Flower/A Natural And Unified Life
We are a new cooperative organisation created to manifest a shared vision: The pursuit of a Natural and Unified life for all.
Imagine...
A community of people naturally living and creating together to make the journey toward living as one with the nature of ourselves and the nature of our world Shared Values
Here is a summary of ideals we can use as guiding principles:
Moving Toward:
Unity and Nature
These guiding principles comprise the following aspects:
Cultural Evolution – participating in our culture’s evolution towards Unity and Nature, by sharing and expressing with each other and the wider community
Collectivism – group ownership of the resources needed by each group to survive and thrive. Individuals access these resources by cooperation with the group. Group management allows the most equitable and efficient use of these resources
Ecological Sustainability – to perform only actions that work towards a healthy environmental ecology. A commitment to work with, and not against, nature and its cycles
Personal and Social Sustainability – honouring our collective desire for love and peace by fostering attitudes of respect in our relationships with people and nature. Respecting individual needs and freedom of choice as well as collective needs. Providing the environment for open and honest communication
Self-realisation – individually, collectively, and globally, through Natural Living
Strategy and Organisation
We are gathering together, uniting around a shared vision and clear goals, using organisational systems which are an expression of our shared values. Through mutual agreement on a certain way of life, and a shared commitment to being flexible and open to input from existing and new members, we are achieving more than we ever could by our combined individual efforts alone.
We have the following Goals:
1. Establish an organised team that can create and fill roles as needed and cooperate for our common purpose
2. Set up a legal trust and supporting organisational structures to allow collective ownership and create a network of cooperative businesses
3. Resource management and land development, which we can facilitate through projects like: portable housing construction, food and medicinal herb gardens, earth building and landscaping and through cataloguing and organising unused or underutilised construction materials, tools or buildings
4. To partake in and facilitate the natural growth of a network of people, organisations and communities working toward common goals and supporting each other
Initiatives we are involved in:
To find a suitable piece of land to expand our work together and allow us to create community
To develop software tools which are easy to use and flexible and will allow us to manage information and projects
To accumulate money which will allow us to buy land for the further pursuit of our aims
To create flexible and affordable accommodation options for participants
Levels of involvement
Mailing List - to receive ongoing updates on unfolding events
Meetings – which you can attend to meet the people involved and partake in the community process
Workshops – which you can participate in to learn, share and contribute
Roles – which you can fill as and when it suits you to become part of the team
Making resources available (i.e. land, buildings, materials, machines, tools, vehicles, office equipment) via:
Contracts with a trust or businesses Negotiating rental agreements which allow us to access and work on a property in a clean environment within three hours drive from Auckland Loan of money or other resources Donations or any other kind of support
How to contact us:
Further particulars can be shown in greater detail to anyone who wants to get involved.
Just send an email with the topic you are interested in as the subject line, i.e. "more information" to receive background documents or "mailing list" to be put on our mailing list.
