Rhizome 2025 - Open Session: Regenerative Futures & Fellowship

Summary

The Rhizome 2025 Open Session, led by Culture Hack Labs, delves into the vast potential of regenerative futures and fellowships. The session underscores the importance of moving beyond the current climate narrative fixation on carbon, presenting a multi-layered framework to catalyze systemic change. Utilizing a holistic Culture Hack methodology, the session emphasizes interconnectedness, justice, and relational shifts necessary for sustainability. It vividly illustrates how participant-led 'possibility models' can transition communities towards shared, regenerative pathways, fostering collaborative, ecological, and cultural revolutions.

Highlights

• The session challenges the current carbon-centric narrative, advocating for broader regenerative approaches 🌿.
• Utilizing a five-fold pathway, the framework aims to integrate social, economic, and ecological dimensions 🌱.
• The Culture Hack methodology includes narrative analysis and interventions to shift systemic perceptions 🛠.
• Possibility models are key, acting as living experiments of sustainable futures 🌍.
• The fellowship offers extensive support for participants to actualize their narrative projects 🚀.

Key Takeaways

• Regenerative futures prioritize interconnected, systemic changes over carbon-centric solutions 🌍.
• Culture Hack Labs employs a proven methodology for identifying and shifting cultural narratives 💡.
• Possibility models already exist, showcasing real-world examples of transformative systems 🌱.
• The fellowship promotes the co-creation and implementation of narratives for systemic change 🚀.
• Connection and collaboration among narrative communities are crucial for regenerative success 🤝.

Overview

In a captivating open session, Culture Hack Labs introduced the Rhizome 2025 initiative, emphasizing the urgent need to pivot from a carbon-focused narrative to one embracing regenerative futures. By leveraging their unique narrative analysis and intervention methodology, the session aimed to inspire a transformative shift in how societies address climate challenges.

The session unfolded a comprehensive five-pathway framework, each interconnected to nurture systemic change. These pathways include restoring justice, economies of regeneration, land back movements, bio-regional governance, and cultural shifts. Each pathway contributes to creating sustainable futures rooted in justice and renewed relationships with the Earth.

Through participant-driven 'possibility models,' the initiative spotlights real-world examples of successful regenerative practices. These models serve as beacons, guiding communities towards ecological consciousness and shared futures. The fellowship extends far beyond discussion, positioning participants to lead and implement these transformative narratives into actionable projects.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 01:00: Welcome and Introduction The chapter "Welcome and Introduction" begins with a heartfelt welcome to the audience as they join the session from various places around the world, creating a global connectedness. The speaker expresses excitement for the second session on regenerative futures and is eager to share the insights and information gathered.
• 01:00 - 03:00: Session Overview The chapter titled 'Session Overview' begins by setting a reflective and welcoming tone as participants are encouraged to settle into the space. It acknowledges their busy lives and the various responsibilities they hold. The introduction expresses gratitude for their presence and time, emphasizing the importance of being fully present in the moment. It highlights the theme of regenerative futures and the pathways to be explored, suggesting a focus on sustainable and forward-thinking approaches.
• 03:00 - 05:00: Session Structure and Topics The chapter titled 'Session Structure and Topics' focuses on creating a welcoming environment where every participant's culture, ethnic origin, and personal history are respected and valued. It emphasizes the importance of acknowledging all aspects of an individual's identity, including their ancestors and personal connections, and highlights the role of supportive relationships in enabling participation in the session. The content suggests that each individual's background and current existence are integral to the session's discourse, fostering a sense of inclusivity and engagement.
• 05:00 - 09:00: Beyond Carbon: Examining Current Narratives The chapter begins with an inclusive call to honor and welcome all forms of life, acknowledging their support, their lessons, and their role in sustaining and animating our existence. It extends gratitude to plants, various animal species, and the broader community of beings, emphasizing a deep respect and recognition of the interconnectedness of life beyond human narratives. This segment emphasizes the value of recognizing and giving thanks to the 'more-than-human' world that supports our work and animates our collective presence.
• 09:00 - 12:00: Research and Methodology The chapter titled 'Research and Methodology' reflects on the cyclical nature of time—examining the past, present, and future as part of the futures we are collectively building. It invites readers to settle in, feel welcomed and whole as they engage with the material. Aubrey, a member of the Culture Hack Labs team and a futurist, introduces herself and expresses her excitement for the discussion and for facilitating the Ryome Fellowship.
• 12:00 - 22:00: Narrative Communities and Clusters The chapter titled 'Narrative Communities and Clusters' begins by welcoming participants and expressing gratitude for their attendance. The discussion is structured into four parts, primarily focusing on moving beyond the prevalent narrative fixation on carbon. This fixation has significantly influenced discourse in various fields of interest. The chapter introduces the concept of 'regenerative futures' and a semantic framework designed to facilitate systemic change. It outlines five pathways that form part of this framework, aiming to provide a comprehensive understanding through shared research insights.
• 22:00 - 35:00: Pathways to Regeneration In the chapter titled 'Pathways to Regeneration', the narrative discusses the concept of five pathways that form a 'woven web' acting as a hypothesis for driving change alongside the Earth at the present moment. The chapter delves into the fellowship program designed for individuals interested in engaging with these pathways. It provides an overview, including steps to apply, details about the program content, and the timeline. The session aims to address potential questions from prospective applicants and provides application instructions, utilizing the entire 90-minute timeframe.
• 35:00 - 40:00: Narrative Objective and Reframe In this chapter titled 'Narrative Objective and Reframe,' the speaker informs the audience about the process of engaging with the session. Participants are encouraged to submit questions through the chat, which will be monitored and collected. Unanswered questions during the session will be addressed in follow-up emails or a FAQ document, and a recording of the session, along with presentation slides, will be made available to anyone interested. The section concludes with a handover to a colleague who will present on the topic of carbon fixation.
• 40:00 - 49:00: Islands of Coherence and Imaginal Cells Ya Morance, co-director for Culture Hack Labs, introduces themselves and welcomes the audience. Ya mentions their involvement in the research being presented and expresses excitement about sharing it. Ya is calling from Kauaii and extends a warm welcome with 'aloha.' The chapter begins to discuss the research topic.
• 49:00 - 61:00: Overview of Five Pathways This chapter delves into research conducted last year concerning climate philanthropy and the cultural emphasis on carbon as a remedy for climate change. The research led to the development of a framework proposing pathways towards regenerative futures. This framework and the research process are shared in this chapter, serving as a guide for applicants of the fellowship.
• 61:00 - 71:00: Cultural and Ontological Shifts The chapter titled 'Cultural and Ontological Shifts' discusses collaboration with MA Earth, an organization focused on creating infrastructure to facilitate resource flow towards regenerating land, waterways, ecosystems, and communities. The chapter provides a snapshot of the research breadth, mentioning the publication of several reports available on their website. Additionally, it features nine different articles from various contributors.
• 71:00 - 87:00: Process and Benefits of Ryome Fellowship The chapter focuses on the Ryome Fellowship, highlighting the involvement of contributors like the Center for Ethical Land Transition, Earth Law Center, and the Bioi Project, among others. The primary objective is to provide a high-level overview of the research findings. Additionally, it introduces the 'culture hack methodology' which was instrumental in creating the frameworks, and outlines the 'five pathways to regeneration.'
• 87:00 - 99:00: Participant Voices and Past Projects This chapter explores the origins of a research initiative by Culture Hack. It highlights two previous narrative research projects aimed at using wealth for positive societal transitions, focusing on liberation, regeneration, and postcapitalist futures.
• 99:00 - 119:00: Guiding Principles and Timeline The chapter titled 'Guiding Principles and Timeline' delves into the exploration of narratives surrounding land ownership and advocates for the reclamation of land to establish rightful relations. It positions itself at the crossroads of wealth redistribution and land regeneration, expanding on both areas of study. References to these related works can be found on the associated website, with links provided for further reading. The core aim of the research is to identify ways to free land.
• 119:00 - 135:00: Application and Selection Process The chapter "Application and Selection Process" discusses the impact of capitalism and colonialism on waters, ecosystems, and communities. It explores systemic structures and cultural narratives contributing to a global crisis, and suggests pathways for systemic change. The research findings about carbon fixation are introduced, which will be elaborated by Mahul.
• 135:00 - 150:00: Conclusion and Final Remarks The conclusion chapter discusses the origins and progress of the research project, which began with a thorough examination of the prevailing belief systems in the philanthropic sector. The project underwent numerous iterations and employed linguistic and semantic analysis to scrutinize these dominant paradigms. A significant insight from this research is yet to be revealed in the continuation of the transcript.

Rhizome 2025 - Open Session: Regenerative Futures & Fellowship Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Thank you Fede. Welcome everyone. Uh so beautiful to see the people pouring in and some are sharing in the chat where you are in the world which is also really wonderful to see picturing us almost like a net of little points of light all around the globe here together. Thank you for joining us today for our session second session on regenerative futures. Um we're really excited to share with you today all that we've um collected in terms of the
• 00:30 - 01:00 research around regenerative futures and the pathways we'll be speaking to. But first we'll just take a moment to settle in and welcome you all. You've all come from busy lives. All that you're holding and doing and tending and offering your time to us and we really are honored to share that with you. Take a moment to allow yourself to fully arrive. Bringing your attention to your body, your breath, this present moment. We so often are rushing around
• 01:00 - 01:30 and forget to just pause. So fully arrive here and know that you are welcome. Your culture is welcome. Your ethnic origin is welcome. All of the complexities that make up who you are, your histories, her stories, experiences, your ancestors, all are welcome. All the connections you bring with you, those who have made it possible for you to be here, your partner, your children, your friends, those who clear space so that you can take time to engage in
• 01:30 - 02:00 calls like this. They are all welcome and honored. You're welcome here. We're giving thanks to the plants of the places that support us, that teach us, that build our bodies. To the animals, the two-leggeds, the four-leggeds, the winged ones, the crawling ones, the swimming ones. As we give thanks to all of the beings, the more than human that support us and support our work and animate the fire that brings us here. Welcoming all of life to our
• 02:00 - 02:30 circle, past, present, and future, as we think about the futures we're collectively building, imagining, rebuilding, supporting, and transforming. Settle in, be welcomed, be whole, and be here. Thank you. My name is Aubrey. I am part of the culture hack labs team. Um I'm a futurist so I love speaking about futures. Excited about our conversation today and um also hope to facilitate the ryome fellowship. So really excited to
• 02:30 - 03:00 see all of the interest and those of you who are just curious, welcome. And those of you who plan to apply, welcome. We're grateful to have you here today. There's going to be four parts to our call. First, we're going to talk about moving beyond carbon and sort of the obsession with carbon that's been animating a lot of the narratives in the spaces we care about. We'll speak about what we call regenerative futures and this um semantic framework for systemic change. That's the five pathways that we'll speak to and sharing the research that's gone into that so you can understand the
• 03:00 - 03:30 narrative grounding um and why we speak of these five pathways and how we see them as really a woven web that we feel is um our hypothesis around how change may happen in concert with Earth in this moment. And then we'll speak to the fellowship itself. Um, so for those who are interested in applying, we're going to give an overview of the program and sort of, you know, the steps to apply and and what's in involved in the program itself, the timeline, hopefully answer some of the questions you might be holding and then we'll share how you apply and that should take our full 90
• 03:30 - 04:00 minutes. Um, we'll be monitoring the chat, so if you have questions, please feel free to place them there and we'll be, you know, coalescing and collecting them. And if we don't get to them all in today's call, we'll do our best to answer them in the email or the frequently asked questions and we will be sharing out a recording. So um for anyone who wants to rewatch this, there'll be a recording and the presentation slides will be shared out as well. With that, I will pass off to my colleague Y to begin us um on the beyond the carbon fixation.
• 04:00 - 04:30 Thank you Aubrey. Welcome everyone. My name is Ya Morance. I am the co-director for Culture Hack Labs and have been involved in in this research and so I'm really excited to be able to share it with you all today. I'm calling in from the lands of Kauaii. So welcoming you all with aloha today. And so this is um a body of research that we
• 04:30 - 05:00 conducted last year looking at climate philanthropy and the cultural fixation on carbon as a solution to climate change. An outcome of this research is a framework that offers pathways towards regenerative futures which will share um we'll share the the process of the research as well as the the framework. And for those of you that are applying for the fellowship, this framework will be guiding our journey together. This research was conducted in
• 05:00 - 05:30 collaboration with MA Earth, an organization creating infrastructure that enables resources to flow towards the regeneration of land, waterways, ecosystems, and communities. This gives you a snapshot for the the breadth of this research. We published several reports and they can all be found on our website. We'll share the link for that. As part of this issue, we've also featured nine different articles from different
• 05:30 - 06:00 contributors such as the center for ethical land transition, earth law center, bioi project and others. So have a look at that. And as our our intention today because there is quite a lot of um threads to this research is to give you a high level summary of the findings, walk you through the culture hack methodology um that allowed us to to to get to the the frameworks and to introduce the the five pathways to regeneration
• 06:00 - 06:30 themselves to share more about the genesis of the research. Previously, Culture Hack had conducted two narrative research initiatives. First, in collaboration with the transition resource circle on wealth as a transition pathway. This issue examined how wealth can be alchemized through philanthropy to serve liberation and regeneration to usher in postcist realities. Secondly,
• 06:30 - 07:00 explorations of narratives around land ownership and an intervention calling for land backto-right relations. So this research sits at the intersection of wealth redistribution and land regeneration. And so it builds on these two bodies of work and evolves it. And so again, these um these different issues, these bodies of work can also be found on our website. So we'll share the links for that as well. The intention of this research is to find the pathways to liberate land,
• 07:00 - 07:30 waters, ecosystems, and communities from the enclosures of capitalism and colonialism. This research highlights the systemic structures and cultural narratives that contribute to the meta crisis that we're in and offers pathways as a navigational tool for systems change. With that, I'll pass to Mahul who'll take us through the findings of the first part of the report looking at the carbon fixation to set the context for
• 07:30 - 08:00 the rest of the research. Thanks Y. Um, as as Y was mentioning, a lot of our research started with an interrogation and a deeper understanding of the belief systems that were dominating the philanthropic landscape. And uh so this this research project went through several iterations and we did quite a lot of um linguistic analysis and semantic analysis of uh the dominant paradigms of philanthropic activity. And the key thing we found is
• 08:00 - 08:30 that uh the core of um activ uh philanthropic funding was around this idea of carbon and rooted to this concept that if we address the issue of carbon in some ways we address we would address the the climate crisis. Um but as we see on the next slide uh a lot of this uh was based on this idea that GDP and carbon could be decoupled in all sorts of renewable
• 08:30 - 09:00 energies. And many of many of us who work in in this uh area of activism and advocacy know that this hasn't really proven to be the case. And so what we found is that the ecological impact of growth remains tied to resource use revealing the limitations of focus focusing solely on CO2 emissions. And there's extensive research that we have in our report um which has just been shared into the chat right now that goes into the specific details, the economic drivers, but also the actual empirical evidence that this is actually not the
• 09:00 - 09:30 case. However, even given this very clear evidence that this is not um true, philanthropic activity and even u much advocacy work continues to reinforce this belief system of decoupling. So as we can see um in this breakdown of funding from 2018 to 2022 the majority of sectors which is like nearly 74% reinforce technological and market-based solutions that both maintain the growth
• 09:30 - 10:00 paradigm and also the claims of decoupling. And so this fundamental assertion really is kind of like at the root of everything that our report and the subsequent research found. But the way to frame this or understand this is that a lot of the funding mechanisms, a lot of the advocac advocacy and policy work saying we have to maintain growth and in that we also maintain that we can decouple the GDP GDP growth from uh
• 10:00 - 10:30 carbon and so we see a lot of funding streams here for example like clean electric clean electricity carbon dioxide removal uh planting new forests etc while ignoring the fundamental causal driver of the issue. Another just brief window and and in the report there are quite a few examples of this but another brief kind of window into the paradox or let's say um the the performative contradiction in the whole system is that we have climate aid from
• 10:30 - 11:00 all of these countries which is significantly lower from the forestry imports that these same countries do. Um a lot of this is flowing uh to the global north and um one of the key assertions we make in the in the report is that the global north not only receives financial benefits from climate aid through its private sector but also uses aid mechanisms like carbon offsets to continue emitting CO2 domestically. So there's this fundamental par paradox
• 11:00 - 11:30 that is it continues both within climate philanthropy and policy and advocacy work. So to give it to give you a little bit about about the method, I'll pass to Tiffany who'll take us through the process that we went through um in our Thanks Mahul and hi everyone. It's great to see you again and welcome to all the new faces. And my name is Tiffany Shakespeare and I'm calling in from Berlin and I'm on the research team at Culture Hack Labs. And so yeah, as Mahul
• 11:30 - 12:00 said, we're going to go into the research a little, but first we'll give you a little refresher on our method that we outlined in the last call, which is um we've developed over the course of of 10 plus years, a methodology to identify cultural narratives, understand their impact and reframe these narratives for systems change. And it includes five steps. So ask is um where we develop a point of view that sets the
• 12:00 - 12:30 course for the research and then we move on to listen which is where we collect data and we have various methods that we use depending on the research inquiry. Then we move on to understand which is a step where we analyze the power structure of narratives and map the narrative space and look where we want to shift it. And then we move on to recode where we build on linguistic analysis and reframe the narratives for systems change. And finally we hack. So
• 12:30 - 13:00 this is about narrative intervention. And the research I'm about to introduce we really focus on the first four phases. So ask, listen, understand, recode. And the hack part will be the various projects co-created through the ryome fellowship. So this methodology and the research findings are all shared in detail in the narrative analysis report which I think has been shared in the chat and we'll share it again via email. And right now we'll go through the basics but please
• 13:00 - 13:30 don't get overwhelmed because it's a lot of information and it will all start to make sense as you go through the fellowship or get more acquainted with culture hack labs work. So we start with the point of view in the ask step and the point of view sets the foundation and the goal and intention of the narrative research and informs the data collection. It's kind of like a a compass that guides us and our point of view for this narrative project articulates that land is a critical lever in the transition away from
• 13:30 - 14:00 anthropocentric capitalist systems. However, there is a lack of shared frameworks of understanding and a coherence of underlying logics that are needed to build the momentum to enable this transition. So therefore, we want to support the development of shared narratives, tools, and strategies around the intention of liberating land from the enclosures of capitalism and colonialism. And by doing so we can cultivate a cultural context in which is
• 14:00 - 14:30 in which it is possible to rematurate rematriate and regenerate land and ecosystems on a large scale. So as I mentioned this research stops at recode but the the intervention will be the projects that you'll co-create um in the fellowship using this research as a base but also going through this method again in order to refine your topics. So now we've moved on to how did we actually do this research and we'd used a mixture of
• 14:30 - 15:00 big listening which is collecting data to understand the kind of larger macro trends and what we're hearing but we mainly focused on small listening um which in which we conducted 28 in-depth interviews across six key areas which were climate justice systems change tech and service of life indigenous land defenders guardians and their allies radical funders and postcist philanthropy and emerging autonomous
• 15:00 - 15:30 democracies. And then we start the listen phase in which we collect data. And once we've completed the data collection, the outcome of this stage is to identify narrative communities which are really the crux of the culture hack labs method. And these are groups of nodes talking to each other about a specific topic in a similar way. And when we say nodes, we really mean people or online publications or domains, they may not necessarily know each other um
• 15:30 - 16:00 but they're kind of creating this narrative echo chamber. And when we talk about um topics in talked about in a a similar way, we are talking about semantically similar. So they're using the same metaphors, frames, and languages. and they craft specific meaning around a topic. And now in this slide you can see we move then from listen to understand where we really get deep and analyze the narrative communities in more detail. And specifically we do an intention network
• 16:00 - 16:30 power analysis which allows us to explore the focus or tone or geographical location of the narrative communities or attention. We also look at who are the actors, who are the voices, which ones are influential, what are the interconnections, which is network. And finally, we look at um which have the most power in shaping the public discourse, which is power. And on the next slide, as part of the understand phase, we conduct a mapping process. So once narrative communities
• 16:30 - 17:00 are analyzed, we then move to plotting them on two spectrums of change. One is justice, one is ontology. And you may remember in our last call we outlined our approach to narrativeled systems change which was justice plus ontological shift. And here we're really building on that. So by plotting these communities along both the justice and ontology axis we can visualize um if you go back thanks we can visualize how they evolve across these spectrums and ensure
• 17:00 - 17:30 we design narrative interventions that don't just stop at justice demands but also foster a deeper ontological shift. And just quickly um justice is the x-axis and this is about addressing injustices for example colonialism or structural inequities and the spectrum moves from kind of injustice the status quo towards justice and transforming the system and then the ontology axis which is the yaxis. Um just quickly ontology um a reminder it basically means the
• 17:30 - 18:00 very ways we view understand and relate to the world. And this spectrum moves from ontologies of separation at the bottom which is indicated through language for example expressing self versus other divides or human versus nature and it moves towards ontologies of relationality or ontologies of interbeing or interdependence. So on the next slide it's just a little reminder of our approach justice plus onto shift. Justice is is an essential basis but on
• 18:00 - 18:30 its own it's not enough and should truly move beyond modernity. New ontologies are essential. So in other words, new languages, beliefs, worldviews are needed to shift how we understand our place in the web of life. So let's go back to the mapping graph and we bring it to life by showing you where we put the communities in this research. And we actually found 12 narrative communities and we placed them into three clusters. So this graph is
• 18:30 - 19:00 showing you where what cluster one and cluster one sits in the lower left quadrant. So this is where justice and relational autotologies are at their very lowest. And here narratives are really around false greenwashing solutions, business as usual, development and growth agendas. The idea here is um or common narratives are we need to continue as we are going putting funds into green and sustainable solutions and most of the energy or gravity in the narrative space in the
• 19:00 - 19:30 public discourse this is around this region. So then we move to cluster two which are narrative communities around justice and liberation. So these sit more towards the middle and all communities here are showing that there must be a link between socioeconomic justice and ecological justice and for us to really attend to the climate crisis uh it needs to be acknowledged the legacy of colonialism and imperialism and these three communities
• 19:30 - 20:00 are really focused on calling out these hegemonic narratives. Then finally we move to cluster three which we could maybe describe as a more catalytic cluster because these communities are not only focused on issues of justice but they're also saying that if we move upstream from the systems that are causing these injustices. We find worldviews where there is a disconnect from the other or from nature in this context there. The
• 20:00 - 20:30 meta crisis is really rooted in a crisis of relationality of or of identity or of the relationship between self and other if you remember what I was explaining in the previous call. And communities here include possibility models. So these are tangible examples or experiments of what alternative postcist systems and land stewardship models might look like. and other communities include which are also examples of possibility models by regional governance community land
• 20:30 - 21:00 trusts regenerative food ways and indigenous lifeways and now I'll pass you back to Mahul who will go through the linguistic analysis in a bit more detail thanks Mahul thanks Tiffany and this might all seem a bit overwhelming so just rest assured this is recorded so you can go through again in your own pace. Uh but how we how we go through the culture method is
• 21:00 - 21:30 identifying communities which Tiffany just showed you and then we map them on the justice plus on shift access. Once we have the communities in their place according to the attention network and power uh meaning where the attention is what the network is and their power within the space we then look at the underlying linguistic components of them. So there are two key ideas that we borrow from cognitive linguistics. The first one is semantic frames and semantic frames essentially can be thought of as a meaning space. It's a
• 21:30 - 22:00 domain of meaning in which certain things make sense. Um and so our definition is a semantic frame is a conceptual structure that organizes the roles and relationships involved in common situations or actions. And you can you can hold it loosely. We'll it it should make more sense as we go along, but we have whole sections on our curriculum that explain this in more detail. The second concept that we want to introduce is the idea of a conceptual metaphor. And essentially a conceptual
• 22:00 - 22:30 metaphor connects a um a source domain to a target domain. Uh and these domains are are usually semantic frames. So for example, um time is money. um the the the domain of um money is connected to the domain of time in this way and that's what we call conceptual metaphors. So it's important to know that these are not actual metaphors that we use in language but they represent deep um cultural grammarss that help us
• 22:30 - 23:00 understand reality. So and I'm just going to cover this briefly. Um, don't worry if this seems quite detailed. Um, we do have a report that explained this in more detail and there's also uh parts of our curriculum that go into this. But in this specific case, we found some really interesting metaphors or recursive cultural patterns of grammarss within the narrative space. The first one was this idea that nature is an agent that
• 23:00 - 23:30 nature has agency, is alive, is um has rights etc. And then the second one is uh that was quite important was looking at this idea of improv improving from one place to another. So together this this this gives us a conception of nature as something that has agency and that the discourse needs to be in a progressive motion forward. other other things that we start to see
• 23:30 - 24:00 um in in in the discourse and these are kind of more the the more hegemonic narratives is looking at alternatives as different parts and creating is making. So these are just I'm just giving you examples of these so you have a conception of what we mean when we talk about conceptual metaphors and semantic frames. Overall some of the things that we found was that many of the narrative communities had proactive future oriented frames and that's really
• 24:00 - 24:30 important as we move forward uh some of the most prominent and significant things that we were seeing in the narrative space is that people and organizations were thinking about the space as something that needs to move in a new direction that is progressive that is speculative that is involved in possibility and potential. um many of the land regeneration conversations are discussing ways to build future systems rather than solely critiquing the past. So there's this moving momentum and and progression of
• 24:30 - 25:00 not just talking about the past, not just critiquing the past, but also talking about new infrastructure and new ways of knowing and being. And then there were recursive frames like becoming aware and social connection which were emphasizing that actually what needed to happen was a relational transformation. a revolution in how we understand our relations to other things, other beings and the more than human. So as we discuss the narrative
• 25:00 - 25:30 space, a critical part of what we try to do is um understand where the dominant discourse is. And we use a a narrative tool, a cognitive tool called the window of discourse, which is usually one way to think of it is the gravitational center of the discourse within the narrative space. And essentially the window of discourse just demarcates what is common sense within the narrative. What is accepted, what is not questioned, what
• 25:30 - 26:00 is not challenged, but something that's just kind of the background of everyday life. And the reason this is important in narrative work is because if we can understand that we can elicit the assumptions that this place holds slow lead shift those challenge those and move the window of discourse for new actions and new um policies and movements. The first thing we noticed when we looked at the the the narrative space
• 26:00 - 26:30 was the majority of the weight the narrative gravity remained in the bottom left hand corner here within the discourse around carbon and the decoupling of the GDP from carbon and within these two big groups. The one was around development and growth where uh the greenwashing uh frame was used to say that what is needed is a spurt in development that can actually address the climate crisis and the second one which was using greenwashing frame to
• 26:30 - 27:00 talk about how climate solutions are actually the solution um to the issues and this included you know solar farms and carbon sequestration and all of these very technical technological solutions. So from there we started to notice that when we talked to the people who are very embedded in in in practices on the ground that were looking at transformation of these spaces they were in this upper right hand quadrant where they were talking about by regional
• 27:00 - 27:30 governance regenerative pathways regenerative food ways uh possibility models and indigenous pathways. All of those communities that you see there were rooted in this fundamental cognitive developmental process of we are in a crisis of relationality. The real problem is actually not technical. The real problem is that we don't know how to relate to ourselves and we don't know how to relate to nature. And from that we had all of these other communities. So taking this all into
• 27:30 - 28:00 account we we demarcated two key vectors. Um, and a narrative vector in our in our system really kind of shows the movement of awareness or a trajectory of of evolution within the narrative space. And what we started to see was that there was this process of understanding that happened within the narrative space from the techno rational perspective of the greenwashing to an
• 28:00 - 28:30 understanding that liberation and justice were tied to the climate crisis and from here that there was a crisis in relationality and through this there need to be all these different interventions. So we narrowed it down into two key vectors from greenwashing to liberation and justice and from liberation and justice to possibility models. Thank you Maho. Yeah, invite you all just to take
• 28:30 - 29:00 a deep breath in. I know that's a lot of of information. And from all of that sense making the the next step is to create a narrative objective. And the narrative objective sets what we want the narrative to achieve. So in this case to build a semantic frameworks framework that serves as an orienting guide and practical tool for systems change. a framework that supports communities in moving from partial solutions to
• 29:00 - 29:30 justice-driven approaches and from critique to creating new systems grounded in new ways of knowing and being. So with this objective in mind, we move to our reframe. And a reframe is not the messaging or the communications, but rather a strategic cultural aim. It's a north star that guides how stories, symbols, and meaning making practices are mobilized to shift
• 29:30 - 30:00 collective perception, behavior, and power. So, what we heard emerged through the research is that there's an opportunity here to transform breakdowns into possibility. And not only that, but that these possibility models already exist. Possibility models are not abstract ideals. They are real world lived experiments in new ways of being that challenge existing systems. They they model what is
• 30:00 - 30:30 possible. We from the research we saw from food sovereignty movements to indigenous land practices and bio regional governance. These models are offering real world examples of how alternative ontologies can transform breakdowns into possibilities embodying the principles and values of the desired future within the present moment. So even within the constraints of the existing structures, they're showing us how systemic change can emerge through practice. And so this this frame
• 30:30 - 31:00 possibility models is a shift away from anthropocentric hierarchical worldviews, a departure for market driven rational theoretical siloed logic that currently defines climate strategies. And instead, Possibility Models advances ecological consciousness, relational worldviews, and has a focus on experimentation, radical imagination rooted in interconnected logics that are allowing communities to engage in practices that are creating new possibilities.
• 31:00 - 31:30 So to animate the frame of possibility models, we introduced the metaphor of islands of coherence to describe the localized experiments in justice regeneration and governance that many of the identified narrative communities are already embodying. These islands of coherence, food sovereignty movements, by regional governance, indigenous land practices are making the path as they walk it, offering powerful models of a
• 31:30 - 32:00 future beyond our current paradigm. Complexity scientist Elia Prigo, many of you are probably familiar with this quote. He he observed when a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order. Similarly, these possibility models already embodying the change through lived practice even within the
• 32:00 - 32:30 challenges of the existing system have the capacity to shift the entire system into a higher order. So we can draw the parallels between possibility models and islands of coherence. And if we activate the lens of ecological consciousness and look to where transformation happens in nature, we can also draw on the wisdom of imaginal cells. These are specialized cells that are found in caterpillars
• 32:30 - 33:00 that play a crucial role in the process of metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly. I'll share a little bit about this process to illustrate an important point and um what has led us to the the the interconnection of the pathways. So the butterfly starts its incarnation as a caterpillar which is the ultimate consumer. It eats 200 times its body weight each day before entering
• 33:00 - 33:30 into a chrysalis. Within the chrysalis, caterpillar cells that have been dormant, which are scientifically called imaginal cells, start the process of creating a new form and structure. At first, these imaginal cells operate independently as single cell organisms. But as they start to come online, they are attacked by the immune system of the caterpillar. They're seen as a foreign object. Yet, they persist, forming clusters and beginning to resonate with one another. They start to share
• 33:30 - 34:00 information between each other until they hit a tipping point. At this stage, they begin acting not as discrete individual cells, but as a multi-ell organism. The once caterpillar turns into an organic mush and is reconstituted as a completely different creature, the butterfly. It is no resemblance to its previous self, and its behaviors are now different, too. it's transformed from a consumer to a
• 34:00 - 34:30 pollinator. So I share that because this observable biological evolutionary process of transformation reveals something really important. The power of connection. Imagine just as the imaginal cells or these islands of coherence or possibility models start to connect with one another via shared resources, knowledge exchange or cooperative networks. They carry the potential to shift the entire system, transforming
• 34:30 - 35:00 what seems like isolated efforts into a broader wave of systemic change. Which brings us to the final part of the research, which is the pathways to regeneration are interwoven, which starts to explore these connecting points. Thanks, Y. Um, as as we move into this part of the framework, I think it's really important to just kind of recap quickly how we got here. Um, and it it
• 35:00 - 35:30 seems a little uh compressed because we're putting in, you know, weeks and weeks of work into this overview. Um, just to quickly re reassert, the reason we're doing this is because this is kind of the core thematic framework for Ryzome 3. And so we're just trying to reinforce some of these ideas and this recording will be available for you. Um but what the way we got to these five pathways was identifying the narrative communities. Uh looking at the the the
• 35:30 - 36:00 narrative gravity and physics within the narrative space and then identifying vectors for change. From this we came up with the frame of possibility models which Yell so eloquently kind of discussed with with us all. And a subsequent to this was this framework of five pathways um or interconnected clusters. And this is really important because what we found in our research and from talking to all of these experts and doing our online um data data collection was there
• 36:00 - 36:30 were many uh silos of very important activity that were happening from land landback decolonial imperatives to regeneration to new types of economies but they were not working together and the key part that we found within this whole system is that there needed to be an interconnectedness between these parts. So this framework tries to address this by providing a overarching structure um um for to understand how all of these are
• 36:30 - 37:00 connected. But from a high level what we found were there were five key pathways that were interconnected and interdependent that were important to address as uh transition pathways. The first one was called restoring justice restoring life which folks focused on decolonization for ecological healing. The second one was economies of regeneration which looked at transforming economic systems towards regeneration. The third one focused on
• 37:00 - 37:30 land back to right relationship which was focused on land distribution and new ownership models. The fourth one was around bio-reional governance and community-led governance. So not just bio-regional but also community focused governance of um bio regions. And then the fifth one which was the cultural and spiritual shift that needed to happen at a community level at an individual level to truly understand the change in behavior that was needed.
• 37:30 - 38:00 So if we go to the first one um the restoring rejustice restoring life this one looked at the intersection of decolonialism and indigenous custodianship and ecological restoration. So this essentially this cluster ties together social justice to ecological healing and makes and and launches different projects and imperatives that look at this intersection as a regenerative
• 38:00 - 38:30 pathway. The second one was looking at economies of regeneration. And so this was a key aspect is in some cases we found decolonial uh movements or we found landback movements but there wasn't a fundamental shift in the underlying economic logic. And so this this cluster really looks at we need to shift economic imperatives from growth imperatives to ones of regeneration uh commu communal benefit etc
• 38:30 - 39:00 sustainable local economies and this is the second pathway. The third way, third pathway is looking at uh land back to right relationship. So not just land back but also cultivating new forms of centropic and relationships of care. The emphasis here is on land equity, red redistribution of land to marginalized communities through landback initiatives and establishing collective ownership
• 39:00 - 39:30 models. The fourth pathway was talking about bio regional community governance. And so this was a very interesting emerging um pathway that we found is there was a um a resurgent of uh uh bio regional government bio regional governance but also um rights of nature which focused on regions as systems that needed collective governance in which the comm which the na the natural aspects of that by region were part of
• 39:30 - 40:00 the decision-m were part of the governance process and so This le addresses the failures of centralized governments and the need for justiceoriented governance systems that uplift marginalized voices. And here the focus is on creating bio regional governance where local communities make decisions about land and resource use. And finally the fifth pathway which may seem like the most esoteric or um on the fringes but was really about cultural and onlogical shifts. And what
• 40:00 - 40:30 this means is that people were having experiences whether through the community or ritual or some sort of connection to nature um that that was transpersonal. And it was through these experiences that we found um that there was an actual shift uh ontological shift epistemic shift that allowed people to move in the direction of the other pathways. And so although al although this one seems a little um esoteric or not really graspable, this was a very
• 40:30 - 41:00 key lever in in actioning the rest of the pathways within the system. So just briefly and we won't go into this if you're interested. The systems capability matrix was the emergent outcome of these pathways. And what we do is we take each pathway and break it down into these five key functions or dimensions. The first one was the process of practice which is what is
• 41:00 - 41:30 actually happening here? What activities happening in this pathway? The second one is what outcomes is it striving for. The third one is what is the actual causal thing that is happening? It it's doing this to achieve this goal. Um the fourth piece is its capacity for transforming the system. And then the fifth one is how do you evaluate the effectiveness and the efficacy of these different pathways. So I'll just do I'm just going
• 41:30 - 42:00 to do one example of pathway 2 just so you have an understanding of the framework. It's quite detailed and we have a report that goes into the detail. Um, if you're applying for the ryome, you you should be looking at these as a way to understand which pathway you fit into and how your project will fit both into what goals it's trying to achieve, what causal mechanisms it's involved in, and the activities that you're doing. So from the economies of
• 42:00 - 42:30 regeneration, you know, the the key idea here was developing local regenerative agricultural systems, promoting circular economies, shifting shifting economic incentives from growth to to different collective commons. Some of the outcomes in the system would be the creation of local economies rooted in sustainability, improved resilience, creation of alternative economic systems. And the fundamental causal process that we're looking here was moving uh the operation of
• 42:30 - 43:00 extractive capitalism towards regenerative localized economies. This obviously has a great transformational capacity um at a local and a global level. And some of the key ways you would monitor and evaluate these changes was the development of regenerative economic initiatives and local economic stability and resilience. You know, given there were fluxes in global or national um econ economic processes,
• 43:00 - 43:30 there would be more resilience at the local level. So to summarize all of that, you know, the principle here, the transition involves realigning economic incentives to reward sustainable practices. shifting economic value systems to prioritize ecosystem health and community resilience. And this pathway emphasized the practical steps for transitioning towards local economies that support regeneration. And some examples of this that we found was regenerative agriculture projects, new food systems
• 43:30 - 44:00 and networks and economic system uh incentive enlightenment. So this is one example of a pathway. uh we have a lot of more detail into each one. Um and then just maybe to close before I hand over to Aubry. Um the key idea here is that true true land regeneration transcends just carbon focus approaches and more importantly it recognizes that social, economic and
• 44:00 - 44:30 cultural dimensions soft to be interwoven and have to be connected. Um and this is kind of like the the overview of the whole narrative space is to move from carbon to possibility models. We need to understand firstly that justice is connected. Secondly, we need to understand that we need to address the crisis of relationality to get us to the possibility models. So all of these together are what we consider to be the framework of um the five
• 44:30 - 45:00 pathways to regeneration. Beautiful. Thank you, Mahul. We're going to take a moment just to breathe, ground, and center. So, that was a lot of information. And um as I was sharing with someone in the chat, you're not meant to get it all right now. So, just take a moment to if you want to close down your eyes, but just pause, feel your body, feel your feet on the floor, feel your body in the chair. Allow your breathing to slow.
• 45:00 - 45:30 And just let all the words you've heard, the images you've seen kind of wash through your system and allow those ideas, images, concepts that resonated. Allow those to stick. And don't worry about having to digest it all. Right now just feeling into that space of
• 45:30 - 46:00 potentiality you like narratives ideas are alive. There may be ones that want to nest in your system and grow their own roots, their own unique way of being within you. Let's just take two deep breaths in from that space of feeling centered. You can feel the center of your belly, your gut. In Hawaii, we call it the nao. It's a seat of knowing, a place where information is
• 46:00 - 46:30 born. You connect to the cosmos. We're breathing into that belly deeply in and letting it release. One more deep breath in. Letting that release. And just before we go back into sharing, imagining in front of your
• 46:30 - 47:00 heart space, the thing you care about that brought you to this call today. What was it in the words you read or the resonance you felt that connected with the work you do and the hope you hold for the regenerative futures of planet Earth? Gaia, just reenter yourself on that longing, that prayer, that wish, that dream. When you're ready, you can reopen your eyes, be in presence together.
• 47:00 - 47:30 Thank you for that pause. I will pass over now to Andrea. and she's just opening her [Music] microphone and as we've shared these slides will be shared out along with the recording. We've got the frequently asked questions and um we're available
• 47:30 - 48:00 to answer questions on email as well. So, but I think what Mahil shared in that last slide really encapsulates all of the research. So, if you just that that concept is what comes through that there is this woven braided way in which we can address regeneration that doesn't isn't just linear. That's really what we're getting to and and then the narrative grounding is all the research that went into that hypothesis and that belief. Thank you very much, Aubrey. Mhm. So um now we're going to share more
• 48:00 - 48:30 information about the process itself and it was very important for us to share with you uh the pathways for your generation because they are going to be the framework and ryome will be the action that we're going to construct. So during the process we have uh some specific objectives. The first is to create shared narratives and discourses among organizations people with the aim
• 48:30 - 49:00 of creating narratives that can flourish within the movements and can help us to shift culture. We also want to have borderless convergence and invite collaboration and organization among the diverse groups and organizations to create transertorial dialogues and actions and also collaboration and co-learning. this online container and also an inerson gathering are the ones that are combining our methodology with
• 49:00 - 49:30 also the expertise of narrative practitioners. We are are looking to plant some seeds. So the results of the process will be that together we will pl prototype projects to practice culture hacking and also saw some regenerative future narratives. You will learn and systematize your own metrics um to measure the narrative impact of the work during this process. And uh the process itself will
• 49:30 - 50:00 be online sessions. Each one will last 90 minutes every two weeks between June and September. You will have access to the culture hack method and tools uh to learn how to design and execute narrative interventions. You will be facilitated with mentorship and peer exchange joining this global cohort of storytellers, organizers and also researchers. This will be a process of
• 50:00 - 50:30 project incubation when you're going to develop the narrative hack with a direct impact on the community that you're working in or with. and also the inerson gathering when you can will be able to meet the fellows who are going to participate in this cohort to create collective strategies in Costa Rica. So full participation and align energy with the fellowship are required and there is no financial cost to participate.
• 50:30 - 51:00 Instead of it, we ask uh your focused energy, your attention during the process of the fellowship and especially during the final phase of the implementation of your narrative hack. So you will be having more details on uh the website, but also we wanted to share with you some of the amazing voices of some of the previous participants of Ryzen Fellowship. So I see myself as a bridge um
• 51:00 - 51:30 connecting the world of technology with people um trying to ease the processes between the two worlds. So I specifically work with black indigenous and groups of color as they've been returned to land and are holding title organizationally to the land. I'm the indigenous coordinator from BIM who is an alliance for black and indigenous people who are facing climate justice,
• 51:30 - 52:00 racial justice and also are fighting against destructivism. In phase one, we lay the groundwork by establishing shared language and sense making approaches while getting familiar with the culture hack tools. uh narratives are absolutely central uh to achieving a new economic paradigm. We want nature to grow things growing is positive and it's become the only way we
• 52:00 - 52:30 really talk about economies. So it's a very big task to change that narrative. It is a poly crisis. It is a meta crisis. So taking a singular approach to solving that uh itself is a false promise and and what's extremely potent about arisome about these these networks that interweave with each other is that they they rarely band together as many uh elements and and expertise from very
• 52:30 - 53:00 radically different spaces like I mean the story is that everything is crumbling but it's actually a new beginning and that's where I think narrative comes into play because if we actually start telling stories about there's opportunity here as opposed to everything is crumbling, sometimes things have to fall apart for them to come back together. In phase two is where the magic happens. We engage in a four month planning and hacking phase focusing on narrative interventions linked by common themes like new
• 53:00 - 53:30 economies, social justice and climate crisis. uh youth in the climate space particularly those that are engaged with um institutional spaces they are being co-opted been doing with this uh race fellowship is to imagine a process through which we can establish um a conversation around the f the false climate solutions with the big listening the small listening like I think I had finally the time to ask different
• 53:30 - 54:00 questions and see how those answers would speak with what we are doing to rethink how we do journalism, how are we telling stories and trying to give birth I would say to different sorts of stories narrated from the territories. This concept of a narrative community that is not necessarily one group of people but is this body of individuals who think a certain way. There is something very embedded in the ryome process that is very humanizing of everyone of the voices that are coming together because part of shifting
• 54:00 - 54:30 narrative is so much understanding who your audience is, understanding what people's beliefs are and why they have them. Finally, in phase three, we gather together in an inerson week to reflect and refine your culture hack actions in real time, learning from one another's experiences within the cohort. Having this global space has been um really really beautiful and just being able to recognize the the way that our struggles are all um united and we can all
• 54:30 - 55:00 struggle together and we can all you know live and have joy together too. Becoming more connected to a global community of people who are fighting the same same fight, the same struggle but for the protection of different territories, different people um and also to realize different possibilities. It's like super important. Thanks, Ped. So, there were the beautiful voices of some of the previous uh participants
• 55:00 - 55:30 and the cohort of 2024 fellowship and as you heard there were archaeology from South Africa that uh the process that they did during the fellowship was to identify, record, record recode and respond to the false climate solution narratives emerging online during COP 29. the center for ethical land transition. Uh we're tracking the experiences of elders and leaders working with practitioners of people of of communities of bipok land reunion efforts and create resource on
• 55:30 - 56:00 culturally affirming practitioner support. Ahendopropia was a process to invite narrators, journalists to co-create intercultural collaborative journalism with indigenous communities as a way to enrich the conversation of climate change, climate crisis in Latin American landscape. Earth rice from UK were actually working in providing some of the climate curious with living postc capitalist alternatives to move from the framing of paralysis, doom and gloom and
• 56:00 - 56:30 despair into envisioning new systems and postcist models. So we will share with you uh the presentation and you will can uh follow up and read more about the other projects from the 2024 uh previous cohort. And I'm I wanted to share also that uh the process itself of the ryome is guided by some principles that are very important. The first is that the local knowledge is legitimate knowledge. You are the experts in your lives and
• 56:30 - 57:00 communities. We are here to facilitate some tools, some reflections and create some co coh cohesion between each other. We also are guided by making the radical common sense. Focus on the root causes of the systems inequalities is very important to do our narrative practice. Another principle is to turn self-criticism into rebellious actions. Go beyond the analysis paralysis. And this is important to move the solidarity
• 57:00 - 57:30 and turn the structural criticism into solidarity local actions but also with global interactions. And those principles for us are reflected during the process of building together and collectively create a safe space by naming our space, our limits, our needs by not allowing any kind of violence and also having some resolving conflict through dialogue and respect because we
• 57:30 - 58:00 know we're human. We can have different points of view, approaches, experiences, but we want to create a safe container and uh also the respect and honor our differences to dismantle systems of oppression and nar and narrative monocultures. So we are present in this process for the others. So it's a also an space for diversity and divergence some of the timeline. So we are today in the 2nd of May in our
• 58:00 - 58:30 second open session and we since today are going to open the application submission between the 2 and 16 of May we invite you to uh fill the form and also to apply and do the application process and we will let you know around the 6th of May uh if you were selected to participate in this cohort. Um the fellowship will start in June 13
• 58:30 - 59:00 and it will be running between June 13 and 28 of November. We're going to see and meet each other in person between the 15 and 21st of September in Costa Rica during the presential gathering. So some important you know information is that April introduction application May is start uh understanding the space in June August we're going to work through recode and hack and September and
• 59:00 - 59:30 November you're going to hack and build your own case study the specific dates of the calls the during the online sessions the first will be in June the 12th and uh we're going to be at the same time 11 to 12:30 in CDT. Erh we're going to do the ask and point of view and change hypothesis. Then in the June 26 we're going to go
• 59:30 - 60:00 through the listening model with big and a small communities and big big listening and small listening. During July the 12th, we're going to finalize our listening model with narratives, communities, and the analysis of attention, network, and power. Then in July 14, we're going to move to the understand phases to talk about metaphors and frames. And then in August 7, we're going to do the movement of justice blows onto shift to start seeing
• 60:00 - 60:30 the possibilities of our narrative hack. Then in August 21st, we're going to understand the window of this course and the audiences of our narrative actions. And then in September the 4th, we're going to do the reframe and also work with the catalyt community and narrative objectives that you have been planning since the beginning. Then the inerson gathering and the hack will happen between September 15 and September 21st. We're
• 60:30 - 61:00 going to be in person arriving into Costa Rica in the beautiful installations of Prebirth. We're going to be in during the week uh having an inerson space to deepen into your own models and to start creating your hack. So during the space and the inerson gathering, you're we're going to co-create your strategies. And then between um October the 2nd and November 28, we're going to do some online
• 61:00 - 61:30 sessions to hack creation and we're closing our sessions on November 28th. So that's this will be the important dates that you need to be aware. Uh we're going to be using Signal as instant messaging and work on groups. All the the calls will be on Zoom. all the sessions that that will be virtual and then we will share with you all the culture hack tools learning platform
• 61:30 - 62:00 plus data processing tools that we have available and we're going to use Google calendar forms and portfolio to organize the documents and all your information. So some of the benefits of participating you will be developing a narrative projects within the next seven months with the guidance of the culture hack team. You will publish and measure that project um and also the narrative impact of it. You are the owner of the results
• 62:00 - 62:30 of your project. Even the culture hack advises to publish in creative comments to allow open knowledge of culture. This is totally your decision. We will ask you to write a short case study of your project to be published. You will be part of bimonthly learning sessions where you will learn the culture hack method as well how to apply the tools with the existing skills you have for your project. You will receive one monthly advisory session with the team to follow up the development of your project. And then the risome is a
• 62:30 - 63:00 fellowship because your project will receive a scholarship for 7 months, learning sessions, travel allowance, personal advisory and access to tools and methodology. You will not receive a personal stipen and this is important also to clarify some important collective agreements. Uh we want to create this uh safe space. So you are agreeing on stepping in a space of diversity and divergence. No action of violence will be tolerated. Depending on the severity,
• 63:00 - 63:30 it might lead to expulsion from program and in case of any conflict there will be mediation. Each team will choose one leading person for their project and one assisting person. Both will be present during the full length of the risome and will be the main contact with the rest of your team's project. And this doesn't apply for those who are invited as individuals. It is mandatory to each project to attend 90% of the online courses and be present at their Costa Rica gathering. In case of any absence,
• 63:30 - 64:00 you will watch the recording and follow up with your culture hack advisors before the next meeting. And at the end of the program, each team will present their final results in their culture hacking to another in term in teams in the cohort, providing metrics that can help understand the narrative impact and sharing with your co-workers. At the end of the program, each team will write a short case study of their narrative project integrating the metrics for impact and narrative impact. The case
• 64:00 - 64:30 study will be published in an attribute share alike 4.0 international license of the culture hack website. So this is important uh to acknowledge that culture hack labs is a collective. We declare ourselves anti- capitalist, anti-colonial, antipatriarchal, anti-racist, anti-imparist, anti-destructivism and we want to create an space against any system of oppression that creates violence against people and planet. Nonetheless, also we
• 64:30 - 65:00 acknowledge that some of us as individuals are working on dismantling our own narratives and privilege and that's our own limit. We build this space for the voices, actions and needs for those who are in the front lines of system change and we will always be open to your suggestions. So thank you for yeah sharing for coming and we are expecting your applications in the next week. There's lots of really great questions in the chat and um I think Tiffany will
• 65:00 - 65:30 repost the frequently asked questions and also when you go to the application itself there'll be a link to the frequently asked questions. We've done our best to try to answer a lot of these, but um also taking in account what you've been asking here, and we'll make sure we add anything that's not on there. So, I'm going to go through um the application itself just so you're aware of what it looks like and how it how it feels. Um you go to the next slide, please, Betty. So, before you apply, just make sure you've either attended or watched the recordings of these two calls because we are we did
• 65:30 - 66:00 set this up so that these are like the foundation upon which the fellowship will be built. So for those who are selected into the fellowship, we'll start kind of from the ground of assuming that you have some of this information already at least digested. Um obviously we're going to be teaching and deepening and all of that. So don't you don't have to be completely um fluid with it, but have watched and and digested the information. You can look at the regenerative futures issue. We had the links to those different um issues in this presentation and also they're on our website. So, make sure
• 66:00 - 66:30 that you've um read through those and looked at that, looked at the matrix, looked at the pathways, and feel clear about those um because that will be part of your application. The FAQ, we've tried to put in there as many questions as possible, but please do email if you have other questions that aren't addressed there. We'd be happy to answer them. And then fill out the application form um by May 16th. The sooner the better. We'll sort of be accepting on a rolling basis and starting to um go through them as they as they come in.
• 66:30 - 67:00 Go ahead to the next slide. So, be sure that you can commit to the full fellowship. Um, as you know, Andrea said, 90% of the calls, we understand life happens. You know, things happen that you can't foresee, but going into the fellowship, look at those dates and make sure that they work for you so that you know going into it, you're in full commitment that you can commit to coming to Costa Rica. Um, we're only able to bring one of the team members. So the team lead will be the one that comes to Costa Rica unless there's some reason that they can't come in which case the alternate would come. But um we expect
• 67:00 - 67:30 both team members on the calls. We can only bring one to Costa Rica. Um make sure you can join that time and we're you know Mexico City time. We're getting really clear on the timing because there's confusion and time zones and daylight savings is always an issue. So we tried to tie it to a place that doesn't change when daylight savings changes. So, make sure you do the time calculation for wherever you are. That your project is feasible within the scope of your work. We want this to be additive to what you do, not something that creates um overwhelm. So, it's actually like in the stream of what
• 67:30 - 68:00 you're doing in your life, that you've attended or watched the SE sessions um and that you agree with our values. And we'll be doing um an online call May 3031 if you're on the short list. So, just make sure that you have that those dates open to take a call. And then about you is really just you know who are you, where are you from, where is your origin, who do you work with? Um some technical things like do you have a passport? But really how are you using narratives for system change
• 68:00 - 68:30 already in your work or activism? And this is really about the whole of you like your life history, your bio biography, you know, it will be part of your project, but who are you? We want to understand who you are and why you're coming to this work. And then the person who will be supporting you. So we'll want to know who that is and their relation to the project. Then we're going to dive deep into your project. So we really want to prioritize projects that feel feasible within the scope of your work. So it's important that we understand like who you are and the body of work that you've developed over your career and the activism you're engaged
• 68:30 - 69:00 with. That you have clarity about the possible narrative impact. We know that you know this is an deeply iterative process. You're going to be in this collaborative learning space. So, it may shift, but where you are now, what is it that you know about the narrative you're seeking to change and maybe you have a sense of where you want it to go? Share as much as you can about that. Um, and just to name two, concise answers are great. We don't need a lot of words. Con concise is wonderful. Um, that you have resonance with the pathways for regenerative futures and that you can benefit from the fellowship. So, we're
• 69:00 - 69:30 going to ask for a synthesis of your project where it's going to be taking place and that might be the virtual realm. So you could name that as well or if there's a certain territory or area or it might be a couple territories, naming that. The range of dates is really when you know if there's a project that's like needs five years to curate and it's not going to launch until 2030. That's probably not a fit for the fellowship. So we're looking for things that would be able to launch in a reasonable time frame so that we can actually support the launch of your
• 69:30 - 70:00 hack. Who is your main audience? So who is it that you're you're you know gearing this towards and again that may shift once you're in the fellowship but a general sense of what you you know that at this point and then how does it benefit your community? What is the narrative you're seeking to shift? So this is naming the dominant narrative that you've identified that you feel is problematic and you want to systemically shift and then what is the intended impact of your project as a result of making that shift. So, if you can articulate that. Um, then we're going to
• 70:00 - 70:30 ask you to connect um your project to the pathways for regenerative futures. Just a note on funding here at the top. Um, everything in the fellowship, the teachings, advisory, travel costs, tools are all at no cost to you, but there is no personal stipend in addition to that. So, being clear about that upfront and it's not mandatory to have funding for your hack to apply, but we will ask you if you have a sense of your budget. just helps us to to scope and understand the scope of your project and what you're you're seeking to do. So these questions are really um deepening into your
• 70:30 - 71:00 project itself and understanding which pathways resonate with your project. So making sure you're clear on those pathways, picking which ones um you want to focus on. We ask that you kind of have a main one because we're going to have the fellowship oriented around those pathways. So it's important for us to understand which pathway is your main orientation and then you may have others that you're working on that you know that other pathways that intersect with your project as well. That's great. You can share that as well. Um why do you think this project has the capacity for
• 71:00 - 71:30 systems change? So identifying that how will the fellowship support the project an estimated cost again doesn't have to be exact but just so we can get a sense of the sort of scope and um and size of the project like what is it seeking to do and what is your strategy for funding did you use AI to support the writing this application there's no right answer there we just want to know how people are using AI so that's um helpful for us and then anything else you'd like to share you can share with us a link if there's something that already exists
• 71:30 - 72:00 about the project, that's helpful, too. Um, and again, keeping your your answers concise is great. We'll be reviewing a lot of different applications. So, being concise is wonderful. Um, someone asked if there's idea for size scope that's desirable. Not necessarily, but you know, for example, if you have a massive scope and no budget, that's going to be feasibility, right? So if we're thinking about feasibility, what's feasible for you and the the team that you have with the budget you already have access to so we can make sure that your hack actually
• 72:00 - 72:30 launches into the world. That's our main focus is to see that these incredible narrative research projects actually become alive in the world. So it's really about feasibility. And I think that's about all we've got. Um we've got your questions in the chat. But I don't know, Tiffany, if there was any that really rose as common threads that we want to address here, but otherwise we'll be sharing the FAQ and the chat text and making sure we answer all your questions. Is there anything
• 72:30 - 73:00 you feel called to share, Tiffany, that was a repeated question or something? I know you didn't quite a few repeated questions on the relationship between the primary person and the secondary person and the idea of the team. So maybe you can go into that and otherwise I would point you all to the FAQs because a lot of your questions have been answered already and we'll make sure we answer the rest. Thank you. Beautiful. Thanks Tiffany. So yeah, we ask for you to identify a team lead and then a team supporting member
• 73:00 - 73:30 and the purpose of that is you're going to have an adviser assigned to your team. So we want to know like who's the communication point, who's the kind of driver of this project. That's going to be the team lead. And then the supporting person will be coming to all the calls. if the team lead is out sick, they'll be able to be there and digest the information and share it back. And so in in a way, it's kind of like the the lead and then their supporting assistant um both working on the project, but for purposes of of understanding like who we communicate with, who's kind of driving the project,
• 73:30 - 74:00 who's making sure things happen, that you know reports are in at the end, hack is happening, all of that. That's going to be the lead. So the person who's most um able capacity-wise and deeply invested in moving the project forward would be the lead and then their support is kind of like their their wing person who's there on the side making sure everything happens and also like co-learning because what we found is um when you have a co-learning environment, it just this is a lot to digest. So talking it through, being able to work on it together, hashing things out, it
• 74:00 - 74:30 just really helps the learning process and actually embeds the work much deeper. Um and you may have a broader team beyond those two people. that's great. We just don't have capacity to have them all on the call. And for continuity, we ask that it be those two people who are kind of like on the project in terms of their um communications and relations with our team. I think that's it. Thank you so much. Appreciate each of you deeply. All the work that you do, all the codes you're holding down on the planet right now, all of this work is so incredibly
• 74:30 - 75:00 needed. Um, thank you because you know