The list below was one of the first set of assumptions that Matt and I created together when we first met in 1976.  We have used and evolved it over time. It defined many of the first principles we used in creating our way of working.   It is form these shared beliefes that we proceeded to created our process and method.  While it seems painfully simple today within the midst of a dying, fighting paradigm, and our radical either/or mentality, to me it still holds true.  I've shared this list before along with the URL about "We the people" being the second super power.  Both, along with my recent posting for what is a Tomorrow Maker, I think I have the bare begining of a form for engaging others in the creation of a healthier world.  We can't afford to merely tweak the existing infrastructures and cultures and expect to transform ourselves or others.  While we are building on ten thousand- or more - years of history, ours is a new story, one just being born.  Our history will be reframed from within the anthroposcene era.  We won't throw it away, nor do we let it control how we design, decide, and create....

Matt and I had such high hopes in the late 70's when we began designing a way forward for a new way of working.  But we have been practicing, event after event, and waiting somewhat patiently for Earthlings to wake up and realize what we the people are actually capable of doing for the good of all species on Earth.  We have had fabulous mutual learning experiences with each engagement taking us further into our coming to knowing process. 

It is only now that we are beginning to see signs that there are others, many others working to make a difference.  We are all pretty invisible now but ready to spring forth.  

Enjoy our Creed and find yourself within it.  

"Funktionslust means the pleasure of doing, of producing an effect, as distinct from the pleasure of attaining the effect or having something. Creativity exists in the searching even more than in the finding or being found. The word enthusiasm is Greek for filled with theos – “filled with God”." Quote from the book Free Play: Improvitazation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch.