Our life-aligned culture is alive and growing, Part 2

Here are 300+ movements creating our new economy now

I've also published this post on my Substack, if you'd rather read it there.

Jessica Friday at Connectioning has been documenting these for four years. She stopped counting at 300 and finds new ones every week.

As she says, “Most people have heard of maybe five. There’s a reason for that.

“These movements grew up in different places, at different times, calling the same ideas by different words. They’ve never had a shared name, a central HQ, or a unified communications budget. Most of them don’t know each other exist.

“They all speak different languages and exist in different silos. I call this The Tower of Babel Problem. That, plus . . . the Visibility Gap . . . they’re not being shared on the news so no one knows they are a diverse ecosystem of solutions all working on our shared problems . . .

“This list is the start of making them visible to everyone.

“A quick note before you scroll. Almost everything here is a movement, not a single organisation. Each one has anywhere from a handful of groups to thousands of organisations operating under its umbrella worldwide. . . . Search any of these terms and you’ll find a whole ecosystem of people already doing it, already building it, already proving it works.

“We have already started mapping the local networks . . . you can see the efforts . . . here: The Wellbeing Economy Directory . . .

“. . . we have enough theory now to move forward and scale the creation of this economy.

“The shift that’s needed . . . is from theorising to building and implementing both ideas and the solutions that we’ve found that work, [and]  spreading them globally until we achieve an economy that supports all life.”

The 300+ List . . . Please see her article!

Her first section starts with descriptions and links of forty of the most familiar, well-known projects, programs, initiatives, and movements.  Which ones are you already involved with?

Her next section is “Building fast. Worth joining now” describing those that have “Solid infrastructure and serious momentum, even if they haven’t fully broken through yet.”

The third section describes “Serious experiments. Less visible” with “real economic experiments and infrastructure doing important work. Most people outside the movement have never heard of them.”

The fourth section has “Important ideas. Real infrastructure. These movements have something real and worth paying attention to. Several are primarily problem-focused, with less emphasis on building alternatives. Most have economic infrastructure worth knowing about. The resistance framing is real and sometimes necessary as an entry point. The critical work is what comes next.”

The last section has “The thought layer” that are “Primarily living in the ideas space. The thinking is important. In many cases it’s excellent. What’s needed most now is for people to take these ideas and build something real with them. We have plenty of thought. We need more building.”

She ends by saying “And that’s just the beginning. What you just scrolled through is a map of something enormous. Each of these is a door. Behind each door are thousands of organisations, practitioners, researchers, builders, and communities who have spent years, sometimes decades, doing the work . . .

“Pick one. Search it. Find who’s building it near you. . . . Use our Wellbeing Economy Finder Prompt to search locally, or one of the map tools we have.

“The problem was never the ideas. It was that nobody could see they were connected. We have all the solutions we need to create better lives and a better world for everyone. We just need to connect and implement them. . . .”

“Connectioning is a coordination layer for the wellbeing economy, making hundreds of movements worldwide visible to themselves and everyone else so we can join solutions and grow an economy that supports all life.”