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As I, you, we ask the question: What is the best way to do things? … what speaks and from where does it speak?
Do we also ask the question: who or what is influencing our ideas, decisions and resulting actions?
and, on what basis do we trust our parents, our friends, our teachers, our employers and those that lead, shape and control our community, nation, world?

Given that parents, teachers, employers, councils, religions and governments continually inisist that what they are doing is the best way, to what extent do we ask why there are so many problems, so much crime, so much inequality, so much conflict, suffering, brutality, injustice and desturction of the nature from which we were created and born, fed and kept alive by?
Are all of these people following the best way to do things and it is either just unfortunate that shit happens and/or the shit that happens is someone else’s fault?

GiNi is a project that asks these questions, is interested in ever better accuracy of the answers and after 30 years of exploring still contends that Collaborative Intelligence (CQ) is part of the answer and that various types of trauma are part of the problem. The very nature of CQ teaches us that the capacity of an indiviidual or small group or privileged elite, can not have all of the answers to what is needed for a complex natural ecosystem populated by millions of individual, unique beings with diverse and specific needs.

Therefore, the mission and responsibility of this project relies on understanding the limits of what we can know as well as a commitment and understanding to maximise how people can relate, share and build resilient ways to work together in order to find the best way to do things by maximising the intelligence that they can access to accomplish that outcome.

Good Ideas

GINI originally came into being with a simple question.
"If we use good ideas instead of bad ideas we could begin to solve the problems created by bad ideas and all live within a fully functional society/world".
However, what is a good idea? What is a good idea for one may be believed to be a bad idea for another.

We start from the premise that everyone has a right to be here, everyone has a right to a fair share of the resources provided by nature and everyone has a right not to be harmed, and to not harm, others. A good idea, we propose and what we align with, is one that is good for everyone within these shared premises.
There are significant many who would not share these premises, for various reasons, and while we acknowledge that to be so, we are proposing that the inability for people to be able to share good ideas that lie within the realm of essential needs points to a significant and diagnosable sickness in society/humanity.

The Good Ideas Network Initiative is a project to explore this and create initiatives to rebuild a connective foundation within which it is possible to rebuild the essential connectivity to collaborate intelligently and effectively and give ourselves the chance to build community that aligns with everyone's needs and the nature that provides the essential components that support continuing life.

Collaborative Intelligence

Collaborative Intelligence is essentially the utilisation of all available intelligence in a way that all participants are able to resource the whole of participants.
From a GINI perspective we are also focusing this Collaborative intelligence toward how our whole group of participants can both benefit each other while preserving the nature and environment that supports our life, health and interconnected living community.

Within a hierarchical system where the resources and the power are systematically channeled up the hierarchy, intelligence is assumed, compartmentalised and focused from a minority.

While this may work well for amassing wealth, power and control and commanding a workforce or military that will do all of the manual work and dying (imagine how much intelligence, talent and geniius is lost through the slaughter of young people in wars?), it also creates disconnected intelligence and endless waves of problems as a result of the disconnection, significant stress and lack of the power of collaborative intelligence required to create a flow of essential connectivity between all of the elements of a society and a world.

Needs/Resourcing

It seems an obviously good idea (to GINI) that ensuring everyone's essential needs are fully met not only creates resourced, calm, connected and productive individuals of our society but also healthy, more fulfilled, less prone to crime and able to be secure, creative and proud of their secure homes and neighbourhoods.

Just what are the inbuilt perspectives within our society and system that so efficiently prevent this from happening? Instead there is a mysterious acceptance of homlessness, home stress, psychological stress, economic stress, environmental stress, crime, violence and fragmented and dysfunctional communities as a result of deprivation of essential needs.
Why?

Fully Functional Psychology

Given that all perceptions, responses and ideas come from our mental/emotional/survival inner psychology, one might expect that our parenting, educational and govermental systems would have a well grounded and scientific understanding in what helps nurture and produce the most fulfilled, intelligent, caring and productive individuals and consequently build commubnity and society that contains and maintains the qualities of it's resourced participants.
And although understanding of the mind, of trauma, stress, relational psychology and social psychology has moved forward with all other branches of science, this area of human health, performance and potential struggles to influence the mainstream even as it is at the root of all human behaviour and potential to systematically and radically change.

We are exploring, studying and working with the key areas of psychological tools: polyvagal theory, IFS, neuroscience and trauma informed practises and contend that radical healing and development of our inner spaces is the front line of effective human change, solutions and reconnection to the essential power of collaborative intelligence.

Community

Building/rebuilding community that recognises the imortance of an integrated and resilient psychological foundation is a key to how this project evolves a new story of relational connectivity, indiviidual empowerment and collaborative intelligence.

This project presents a foundation of ideas, perspectives and central themes but the nature of collaborative intelligence together with the contrived and generationally ingrained projections of authority and disempowerment that shape our ideas of identity and status requires significant understanding and transformation if we are to create a functioning new story that is able to move on from the systemic division within ourselves and by extension within any community we create.

Re-empowering individuals in alignment with trauma informed psychology and understanding of polyvagal theory is based on rebuilding a foundation of safety and awareness of the effects of individual and collective trauma.
If we are able to truly meet everything that resides inside us then we can truly reconnect with ourselves and each other.
We are begining to put together suggestions and plans for how this will start and move forward.
Anyone interested can get in touch and find ouit more about where we are with this. More will be added here in due course.

Focus & Projects

The focus of GINI at this time is to explore and begin to establish micro communities able to concentrate in relevant areas but also able to network, interact and work with each other.
The two primary areas right now that we seek to establish are firstly, laying a sound psychological foundation of safety, individual empowerment and genuine connectivity and secondly, exploring ideas to establish the groundwork for physical spaces that can contain various forms of micro community projects from group work to community living.
The shape of GINI as a growing and increasingly functional entity relies on the quality and connectivity of it's own micro communities and the links it makes to as many sources of aligned intelligence and projects that exist.
We are building a network of good ideas that's essential purpose is to channel all available intelligence to all particpants so that everyone and every area is able to evolve and mutually benefit.