#2023 - February Updates
Ritual in the making, new healers, upcoming spaces and growing our treasury.
Hello!
If you’ve been following our updates, we’re in the thick of Season 2, working through two main projects: Ritual and Vital. Spotlighting also in this update are three healers and their upcoming projects/spaces. As a step forward, we’re humbly welcoming contributions to build our reserves so that contributors and healers of the network can be rewarded.
Project Milestones
‘Vital’ is checking in on how you are flourishing
Other than being a dashboard and platform to connect people and experiences, ‘Vital’ is emerging to become a tool to track both individual and community flourishing. While others are focusing on objectivity to measure health and the quantified self, we’re diving into the subjectivity of it all. We’re looking forward to revealing an MVP soon. Our vision for it to help us observe how our actions and intentions transform and transcend ourselves remains solid.
Ritual is now beta-testing
To recap real quickly, Ritual is a practice that we are designing for members to bond over a shared pursuit of vitality.
After a three-hour design session hosted by Cami, we’ve managed to contain our desires and vision down onto paper, closer to some level of applicability. We’ve tested the beta amongst active contributors and everyone enjoyed it! So far, feedback has been reassuring and through it, we also discovered several needs that others might too be seeking to resolve.
Now, we’re inviting everyone else in the network and trusted communities to try it before we put it out there.
Healers and upcoming spaces
Tania Kodliuk, Chief Mastermind Alchemist — MasterMind Odyssea
Mastermind group (MMG) “Odyssea” is a space to make one’s dreams come true through transformational shifts in body, mind, and spirit with the power of like-minded people.
This framework is created to ignite a transformational shift in your life. Expect to gain clarity and empowerment, and manifest a new reality.
In this 8-week journey, you will meet weekly and work in groups (4-6 people). Set goals, define an action plan, boost motivation, get support, share knowledge and keep each other accountable. Form a group with your community or expand your circle!
About Tania
A true alchemist, Tania combines neuroscience, AI, and psychology to create a powerful framework that aligns your body, mind, and spirit for a journey to a fulfilled and joyful life. PhD in applied mathematics, AI innovator, and serial entrepreneur - Tania’s blend of spirituality and technology empowers you to bring purpose to your daily life.
Because what is the purpose, other than something we haven’t quite put into human understandable frameworks in the first place? Mastermind Odyssea is for those, who are ready for change. You will be surprised how much you can achieve in 8 weeks!
Ee Peng, Meditation Facilitator — Finding stillness
How can we tame the monkey mind, and experience peace even amidst chaos? Just sitting- shikantaza, a practice of Soto-Zen tradition allows one to be in touch with one’s inner stillness.
Join me as we first mindfully observe various relationships in nature through a 10-min walk. After which we will go through the important body postures, warm-ups and breathing exercises that can enable concentration for longer meditation periods, this session will end with a 20-minute meditation.
About Ee Peng
Ee Peng has experienced 3 years of monastic practice in Antaiji - a Japanese Soto-Zen monastery highly self-sustainable with farming vegetables and rice as part of daily practice. She is now the co-founder of Soil Social, creating urban soil regenerative practices in the hope of repairing the deep divide between Man and Nature.
Victor Kairuki, DeSci Youth Advocate — Digital Deep-dive
Victor is designing a program that aims to help individuals discover what they would like to heal. He believes that health and the environment are very closely intertwined. To be healthy also means ensuring that our soil and our biodiversity are healthy too. He is looking for people who believe that various sounds of nature when matched with a person’s interest, can complement and motivate their healing journey.
He is looking for:
People to help verify other communities that are aligned with HEA and pursuing health/well-being as a core value
Sound engineers/artists/musicians who work with various sounds of nature
About Victor
Hailing from Nairobi, Kenya, Victor is an advocate for Digital Wellness. His mission is to uplift youths in the DeSci space, and he has a passion for user well-being in the web 3 space. Hear about his principles on treading mindfully, intentionally and humanely as the internet transitions from web 2 to web 3 at our monthly community gather — Happy Hour. He also shared how others are using web 3 technologies to heal the world.
Growing our treasury
As our network is gaining traction, we’d like to direct some energy towards building our treasury. This is so we can really put our positive-sum theory to the test and move sooner towards rewarding our contributors, healers and members who have been helping us build the network.
Currently, we are using $HP (Healer Point) as a native network token to track early supporters and enable the network to retroactively reward them in the future. 1 $HP, is equivalent to 1 min of work put towards the network. So for example, a 60-minute task, entitles a compensation of 60 $HP. These reputation-based $HP tokens enable holders to approve on-chain payments and decisions without centralized multi-sig signers.
All healers and contributors to the network have the autonomy to propose how much they would like to be compensated according to the following values:
We are all of fundamental equal worth.
We value intrinsic motivation over extrinsic motivation, shared purpose follows profit.
We believe in total responsibility and collective power
Transparent information (on treasury balances and accounting)
When the network is able to generate a sustainable amount of revenue into the treasury, the healers might choose to pay a profit-sharing percentage equally to all healers. The timing and percentage of the profit-share will be decided by a future agreement between healers. This is in line with our belief that all healers are equally valued and prevents incentive-gaming and politics.
How we are growing the treasury
Before implementing the planned recurrent membership fee, we are trying out a ‘payer-decides’ or ‘donation’ model. This is so our contributors and healers can be awarded for their work sooner. There are multiple ways to contribute.
If you’re participating in a Space (program/experience):
Before it starts to lock in your commitment
After, based on how much value it has brought you after
Or both!
Despite the widely understandable need to have sustenance, asking for funds is always a sticky topic. But believing the potential impact the network can bring, we’re putting aside insecurities and sharing the gateways available. In other words, we welcome contributions anytime if you like what we’re doing! 🤓
Last words…
Juggling routine, schedule and energy levels seems to be a common theme ringing through the network in February. Whether someone is in Argentina, New Jersey, London, Singapore or Rome, we found that we were all trying to get over similar challenges albeit in different contexts.
That said, we’re amazed ourselves how our pursuit of health has brought together people from five different continents. Sometimes the world seems larger than life, and other times it can feel quite suffocating… but know that you’re never really alone. There’s someone out there who is like you and looking for support from someone like you.
Take care and we hope to meet you soon.
