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Volunteer community building open systems for collective recognition, coordination, and care — grounded in gift-based gatherings 🌱

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🏕️ CAMP OUT — NOVEMBER 2026 ✨We’re dreaming up a little camp-out for the end of November 2026, and we’d love to have som...
30/08/2026

🏕️ CAMP OUT — NOVEMBER 2026 ✨
We’re dreaming up a little camp-out for the end of November 2026, and we’d love to have some good people come together to help make it happen. 🌿🔥🌙

If you’d like to be involved in organising, sharing ideas, or simply helping bring it all together, sign up on Luma and come along to our planning meeting.

No big plans set in stone yet — just an open invitation to get together, dream it up and see what we can create. ❤️

End of November 2026
✨ Meeting Details 2/9/26 7-8pm Qld time

Sign up here: https://luma.com/w2hgmbwt

Come help us plan it! 🏕️

Opening ceremony @ OHM Gathering 2025We begin in a circle: introducing ourselves, sharing what excites us, and setting a...
26/08/2026

Opening ceremony @ OHM Gathering 2025

We begin in a circle: introducing ourselves, sharing what excites us, and setting an intention to care for country and each other throughout the weekend ahead.

offers a spontaneous gift: a plate of fruit for the circle.

📸 nathan.norindr

🏕️ CAMP OUT — NOVEMBER 2026 ✨We’re dreaming up a little camp-out for the end of November 2026, and we’d love to have som...
20/08/2026

🏕️ CAMP OUT — NOVEMBER 2026 ✨

We’re dreaming up a little camp-out for the end of November 2026, and we’d love to have some good people come together to help make it happen. 🌿🔥🌙

If you’d like to be involved in organising, sharing ideas, or simply helping bring it all together, sign up on Luma and come along to our planning meeting.

No big plans set in stone yet — just an open invitation to get together, dream it up and see what we can create. ❤️

End of November 2026
✨ Meeting Details 2/9/26 7-8pm Qld time

Sign up here: https://luma.com/w2hgmbwt

Come help us plan it! 🏕️

Join us this Monday night for a potluck dinner and/or meeting to kick off the new year of community, gatherings, and sys...
05/07/2026

Join us this Monday night for a potluck dinner and/or meeting to kick off the new year of community, gatherings, and system building at Open Heart & Mind (OHM).

This will be another hybrid live / online meeting, with a potluck dinner in Corinda from 6pm, followed by the meeting broadcast online from 7:30-9pm (AEST).

Topics for discussion include how we're thinking to spend the new grant we just won, plus early ideas for what our next gathering could look like.

All welcome, and we hope to see you there! 💜🧠🙏

Details and registration: https://luma.com/pqfgvcpv

Introducing the OHM Committee for 2026–2027. 🙌At OHM, our vision is for a future in which everyone can have a say in how...
18/06/2026

Introducing the OHM Committee for 2026–2027. 🙌

At OHM, our vision is for a future in which everyone can have a say in how the collective progresses. But developing and testing these systems in the real world brings genuine risks.

This is where the Committee comes in — ensuring that major decisions remain legal, ethical, and in the best interests of the community, while we work toward more decentralised models.

We recently demonstrated this in practice through payments to OHM Gathering 2025 contributors. The payment amounts were calculated through Wisdom based on community review, then presented to the Committee for approval before being issued.

This allows us to test and refine the model, using its outputs to guide real-world outcomes, while protecting against gaming, attacks, and unintended consequences.

Thank you to our outgoing Committee members for their service, and to our incoming Committee members for taking on this responsibility in the year ahead. 🙏

If you’d like to support this work, our greatest need right now is funding. Donations help us run more experiments through Wisdom, reward contributors for their efforts, and build a more sustainable foundation for the future.

When donating, you can choose to (a) receive recognition and other benefits through Wisdom, or (b) claim a tax deduction through our DGR-registered charity, Children’s Activity Groups Association (CAGA) — donate before 30 June to be eligible for a tax deduction this financial year. 💸

Donation link in bio.

Introducing our new logo ✨Every community has a story. This is ours.At its centre is Ohmnie, our digital mascot, born fr...
15/06/2026

Introducing our new logo ✨

Every community has a story. This is ours.

At its centre is Ohmnie, our digital mascot, born from the contributions, relationships, and collective intelligence that flow through OHM.

Ohmnie emerges from two intertwined strands — heart and mind — coming together as one before spiralling out to create the whole.

Surrounding this is a living pattern of colour and connection. Each leaf represents a phase in our circular framework, while the rainbow spectrum reflects our commitment to diversity, inclusion, and respect for all living beings.

Held together by a shared boundary, the whole design represents a self-organising system: one that maintains harmony within while remaining open to the wider world.

More than a logo, it is a visual expression of our mission:

Creating new ways for communities to share, care, and coordinate.

OHM 💫

✍️ Design by Cooper Smout

Closing the loop on a year-long experiment at OHM. 💫This post marks the first complete cycle of our Wisdom system: coord...
11/06/2026

Closing the loop on a year-long experiment at OHM. 💫

This post marks the first complete cycle of our Wisdom system: coordinating OHM Gathering, recognising contributions, and distributing rewards through a fair share of Gathering proceeds and reputation scores capturing net value created. 💸

Huge thanks to everyone involved, especially our core contributors. 🙌

The blog also includes details of our AGM this Saturday night (13 June), where we’ll launch the next annual cycle of collective governance at OHM. Would love to see you there. 🌱

Link in bio.

Every community depends on people who give their time, care, creativity, and energy.Too often, those contributions go un...
10/06/2026

Every community depends on people who give their time, care, creativity, and energy.

Too often, those contributions go unseen.

At Open Heart & Mind (OHM), we’re exploring new ways for communities to co-create and collaborate through community arts gatherings and open systems for recognising contributions.

Since 2022, we've hosted a range of participatory gatherings, developed new approaches to community coordination, and demonstrated their value across diverse communities and contexts.

Now we're working to expand our model so that more communities can benefit.

If this resonates with you, please consider making a donation before June 30 to be eligible for a tax deduction.

Together, we can build a future where every contribution counts.

Click the link below to donate through our parent charity (Children’s Activity Groups Association)

So much of what happens in community remains out of sight — the meetings, the logistics, the quiet labour of care.At OHM...
14/04/2026

So much of what happens in community remains out of sight — the meetings, the logistics, the quiet labour of care.

At OHM, we're changing that.

Using the Wisdom framework, we've collectively mapped and reviewed over 500 contributions to OHM Gathering, producing two milestone documents:

- Value Map of all contributions, to help coordinate future gatherings 📊
- Contributor Honourboard, celebrating those who gave more than a fair share 🏅

This is our most comprehensive valuation experiment yet, and another step toward a fairer, more transparent way to coordinate, recognise and reward community contributions.

A heartfelt thank you to everyone on our OHM2025 Contributor Honourboard. You are what made it possible.

Read the full post on Substack 👇

https://openheartmind.substack.com/p/recognising-and-celebrating-ohm-gathering

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