Amanitas was Inspired by the superpowers and patterns of the natural world. we worked, LEARNed and played within our interconnectedness. We Explored principles of Radical collaboration and emergence For our future humanity. Contrary to the “Hero” myth of pop-culture, we believe that Positive change does not originate from any single individual, rather, it ebbs and it flows as a force which guides a living system.
This playbook is our gift to you!
Navigating complexity in an era of uncertainty.
““The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.””
Our current political, economic and ecological systems are at an edge, in a process of deep change. Frankly, we have NO IDEA as to where we are heading and even less as to where we will end up. Everything seems up for grabs, with only one thing we know for sure:
change is inevitable.
In this context, we were granted with substantial investments to gather over 100 exceptional practitioners, artists and designers of [inner and outer] system change. We met up across the globe to listen, pause and reflect on what the world needs the most today. As a result, we share with you the jewel of our experiences, this living/dead library (stigmergy page) and PLAYBOOK outlining the essence of our insights, failures and hunches for what (might still) come next (or not).
In essence, this is a call for more MAGIC and more CONNECTION!
Now, we were a distributed team invisibly connected through shared ethos and practice. We explored systems of power and influence beyond planned and incremental change. And we still believe that the true art of [our] nature is radical collaboration and that we have come to co-create our future together.
““Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.””
EMERGENT FIELDS
Happy [Bern] Lab
Find out about this experiment in
new ways of living and working togehter.
emergent stories
This is where we prototype the next edition of the playbook. Read up. And add on.
balancing
being & Doing
Stepping off the hamster wheel.
It was work. But felt like play.
ARChitecture of collaboration
Open-source collection of human collaboration experiments. Some actually worked.
käfele
A meeting, a coffee and no agenda.
How about this for methodology?
Join In
Ownership is a direct result of participation.
Get connected. Take part. Make it yours.
“New power operates differently, like a current. It is made by many. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It uploads, and it distributes. Like water or electricity, it’s most forceful when it surges. The goal with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it.”
CONNECTION
An animated account of Happy {Bern} Lab practices featuring voices from business, social innovation and sustainable development. This is an invitation to create safe spaces, trust in the emergence of ideas and learn together across generations, this inspiring short VIDEO charts the rise of a movement to drive change from within.
Directed by: Sophie Mulphin Illustrations by: Simon Kiener Animation and editing by: Jimmy Roura
amanitas was born back in 2016. it officially died on April 25th 2022. although that’s just the date on which we held our final ceremony for it. amanitas is dead! long live amanitas! we are excited to see what will emerge from its nutritious compost. thank you for being in this together.
in loving memory of Michelle Elizabeth Grambeau.
our in-house muse, poet, healer, instigator, ancestral futurist, trickster, wilderness guide and magician.
you live on through us.