The Connectioning (Connection Engine) Presentation -Seeking Help to Collaborate @ Scale

Let's bypass the traditional funnels and combine our strengths

Note: Connection Engine is now Connectioning.

I’m currently seeking cocreators and collaborators on a Connection Engine.

People are starting to understand the the highest leverage point (aside from just transcending paradigms yourself) is belief. On a worldwide scale, belief runs the show and “Those who tell the stories rule society.”

The stories that are being told have us feeling hopeless and often resorting to despair. Feeling violence might be our only option.

And yet, there is a proven way out of all this that bypasses all that and fundamentally rewires wealth and power. It has practical steps, and has already been going on for a very long time. It just needs a bit more energy to reach critical mass. And that’s Community Wealth.

AntidoteLive have recently started telling stories of communities coming together to build wealth for themselves and Rachel Donald is on a yearlong mission to tell more of them. I’m telling one as well. As is Zachary Marlow and The Moneyless Society as a whole.

But where do they go next if they’re inspired by these stories to build the new world too?

Simon Squibb is inspiring people to follow their dreams and have agency over their lives and community. As are untold number of people in the small business world.

Check out his Christmas “Ad.” This is just taking mutual aid mainstream, combining charity with a sustainable business model.

But where do people go next to receive support like the lad in this video? And how do they know the person selling the vision isn’t just selling them something?

Over a million people a year have dreams and start new businesses in the UK.

Most of those fail.

Simon Squibb and HelpBnk are adding to that number daily, having recently bumped up to 11 million followers. Their platform isn’t quite a connection engine yet. They are working on it, but big technical platforms take time.

So most of those businesses are still not getting underway or are wasting lots of time and energy. And on the other side, there is vast untapped human potential with nothing to direct their energy towards.

But it doesn’t have to be that way if we coordinate our efforts.

Enter: The Peoples Agency

Where we get to learn to be each others’ third party advocates and develop agency over our lives and communities as a transitionary step to finding the community where we belong and will build with.

It’s what I’ve been referring to as a Connection Engine for a while.

By creating a “flywheel” community that all of our network funnels to, in a semi-autonomous system, we can get a profile and 1:1 of everyone who’s interested in community or building or joining in a for-purpose business (or all of the above), and point them in the right direction (help that is local to them and will get them from dream to reality) while building relationships and trust across boundaries and at scale.

As an example of a referral within the network, Startup Assist UK has a proven system that saves you years of work and making mistakes when starting these projects and gets you from validating your idea to a business plan within a week. 95% of the projects taken on board are funded.

Similarly, co-ops have a high success rate, and there’s currently over a 90% success rate with STOs starting up with Kindred in Liverpool.

What if we could put those million entrepreneurs — and the many activists who have a lot of energy to pour into community wealth building — in touch with processes that actually work *while* introducing the idea of community wealth and mutual aid at scale, upskilling their collab skills, and connecting them to their communities and local orgs?

People have dreams. And we can direct those dreams not only so they come true, but they help contribute to a global movement that transitions the world into a cooperative economic ecosystem.

This video presentation illustrates a very simple low tech minimal-cost system that will allow us to combine strengths and force amplify our efforts. Let me know what you think and if you want to cocreate please DM me or join The Peoples Agency Discord.

I’m looking for storytellers who would want to be involved as well as community builders for the basic systems. There are also ways we can monetise this so it can pay for itself with it being a transparent (and optional) cost for anyone who joins in the system. All those details are not in this presentation, but be happy to discuss and hash out in a meeting, chat, or the Discord!

Video posted below, and is also available on my website with an interactive Miro board.

Xoxo

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