Our Philosophy
Sustaining a regenerative pattern of building a business
A self-governing inclusive community of owners
Our values and ethos inform our principles. We'll build and run a distributed, decentralized cooperative community in a way that allows every member of the collective to live a life full of joy, love, gratitude, and sharing where people earn by giving and that's rewarded.
Every member is an owner. We don’t think about people as “customers”, “clients”, “patients”, etc. Thinking about ownership requires us to think differently about what kind of organization we want to build and how to run it where it benefits the stakeholders first!
Adhering to our core principles is how we build a sustainable and regenerative world that benefits humankind without our egos getting in the way. The individual, collectives, and companies that work together can make it happen.
We'll incentivize regenerative models of capitalism and disincentivize extractive ones.
Our Core Principles
These principles are how we intend to operate Mind Lumen. We are humans, we'll make mistakes, and we'll learn and make changes to continually improve to ensure that we are adhering to our core values and principles.
Radical Transparency
We do our work in the open.
All regenerative governance frameworks and proposals are public and voted on by community members
If we have employees, all salaries are visible to each, so there's no bias in terms of pay.
Money is not Power
More money does not mean more voting power.
Community members should be able to make a middle-class living wage in each locale
People earn by giving. We don't believe that "volunteerism" should be used as an extractive practice.
Fairness
Fair compensation means that everyone who contributes to the mission and vision earns (may be in tokens, rewards, etc)
Contributions that are of high value to the mission and vision and not the company, are rewarded
No one, even if they are the leaders, will make more than 5x to 7x in the salary of the lowest-paid person
Community leaders’ earnings are capped at 5x the supporter/contributor member
Decision-making speed requires member ownership stake and distributed/delegated governance
Respect
Disagreements. It's not a reason to be toxic. Disagree without being disagreeable.
The power and sacredness of the medicine to heal yourself with help from a trusted guide/therapist
The indigenous communities that are the true pioneers of medicine work and healing
Open science, open nature, and open-source as the path to a regenerative future, should be recognized, rewarded, differentiated, and promoted.