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, therefore, 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 ideas and action come from 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 kind, intelligent and productive individuals and therefore commubnity and society that reflects the quality of those that comprise it.
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 and understanding and contend that this is the front line of human change, solutions and reconnection to the 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 trul 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