Is value created, exchanged or lived?

by Tiffany Von Emmel

People experience value differently. Is value a fact? Or do you create it as a constructed story? Is it only money or an object between us? Or do we make it together? This video is of a conversation between dreamfishers about how we as entrepreneurs experience value and help each other to experience value through the Dreamfish network.

 

 

Humans think of value in terms of the relationship between subject and object. Therefore, my sense is there is a correlation between our own level of human development, at any given moment which influences our perception of value – whether it is exchanged, lived or created. When adults feel more mature, the relationship between self and other is qualitatively different than one is feel less mature.The big challenge is that it is easy for anyone to regress in a tough moment, such as when being laid off or being criticized.

 

So, our creating a nurturing environment that support all of us in our human development would help to cultivate a new perception of value. Instead of perceiving value as a commodity, we can learn together to experience value as connected to each other, our community and the earth.

 

Thanks to the other dreamfishers in this conversation…

• Doug Paxton, a consultant on Values Technology
• Paul Loper, somatic group facilitation maven
• Peter Kaminski, community tech maven
• Marguerite Manteau-Ross, co-founder of Terraqualo
• Teddy Zmrhal, faculty, Presidio School of Management

Film credits: Johannes Klose, film and editing; Paul Loper, assistant editing

Uncategorized community, currency, economics, value

Noon Movement — a Dreamfish coworking score

by Paul Loper

Noon Movement (see Moving Our Bodies In Our Work Worlds blog post) is very informed by work I have been doing for over a decade, coming from values I hold dear: i.e., that multiple ways of knowing, community, and creative play are vital to creating sustainable social improvisation in the 21^st century.

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Noon Movement, though, is also an event of Dreamfish, the global coworking network. Dreamfish provides coworking centers with support to build a coworking culture, including open source event and space designs, marketplace, collaboration tools, and consulting.
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Mission Coworking, a new coworking center in the Mission District of San Francisco, is powered by Dreamfish. Because several Dreamfish team members also work at Mission Coworking, in a building full of micro-entrepreneurs, Mission Coworking has become a testing ground for Dreamfish’s services and products.
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In this context, Mission Coworking offers Noon Movement, an event design piloted by Dreamfish, promoting the development of a rich coworking movement. As we continue to do Noon Movement, we will refine it and share the design to enable coworking centers to bring the whole body, and embodiedness in community, to coworking.

Uncategorized capacity building, collaboration, community, coworking, dreamfish, entrepreneurs, event design, innovation, integration, learn, movement, open source, physicality, piloting, San Francisco, somatic

Moving Our Bodies In Our Work Worlds by Paul Loper

by Paul Loper

Creative, relaxing, integrative movement at work ~ by Paul Loper

Breathing. Sounds easy, or at least obvious. Bending, extending — they sound easy and obvious too. But they are not so obvious. We live, many of us, in what could be called outrageously sedentary bodily contexts. Over the course of our lives, lived in such contexts, what is, biologically, simple and obvious can become much less so, with concomitant values also diminished (the body still connects directly to all other aspects of our being). Many people, in an effort to not let all that sedentariness wreak corporeal dilapidation, do various practices, often of a high level, to work the muscles, engage the breath, articulate the kinesphere, and hone the energetic and emotional bodies via the fleshly one.

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There are, of course, many clear benefits to such practices. One consequence of pursuing such practices, though, can be a reinforcement of the fragmentation of community so prevalent in the modern West: I am part of “this kind” of social sphere at work, and of “that kind” at the gym. What are the subjective repercussions of “doing” one kind of “me” at work, another at the gym, etc., as the social warp of each location weaves different facets of my sense of self into their respective fabrics? In some ways, while meeting some of the body’s needs for activity, exertion, refinement, application, engagement, etc., this “fragmentation” continues apace and may have undesirable influences on how we hold ourselves as whole people.

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“Noon Movement” is a half-hour, once-a-week, low-key movement class for folks in the building (ActivSpace in the Mission, in San Francisco) to get a quicker connecting-in to their bodies than a trip to the gym/yoga studio would require. It is held “in house” to both support this weaving of body engagement more incrementally/iteratively into their lives, and also support a connecting to the other people in the building, particularly mildly mashing the “work” and “gym” senses of self, which may have added benefit for both the individuals and the community.

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I use my deep and wide experience in movement (dance, improv, fitness, qigong, somatics, yoga, Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies) to guide a “not sweaty” (not wanting to have folks deal with changing clothes) series of exercises and scores that have people focus on their physicality, open body channels, explore different space and time fluctuations, ground their physical energy, feel the immediacy of the living body, and create a field of simple joining, of attending, of holding themselves and each other (even literally). I am meeting other people, I am meeting “different” parts of myself. I am MOVING with them both!

Uncategorized, first post community, coworking, dreamfish, integration, movement, physicality, somatic, wholeness, work