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'''= based in London, it offers workshops, seminars and courses and has a thriving online presence to connect sharing advocates and facilitators.'''


URL = http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/


=Discussion=
== Description ==


Mark Jagdev:
Cat Johnson:


"How can the Commons contribute to re-imagining culture. Opening up spaces for the re-imagining of culture?
"The School of Commoning is a worldwide community of people participating in the local and global commons. It offers workshops, seminars and courses and has a thriving online presence to connect sharing advocates and facilitators.
Yes you are spot on, the most important evolutionary contribution of the Commons is helping us re-dreaming the culture, out of the bondage of market forces and party politics that divide us, into the freedom a new civilization based on recognizing humankind’s inherent unity.


We need to start the opening up “spaces for the re-imagining of culture” with our own inner space and retraining the way we sense our world. Here is a quote, the two paragraphs of which tell about the relationship between outer re-imagining and the inner retraining:
“School of Commoning works to enhance individual and collective competences in the creation, protection, and governance of commons,” says [[George Pór]], co-founder of the school. “Commons are what we share in common not through ownership for private gain but through stewardship of resources needed for a good life. As we move towards a commons-based society,” he continues, “we see more and more examples of trust, reciprocity and relationships replacing the commodification of goods and services.”


“Through a long process of enclosures, the Earth's surface has been almost completely divided up between public and private property so that common land regimes, such as those of indigenous civilizations of the Americas or medieval Europe, have been destroyed. And yet so much of our world is common, open to access of all and developed through active participation. Language, for example, like affects and gestures, is for the most part common, and indeed if language were made either private or public that is, if large portions of our words, phrases, or parts of speech were subject to private ownership or public authority—then language would lose its powers of expression, creativity, and communication.  
He emphasizes that community-building is an essential element to creating a commons-based world.


Such an example is meant not to calm readers, as if to say that the crises created by private and public controls are not as bad as they seem, but rather to help readers begin to retrain their vision, recognizing the common that exists and what it can do. That is the first step in a project to win back and expand the common and its powers.” — The Common Wealth, by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt
“Building communities around sharing is a key building block of the world we want to live in,” he says. “It is the practical way to get there. Without such learning communities that don’t just talk about ideas but act as laboratories of learning and using new tools, we would just recreate the old structures that got us the mess in the first place.”
(http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-rise-of-the-sharing-communities)
We don’t advocate that individual transformations would automatically generate social transformation. That’s why the School of Commoning will address the systemic aspects of the cultural crisis as well. Between the individual and the social scale, the commons has a critical leverage by creating the ‘we’ space in which we can practice and develop the new skills that we will need to live our individual and collective life in a commons based society.
We say, commoning is the act of co-creation or care-taking and governance of common goods, in mutually supportive relationships."
(email May 2011)


== Details ==


[[Category:Commons]]
=== Essential Information ===
 
Founded: 9th May 2011
 
Location: London, United Kingdom
 
Motto: Education for Commons Culture & Social Renewal
 
We are a commons education group based in London, established as a Community Interest Company under UK law.
 
=== What is the Commons ===
 
“The social and political space where things get done and where people have a sense of belonging and have an element of control over their lives, providing sustenance, security and independence... Commons are organized around resources that are collectively owned or shared ...See more
Mission
The purpose of the School of Commoning, as a Community Interest Company, is to carry on activities that benefit society, namely, to enhance individual and collective competences in the protection, governance, and cultivation of commons.
 
We help people, organisations, and social systems become more competent and co-intelligent in improving the quality of life for all, by developing better practices for strengthening and governing the Commons as an autonomous partner to the private and public sectors.
 
We do that by developing and delivering educational, media, networking, and "serious game" projects that promote the Commons, and inspire others to do the same.
 
== Principles ==
 
1. Commoning
 
Our originating principle, by which all others are infused, is commoning. The verb “commoning” has three aspects:
 
a. The ensemble of practices used by people in the course of managing shared resources and reclaiming the commons
 
b. Moving from from the I to the We, where individuals become capable to think, feel, and act as Commons
 
c. Recognizing the inherent connectedness of humanity as a whole and having our individual and collective “centre of gravity” in a beyond-ego state
 
The School caters to the needs of all, no matter which aspect of commoning they feel attracted to become skilled about. We work with our members, associates, clients, and other stakeholders in full commitment to their realizing their highest potential.
 
 
'''The following principles are inspired by the first:'''
 
2. We organise ourselves in ways that foster relationships, participation, creativity, learning and development.
 
3. We welcome and appreciate creative friction coming from the beyond-ego expression of our diverse talents, experiences, and learning paths.
 
4. We continually enhance the collective intelligence of the Company and its ecosystem, and seek collective wisdom to guide it.
 
5. We foster collaboration and co-evolution with all commons, movements of transition to a sustainable world, and other potential allies.
 
Honoring those principles, we contribute to human and social evolution towards greater complexity, connectivity, and integration at higher levels of harmony and well-being.
 
== Products ==
 
Series of Meetings with Remarkable Commoners
 
The following products are under development:
 
#The Commoning Game
#Introduction to Commons Building and Governance (workshop)
#Towards a Commons of Well-being and Health Commons (workshop)
#Creating Educational Commons (workshop)
#The Political Economy of Commons (workshop)
 
 
== More Information ==
 
* Contact:


[[Category:Education]]
#mailto:commoningschool@yahoo.co.uk
#https://twitter.com/#!/CommoningSchool
#http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/
#http://www.facebook.com/SchoolOfCommoning


[[Category:Movements]]
[[Category:Movements]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Commons]]

Latest revision as of 11:56, 7 October 2025

= based in London, it offers workshops, seminars and courses and has a thriving online presence to connect sharing advocates and facilitators.

URL = http://www.schoolofcommoning.com/

Description

Cat Johnson:

"The School of Commoning is a worldwide community of people participating in the local and global commons. It offers workshops, seminars and courses and has a thriving online presence to connect sharing advocates and facilitators.

“School of Commoning works to enhance individual and collective competences in the creation, protection, and governance of commons,” says George Pór, co-founder of the school. “Commons are what we share in common not through ownership for private gain but through stewardship of resources needed for a good life. As we move towards a commons-based society,” he continues, “we see more and more examples of trust, reciprocity and relationships replacing the commodification of goods and services.”

He emphasizes that community-building is an essential element to creating a commons-based world.

“Building communities around sharing is a key building block of the world we want to live in,” he says. “It is the practical way to get there. Without such learning communities that don’t just talk about ideas but act as laboratories of learning and using new tools, we would just recreate the old structures that got us the mess in the first place.” (http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-rise-of-the-sharing-communities)

Details

Essential Information

Founded: 9th May 2011

Location: London, United Kingdom

Motto: Education for Commons Culture & Social Renewal

We are a commons education group based in London, established as a Community Interest Company under UK law.

What is the Commons

“The social and political space where things get done and where people have a sense of belonging and have an element of control over their lives, providing sustenance, security and independence... Commons are organized around resources that are collectively owned or shared ...See more Mission The purpose of the School of Commoning, as a Community Interest Company, is to carry on activities that benefit society, namely, to enhance individual and collective competences in the protection, governance, and cultivation of commons.

We help people, organisations, and social systems become more competent and co-intelligent in improving the quality of life for all, by developing better practices for strengthening and governing the Commons as an autonomous partner to the private and public sectors.

We do that by developing and delivering educational, media, networking, and "serious game" projects that promote the Commons, and inspire others to do the same.

Principles

1. Commoning

Our originating principle, by which all others are infused, is commoning. The verb “commoning” has three aspects:

a. The ensemble of practices used by people in the course of managing shared resources and reclaiming the commons

b. Moving from from the I to the We, where individuals become capable to think, feel, and act as Commons

c. Recognizing the inherent connectedness of humanity as a whole and having our individual and collective “centre of gravity” in a beyond-ego state

The School caters to the needs of all, no matter which aspect of commoning they feel attracted to become skilled about. We work with our members, associates, clients, and other stakeholders in full commitment to their realizing their highest potential.


The following principles are inspired by the first:

2. We organise ourselves in ways that foster relationships, participation, creativity, learning and development.

3. We welcome and appreciate creative friction coming from the beyond-ego expression of our diverse talents, experiences, and learning paths.

4. We continually enhance the collective intelligence of the Company and its ecosystem, and seek collective wisdom to guide it.

5. We foster collaboration and co-evolution with all commons, movements of transition to a sustainable world, and other potential allies.

Honoring those principles, we contribute to human and social evolution towards greater complexity, connectivity, and integration at higher levels of harmony and well-being.

Products

Series of Meetings with Remarkable Commoners

The following products are under development:

  1. The Commoning Game
  2. Introduction to Commons Building and Governance (workshop)
  3. Towards a Commons of Well-being and Health Commons (workshop)
  4. Creating Educational Commons (workshop)
  5. The Political Economy of Commons (workshop)


More Information

  • Contact:
  1. mailto:commoningschool@yahoo.co.uk
  2. https://twitter.com/#!/CommoningSchool
  3. http://www.meetup.com/School-of-Commoning-Events/
  4. http://www.facebook.com/SchoolOfCommoning
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