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If a clown accosts you in the street and tells you your ''input scores'' or your ''determinants'' are wrong, you would likely tell it to ''do one''. In the same way, none of these corporate rules apply to the living wo/man or to their property. We need only to learn how to ''rebut'' their non-sense - check out https://livingintheprivate.blogspot.com/ and https:lipforms.com or

https://cirnow.com.au/

Meanwhile here are some ideas to implement locally as we dismiss this fraudulent system for good: ‘’An Alternative Approach to Well-Being’’

SCOPE

Effective healing modalities and approaches to health and well-being exist, while numerous local communities remain afflicted with the costs of ‘learned hopelessness and helplessness’. Co-op Lab is a process where local people can unfold the common desire for health and well-being through the power of cooperation. By choosing to exchange their skills, time and knowledge in projects with like-mind folk - ‘’birds-of-a-feather’’ - they create social value by providing local services better and cheaper.

In effect, members embrace the power of co-operation as a mission arising from shared vision and values. This new mindset supports balanced, creative exchanges between local people. So, the structure of a new ‘Market-Space’ is formed, founded on mutual trust, common sense and real values. A platform where stress can reduce as enjoyment unfolds from clarity of purpose to support individual and collective healing.

OPERATION

The Co-op Lab process unfolds as networks of private member associations form local hub guilds to provide and deliver local goods and services. Placing ‘’well-being’’ as the ‘’main attraction’’, ensures common ground for the process to unfold with local ‘community champions’ combining their expertise in executive and non-executive Boards.

Of course, this form of local joint venture requires analysis, discussion and agreement to unfold a working model as ideas and resources are pooled in service to local needs and aspirations. Key operational issues relate to:

• assembling the local ‘champions’ - ‘Board’ members with non-executive support

• producing an operational financial model for labour, materials and equipment

• identifying lines of supply, demand and distribution for goods and services

• developing business plans and prospectuses for support and investment

• agreeing to follow parallel critical paths to unfold core strategic needs:

◦ expand services for well-being across inter-related hub guild pma networks

◦ identify all labour, materials, equipment and funding requirements en route

◦ ensure relevant media and marketing resources are available in support

◦ provide ‘think-and-do tank’ teams for essential research and development

◦ develop the Co-op Lab platform incrementally into a collective ‘Market-Space’

PRODUCING A BUSINESS PLAN & PROSPECTUS TO PROVE CONCEPT

• contractual terms as the basis for a co-operative hub guild network:

◦ quality control and provision of space for production and distribution

◦ local producers, suppliers, consultants tutors, students and consumers

◦ staffing, training, repairing, maintaining, insuring, discussing, assessing

• marketing:

◦ ‘umbrella’ branding of vision - values - mission - methodology

◦ clarity of opportunities with case studies and operational models

◦ pathways and services available to enable balanced growth

◦ on-line presence with websites plus video, audio, blog/vlog, conference

• network growth:

◦ price uniformity and quality assurance in provision of goods and services

◦ cross-sector hub guild support and collaboration between ‘sub-contractors’

◦ sales & marketing support for projects, joint ventures, premises and equipment

◦ outreach provision to homes, groups, businesses and all related organisations

Essential Financial, Management & Development Issues

• opportunities for pma members to ‘self-fund’ as owner-producer-supplier-consumers

• contractual terms & obligations founded on pma member’s oath ‘to do no harm’

• common income-expenditure basis for cash flow recording and allocations

• cross-fertilisation of interrelated hub guilds - sports, arts, food, farming, media etc.

• aggregation of production and purchasing power across lines of supply and demand

• development of critical mass seeking real social value in:

◦ economies of scale as networks ‘self-supply’ education, employment & training

◦ increasing savings to public expenditure from community ‘’self-governance’’

◦ tax-exemptions for related investment, donation/barter of goods and services

◦ ‘laundering’ debt as knowledge exchanges generate debt-free local currency

◦ development of assets, goods and services founded on loyalty to real values

◦ prospectuses for investment in specific hub guilds and/or project portfolios

Thumbnail Green's avatar

I've long argued that ISO standards and many others are green-washing systems. They are not actually accounting systems in a sense as they never factor whole of cost or whole of impact. Triple bottom line is never a thing for them. But now you've helped me understand the compliance racket and the ever expanding specialised expertise class that do nothing it just looks like waste and destruction on steroids. Halliburton got nothing on global industrialised grift like this.

Far. Out.

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