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# 2024.05.03 Lionsberg Kickoff Meeting 

## Brief History 

## The Movement - A Diversity of Brands, Languages, and Callings

## The Need For Higher Order Functional Unity 

## Intros 
- Forrist Lytehaause - Colorado - fixing the soil leading to a series of cascasing benefits... all the solutions needed already exist... are being deployed... how do we connect bioregional food value chains and ecosytems with trust... Moving innovation
- Helene Lindmark - Artic Circle - Sweden - Sami? people... water commissioner for scandanavia... governor for world water bank... water is life.. how can we build that bridge... look at whole cycle of water... COP 28 - Dubai... bridge ancestral wisdom and modern technology... the pieces are all over... how cna we come home... deeply listening to what is really inside of us...
- Penelope Douglas - Northern California - questions of how we understand ourselves to be parts of a community, and how we need to reconsider all the systems that hold the power to invest in communities - particulary the most vulnerable... founder of CDFI in the US... innovate the processes around investment... residencies at Federal Reserve, and culture and arts... Culture Bank initiative... we don't have it right.. spending trillions - and keep finding our selves worse off... artists are one of most important actors in critical thinking... disrupting dynamics between investor, movement builder, and those on teh ground determingin the best models for a shared future for us all... along with regen agriculture - vital determinants of health... what communities value most... community safety, open space, social cohesion.. 
- Mark Beam - Kansas City - finance... systems journey... SOCAP co-founder... shifting from improving systems to building systems... Bob B - LEED standards and living system standards - Urban Acupuncture... map region... looking for blockages... looking at social side, narratives... picking places where we can lift up what is there... or create new pathways... community developing shared future... assets... and investors... from broad array of capital stacks to bring those together over a generation...  
- Kyler - 27 - from Fresno- lost drive in school... seeing culture... talk to other people, see their experiences... get myself mentally, physically, financially stable... seeing depressing and anxiety driving things... within my sphere... hard to find people thinking about things beyond... 
- Samir Singh - the system has run its course in some meaningful way... not serving many people... the opportunity to prosper severly underdistributed... legal, general counsel, founder, software builder... focused on specific actions people can take on a weekly basis to try to move goals forward, sharing accountability... Housing... but not cash flow / cap rates - human beings and opportunities... new models for housing... and building systems that support broad scale collaboration... 
- Rebecca Saltman - Colorado for 25 years... Then to Kansas City... in Portugal / Lisbon now... writer / visionary / social entrepreneur / disrupter for good... working on systems for more equal distribution - where people are seen heard and believe... Weaver... 
- Pete - San Diego... goal is ot help people of good intent work together better and understand each other better.. silcon valley startups, computers, internet... conversational AI...AIs will melt into the background of all we do... we are all connected. When we help one of us, we help all of us, when we hurt one of us, we hurt all... 
- Edward Ober - In North Carolia after time in California... Hypnotherapy, Poly Sci, grant writing... non profit... designing implementing servicing projects... raised $100M+ in grants... With Grant Management - hit $1B over 10 years... strategic thinking, organizational development, doc prep, budgeting... etc... 
- Hank Kune - Doing tings... only years later... understanding why... Amsterdam - Netherlands... native New Yorker... entreprenur of ideas... aspiratin of being societal innovator... Integenerational collaboration... understanding what is needed to create infrastructure for (active hope?).... understanding Legacy - how to leave a legacy - something you leave ahead not behind... work with governments... citiznes into projects for collaborative innovation... synthesis of ideas... how things connect and become more than their parts... provacative questions... creating environments that enhance creativity... collective intelligence... vision for global lab of societal innovation... 
- Michael Grossman - designer, editor, activist, listener, questioner... editor at large at Time Inc - magazines... consumers, readers, what matters to people and how to serve them... Non-technical co-founder of platform called Factr... gathering organizing and sharing knowledge... Grew up San Francisco - now Lower New York... and digital present... how to ask, and consent to digital time and place... fighting digital equality, surveilance, exploitation... slavery of our digital selves... Collaborative tech Alliance... ways to protect human rights, enhancing digital agency, helping us move togehter in a nested way... that we can be individual actors, families, communiteis, regions, movements... species and planet... 
- Paul Mehl - California - farm in Mendicino, Nevada County CA... Property - old hydraulic mine... Mortgages and real estate... self-employed... 
- Matt Saiia - started as conceputal artist... into facilitation of collaboration... 20 years Collective Next... how to facilitate change in the corporate environment... great learning laboratory for how human beings come together and move forward... the traditional models of thinking about change, leaderships, platforms, change management - is insufficienet... last several years building out a POV around change engagement... shift from notion of intelligent few - to gettin geveryone to be agents of cretivity in the world... 1. Foster community and connection with human beings... all emerges through the connections between things... 2. how do you build and share collective knowlege and wisdom... we tend to create intersubjective realities between our selves... 3. Creative venturing... entrepreneurialism as a form of creativity - now - most of that goes into perpetuating existing system or alleviating the ills caused by it... Edge entrepreneurialism... to build and catalyze new systems.. I believe we have it in us...
- William Larson - California... love to mentor, encourage young people... Publishing... governance... structure...  


- Ideas... 
- Who are the names of all the people we know working on what things in what directions... 
    - then connecting the dots... forming the connections and relationships... 
        - a way to keep synthesizing.. radically connecting... feeding the genius cluster... 
    - we are all looking to get ourselves physically, mentally, financially healthy enough to commit to these ideas... 
        - achieving financial escape velocity... 
        - What is the thing that gets us the escape velocity... to where we can focus... 
- Pete - 
    - Need to make a plan... for whatever we are going to do next so that it is focused... 

## Waterfall Responses to what is most important over coming weeks

Jordan's question:
- Your top 1 or 2 things that are most critical over the next few weeks.

Forrist Lytehaause:
- Clarity of specific outcomes/mission, time bounded, that have one or more people committed to being willing to tat the operational leadership roles. If an outcome has not at least 1 operational leader then it might be sidelined. Operational leader responsibility is a big need and responsibility.

Pete Kaminski:
- Start working on something real together. It could be a list of who we are, or what we want to focus on together, or a project plan for the next invitation, etc.

Rebecca Saltman:
- I would like to be really clear on the what and the how of what we are doing long and short term. Personally, like many of you I am involved with many things so I would love to know what we are committing to

Edward Ober:
- 1. Define mission(s) clearly, get buy in on the mission(s) from the players.
- 2. Create working groups with defined goals / deliverables and timelines.
- 3. Get people on those working groups producing the deliverables. Working groups need set meeting schedule and a leadership structure.

Paul:
- Matching up the individuals already working/focused on similar projects/subjects. Keeping it open for others to join in as they see things others might not

penelope douglas:
- an honest map of critical players based on a set of criteria or a facilitated means to agreements in order to avoid false assumptions.
- a goal for whomever is in this core working group aka Group One regarding a parallel “universe” within which we’re working so we’re sharing resources in order to provide shared /bartered/stability as humans

Hank Kune:
- At least one first prototype (grant application on paper)
- Some in initial experience of people here working together
- Going somewhere together that we think we need to go, in order to practice working and thinking together (even if it turns out NOT to be the direction we eventually take)

samir:
- Clearly state the most proximate goal for the group (ensure that it is fractal proof of the broader mission).
- Generate the specific actions that each person can take on a weekly basis.
- Share and track action for accountability.
- Reconvene to discuss progress and release blockages.

Mark Beam:
- 1. connect our inner true nature to the work we are all called to do in collaboration. what can we do together that we cannot do alone?
- 2. identify approaches to lifting up grassroots Face to face local living systems - narrative leading to systems change

William Larson:
- 1. Clarifying a compelling mission statement of what Lionsberg can do that is truly unique, needed, compelling, and financially viable.

Helene Lindmark:
- Clarity, acceptance, deeply listening, trust

Matt Saiia (he/him):
- Design the system

Michael Grossman:
- I’m big on the power of followership, hoping we can have the humility to bring a movement together not by leading it, but recognizing it and promoting it. Listening, joining others, publicizing, being in effective service to people many of whom already have traction and need to be elevated, heard, and connected to each other.

(end of waterfall answers)

- Kyler - What is the Goal? 
    - When I die... knowing that there is still some work going on... wiht people trying to grasp and implement in the most positive manner possible... to be able to understand these things... 
    - and passing the torch... 
    - instilling the 

## Reflections 
- Ed - collaborative decision making... combination of platform, people, policy, procedures, motivational engagement.. 
    - All citizens participating in decision making... 
    - Everyone participates in making decisions that affect their own future... 
    - making proposal, getting support... 
    - motivational mechanicsm to keep people engaged... compensation systems... 
- Monetary and currency systems... 
- As human beings - we like to attach our selves to things in the middle... 
    - Matt - two places we can go... 
        - 1. move to conceputalize different possibilities... the acts of radical imagination... 
        - 2. and building infrastructure that allows for emergence... 
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## The Meta Crisis 



## The Lionsberg System, Platform and Community 
 - The Platform (Community.Lionsberg.org - Internal / Open Impact)
 - The Dialogue System (Chat.Lionsberg.org - Mattermost)
 - The Program Management System (P6 + Procore) 
 - The Knowledge System (Lionsberg.wiki - )


## Groups 
- Groundswell 
- Resourcing 
- Demonstration Projects 
- Operations / PM 
- Admin 

## Next Steps 
- Next Invitation 
- Next Rounds.. 
- May - Vetting Partners 
- Speaking / Broadcasting - Above the Chaos 
- Business Startups / Patterns 
- 