System Change
// Unlearn Journey
The core of our work is the Unlearn Journey:
Connect – Explore – Reflect – Act
This journey ensures the radicality and relevance of our approaches.
All our actions and encounters are aligned to this iterative process.
Connect
If we want to build radical and brave new economic systems, we need to be ...
› connected to ourselves, our own emotions, our needs and insecurities, our dreams and our purpose.
› connected to each other, to create this space together. To create a community of care, an environment of support and security that can hold and guide us through this experience.
› connected to nature that is in us and around us, to feel ourselves as part of the planet, dependent on an ecosystem that is healthy and that we are influencing and changing with everything we do.
Explore
If we want to explore new approaches of economic cooperation, it is important to reflect on the status quo and to recognise where we are deeply affected by the current system.
At the same time, we want to look forward in order to develop a common vision of what systemic change might look like.
To do so, we are constantly moving between exploring existing examples of practice which bear great potential as well as developing utopian ideas that go beyond the status quo and function as a kind of north star (orientation/alignment) to hold track for radical and brave change.
Act
We call ourselves a Lab for a reason.
We want to get practical! We believe that new forms of economic activity must emerge and exist within practice.
So far, we have only seen a tiny glimpse of the potential spectrum of economic activity.
That is why we need to try out different approaches and ideas. We want to make mistakes and learn together from and with each other.
Reflect
An important step of our collective learning is to regularly reflect on whether we are still on the right track.
On a small scale, for example, in terms of developing redistributive pay and production systems, regenerative practices and products. But also on a bigger scale - are we radical enough? Do we have our utopian ideas in mind? Are we working on a real systemic change? Do we feel connected to ourselves, to each other and to nature?
