You want to know what keeps me up at night?
System models.
Figuring out practical solutions for living systems…
How can I communicate “Mother Lands” as a system of self-agency.
What is the best way to get my point across?
How do I present this practical model?
These are the questions running through my mind in the middle of the night because I tell you, I need what I am dreaming up and if I need it then suppose others do as well. I am finding out that even Mothers who are married and afforded an Ivy League education are needing what I need! Self-Agency.
Freedom. Autonomy over my time and body.
So I lie awake at night thinking about how I can create entire systems that allow for our Freedoms.
The thing is “privilege” does not exist when everyone’s basic human right to self-agency is compromised.
Mother Lands is a system of living and a map to get us from dominator culture to partnership culture over many generations.
It is a foundation AND a network of villages.
Not a network of intentional communities
Not one ecovillage
Mother Lands is an entire system because yes we need a system of living, we just don’t need one that destroys us.
Perhaps we could have a system of Living that actually serves our nature- THAT is what Mother Lands is.
So the foundation serves as a hub to sustaining the network and keeping it together. Then, eventually, it communicates with other foundations that have networks so that the networks are friends.
Each village is like one person with total self-agency.
So if I we’re just wanting to do one village- yes I might consider a trust banking system or 508 nonprofits instead of a 501c3 but because I am laying the foundation for a system- the nonprofit has to be a 501c3- to steward land to each village in the network. The system says basic needs of each village are provided for but the way in which you figure out how to supply basic needs to your village is totally your choice. Maybe you decide on a universal payment for each of your village members, maybe each member is a director of a trust, maybe you pool money from all your businesses and divide it equally to sustain basic needs in your village.
Basic needs cover housing, food, education, and healthcare- yes we have these things now but the difference between what we have now and what we can have in the new system is quality of these basic needs and this is where each village gets to decide the quality of care it provides. There is no hierarchy in the system as a whole but if you want hierarchy in your village, you can have it- however, once your village catches wind of a round table village- chances are- your hierarchy will crumble.
The point of this new system is new center in qualities such as provide, protect, preserve and nurture so we can raise healthy humans. But the way in which your village demonstrates these qualities is totally up to you.
Mother Lands is a system that serves to sustain a network of villages through stewardship, fundraising, consulting/guidance /mentorship and designing.
The Nonprofit AND Business are the 2 main components of the system and they go hand n hand- cannot have one without the other. The foundation sustains the network and the business designs, builds and mentors each village in the network.
The foundation provides for the business
The business provides for the network
The network provides for the foundation
A Regenerative System of living-
Mother Lands foundation and network of villages.
My crowdfunding campaign starts with forming the foundation.
I have a soft spot for struggling Mothers because I am one of them. I am a mother that escaped abuse to save my child only to be met with poverty and isolated circumstances which is why the crowdfund advocates for mothers who have escaped their abusive circumstances. Eliminating this kind of exploitation is just one of the many benefits of a system of self-agency.
Another benefit is the actual design of village- how it allows us to keep a look out for each other- this design will drive out abuse in our villages. Instead of a system designed to turn our backs on each other which perpetuates insanity we can create a system that drives out insanity and creates sanity.
I need what I am creating, my child needs what I am creating.
I am doing this work from isolated circumstances without a support system in place so everything I do is done online through social media- which means-I don’t have anyone volunteering their time and services towards this goal so I have to pay people to get this on the ground. Advocating for Mother Lands online is the only option for me to gather the resources because the support system doesn’t exist in my life.
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Thank you do all who have contributed so far ❣️
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