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- 2. Who are we?
- 3. How U.Lab came to Auroville?
- 4. U Lab @ Auroville - Just Banks course - Screening Live Sessions - Coaching Circles - Transformation of Consciousness and money retreat
- 5. Focus for today 27.03.2018 1. About Auroville, 2. Working with real-problems using value-based mapping of collective intelligence, 3. New Economy Research, with a focus on Financial Institution.
- 7. Love Life Laughter Beauty Joy Progress Youth Light Power Truth Wisdom Harmony Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realise human unity.
- 8. 1.1 The Auroville Charter - The Impact 1. Auroville belongs to nobody in particular. Auroville belongs to humanity as a whole. But, to live in Auroville, one must be a willing servitor of the divine consciousness. 2. Auroville will be the place of an unending education, of constant progress, and a youth that never ages. 3. Auroville wants to be the bridge between the past and the future. Taking advantage of all discoveries from without and from within, Auroville will boldly spring towards future realisations. 4. Auroville will be a site of material and spiritual researches for a living embodiment of an actual human unity.
- 9. 1.2 A Dream - The Outcome - ...education would be given not for passing examinations or obtaining certificates and posts to enrich existing faculties and bring forth new ones. - In this place, titles and positions would be replaced by opportunities to serve and organise; - ...money would no longer be the sovereign lord; There, work would not be a way to earn one’s living but a way to express oneself and to develop one’s capacities and possibilities while being of service to the community as a whole, which, for its own part, would provide for each individual’s subsistence and sphere of action. In short, it would be a place where human relationships, which are normally based almost exclusively on competition and strife,
- 10. 1.3 To be a True Aurovilian The Output 1. The first necessity is the inner discovery in order to know what one truly is behind social, moral, cultural, racial and hereditary appearances. At the centre there is a being free, vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and who ought to become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville...
- 11. 1.4 Universal Qualities The Input● Sincerity ● Humility ● Gratitude ● Perseverance ● Aspiration ● Receptivity ● Progress ● Courage ● Goodness ● Generosity ● Equality ● Peace The first eight qualities represent our integrity, our relationship with our Higher Self. The last four represent our interaction with others.
- 13. 2. Working with Collective Intelligence Selection Process, Sourcing Our Oneness, Financial Institution Research
- 14. Universal Qualities The Base● Sincerity ● Humility ● Gratitude ● Perseverance ● Aspiration ● Receptivity ● Progress ● Courage ● Goodness ● Generosity ● Equality ● Peace The first eight qualities represent our integrity, our relationship with our Higher Self. The last four represent our interaction with others.
- 15. 2.1 Working with real-problems using the qualities. 1. Minute of Silence 2. Looking at the Question from the lens of a quality a. Question b. Quote 3. Meditate for a minute (silent brainstorming) 4. Initiate participants to put 2 post-its: “Each participant writes down what comes to them. It can be a word, a sentence or an image. Do not go into the “mind space” and do not sensor. “ 5. Space for sharing and listening. 6. In silence, collectively arrange the post-its to see the pattern, is there a center, are there groupings, a flow, movements... Everyone can move post-its until all are fine with the placings. E.g. of impact: From Loan giving to contribution system
- 16. 2.1 Mapping Collective Intelligence
- 17. 2.1 Mapping Collective Intelligence
- 18. 2.2 Work on New Economy Research These core principles for a possible new entity - a Financial Institution in our case - was formulated using value-based intuitive mapping of collective intelligence. It was summarized using thematic analysis of post-its.
- 19. 2.3 Selection Process 1. Participatory process beyond mechanical democracy (majority rule), 2. Working with collective intelligence, 3. Find agreement in your values - look at all the facts - emerge solutions, 4. Fast and functioning consensus process - without blocking.
- 21. 3. New Economy Research Revisioning Society, Economy and Finance Using the universal values to shift patterns and systems so that the fractals that emerge create well-being for people and planet.
- 22. 3.1 Domains of Society For an integral approach towards sustainable economy, shifts are needed in four major domains which together form the web of our society. The shift has to be from creating corrosion and degeneration to creating enhancement and regeneration in each of the following domain? 1. Environment 2. Systems, Organization and Interactions 3. Resources 4. Work and Contribution
- 23. Environment The full scope of environment: from the untouched Nature, through the cultivated landscape, cities, towns, villages, institutions, homes to the inner landscape of mind and emotions.
- 24. Systems, Organisation and Interactions Systems, Organization and Interactions in all its expressions: ethnicity, religion, organizations, cast, family, tribe, group, nationality and so many more.
- 25. Resources ● Here we must create a solid and real understanding that money is not a resource, it is a means. ● Resources include all what we use in life for sustenance and expression: Human potential, land, air, water, trees and plants, food, clothing, education, music, art, travel – all that which enriches life. ● The true use of resources is to provide for each one the means for their growth and development and full expression in life.
- 26. Work and Contribution Just as important as the development of our individuality is the development of our collectivity. It allows the emergence of sharing and generosity, and the joy of contribution to fulfill the aspects of service in us. Everybody is needed and everybody is useful.
- 27. 3.2 Domains of Economy Collective Economy “For All” New Finance and Banking Integral Business
- 28. 3.2. The Two Contexts of Economy Basic needs for all, in- kind contribution and receiving, stewardship as opposed to ownership. 2. Conscious Engagement with Money 1. Economy beyond money Context 1: No money economy Context 2: Conscious Engagement with Money
- 29. 3.3 New Finance and Banking We are looking at creating a financial institution where money would serve as a means for building the new world, supporting a new paradigm, creating shifts in the four domains: environment, systems, resources and contribution. Money is no more the ‘sovereign lord’.
- 30. 3.3 New Finance and Banking Money 1. Engagement with Money a. Conscious engagement with money; b. Using money to create a world where money is no longer needed; c. Money is a means, a force, a power, and not an end in itself..” (Collected Work of the Mother XIII p.154) d. “Money is meant to circulate What should remain constant is the progressive movement of an increase in the earth’s production – an ever-expanding progressive movement to increase the earth’s production and improve existence on earth. It is the material improvement of terrestrial life and the growth of the earth’s production that must go on expanding, enlarging, and not this silly paper or this inert metal that is amassed and lifeless.” (Mother’s Agenda, 4.10.58)
- 31. 3.3 New Finance and Banking ShiftsIntegrality Partial -> Integral Stewardship Ownership -> Stewardship Prosperity Scarcity -> Abundance for All Environment Lack of visibility and trust -> transparency and trust. Ego -> Eco Ie. from I, me, myself - > Swadharma Ecological Disconnect -> Harmony with Nature Organisation/ Systems Short-term technical fixes -> Integral system shifts Competition -> Flow of Generosity through Collaboration and Coordination Top-down hierarchy or democracy -> Participative processes based on “Find agreement in your values – Look at all the facts – Solutions will emerge” Resources (Materials) Money is not a resource -> Money is as a means for Integral Progress of, for and through All Consumerism -> Share & care Unequal access to resources -> Resources for full growth, development and expression in life for all Contribution (Work) Control & Stagnation -> Free Committed Progress Employment and Job -> Stewardship and service Work as necessity -> Work as a committed offering to the society and an opportunity to progress
- 32. Resonance with Theory U’s Acupuncture Points
- 33. 3.3 New Finance and Banking Shifts 3. Paradigm shifting: Shift the rules of the game, not just the end-goal. a. Risk reinterpreted as incentive: cutting-edge projects building the bridge to the future, b. No collateral, no ownership: Stewardship and collective responsibility c. No profiteering, but creation of an impact in all domains of society. Risk as incentive
- 34. 3. Learning from Just Banks 1. Not a Mystery anymore! 2. The need for a fifth stage of Impact 3. Level 1 - Isolated social & green business projects or practices 4. Level 2 - Just banking in the core of the business model 5. Level 3 - Strategic eco-system innovation - financing lead innovators or leverage points 6. Level 4 - Intentional eco-system innovation - shifting the whole system 7. Stage 5: Inner and outer paradigm shift - shifting goals and rules of finance. 3.3 New Finance and Banking
- 35. 3.3 New Finance and Banking 1. We are transitory beings. Wealth does not belong to us. We are stewards of the Earth. 2. Transformation of human consciousness is the larger vessel in which this has to be carried. 3. Not just manage the crisis of today, but facilitate conscious building of the future. 4. To be a channel for building the new paradigm based on human unity and unity in diversity, fostering well-being for individuals and planet.
- 36. Thank you :)
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Meditation
- Existence, Consciousness, Bliss, Light, Life, Power,Wealth, Utility, Progress, Youth, Harmony, Perfection.
- For this to be an actual human unity experiment, few things needs to shift. There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live freely as citizens of the world and obey one single authority, that of the supreme Truth; a place of peace, concord and harmony where all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weaknesses and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities; a place where the needs of the spirit and the concern for progress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions, the search for pleasure and material enjoyment. In this place, children would be able to grow and develop integrally without losing contact with their souls; education would be given not for passing examinations or obtaining certificates and posts but to enrich existing faculties and bring forth new ones. In this place, titles and positions would be replaced by opportunities to serve and organise; the bodily needs of each one would be equally provided for, and intellectual, moral and spiritual superiority would be expressed in the general organisation not by an increase in the pleasures and powers of life but by increased duties and responsibilities. Beauty in all its artistic forms, painting, sculpture, music, literature, would be equally accessible to all; the ability to share in the joy it brings would be limited only by the capacities of each one and not by social or financial position. For in this ideal place money would no longer be the sovereign lord; individual worth would have a far greater importance than that of material wealth and social standing. There, work would not be a way to earn one’s living but a way to express oneself and to develop one’s capacities and possibilities while being of service to the community as a whole, which, for its own part, would provide for each individual’s subsistence and sphere of action. In short, it would be a place where human relationships, which are normally based almost exclusively on competition and strife, would be replaced by relationships of emulation in doing well, of collaboration and real brotherhood.
- The first necessity is the inner discovery in order to know what one truly is behind social, moral, cultural, racial and hereditary appearances. At the centre there is a being free, vast and knowing, who awaits our discovery and who ought to become the active centre of our being and our life in Auroville. The fulfilment of one’s desires bars the way to the inner discovery which can only be achieved in the peace and transparency of perfect disinterestedness. 2. One lives in Auroville in order to be free from moral and social conventions; but this freedom must not be a new slavery to the ego, to its desires and ambitions. 3. The Aurovilian should lose the sense of personal possession. For our passage in the material world, what is indispensable to our life and to our action is put at our disposal according to the place we must occupy. The more we are consciously in contact with our inner being, the more are the exact means given to us. 4. Work, even manual work, is something indispensable for the inner discovery. If one does not work, if one does not put his consciousness into matter, the latter will never develop. To let the consciousness organise a bit of matter by means of one’s body is very good. To establish order around oneself helps to bring order within oneself. One should organise one’s life not according to outer and artificial rules, but according to an organised inner consciousness, for if one lets life go on without subjecting it to the control of the higher consciousness, it becomes fickle and inexpressive. It is to waste one’s time in the sense that matter remains without any conscious utilisation. 5. The whole earth must prepare itself for the advent of the new species, and Auroville wants to work consciously to hasten this advent. 6. Little by little it will be revealed to us what this new species must be, and meanwhile the best course is to consecrate oneself entirely to the Divine. [When this was to be published at the end of 1971, Mother added:] The only true freedom is the one obtained by union with the Divine. One can unite with the Divine only by mastering one’s ego.
- http://integralyoga-auroville.com/gilles-guigan/87-the-matrimandir-and-the-mother%E2%80%99s-symbol https://www.auroville.org/contents/2853 Lotus mandala
- http://integralyoga-auroville.com/gilles-guigan/87-the-matrimandir-and-the-mother%E2%80%99s-symbol https://www.auroville.org/contents/2853 Lotus mandala
- Question from the lens of a quality Quote: “Peace: In the liberation of the soul from the Ignorance, the very first foundation is peace, calm, the silence and quietude of the Eternal and Infinite….” Question: How do we want to promote risk-taking and encourage cutting edge projects while managing risk? Meditate for a minute (silent brainstorming) Initiate participants to put 2 post-its Each participant writes down on post-it notes what comes to them. It can be a word, a sentence or an image. Do not go into the “mind space” and do not sensor. Each one writes 2 notes and stick on the large paper. Step 5: Now there is space for sharing and listening, each one shares about what they wrote, the others listen. As there are around 6 in a group, there is time to listen to each one and usually there is no need to put any time limit, just let it flow. In case of “storytelling” that looks extensive...kindly acknowledge that there has to be space for all and further sharing can take place in the breaks. Step 6: The next step is to arrange collectively the post-its on a large paper, see the pattern, is there a center, are there groupings, a flow, movements... Everyone can move post-its until all are fine with the placings. Step 7: We introduce the Flower cards. Each participant goes and take one flower card and connects the message of the flower directly to oneself and the topic. The participants write the name of the flower and their action/insight on a post-it and draws a colored frame to mark it. Each individual places their post-it where they feel it fits in the collective arrangement. Step 8: Now, together formulate an insight which expresses the essence of what has been arrived at together.
- Presently, we can see that for an integral approach towards sustainable economy, shifts are needed in four major domains which together form the web of our society. The shift has to be from creating corrosion and degeneration, to creating enhancement and regeneration in each domain. These domains are: 1. The full scope of environment: from the untouched Nature, through the cultivated landscape, cities, towns, villages, institutions, homes to the inner landscape of mind and emotions. 2. Systems, Organization and Interactions in all its expressions: ethnicity, religion, organizations, cast, family, tribe, group, nationality and so many more. 3. Resources: Here we must create a solid and real understanding that money is not a resource, it is a means. Resources include all what we use in life for sustenance and expression: Human potential, land, air, water, trees and plants, food, clothing, education, music, art, travel – all that which enriches life. Mother defines the use of resources to provide for each one the means for their growth and development and full expression in life. 4. Contribution to the community/collectivity/society: Just as important as the development of our individuality is the development of our collectivity. For Auroville, The Mother said that each one would contribute in work, kind and/or money. It allows the emergence of sharing and generosity, and the joy of contribution to fulfill the aspects of service in us.
- How do we want to promote risk-taking and encourage cutting edge projects while managing risk? How do we handle responsibility and economic loss/failure when there is no ownership/collateral but stewardship? How will a financial loan-system be without interest but repayment of value and how will the operation cost be covered?
- Integral Banking views all wealth belongs to the Divine. It sees individuals only as stewards and not owners/possessors. Integral Banking is founded on transformation of human consciousness. Integral Banking will not just manage the crisis of today, but facilitate conscious building of the future. Integral Banking not only is a channel for a more equitable and sustainable world, but also a channel for experimentation and progress in all aspects of life.