A community of care and practice building systems and tools for a regenerative future
We are technologists, community organizers, entrepreneurs, activists, and artists working for the greatest good of all beings. We amplify cooperation among people regenerating our communities and our planet. We do this by building systems and tools to foster trust and relationship, starting in the Bay Area bioregion.
What is Terran?
Terran Collective isa living system
Terran Collective is a community of people committed to the work of healing and transformation necessary for all beings in our bioregion to thrive.
As a community of care, we support each other on our paths of personal healing and growth. As a community of practice, we collaborate to share our gifts with the world. As a commons, we collectively steward and share resources.
Terran is a living system. We embrace our interdependence with the web of life, and believe that there is abundance for all on this beautiful planet. To get there, we must re-design how humans relate to each other and the planet, learning from the more-than-human world and applying the lessons of emergent strategy - adaptation, decentralization, fractal awareness, resilience, and iterative change - to our work.
What We Do
We build systems and tools to foster trust and collaboration
- Community weavingStrong communities can develop resilience amidst rapid change, regenerate the land we live on, and step into solidarity, equity and abundance together. Terran builds community by hosting regular gatherings, as well as weaving connections between aligned people and organizations. All to create deeper relationships based on trust.
- Technology for thrivingWe are building tools to coordinate at scale, without coercion or rent-seeking. Software in service to life supports trust, relationship, collective sensemaking, decision making, and action. We're building this platform for the regenerative future on Hylo.
- Regenerating the commonsOur land, our resources, and our communities are a commons. Rebuilding this worldview and our ability to collectively govern the commons is the core of our theory of change. To move us in this direction we are designing and experimenting with decentralized governance structures, gift economics, and the creation of modern guilds to steward shared areas of collective responsibility.
- Collaborative ecosystem mappingWe believe that mapping resource flows will allow our communities to deepen relationships and make more informed and equitable collective decisions. These maps will be collaboratively developed and shared publicly so that we can experiment with more transparent ways of coordination.
- Storytelling for cultural evolutionHow do we shift cultural narratives and share a new story in a way that resonates with diverse communities? We create hopeful and inspiring media and events, in order to build a movement around a new shared purpose for human civilization -- creating a world that works for all.
Where do we practice?
Our bioregion is where we practice and experiment
A bioregion is a geographical and cultural area defined by the emergent boundaries expressed by nature. This is the scale at which we work; building systems and tools that are grounded in place. The economic, ecological and social landscapes that we seek to improve are those of the land we inhabit, the San Francisco Bay Area bioregion.
In the initial phase of our work, we are identifying the variables and components of a thriving bioregion. We are using what we learn to build tools that enable collective sensemaking for bioregions everywhere. By sharing our findings, we hope to activate bioregions around the globe, create a coherent network of place-based collaborators, and actualize a thriving biosphere.
What inspires us?
Our Community
Core to everything we believe and do is the importance of rebuilding community. In community we truly experience our interdependence, abundance, and the agency to choose the world we want to live in. We are committed to the work of weaving together our Bay Area regenerative communities, deepening trust, building bridges, healing relationships and creating a strong, resilient network.
Our Terran community here in the Bay Area is growing every day. We are always looking for more allies! Please join the conversation and subscribe to our calendar of events. While we are currently focused on building community locally in the Bay Area, we want to connect with and learn from allies across the globe, and as we discover new systems, tools, and practices, we will share them with the world.
