Prototyping Community & Money-Less Economies | Martin Theis | Ep. 19

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What does the future of community, governance and finance look like?

Humanity is a massive evolutionary moment across all systems. Many of our systems are failing, and we’re seeing the harmful limitations of our dominant western culture play out on a global scale. When you layer in climate change and biodiversity loss, the future starts to look pretty grim…
However, humanity is adapting and prototyping new ways of being and doing, all around the globe. Today’s guest, Martin Theis, is one of these humans. Through various communities and the music scene in Germany, Martin has first hand experience playing in non-monetary systems of exchange, self-organizing communities of creation, and different governance structures.
In this episode:

• Piloting new ways of doing community, governance and value exchange
• Prototyping money-less economies
• Embodying our values to serve as models to others
• Governance and decision making in a self-organizing system
• Moving from transaction to reciprocal generosity

About Martin Theis

Martin is a spiritual coach and teacher who focuses on mental and emotional well-being through the art of shamanic journeys.
The coaching practice Light Trails Co.'s mission is to assist others on their journey from suffering to inner peace and joy.
Martin lives in Germany, Norway and Hawaii and is in the process of building a decentralised network of non-profit orginizations that aim at building low entrance barrier refuges for people to find healing and regeneration.
Learn more about Martin and his work: https://www.lighttrails.co/webinar-series/

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1. Prototyping Community & Money-Less Economies | Martin Theis | Ep. 19 (00:00:00)

2. Financially resourcing systems change is challenging… and yet we need to prototype new systems (00:07:49)

3. Developing the skills and “reflexes” necessary for metabolizing big change (00:20:39)

4. Experimenting with a money-less economy through music festival subculture (00:23:47)

5. Moving from transaction to reciprocal generosity, and unlearning the colonial mindset (00:36:47)

6. Good intentions don’t guarantee success… the challenges of being in community (00:40:33)

7. Governance, decision making and negotiating within community (00:47:50)

8. Investigating a distributed leadership model (00:56:01)

9. Our future runs on trust (01:00:07)