Your pass to living, hope-filled alternatives
Your World Founding Field Guide Companion membership connects you to a community of people who have committed to creating alternative, viable, life-affirming worlds and everything you need to learn to become one of them. The Field Guide itself has evolved from effective, evidence-informed practise that allows you to bring about holistic, embodied and encultured transformation.
We are operating from the premise that no-one is coming to save us and that for the future to be anything other than completely dystopian, it needs creating now. Life-sustaining ways of being on Earth are plentiful, viable & richly nourishing, and they will only be brought about by people like you deciding to found one with your community.
The World Founding Field Guide is not a transactional to do list. The Guide opens the pathway to mastering the processes of de-colonising yourself whilst simultaneously reconstituting your ways of speaking, thinking and doing as rich, relational sovereignty and authenticity. It works with you and your unique life experience to establish a dynamic connection to your creative impulses. It helps you build a solid repertoire of ways of speaking, thinking and doing that allow you to be in communitas and co-found a world as a vivid expression of those impulses. The Guide is focused on the moment-to-moment, micro-scale interplay that brings our social realities into existence. The practises are simultaneously sobering and rousing, sensuous and enchanting. Working through a mode of inquiry and exploring together yields a living body of knowledge, refreshingly reflective of our shared experiences of the profoundly creative nature of our being. From here, you are able to found worlds as richly connected, deeply meaningful, local expressions of life.
Read on to find out how.
What You’ll Learn
The Field Guide Companion Package treats our being and becoming as holistic. At no point are skills, attitudes, desires, understandings, emotions or context treated as if they are not intimately entwined with one another. Thus there is not a dot point list of skills below. Rather a description of how the Guide works holistically to gently and sustainably shift our ways of speaking, doing, thinking and being towards a living embodiment of the fully creative way of being that founds worlds.
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How we are betrayed...
Uncovering the deception and betrayal that has us imprisoned allows you to stop waiting for permission from others. Overcome the monotony, drudgery & cynicism of inauthentic ways of being. Give yourself this gift. Every day!
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How we are released...
Breaking free of the ‘imprisoned self’ allows you to experience your real connection, competence & autonomy. Become ungovernable, un-manipulable & live with relational sovereignty. Stop leaking to exploitation.
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How we originate new stories & ways of being...
Recalibrating yourself to be attuned to aliveness and the originary events that are woven into your experience reveals new ways of being and living our authentically authored stories. Find the pulse - live as its expression.
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How to live 'the craft of aliveness'...
Opening ourselves to the living, pulsing encountering of all life feeds the creative, expressive, dialogic processes inherent in founding our worlds together. This craft becomes embodied and lives between us as a culture that seeks to sustain all life.
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How we found worlds together...
Learning to co-found entire, self-sustaining worlds, means working adeptly within the dynamics of non-hierarchic, non-exploitative, wildly innovative modes of leadership. This way we found a space where it is safe for all of us to play, laugh, cry, feel & create.
Moving together …
Are you feeling the breeze awakening and lifting your spirits? Perhaps you have had similar experiences with people you know? If you are thinking about joining us, it’s important, before you go much further, to consider who you might undertake this journey with you. Who are those people with whom you feel lit up, alive, released and held? I ask you this because, while you can join as a solo member, it is exponentially more valuable to you if you do it as part of local group who grow together. I call them your ‘partners-in-life’ and they might include your actual life partner (recommended if you have one), your besties, and close family members. Anyone who you can imagine learning to build an alternative world with you. Two stipulations: do you trust them to take a wild, refreshing, some times uncomfortable journey with you and take care of you on the way? And, can you, if the mood took you, hug them and smell them? (I ask this because we thrive in proximity and distance/virtual situations are less effective with this mode of learning.) 2 is a minimum. 6 is optimal. But, having the right people is more important than the numbers.
The Field Guide Companion Package is all you need to understand how to found a rich, meaningful and sustaining world with your community. It is best learnt and practised in communitas. In recognition of this, there are substantial individual discounts for groups up to 6 (the optimal group size). Please use the following codes according to your group size. 2) GRP2DSC $100.00 discount. 3) GRP3DSC $200.00 discount. 4) GRP4DSC $300 discount. 5) GRP5DSC $400 discount 6) GRP6DSC $500.00 discount.
This package is for people with concessions (e.g., F/T student, seniors, P/T- Casual employees). There are no further group discounts.
New Sessions Monthly
Live Face to Face & Online
4 Day Immersive Workshop included
1:1 or Group Coaching Included
Real People Creating Real Change
New Sessions Monthly Live Face to Face & Online 4 Day Immersive Workshop included 1:1 or Group Coaching Included Real People Creating Real Change
Meet Your Curator, Choreographer & Coach
Michael Bell
Curator & Choreographer, World Founding. Michael is a lifelong educator with a passion for creating accessible, engaging, learning experiences. Known for a dynamic, hands-on teaching style, Michael believes that growth happens when people feel both challenged and supported.
With the World Founding Field Guide Companion, he has brought together over 40 years of scholarship, teaching, and inquiry into a breathtakingly clear guide to the way of being which founds viable alternative worlds.Rather than offering a shopping list of to dos and to haves, he has shown how those life events which humble us, move us and carry the creative charge might become the epicentres of the authentic, relationally sovereign expression that is world founding. This way our worlds come to embody and enculture the signifying truths that shape life for the human form of being
Join us and gain access to all you need to found a viable, life-sustaining & rich alternative.
The Field Guide Companion Package is all you need to understand how to found a rich, meaningful and sustaining world with your community. It is best learnt and practised in communitas. In recognition of this, there are substantial individual discounts for groups up to 6 (the optimal group size). Please use the following codes according to your group size. 2) GRP2DSC $100.00 discount. 3) GRP3DSC $200.00 discount. 4) GRP4DSC $300 discount. 5) GRP5DSC $400 discount 6) GRP6DSC $500.00 discount.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Membership includes your own copy of the World Founding Field Guide, discounts for group memberships, access to all videos and extension activities and extra resources. Ongoing live practise and teaching sessions will be scheduled through the year and are free to members.
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The schedule for live workshop sessions is published well in advance. Simply book through the Members Home page.
Please contact Michael to negotiate your coaching session bookings.
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Yes! We’re always expanding the library with fresh content, tools, and updates to keep your learning and inspiration going strong.
Please also check the schedule of workshops and seminars on the Members Home page.
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Memberships are flexible and can be canceled at any time from your account. You’ll retain access through the end of your current billing cycle.