SelfDesign Compass
(Our Purpose, Assumptions, Orientations, Tenets and Core Processes)
SelfDesign is a way of being
SelfDesign is a lifelong learning journey
SelfDesign is living enthusiasm into the world
SelfDesign offers opportunities for people of all ages to connect, learn and grow in freedom, unfolding their wisdom and potential.
Our Social Purpose
To offer children and adults, individually and in collaborative communities, ongoing opportunities for lifelong learning and living with conscious intention.
Our Economic Purpose
To grow and sustain the organizational, ecological, and financial health of SelfDesign to support the people with whom we connect and the communities where we learn and grow together.
Our Service & Product Purpose
To offer learning opportunities, resources, technological innovations, and services based on SelfDesign methodologies to assist people of all ages in realizing their human potential and personal goals.
In our SelfDesigning, we find the following assumptions, orientations, tenets, and processes to be worthwhile compass points on our life’s journey.
Assumptions – values and beliefs
- We are born as loving beings, seeking connection and meaning.
- As individuals, we learn optimally through spirals of discovery, introspection, integration and expression, following our own natural rhythms and personal developmental cycles.
- As family members, we live optimally in loving engagement, conversation, and mutual respect.
- As community members, we live optimally through co-inspirational activities and relationships that enrich and sustain the well-being of the group.
- As global citizens, we optimally work with nature to live elegantly within the web of living systems.
- Optimal learning and living contributes positively to the physical, emotional and spiritual health of individuals, families and communities.
Orientations – positions and views
- We recognize that both our direction and our manner of moving in that direction influence and shape our lives and relations with others.
- We orient ourselves in this present moment, understanding that our vision and our goals are future manifestations of our present self.
- We recognize that we have choice in how we frame our life, as well as how we view and describe our experiences.
- We live in a manner of love, co-creation, co-inspiration, accepting other perspectives and systems of meaning as legitimate.
- We determine our orientation by seeking and expressing our passions, based in curiosity and wonder.
- We are aware of how our choices affect others and the world we inhabit.
- We reflect on both our orientation and our manner of being as we accumulate life experience, valuing the insights gained from both our mistakes and our successes.
Tenets – actions
- We author our own lives from a place of resourcefulness, creativity, and possibility
- We unfold worlds together through positive, respectful, and meaningful conversation
- We model a peaceful, balanced and healthy way of living and learning
- We invite people to notice that they have the internal resources to achieve personal goals and resolve challenges, as well as to develop strategies that strengthen their skills.
- We consistently add choices to people’s options, growing possibility and relational harmony.
- We live in co-inspirational community encompassing various ages, cultures and sensibilities that enable deep learning, lifelong.
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