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by Matilde Zadig Subgroups - local and small operational decisions Subgroups should be empowered and trusted to make the decisions they see fit, as long as this serves the purpose and fits within the...
By Belong in Plymouth
by Matilde Zadig Emergence Changes are integral to emergence. The balance between policies/systems and everyday decisions can easily become a challenge. In BIP, the people involved, the group or organ...
By Belong in Plymouth
by Matilde Zadig I want to start with an expression of gratitude and acknowledgement for some of the people who have profoundly contributed to my understanding of Flow and internal systems within a gr...
By Belong in Plymouth
by Matilde Zadig We worked with a lot of uncertainty in Belong in Plymouth. We probably all knew it wasn’t going to be a linear or a super straightforward process, but nevertheless, uncertainty and c...
By Belong in Plymouth
Conditions that support money piles: – Enough of a level of psychological and material safety for the people participating to share their stories and needs with vulnerability and honesty – A contain...
By Belong in Plymouth
by Matilde Zadig Money Piles have come to me through Dominic Barter (sometimes also called Financial Co-responsibility) and Miki Kashtan*. I’ve practiced them regularly in one of my intentional house...
By Belong in Plymouth
Blog Written by Sandra Radovanovic How It All Started My journey with Belong In Plymouth began unexpectedly Summer 2022, when I bumped into Stuart from POP at a school summer fair. He introduced me...
By Belong in Plymouth
Whoever controls the money, however it is held and distributed, inevitably has one of the most significant influences on how work progresses. Of all the moving parts in Belong in Plymouth, managing t...
By Matt Bell
Belong in Plymouth has always been about people — their voices, their ideas, and their connections to this city. Over three years, two powerful streams of work emerged. And when it came time to reflec...
By James Huggins
We developed an operational model built on four key starting conditions: open communications, self-employed contracts, fixed pay rates, and open finance. These approaches created flexibility and trans...
By Matt Bell
We established openness as the default communication principle rather than keeping information closed. This transparency was implemented through groups.io as the primary platform, though it wasn't wit...
By Matt Bell
The self-employed contract model at Belong in Plymouth created a distinctive structure where most contributors worked approximately one day per week. This approach brought numerous benefits that ulti...
By Matt Bell