Dear friends!

After the 3-Month-Experiment having successfully come to a close, here’s a brief summary.

Moreover, you might find what surprising perspectives have developed in regard to the future activities of the Conscious Evolution Project:

Creative Co-Housing & NEXT.STEP-SUMMIT

Enjoy the read!

Conscious Evolution Team

THE THREE MONTHS EXPERIMENT

The People

The experiment took off with originally four Caretakers, one of which stepped out after two weeks.

In addition, four Sharetakers plus a baby joined, plus one adventurer.

One of the Sharetakers left us after two days.

Age-Range

The age of the participants ranged from four months to seventy years.

Remarkable, how easy it has been for all participants to integrate the infant who visibly enjoyed himself throughout. We interpret this as a hint that the “tribe” really is the healthy background for children, mainly because it’s always the adult most joyful who’s taking care. A child seems to register that. And the mother liked it too.

The Opting Out

Might be useful to point out that in both cases of opting out it has been the same person.

From our perspective this has been textbook structural mechanics:

The person tried what we so frequently find in groups, community, seminars, all the way to politics, watering down the endeavour to the lowest common denominator.

Yet, the overall setting and especially the King’s Card Game empowered a group that had clearly gathered to conduct a truly radical experiment, to emancipate with ease, and so he left.

A bit about the Content

Though it being an impossible task to summarize all that happened, you find some feedback of the participants here, plus a more extensive report in our blog.

A further report shall be pieced together during the Creative Co-Housing in Leipzig.

For our context it seems important to mention that apart from the working hypothesis and the King’s Card Game having shown practical relevance and lasting effect, all other tools that we have developed so far proved valuable over this considerable period of time.

In addition to “Spotlight”, “Fishtank” and “Free Forum” we developed “Dynamic Interaction”, a communication tool that soon became our preferred way to interact and exchange.

With the additional techniques of the “Silence Card”, “Clowns Nose” and “Three Feelings” we now hold a considerable and practically tested portfolio of true value. In addition has been helpful awareness on “need conscious language” as introduced by Rosenberg, and working with “Inner Instances”, namely the Judge and the inner children.

Finances

Conscious Evolution possesses now a surprising amount of money to prefinance our future projects, Creative Co-Housing and the NEXT.STEP.

While being pre-financed privately, the 3-Months-Experiment has generated a surplus of just over 1.000€, half of which being a donation of the planned recirculation of the three Caretakers.

Sharetakers have donated the amazing amount of 4.000€.

1.000€ of these donations have been donated to one of the Caretakers by consensus decision to enable her to continue writing the book and to help organize the NEXT.STEP.SUMMIT.

For pre-financing the NEXT.STEP we now hold 4.000 Euro.

CREATIVE CO-HOUSING

Starting May there will be a CREATIVE CO-HOUSING in Leipzig.

It will be inhabited by Anna, Johanna, Kilian and Jakob, and of course by Emperor Koan I.

There will be no King’s Card Game played, but there are fixed timings for leisure and work. These apply for visitors as well.

Visitors are generally welcome, please send your request directly to the inhabitants

creative.co-housing@lists.riseup.net

NEXT.STEP - SUMMIT

NEXT.STEP is planned for July and August.

In general it will follow the outlines of the 3-Months-Experiment, so will include the King’s Card Game and the aforementioned tools.

Simultaneously it has the founding of a permanent Conscious-Evolution-Community as its agenda. This will coincide with the founding of a non-profit association.

Who of you by now is already eager to hear more on this, you can subscribe to this list by simply sending an email there:

next.step@lists.riseup.net

But please note that of now this address is not meant for inquries.

Once we’ve defined the frame as well as the location, you’ll be informed.

For direct contact to us, you can always use this email:

conscious.evolution@riseup.net

SUPPORT

There are multiple ways to support us!

Indeed, you can donate, and any amount is welcome.

As long as the association hasn’t yet been established, please inquire about the details with the general contact email:

conscious.evolution@riseup.net

If you’re fluent in English or any other language, you’re very welcome to help us translate.

Really appreciated would be any help to find a suitable location for NEXT.STEP.

It may well be anywhere, preferably in Europe though, since most people on the list live in Europe.

But ever more important and dear to us is personal contact！

So come to visit us in Leipzig for a few days, get to know us and support the writing.

And do participate in NEXT.STEP！

FINAL REMARKS

Finally, we’d like to underline that the King’s Card Game is protected by Creative Commons as well as the rights of intellectual property.

This means, above all, that (apart from permitted use in private contexts) it is not permitted without written consent to use the game.

This is owed to the fact that within a commercial setting it has been used as a funny 2-hour-activity, presenting it as an invention of the community that presented it.

It has also been offered as a community-building tool, while, in fact it’s certainly not designed for that purpose nor has any group ever used or researched it as such.

A group claiming proficiency in the game actually only attempted to play it three times, while lack of understanding and conflicting interests every time prematurely ended the game after less than two days, precisely at the point where the game would have been valuable to continue.

This trend, to claim as one’s own that one neither invented nor owns, seems a recent development in communities where groups claim to have invented “Forum” that didn’t, or having invented the “Wir-Process” that neither have invented it nor actually ever lived it in their own community.

The total commodification of even the most idealistic research is a hallmark of our times, against which we hereby take a stance, as unpopular as it may be.

In regard to the Game, we do not believe it to be useful to play without background. The chance that it deteriorates into a power-game the way literally anything gets swallowed up by the current structure of this dominance crazed society and thereby causes unnecessary damage seems too real to us.

On the other hand, we’d like to be in touch with the experiments that happen, precisely because we wish to make the findings accessible to a broader audience via our book, rather than having a variety of non-connected versions of the King’s Card Game as you’d find the perfect example in contemporary branded “yoga”.

So even if you intend to play it in private with your community, for precisely these reasons we’d appreciate if you notified us. And should you wish to organize your own experiment with your own parameters, you are welcome to use our distribution-list:

conscious.evolution@lists.riseup.net

In dubio pro rege

Sincerely yours

ConsciousEvolution