Guiding Values & Principles
Values & Principles for the seekers and builders of a more creative and beautiful world
Our movement is rooted in a set of core Values & Principles that guide every action we take. They emphasise connection, creativity, and meaning in all aspects of life. They are the path forward to achieving a more creative and beautiful future.
Principles
Ask the Hard Question
Seek the deep why and believe it is more about the questions than the answers, often the clues lay beyond the obvious and the common sense.
Maintain the Circle of Safety
Make the people feel safe enough to welcome challenging questions, paradigm disruptions, and provocations of the mind, all in a constructive way.
Relax the Boundaries
We know how much our minds can get rigid with our mental models, so relax these boundaries for you to be able to see, think, and act outside the box.
Make it New
Create not to last but to explore, don’t be afraid to erase and restart from scratch, because redoing it again and again is how you improve your craft.
Turn the Heck Up
You need others and others need you, if we want to achieve paradigm shifts we need to give hands, support, and collaborate with each-others.
Go f*ck your ‘self’
Keep your ego in check and avoid taking your’self’ too seriously by letting go off your base desires and letting come the surrounding absurdity of life.
Values
Consciously connecting with others to increase our potential for good
Connection, bond, humanhood, family, friendship, tribe… We are social animals; alone, we cannot survive. It is through coming together that we thrive and have a greater chance to make a impact in this world. By consciously forming connections, we unlock our potential for greater good and positive change.
Collaborate super-additively
Together, we have far greater potential than we do individually. Know your strengths and weaknesses, and understand that each of us has value to add to the collective whole.
Keep listening to and sharing with others
Open dialogues with the intention of letting information flow from diverse viewpoints, skills, and experiences, so that it enriches our collective understanding.
Home people with communities
Communities offers us the space to be challenged and supported, giving us what we need to grow, learn, and take the next steps in our personal and collective journeys.
Haphazardly disrupting paradigms in order to break through them
Knowledge, ideologies and theories are ever-evolving. We remain open to change and challenge, questioning what we know and embracing new ideas. What we thought we knew yesterday reveals to be incomplete or false in the face of new evidences tomorrow, so let’s keep searching for the truth without settling for any.
Know that we don’t know
Beware of the “truth”, avoid trends and buzzwords. In a world where uncertainty prevail, ensure knowledge, tools and languages are used to expand and not constrain our horizons. Stay curious and keep learning.
Enjoy the paradigm disruption
Don’t be scared to be slightly surprised. Our reality is dynamic and evolving ; constantly question the current state of affairs, ask why it is the way it is today and explore beyond the last frontier.
Welcome awe and wonder
Open your mind to mysteries. What is challenging and disrupting frees us from our own bounded view of the world, it helps us overcome mis-framing and misconstruing, into and insightful reality.
Gloriously provoking ideas in a safe and creative space
Provocation is how the creative spark is made. By provoking new thoughts, we ignite the spark of innovation and insight, we push the boundaries, the world suddenly opens up, the valve expands, everything in and out flows, new connections are made, and what is relevant is now realised.
Go to the edge and push outwards
Get the minds to explore other possibles, break through the boundaries to literally think outside the box, stretch it far and wide into unfamiliar, alien, uncomfortable, and mysterious territories.
Do it for the love of wisdom not winning
Accompany the minds along with the explorations, empathy isn’t to agree but to understand someone else’s worldview, without any other end-goal than unlocking more clues.
Search for what is a good plausibility
Understanding is often beyond explanation, whatever is profound are what matters to us. We can reliably find something amazing, even if we cannot say what that is, yet.
Coincidentally experimenting to explore and create new possibles
We can’t find something new until we explore, and it is impossible to calculate all permitted combinations to a problem space. Through experimentation and openness, we navigate the mysteries, the complex, the unknown, the chaotic, and we uncover what is interesting and new.
Experiment with anything interesting
In this uncertain and unpredictable reality, serendipity is a friend that can be invoked by experimenting continuously. Consider everything as a potential experiment you can learn something new from.
Do it if it increases options, fluke and upside
Try things out, don’t bother with the apparatus, most can be discovered by simply observing what is happening. It is often by luck, or call it “happy accident”, that great discoveries are made.
Pay attention to creative opportunities
Explore both with an open mind and a mindful state of attention to prepare the mind to spot opportunities. Don’t explore to gather the facts, but explore to confront yourself with the mystery at hand.
Absurdly playing with serious ideas for a purpose
Never ever be attached to an idea, neither it has a value per-say, it is just an idea that only asks to be kept alive. But even if you should tread an idea with lightness, you should still seriously play with it, imagine different situations and context, transcend it, and see through the absurd illusions we often fall prey to.
Internalise the sage
Improve your connectedness with yourself and others by seriously playing a role in your mind, entertain dialogues to internalise all their wisdom and improve your grasp on reality.
Max the creative ripples
Toy with ideas, big and small, break them, rebuild them, combine them, pass them to others. Don’t overthink them, follow where they are going and observe what they are growing into.
Allow yourself to play seriously
Free your inner-child, don’t be afraid to be laughed at, in fact be the one to make your ideas absurd, you are just seriously playing in service of putting a vision into something more real.
Intentionally lifting one-an-other through the moments we create
Life is a human adventure, and our short time on Earth is richer when we lift each other up, sharing in the adventure of creation and connection. Turn-up, listen, observe, participate, pay attention… we all are threads enmeshed into the creative consciousness fabric of life.
Establish equality and shared values to guide us
Consider others as equal, you need others to keep you balanced because in reality you are both the teacher and the learner, the master and the apprentice, the wise and the unwise.
Bring moments to life through our own rituals
We are of tribal nature, we engage in rituals and ceremonies to be more deliberate, more purposeful and mindful, like an artist let the beauty emerge from its creative act.
Hold the deep time in every moment together
The world is frightening, we remember the child in each of us and yet fail to recognise it in others, but we can still find home by facing the horror hand-in-hands, growing bravely togethers.
Collectively transcending to strive for a more desirable future
We interpret reality and create mental models for our minds to be able to grasp some of it. But reality is more real, more complex, more nuanced, and more beautiful than these models. We can rise above these paradigms and create a future that is more in-tune with the cosmos.
Help each other find the clues
See beyond the veil of reality with deep clarity. Deeply examine your life and the world around you, look for what is salient, significant, search for the clues and support others through this process.
Take risks together to stay free
Try, fail, learn from it, try again, and again. Throw yourself into the unknown, step-in and confront the darkness, do it with playfulness, fuelled by love, and in support of others, free from fear.
Keep ourselves aligned to the collective vision
Don’t be attached to any paradigms, transcend them. Keep pointing at anomalies and failures in the old paradigms, stand-up, speak-up, act loud and with assurance to create a more desirable world.