Economy Transformers strives to shape a human- and earth-worthy society, they also call it the free-equal society. Economy Transformers supports people and organizations who want the same. Starting points are living and working from love and trust and from the inside out. Then you can organize your life and work in such a way that you do justice to all life.
Economy Transformers guides organizations, companies, initiatives, living/working/living projects, among others, in their longing for this new society and offers them a two-year course Contemporary Entrepreneurship, starting annually in October, or a customized guidance program. In addition, she offers various courses for individuals such as the three-year course in the Art of Living Together that starts annually in September. They also offer over 20 theme-oriented in-depth days. Getting acquainted with Economy Transformers can also be done with a can opener session or an Economy Transformers comes to you evening.
In all their work, personal development, insight into the social processes that are necessary and learning new structures of cooperation and organization are addressed. In this way they bring the inner and outer worlds together. Think of a day on how to deal with the sense of urgency but also insight into legal structures, new forms of decision-making and triple ownership of land and capital.
Renewing the concept of property is central to their work. Land, labor and capital are fundamentally their own. Economy Transformers has shaped this for itself by being itself a sharing company with a ‘legal bridge’ in the form of a CV, with the Contemporary Capital Body being a silent partner. The organization is thus unmarketable and there are no more improper (money-driven) motives that can creep into the organization. The process of allocating and exchanging, the sustainable use of land and capital requires a process of alignment, and that is the very core of their work. In doing so, they are moving away from private ownership to relational ownership, enshrined in tripartite agreements.
Below you will read about the principles of Economy Transformers within which they do their work; so in so out, love and trust, free-equal-together and the six keys to transformation
As individuals, we want to be ourselves, to be able to determine our own path, to set our own life, learning and work goals, and to strive for their fulfillment on our own or with others. Therefore, it is necessary that we create space in our society for individuals to discover, develop and flourish themselves. For this, in addition to freedom of speech and religion, we need freedom of education, (health) care, therapy choice, science and art.
When it comes to regulating mutual relations, how we approach and interact with each other, letting each other be free but also caring for each other, it is about Equality. Regardless of origin, belief, sex, orientation or skin color. Everyone deserves to be heard and seen. All people have a voice. Equality is the starting point.
We live together on one whole earth and we all have our material needs. Everyone contributes in his or her own way to that one societal cake. So why not share that cake fairly among ourselves? So that no one has to be insecure about his or her physical existence. The more we develop and put our abilities at the service of the whole and trust that the whole will take care of us, the more prosperous the whole will be.
The primal idea from which Economy Transformers draws is love for and trust in man and the world. Trust in man as a being between heaven and earth. Man who, with her physical body, is part of the earth, matter, and thus is also a living organism that we want to come to understand as such.
The human- and earth-worthy society can only come about if we want to create it ourselves, from within. Every day you can get up and make a new choice to stand in love and trust, and from there focus your actions on what you have to do.
To this idea of love and trust, Economy Transformers wants to mirror all the forms it develops such as the sharing and triple ownership of land, labor and capital. Always remain critical whether the newly chosen form really allows and increases love and trust, or whether after all, fear and control has crept into the form and is taking over from us again.
As Economy Transformers, we start from the wholeness of things and look at everything we do from wholeness. We recognize that everything we perceive and do has an inside and an outside:
The premise is that these inside and outside are connected and congruent with each other, so that inside and outside are right, understandable and no longer separate worlds that have nothing to do with each other. Between inside and outside, between being and appearing is the operation, the processes it takes to be congruent from inside to outside. Economy Transformers connects these three perspectives and supports their development.
The six keys were developed in 2011 by Economy Transformers in a search for new design principles for a human- and earth-worthy economy and society.
The keys prove to be an integral and often confrontational lens through which to look at any organizational reality. Whether this is your relationship or running a country and every level of organization in between. Each key provides access to a piece of reality and thus forms part of the transformation. You need a transformation on all six keys, integral and consistent with each other, to achieve a humane society. Doing something new on one or a few keys, without aligning and translating this to all the other keys, often indicates that you are still ‘cutting and pasting’ within the current system. So each key looks at the same issue from a specific angle. It gives great insight to examine and question yourself, your organization, your municipality or society with each key. The keys are:
With and for whom do you organize, (in)formal power and control, decision-making structures, horizontal or vertical legal structures and cooperation?
Identity, essence, the big why and wherefore question, what drives and motivates you/organization, what are you/is your organization an answer to?
What image do you create, what language do you use, how do you establish relationships and break them again, how do you connect with and maintain the Source of the initiative, how do you handle feedback and conflict?
With a product or service meeting real needs of others, right balance of give and take, right price, what capabilities are you putting in place, is the investment, risk and profit of and for the community?
What do you own and also bear responsibility for, is your possession proportional to your effort, what gives you security, do land, labor and capital belong to themselves (non-tradable)?
What do you own and also bear responsibility for, is your possession proportional to your effort, what gives you security, do land, labor and capital belong to themselves (non-tradable)?
