Growness Replaces Business

FIRST POSSIBILITATOR SAYS:

I had some frustration, working with big corporations in the past. I'm not surprised, that the big organism Deutsche Bank activates it's immune system in order to fight and kill this dangerous new "winning happening virus" in order to turn back to "normal". This is the nature of big corporations. That’s why I rather work with entrepreneurs and founders of mid-sized and smaller companies, who are willing to work on themselves first. Nevertheless I'm eager to hear, what the department at Deutsche Bank did differently, when they shifted into winning happening? How could you see, that they were playing this new game (even if it was only for 3 months)?

I hear and see, that you are working your butt off. When I look at all your websites for instance, I wonder if you ever sleep at all… You empowered trainers who empowered trainers to do the work. You work with communities and with ecovillages. You write books, do movies and interviews, talks at conferences, and probably much more. I see that the new thoughtware is spreading. I wonder if it's spreading fast enough? Maybe there are still not enough people, who are ready yet. Maybe modern culture has to break down completely before a next culture can emerge. And maybe this will not happen within our lifetimes.

That’s why I'm still experimenting with reaching the vast amount of people working in organizations in the business world.

My definition of "business" is: all game worlds, where people work together in order to develop and produce something or offer a service for other people which a single person can't do on their own.

It can be a way to gain momentum by working with entrepreneurs, who are currently running an organization or are founding one. Founders of small and mid-sized companies who are looking for different ways of collaboration, but who are lacking role models and ideas, how to do it. I've been doing this with koment in the past 6 years, ourselves and the companies we worked with becoming more and more radical (i.e. new ways of leadership, new non-hierarchical structures, IT managers standing in front of their department, talking about their fear, sadness, anger and joy). And yet, we just discussed this week, that we want to be even more specific with who we want to focus on in order to revolutionize business.

In this context I had an inspiring discussion with Rob and Howie, the founders of Undercurrent, a consultancy in the US who want to help organizations to revolutionize capitalism (seems to be a good match). They say they work with “awakened leaders” only, and I would call them bridge builders too, let’s say, a stepping-stone towards next culture.

And then there is Andrew Hewitt, whom I met in India, who speaks about a new system, serving the common good and playing the infinite game of “win for all”. He is working on building bridges to an “emergent system that arises naturally and moves us closer to the beauty of nature”. Here is a link to his talk: https://youtu.be/GlVx3tKHhiI

The entrepreneurs, Rob, Howie, and Andrew are talking about, can be multipliers and role models for a different way of collaboration and co-creation. They can speed up and catalyze the process of developing next cultures.

These next cultures might not yet be as radical as your idea of next culture is. But if the leap is not as big, more people might jump. And from there it’s easier to do the next step.

I think we need these examples in order to see what is feasible and what is possible right now, not knowing, if and when modern culture will break down completely. What also makes me believe that it's not a complete waste of time, is seeing more and more companies out there already, playing the game of 'win for all' and maybe also winning happening, such as Buurtzorg.

SECOND POSSIBILITATOR SAYS:

Your definition of 'business' is so radical that in my opinion it does not include ANY modern culture business, which must hold onto, by law, the central and first purpose of making a profit, e.g. externalize costs, put your trash in someone else's back yard, not regenerative in the least, a purely Gremlin game. I win. You lose. End of story.

I think trying to use your definition with modern people would at best create confusion towards your brand of coaching.

What I think is that we cannot 'revolutionize' business because business is not broken. It is doing exactly what it is supposed to do.

But we can leave capitalist patriarchal empire profit-centered 'business' gameworlds behind in the dust, by inventing totally new gameworlds under a different name. Call them 'grownesses' instead of 'businesses'.

Grownesses are centered on growth of awareness rather than being centered on staying busy.

From mathematics there are two kinds of growth.

1. Growth in size, length, amount, quantity, profit.
2. Growth in encompassment, direction, perspective, awareness.

Modern culture businesses and its economic paradigm have focused entirely on Growth #1: linear growth in size, and have tried to ignore and suppress the natural human longing and capacity for nonlinear multidimensional growth in awareness, Growth #2.

Growth #2 is growth in quality of life, growth in ability to be present and to connect, growth in healing and transformation, growth in initiation into the adult and the amazing archetypal worlds. There is unlimited potential in Growth #2 for new kinds of growth. In growth of encompassment, direction, perspective, and awareness, the resources and market space is truly unlimited. There is no top end to the evolution of consciousness.

Archiarchal Grownesses thrive in the unlimited non-competitive diverse collaborative nonlinear economy of distinctions.

If you have a distinction that someone else does not have but needs, they become your client.

In the Archiarchal economy there is no medium of exchange. Instead there is ECO-NO-MoneY.

There is direct exchange of value using Gaias. Co-created value amplification is the new and limitless market space where Grownesses thrive.

People and organizations create and deliver value. There is no exchange. This is living rather than surviving, abundance rather than scarcity.

The opposite of scarcity is not abundance. The opposite of scarcity is creating.

Take a look at the http://gaias.mystrikingly.com website, and the http://becomemoney.mystrikingly.com website.

This interests me. Trying to 'revolutionize' capitalist patriarchal empire businesses does not interest me.

Decades ago, perhaps longer, businesses have bought the governments and the armies and the police forces (even the United Nations) in every country around the world to guard their 'assets' and their 'corporate personhood' rights, to preserve and expand their market space, to increase their power to create wars which create markets for their weapons and toxic wastes and chemicals, and now their pharmaceuticals.

Business as usual is insane to the maximum if you regard exterminating life on Earth as insane.

No organization can take responsibility. No corporation can be responsible. This is corporate psychopath double-talk insanity. Please stop and watch the documentary film The Corporation if you have not already seen it. You have to understand what a corporation is to understand the unfeasibility of modern culture's economic paradigm.

Corporations use hierarchical power structures because they are designed to be hijacked by psychopathic personalities. The 'winners' are those who will do whatever it takes to take the power positions, in other words, the psychopaths.

“You never change things by fighting against the existing gameworlds. You change things by building and inhabiting new gameworlds that make the existing gameworlds irrelevant.”

It is time to build Grownesses instead of businesses. Can you do that?

Will you take a Stand to teach and guide people as they build Gaian Growness Gameworlds?

There are over 300 million Cultural Creatives waiting and ready for you to help them any way you can to navigate the transformational processes through the gap between the business gameworlds and the Growness gameworlds.

Start and inhabit new gameworlds. Then it makes sense to abandon the old gameworlds.

"Build it and they will come." (from the movie Field of Dreams with Kevin Kostner - watch it!)

But if you do not build it, no one even has a chance to enter the new Growness gamespace. You can see this already. That probably makes it a job on your bench.