Sustainable collective practice starts with trust.
The Future is Collective.
Distributed leadership and delegated responsibility takes trust. Trust requires personal responsibility, an understanding of our common welfare, and a sense of mattering.
Fractals are designed to help people come together and develop a shared purpose.
We are Fractal.
Nature is full of fractals. When you look close, you find nesting repetitions and an almost infinite complexity.
Our ways of being with one another are similarly repeatable and complex. But online platforms reflect relational structures that fit technology, not the other way around.
Imagine if in the physical world we were interacting as we do on most platforms (such as Slack, Mighty Networks, or Facebook Groups)–constantly sharing ‘content’ and putting out our questions or comments with a bullhorn– it would be very awkward and disconnecting.
As people in the process of healing and transformation, we are part of communities, which contain groups, which contain smaller conversation-sized groups, which contain direct relationships, which contain relational selves. Or consider these patterns from the opposite direction- our selves and relationships are where groups, communities, and cultures emerge. The way we do anything is the way we do everything.
The Fractals platform supports the emergence of right relation in small groups, communities, and networks. It’s not oriented around technology, it’s extending what we do in real life to bridge the connection gap when we aren’t together all the time.
In Fractals we co-create new in-between spaces that enable deeper relationship-building as well as more distributed approaches to power and leadership. We recognise the advantages and limits related to sizes of groups and starts with trust-building, using talking-circle and bearing-witness practices that give groups the relational foundation to be together in communities of practice and networks of action and support.
So We not So-Me
Post-based community platforms are like social media and don’t encourage thoughtful connection. Our spaces allow everyone to be heard. We design for members to own their own experience and transform individually and collectively.
Intention > Attention
We foster genuine participation, not scrolling, liking, and showing off. Listening and witnessing builds trust.
Conversations > Content
With text-based platforms, you don’t get to know each other. Posts are like ads of people’s lives. Talking is real.
Being > Buying
We don’t sell ads or user data, so you can focus on building relationships, not interruptions. You are not the product.
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