Building Community

Areas of Focus in Building a Local & Global Community

1.   Health & Wellness: This area focuses on improving physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. For Planetary Citizens, this could involve promoting holistic health practices, encouraging a balance between body and mind, and supporting efforts to make healthcare more accessible and sustainable.
2.   Education & Learning: Involves transforming the way we learn and teach. Planetary Citizens might focus on educational reforms that incorporate sustainability, global citizenship, and interdisciplinary studies that blend science with spirituality.
3.   Economics & Business: This sector seeks to redefine economic systems to be more equitable and sustainable. Planetary Citizens could advocate for circular economies, sustainable business practices, and economic justice.
4.   Governance & Law: This area includes innovations in political systems and leadership. Planetary Citizens might be involved in promoting participatory democracy, transparency in governance, and the integration of ethical standards in leadership.
5.   Science & Technology: Focuses on advancing technology and science for positive social and environmental impacts. Planetary Citizens could support clean energy technologies, sustainable agriculture innovations, and scientific research that aims at harmonizing technology with ecological sustainability.
6.   Media & Communications: Involves using media to enlighten and empower society. Planetary Citizens might promote media literacy, support the creation of content that uplifts and educates, and utilize media to spread awareness about global issues.
7.   Arts & Culture: Encompasses using art to express and catalyze social change. Planetary Citizens could encourage art that reflects cultural diversity, fosters community, and conveys messages of unity and peace.
8.   Energy, Food, & Water: This sector focuses on restoring and protecting the planet’s resources. Planetary Citizens’ efforts might include campaigns for conservation, biodiversity, and sustainable land management.
9.   Social Justice & Security: Aims to address inequalities and work towards a more just society. Planetary Citizens might focus on issues like human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty.
10.   Spirituality & Religion: Involves exploring and integrating spiritual practices into daily life. Planetary Citizens might promote interfaith understanding, spiritual ecology, and practices that connect individuals to their inner selves and the larger cosmos.
11.   Environment & Infrastructure: Concerns the physical and organizational structures needed for society to operate. Planetary Citizens might advocate for green building, sustainable urban planning, and resilient infrastructure that can withstand environmental changes.
12.   Relationships & Empowerment: Focuses on interpersonal relationships and community building. Planetary Citizens could work on fostering collaboration and mutual support among different communities and cultures.

Day 1
Essential Question: How do we work together to co-create sustainable communities and achieve a harmonic convergence of skill sets within the population?

1. Morning:
   Welcome and Explanation of Intent and Anticipated Outcomes of the Conference – Overview of what to expect for the week.
2. Lunch – Keynote Speaker #1 – Our Vision of the Future
   
3. Afternoon:
   Brief Intros of Each Area of Focus and Facilitators – Interactive session with team development exercises for effective solutions.
4. Evening:
   Dinner and Mixer, Keynote Speaker #2 – Realizing Dreams

Day 2
Essential Question: How must we address obvious enigmatic considerations for future planning of sustainable communities?

1. Morning:
   Interactive Workshop: Infrastructure of Community- What are the elements and considerations of new paradigm planning.
2. Lunch – Keynote Speaker #3 – Finding Order in Chaos
3. Afternoon:
   Interactive Workshop: Facilitating for the Future – Developing specific plans using the morning’s discoveries.
4. Evening:
   Dinner and Mixer, Keynote Speaker #4 – Intricacies of Infrastructure

Day 3
Essential Question: How do we integrate paradigm-shifting discoveries in human and technological development when designing sustainable communities?

1. Morning:
   Interactive Workshop: Synergizing Technologies – Using cutting edge understanding of form, fit and function in development planning.
2. Lunch – Keynote #5 – Affects of Consciousness on Design
3. Afternoon:
   Interactive Workshop: Applied Development Plans – Inclusion of the sciences of archology*, ergonomics, mathematics and physics.
4. Evening:
   Dinner and Mixer, Keynote Speaker #6 – Consciousness & Technology

Day 4
Essential Question: How do we facilitate the myriad of programs and processes into a cohesive and collaborative environment?

1. Morning:
   Interactive Workshop: Synergizing Methodologies – Best practices in management of people, time, resources and structure.
2. Lunch – Keynote #7 – Coherence – People, Places and Things
3. Afternoon:
   Interactive Workshop: Applied Development Plans – Human Resources and the Dynamics of ‘Jobarchy.’**
4. Evening:
   Dinner and Mixer, Keynote Speaker #8 – Bridging Worlds in Harmony

Day 5
Essential Question: How do we simultaneously restructure and retool for the collective needs of the future planetary society?

1. Morning:
   Interactive Workshop: Synergizing Understanding – Addressing the multiple layers of involvement with existing systems.
2. Lunch – Keynote #9 – Reformating the Heart Drive
3. Afternoon:
   Interactive Workshop: Applied Inclusion Plans – Creating a plan that addresses everyone’s needs, existing and perceived.
4. Evening:
   Dinner and Mixer, Keynote Speaker #10 – The Future Galactic Society

Day 6
Essential Question: How can we apply the discoveries and developments of this conference toward implementation of constructing a demonstrable model community?

1. Morning:
   Interactive Recap of the Week – Open Mic
2. Afternoon:
3. Keynote Speaker #11 – Where do we go from here?
4. Co-creating action plans for the future and committing to the community of practice.
5. Evening:
6. Music, Dance and Party…ing words.

Questions and answers sessions will be included in each session with a synopsis provided at the end of the conference and posted to the world-wide web as an on-going process.

Our plans are to have virtual web-conferencing before the conference so pertinent issues can be offered for consideration as well during the workshops. We will also host a live web-cast from the conference, hopefully accessing many classrooms across the globe.

It is possible that there will be other locations involved in this conference, however the main interactivity is proposed to be in Phoenix, Arizona, USA for the duration of the conference. Since 2000 and the advancement of streaming technology, a virtual version held simultaneously in locations around the globe is now possible.

It is also planned to continue focus groups to develop and implement the design and construction of our first working model by 2027. We propose the creation of a newsletter, Mission: Earth Dance, that will chronicle local and global developments and discoveries in regenerative and renewable resources and sustainable communities, both self-sustaining and interdependent varieties.

There is also the potential for another type of village that serves those who find themselves challenged by the existing models of community. Spectrum Academy presents and opportunity for serving the challenged youth and families who are victims of our own neglect.

**Jobarchy (noun) – A dynamic, fluid approach to organizing work where roles are based on skills, passions, and collective needs rather than rigid hierarchies. In a jobarchy, people gravitate toward tasks that align with their strengths and interests, collaborating in an organic and adaptable way to get things done. Think of it as the workplace equivalent of jazz—structured yet improvisational, where everyone plays a vital role but isn’t locked into a single, predefined position.

It’s like if traditional corporate ladders were replaced with cooperative climbing walls—people move up, down, and sideways as needed, finding the best handholds to support the team and the mission.

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