How to use this manifesto

Who and what is it for?

What does it take for me to collaborate successfully? This is intended an an inspiration for human-centred entrepreneurs, freelancers and leaders looking to co-create a positive future.

Feel free to just choose one or two of the guiding principles at a time. 

The manifesto could be ...
Ruth-Dawn

· a contemplation tool
· an invitation to choose one area and consider it, in respect to a project, whatever
· a practice
· a series of questions (turn the statements into these yourself)
· a 'what-if' checklist
· a chance to 'measure what you treasure' ... 'what do you treasure?'

Relevance
Ian

What are the most relevant actions we can take to co-create a positive local future? Create a movement where people are inspired to buy local food, support local businesses and gather together more as a community.

Words
Jacquie

The words in these guiding principles provide a platform for imagination, aspiration, and inspiration. For commitment, for courage, and expansive possibility. Sitting with them expands and changes what I see and the “what and why” of my doing.

First Aid
Sophie

I see the list as a reminder, or a course correction as we sail through difficult times. 

There is so much bad news coming at us every day and the future can look very bleak; some media is focussed on bringing us stories of the worst of humanity, and superficiality abounds as people fear depth. 

The list can be a reminder of the better sides of human nature and our own capacity to connect with others, play and smile to can give us meaning and a pathway through. It is a reminder of what hope looks like, as a bit of First Aid for those times when we’re feeling a bit hopeless.

Purpose
Jessica

Would it be more relatable if the goal for our manifesto is: Positive future on collaboration for small business regardless of its scale: international collaboration or local collaboration, even the collaboration with client.

Focusing on things we have in common such as humanity, passion to make a change, challenges we all face as small business etc. The better we are able to articulate these, the more effective the messaging will be.

From there, each of us can take it and enrich it with our own industry and make the variations that works for our own purpose.

Resistance
Jacquie

Covid19 Lock-down resulted in us questioning policies and procedures and realizing that many of those systems were put in place as a result of a negative experience with a customer in the past and/or as a way to avoid a negative experience in the future. These had been formed from a place of fear and resistance.

During Lock-down, we reached out to our customers early to offer help. We dropped many of our usual processes which helped us to be “kinder than was necessary”. Not only did our work flow more easily (no resistance), we felt closer to our customers and we also felt their kindness too.

I want to continue to do work where I am quick to be kind (low resistance) and slow to make policy (judgment/resistance)?

Emerging
Sophie

Emergence is one of those great systems thinking ideas – we all know what emerges when systems are set up badly. But what might emerge from dancing with fear in an environment of positivity? We don’t know, it is ambiguous, we won’t know until it happens. But if we keep dancing, we can adjust things if we need to.

Exploration
Dawn

I totally understand what you mean by switching from exploration to making mode. Working in different mediums mean we switch our inner language. Efforts to translate and transpose take place. Gaps appear.

Yay! we get to explore the gaps.

Superpower
Kim

What would it look like if you focused on one of the guiding principles and developed it into a superpower? If every day were infused with just one of these ideas. What would change? For you? For those around you? 

Is there one principle that calls you to it? Pick that one and see what happens if you focus on that everyday for even one week. I want to be have a superpower of kindness, how about you?

Doodle by Dawn

Thank You

Your Future Manifesto Team – Made with love by members of tRC

Kim LeClair, USA  Website
Ruth Dent, FRA  Website
Dawn Kotzer, CAN  Website
Ian Berry, AUS  Website
Jessica Zou, USA  Linkedin
Jacquie Landeman, NZL  Blog
Michael Wahrheit, DE  Website

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