Co-op Lab
Co-op Lab is a way to think and act in support of what you love in life based on a few simple truths:
Experience
All skills, time and knowledge reside in us.
Design
We design and build all man-made assets.
Economy
Our lives create all demand, supply and spending power.
So, what is the Co-op Lab process?
Collaboration
• Co-op Lab stands as the initial Private Member Association (PMA) that you join to develop a local network able to produce and exchange the goods and services you require.
- our local PMAs function as hub guilds to provide quality expertise through exchange of skills, time and knowledge.
- we develop our talents based on our own interests; so we guarantee demand, supply and quality of the goods, services and projects we produce.
- our own balanced growth produces high-quality goods and services to replace those of ‘public authorities’ and profit-seeking corporations.
- we can redirect ‘public expenditure’ into our local projects and bond in trust as we enjoy living and learning.
Infrastructure
We stand as the ‘living infrastructure’ who produce, supply and consume from our own local activities
- we evolve our ‘Market-Space’ as a unique ‘gilt-edged’ investment in ourselves
- we guarantee our own projects, goods and services with our own demand and supply
- we can apply real common sense founded on what is important to us individually and collectively
Natural Law
We stand together only under our own Natural Law in mutual agreement ‘to cause no harm, loss or injury’ to each other
- we release ourselves from ‘legal fraud’ by dismissing the corporate status imposed on us by birth certification
- we stand as living men, women and children protecting ourselves, and one another, within a thriving social-cultural-economic-political network
The basic critical path
Co-op labs and what it is all about
A ‘meeting of minds’
A founding local group of honourable people who trust each others motivation form the initial local ‘Co-op Central’ to support and manage development of hub guilds and projects
A local ‘skills audit’
We present our offers and needs in the Co-op Lab platform to find the people, guilds, businesses and other organisations able and willing to do what, on what basis, as producers, suppliers and consumers.
A ‘word-of-mouth’ viral marketing
Establish ‘a basic consensus of the willing’ who agree that it is common sense to pool resources in order to develop our own Market-Space
concepts and opportunities through our ‘onion rings’
Our 'Onion Rings'
Network
Everyone has a network of people around them; connections that grow with us from childhood. These rings extend out from our family and friends, to colleagues, neighbours and others in our lives.
Uniting
Our ‘rings’ overlap endlessly and unite us in many ways; embodying the values, interests, needs and activities we share with like-minded people
Connect
It’s through these connections that we grow, learn and develop. Indeed the wider we can connect with others, the greater our opportunities and possibilities.
Thrive
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- We join hub guilds as tutor, student, supplier, producer, investor and/or consumer so that
we can find each other to co-operate across a trusted local network - we build our own networks with those of like-mind whom we trust – our birds-of-a-feather
