Organising from Elsewhere

Organising from Elsewhere Exploring emergent new ways of relating, moving & deciding together, within collectives, organisations and social movements.

13/12/2025

🌳 A collective isn’t about sameness — it’s about shared soil. 🌱

In this clip, Ivo Schmetz reminds us that real collectives aren’t tidy or uniform. They’re made of people with different energies, capacities, goals, and dreams. And that’s not a flaw — it’s the source of creativity.

You don’t need to climb the same tree to belong to the same forest. The work is recognising each person’s potential, gifts, and way of contributing to the whole.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 5: “The Art of Collective Ownership” with Ivo Schmetz — out now!

11/12/2025

🌱 Real change won’t come from the top — it will rise from the ground.

In this clip, Ivo Schmetz reminds us that the systems creating poverty, hunger, war, and exploitation are not broken — they’re functioning exactly as designed. And those at the top have no incentive to transform them.

So where will transformation come from? From communities organising themselves. From people rewriting ownership, redistributing power, and creating the structures the world truly needs.

Bottom-up change isn’t just possible — it’s already happening.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 5: “The Art of Collective Ownership” with Ivo Schmetz — out now!

09/12/2025

🏘️ What if we stop trying to survive alone? 🤝

In Episode 5, Ivo Schmetz shows how collective ownership transforms the impossible into the achievable. One person can’t afford a home — but twenty people together can create long-term, affordable housing that serves generations to come.

This is more than a financial model. It’s a reminder that every person has a role in building the future — no contribution too small, no voice insignificant.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 5: “The Art of Collective Ownership” with Ivo Schmetz — out now!

06/12/2025

🌍 “Alone is nothing. Together is everything.” 💥

In this rousing moment, Ivo Schmetz reminds us: every city, every village, every movement is a collective creation. So why do we act like anything belongs to just one person?

We live in a world built by many, sustained by many. The real joy isn’t in ownership — it’s in belonging.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 5: “The Art of Collective Ownership” with Ivo Schmetz — out now!

09/09/2025

🌊 What if leadership meant confluence — not control? 🌀

In this clip, Erika Koskela redefines “chief” through a Salish lens: not as someone with authority over others, but as a confluence — a place where rivers meet, where people are gathered and guided together.

True power, she says, doesn’t come from titles. It comes from the natural authority of presence, trust, and the ability to unify without domination.

🎧 Listen to Episode 4: “Restoring Intuition – Indigenous Ways of Moving Together” with Erika Koskela — out now!

05/09/2025

🦅 What if “the collective” includes the more-than-human world? 🌍

In modern organising, “collective” usually means just people. But as Erika Koskela reminds us in Episode 4, Indigenous ways of knowing tell a much deeper story.

The collective includes the buffalo, the ants, the mountain, the spirit, and the ancestors. When any part of this web suffers, we all do.

This isn’t just poetry — it’s a paradigm shift.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 4: “Restoring Intuition – Indigenous Ways of Moving Together” with Erika Koskela.

03/09/2025

🌬️ What if your intuition was never meant to be trusted — because it’s dangerous to the system? 🌀

In Episode 4, Erika Koskela speaks about restoring intuition — not just as a personal skill, but as a decolonial force. In a world that’s taught us to dismiss our inner knowing as irrational or laughable, reclaiming it becomes an act of quiet resistance.

When we attune to our senses, we begin to move differently — refusing to participate in the very systems that numb us.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 4: “Restoring Intuition – Indigenous Ways of Moving Together” with Erika Koskela.

29/06/2025

🧩 Is our culture really individualistic? 🤔

In Episode 3, Anshul Aggarwal turns a common assumption on its head: maybe we’re not too individualistic — maybe we’ve never truly embraced individual freedom at all.

If true collectivity means supporting everyone to express themselves fully, then maybe the task isn’t to sacrifice the self for the group — but to build collectives where individualism is finally possible.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 3 of Organising from Elsewhere – out now!

25/06/2025

🌍 We can’t change others — but we can shape the space. 🌱

In this moment from Episode 3, Anshul Aggarwal reminds us: transformation begins with ourselves — and with the culture we cultivate around us.

We can’t force change… but we can create communities of learning where people feel safe to express, explore, and evolve. Spaces like Auroville invite us to practice this — not as theory, but as living experiment.

🎧 Listen now to Episode 3 of Organising from Elsewhere — out now!

24/06/2025

🌱 What if growing food was also growing ourselves? 🌍

Anshul Aggarwal (Auroville’s AuroOrchard) speaks to a deep truth: when we tend the land, the land tends us.

Interconnectedness isn’t just a concept — it’s an experience, cultivated through relationship and care. Imagine if this presence could be passed from land to food, to people, to community... How would that change the way we live and organise together?

🎧 Listen now to Episode 3 of Organising from Elsewhere – out now!

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