new sister or child organization, the actual incubation happened through a unique process that is not unlike Meiosis in biology. As many readers will undoubtedly recall f...
Samara Sacred Consultancy
What will the future bring? Nobody knows, but let's look into the Magic Crystal Ball for a moment and ask ourselves how prepared we are for a new kind of future in which Samarians can become a kind of "sacred consultancy" that honors the trust, space, rhythms,...
Glossary
DHO = Decentralised Human Organisation, or Decentralised Holonic Organism Hypha = Distributed cooperative toolset for global value distribution and governance KRs = Key Results, meaning the deliverables promised at the outset of a Quest Quest = a piece of w...
Dedication
To the people of earth who treasure life on this planet... To the Regenerative Renaissance, the movement of movements... To the Samarans, who moved through this particular part of an ongoing symphony... To the regenerative force that connects us, that unite...
Who is Samara?
'An unfolding Lotus with Roots deep below the water' "In this photograph the sky looks like a world in itself. This is a bit like Samara's emerging identity. Emerging from the soil. Through the Roots. Needing some time to grow and open into the world with e...
The Roots, Trunk and Branches of Samara
The image that became our first placeholder logo was never intended to be a logo at all. It was just a Powerpoint doodle that Roz did one day after a Presencing Case Clinic with some non-Samarans, in which one of the clinic participants had channeled and drawn...
The Rhythms and Rituals (our Being and Doing)
Rhythms Over the first few months of its existence, Samara created these Rhythms: Wednesdays: Roots call (governance, funding, compensation, etc) Thursdays: Trunk call (overlap and alignment of Roots and Branches Fridays: Branches call (regional pilots, ou...
Samara Offerings
Samara's value proposition is embedded in two evolutionary processes - purposing1 and unfolding. Sensing into the purposing1 of Samara (the constant evolution of our core purpose), there are several fields of activation and creation out there that we are att...
Preface
This book (story, journey, cycle, learning) is many things. It is a co-created, emergent expression of a group of individuals. It is the call of a new Being. It is the story of Samara's gestation. It is the trail of breadcrumbs. It is the initial coding of how...
How to Use This Book
We have divided this book into four chapters that are very much interrelated. While you can read this book in sequential order, we do encourage the adventurous reader to dive directly into chapters and pick those nuggets that are most helpful to you on your jo...
The Fruit of Samara
A maple seed falls in a characteristic helical motion; the shape of a helix; spiral. Introduction When I (Trent) was younger, I always loved playing with samara seeds. I would collect them up – careful not to damage them, and drop them from the highest plac...
The Origins of Samara
The first official cohort of the SEEDS Ambassador Academy was just getting warmed up when it became clear, towards the end of 2020, that a new DHO within the SEEDS ecosystem was germinating within some ripe soil. Drawn to the potential of SEEDS and seeing t...
The Spaces of Samara
Listen to the soundtrack here Samara is a space that is deeply playful and exploratory, radically open, and spiritually rewarding. We value our relationships and build everything we do on the foundations of trust and reciprocity. We put humans at the ce...