As we embark on the journey of collaborating together to co-create the future, it’s critical that we have social tools and technologies for dealing with dark / unconscious / toxic interpersonal and cultural patterns constructively, while increasing coherence.

Dark Patterns - Shadow Cartography

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Atlas Syndrome

Adjacent to Savior complex— “The weight of the world rests on my shoulders, and I must save it myself, by any means necessary!”

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Siloing

Adjacent to Atlas Syndrome— “Humans EGOsystems are too challenging, it’s too complicated to collaborate with others, it’ll be easier if I just put my head down, blinders on and push through on my own!”

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Extractive Creativity

“This isn’t my IP but it’s ok if I borrow it for the good of the all”

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Scarcity Mindset

“Everyone’s poor in the Regen space, we’ve been trying to unlock capital for 10 years and it hasn’t happened yet! We need to compromise our values to get access to funding...”

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Illuminating and Metabolizing Dark Patterns

How do we do “build in public” cultural shadow work?

As enlightened as many of us are in the Regen Movement (yes, I’m looking at you my friend) we all come with our stories, wounds, traumas, baggage and war stories.

Victor Vorski’s Ideas:

• Focus on ideas, best practices, people who are doing it right and collaborating well
• Have a “Composting Space” / Shadow Stream - where we call out the shadows, not just of the Game A world but also the shadows in Regen Space
• Greater Than - program of trauma informed collaboration - the money game

Daniel Mihai’s Ideas

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18f_B8fteK_3kH_KxlbMKUHXNfyjLtyH_ctHuHslaeKw/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.gz07lqipktus](https://docs.google.com/document/d/18f_B8fteK_3kH_KxlbMKUHXNfyjLtyH_ctHuHslaeKw/preview?tab=t.0#heading=h.gz07lqipktus)

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