Initiatives (Projects) list for Life Itself (created and on website)

[rufuspollock]

When sharing Life Itself's work i want an up to date list of current and past "initatives" (project, programs, streams, ...) with some info online on these (or at least the most important or currrently active ones) so that i can share this with people (and they can share with others)

When coming across Life Itself I want to know what you've been up to and what areas you are currently working on so that I have a sense of your capabilities, interests, competence etc

• Current / active
• Best / biggest
• Thematic

Job Stories

• When I come to Life Itself website I want to know how Life Itself is delivering on their talk, so that I can see they are a legitimate organization walking the walk.
  • What are we delivering on?
    • Transforming the narrative
    • Pioneering community living
• When I come to Life Itself website I want to know what they are up to right now so that I can be updated on relevant initiatives and explore more deeply.
• When X I want to explore all of Life Itself initiatives throughout time so that I can really get to know what they do and have done.
• When I find an interesting initiative I want to briefly learn more about it and the action steps I can take to get involved or learn even more so that I have a clear direction of next discovery.
• I want to see future ideas for initiatives so that I can invest/lead/get involved with them from the beginning

Acceptance

• Choose naming: initiatives, proejcts, ... ? ✅2023-02-02 choose projects initiatives 2023-03-30
• List of current sources for this info and where it is displayed (if anywhere) ✅ Listed below
• A spreadsheet (or similar structured list) that lists all Life Itself initiatives past and present ✅
• Individual projects on site at /projects/{id} e.g. /initiatives/conscious-parenting or /initiatives/web3-guide/. these pages can be pretty minimal. should have title, description, image?, ... 🚧2023-03-23 have done first 21 of highest priority ✅2023-04-06 all done (actually 2w ago) plus nice layouts now e.g. https://lifeitself.org/initiatives/conscious-parenting or https://lifeitself.org/initiatives/hubs/
• Projects index page listing the project (in simplest way possible for now!) 🚧2023-03-29 see Projects [s] - Moved projects page to /projects/index - ref #97 #397 deploy preview https://deploy-preview-397--zesty-liger-3a5c29.netlify.app/projects ✅2023-04-06 fixed in [initiatives,#97][m]: Initiatives index and page layouts. #416 - see https://lifeitself.org/initiatives
  • 🏆 programmatic organization and/or explanation of our projects (how they connect to strategy etc) ✅2023-04-06 partially have this. see https://lifeitself.org/initiatives
• Featured projects identified ✅2023-03-16 labs, hubs, ecosystem (web3), (collective wisdom)

Tasks

Create list of initiatives

• Identify where we currently list initiatives ✅2022-12-15
• Create sheet for initiatives ✅2022-11-12 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13RVMrZ02Rw6a1BtftIUO4v7R7rXt5_phQLR4rHa343M/edit#gid=513369262
• Collect initiatives from sources ✅2022-12-15 @rufuspollock unless you have anymore?
  • https://lifeitself.org/initiatives/ ✅ Been through 2022-12-15
  • Projects / Programs DB ✅ Been through 2022-12-15
  • Website ✅ Been through 2022-12-15
  • https://lifeitself.org/institute/ ✅ Been through 2022-12-15
• Select top initiatives ✅2023-03-16 see above
• Create framework for description ✅2022-12-15 see below

Individual Project Page Templates @khalilcodes

• Brainstorm (see below)
• Create projects template (page structure) ✅2023-03-16 we have a project template
  • metadata ✅2023-03-16
  • what, why ... ✅2023-03-16
• Design layout 💬2023-03-16 Could use https://spotlight.tailwindui.com/about as initial template to tweak 🚧2023-03-30 https://link.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/6jK2GWGLpBg @khalilcodes
• Implement

Individual Projects Pages

• Conscious Parenting Create landing page for Conscious Parenting initiative #308 and Conscious Parenting Pilot Material #156 ✅
• Ecosystem Mapping ✅
• Making sense of Web3 & Crypto ✅
• Life Itself Podcast ✅
• Hubs ✅
• Hub Berlin ✅
• Hub Bergerac ✅
• Hub Petit Bois Martin ✅
• Ontological Politics ✅
• Columinate ✅ Missing: key resources and homepage
• Wisdom Colloquia ✅ Missing: metadata, Description, key resources
• Collective Wisdom ✅
• Tao of Life Itself ✅
• Residencies ✅
• Embodying Collective Transformation ✅
• Institute / Labs ✅
• Contemplative Activism ✅
• Sustainable Wellbeing ✅
• Possibility Now ✅
• Blind Spots ✅
• Collective Intelligence ✅
• Untitled Collaboration 🚧page not linked to original source, Missing: all info ❌ WONT FIX - Not really a project

Projects Index Page @khalilcodes

🚧 #384

• Wireframe with any key copy 🚧 2022-12-26 working on copy below 💬2023-03-16 copy is optional for first pass which is just a nice list
• Design (?) ⏭️ @khalilcodes 💬2023-03-30 see https://spotlight.tailwindui.com/projects
• Implement (integrating the list) @khalilcodes

Notes

Page Structure

• Title
• Tagline
• Meta (start/end, team)
• Description
• Key Resources (links to articles via categoric sorting process) nb. if none hide title

How they fit into a narrative

• Shifting the Cultural Narrative
• Pioneering a Wiser, Weller World
• Rigorous Sensemaking

Brainstorm

• Suggestion: Let us use Past, Present, Future to categorize initiatives so that we can also list initiatives set to launch or needing funding to move forward.
• Regarding broader categorisation of pages and blog posts we should commit to assigning initiative titles as categories to enable us to list key resources and updates on initiative pages

Rufus reflections 2023-02-16

• Labs or Hubs and e.g. web3 seem to be at different levels e.g. one is an entire area
• what do people want to know?
  • the more tangible and specific something is the easier it is to grasp. e.g. "labs" is quite general and is just a place to "do stuff" whereas e.g. "a sensemaking guide to web3" is quite clear
• Distinguishing question:
  • Is it something people could "consume / use / buy / visit" or is it a "domain / space / cluster". Let's call the former "projects" and the latter "domains" for now.
• Another approach would be to simply answer the question: What you done? e.g. Over the last 7 years we have:
  • We have created physical hubs in X places
  • Z people have attended our transformational residencies and programs
  • Mounted Y art exhibitions / performances
  • Run Z events
  • X white papers and thought pieces

Attempt at a quick list

Domains

• [Apps] Deliberately Dev Spaces and programs
  • Berlin Hub
  • Bergerac Hub
  • Plum Village Hub
  • Transformational/Sympoiesis residencies
• Labs
  • Guides / Deep Dives / Explorations
    • web3
    • conscious parenting
    • ?? ontological politics

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How do we bring about the shifts in being, culture and systems necessary to transform our social paradigm, and steer humanity and the planet into a flourishing future?

Here at Life Itself, we engage in many different projects. Some are experiments, others stand alone works, and others are ongoing explorations. All are designed to create a wiser, weller world. Our projects fall under two broad themes:

Pioneering Community Living

At the core of what we do is the thesis that community living is key to embodying true transformation of ourselves and society.

Why is community living so important? Because we need to combine inner transformation and outer development. This is difficult, but living in a conscious community makes it easier. You have mutual support, accountability, responsibility, connection.

This is why we dedicate ourselves to creating pathways and providing tools for people to live in intentional communities.

Examples: Co-living Hubs, Transformational Community Residencies

Transforming the Narrative

We are undergoing one of the greatest paradigm shifts in history. At it’s foundations this shift requires a new way of being and new ways of doing.

Our work brings inner transformation out of the domain of the purely spiritual, and seeks to cement it as a pillar of social change that works for all. We use rigorous enquiry and sensemaking to better understand how we can make this paradigm shift a positive transformation for society.

To stay up to date with our current and future initiatives sign up to our newsletter.

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Projects

Sort by: Current / Past / Theme default to: Chronological order by end date, with ongoing first

[grid of project images with title and date] => click through to individual project pages

[rufuspollock]

@nathenf did some work on the initiatives list - would say 70% of the way there. Also had some thoughts on structure here https://next.lifeitself.org/notebook/projects/digital-garden-2022#2022-11-12---thoughts-on-structure

[rufuspollock]

@nathenf @EilidhRoss1 can you take a look at this? I think this is a key part of the site migration (in terms of helping structure) and very valuable in itself. (@nathenf this was the issue i mentioned last monday)

[EilidhRoss1]

@nathenf lets chat about this in our comms meeting this week

[nathenf]

@nathenf did some work on the initiatives list - would say 70% of the way there. Also had some thoughts on structure here https://next.lifeitself.org/notes/projects/digital-garden-2022#2022-11-12---thoughts-on-structure

@rufuspollock this link returns a 404, can you find this content and relink?

[nathenf]

@rufuspollock have been working on this so far this morning and have updated the issue task by task.

[nathenf]

@rufuspollock projects index page is now created and ready for deploy in PR #397
Also above each individual project page is linked to the correct task, I'm going to go through and do another check to make sure all the information is correct to the best of my knowledge.

[rufuspollock]

FIXED. All done - final fixes to have nice initiatives pages - individual and index in #416

[nathenf]

@rufuspollock it looks great! One thing that would be good to add is either breadcrumbs or a return to main initiatives page. These pages become a dead end if they want to view other initiatives.