The Guilds

Our Nervous System

The Planetary Party is powered by Guilds: autonomous, interconnected teams stewarding different dimensions of the ecosystem. Each Guild is an organ, carrying a unique function within a larger living body.

The Guilds Form the Nervous System of the Planetary Party

Together, they inform the nervous system: sensing, signaling, regenerating, and weaving coherence across bioregions. Each Guild is a mycelial node, carrying a unique function within a larger living body.

What Guilds Are

Guilds are autonomous working groups that steward specific capacities and deliverables. They operate with sovereignty while maintaining coherence with the whole ecosystem.

Each Guild develops frameworks, tools, and protocols that bioregions can access and adapt to their unique context.

Why Guilds Work

  • Distribute Intelligence: Expertise lives at the edges
  • Enable Autonomy: Teams self-organize and innovate
  • Maintain Coherence: Shared protocols ensure alignment
  • Scale Organically: Guilds grow based on capacity
  • Cross-Pollinate: Knowledge flows between domains

How to Join

Guilds welcome individuals and organizations who bring relevant expertise and are committed to regenerative values.

Each Guild has its own onboarding process, rhythms, and contribution pathways. Explore the Guilds below and find where your gifts align.

Quick Overview: The Nine Guilds

Each one a vital organ. Each one a keeper of a different kind of intelligence.

Bioregional Intelligence The Brain: Sensing place through stories, data, and culture
Technology & Data Sovereignty The Nervous System: Building tools that connect the whole
Ecosystem Weaving The Connective Tissue: Harmonizing movements and networks
Community Capacity & Trust-Building The Heart: Tending the relational soil where regeneration grows
Storytelling & Mythos The Memory: Carrying the myth, narrative, and cultural flame
Regenerative Governance The Spine: Holding structure for collective decision-making
Event Production & Cultural Activation The Lungs: Bringing the Planetary Party to life through gatherings
Living Systems & Solutions The Body: Stewarding ecological and place-based regeneration
Regenerative Capital Flows The Water: Guiding resources to where life needs them most

The Nine Guilds: A Symphony of Vital Functions

Click each guild to explore their unique functions and how they contribute to the ecosystem.

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Bioregional Intelligence Guild

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The Brain: Sensing place through stories, data, land, and culture

The Seers

This Guild develops the Bioregional Intelligence Dashboards and the sensing capacities behind them. They weave ecological, cultural, economic, and social indicators into shared maps that translate complexity into clarity.

Core Functions

  • Develop bioregional indicator frameworks (ecological, social, economic, cultural)
  • Design and build intelligence dashboards and visualization tools
  • Support bioregions in gathering local data, stories, and patterns
  • Guide the sensing → mapping → coherence arc
  • Translate complexity into actionable insights
  • Track impact and progress over time

Key Deliverables

  • Bioregional Intelligence Dashboard templates
  • Community sensing methodologies and toolkits
  • Data collection protocols and best practices
  • Indicator libraries for different contexts
  • Training programs for local data stewards
  • Integration with existing mapping and GIS tools

Who Should Join

Data scientists, ecologists, ethnographers, storytellers, geographers, systems thinkers, community researchers, and anyone passionate about making the invisible visible.

They help communities see themselves coherently.

The Brain - Bioregional Intelligence: A luminous brain made of landscape features with data streams flowing like synapses
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Technology & Data Sovereignty Guild

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The Nervous System: Building the tools that connect the whole

The Mycelial Web

This Guild creates the digital and technical infrastructure behind the Planetary Party Protocol. They ensure that technology serves life, not the other way around.

Core Functions

  • Steward data sovereignty practices and protocols
  • Build and maintain dashboard interfaces and mapping tools
  • Develop ledgers and systems for Flow Funds
  • Ensure interoperability between bioregions and existing platforms
  • Create open-source tools aligned with community governance
  • Protect privacy and ensure ethical data use

Key Deliverables

  • Open-source dashboard platform
  • Flow Fund ledger and allocation tools
  • Data sovereignty frameworks and agreements
  • API integrations for existing regenerative tech
  • Mobile-friendly tools for field data collection
  • Security and privacy protocols
  • Technical documentation and training

Who Should Join

Software developers, UX designers, blockchain specialists, data engineers, cybersecurity experts, and technologists committed to digital sovereignty.

They ensure the tech serves life, not the other way around.

The Nervous System - Technology & Data Sovereignty: Digital mycelium with fiber optic nerves serving community sovereignty
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Ecosystem Weaving Guild

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The Connective Tissue:Harmonizing movements, networks, and bioregions

The Connectors

This Guild helps movements recognize themselves as part of one interconnected ecosystem. They weave across sectors and communities to prevent duplication, foster collaboration, and amplify collective impact.

Core Functions

  • Weave across sectors, movements, and communities
  • Convene aligned organizations and initiatives
  • Nurture cross-bioregional learning and exchange
  • Help prevent duplication and siloing of efforts
  • Uplift overlooked wisdom and build bridges across difference
  • Map the global mycelial network

Key Deliverables

  • Network mapping tools and visualizations
  • Partnership frameworks and agreements
  • Cross-sector convening methodologies
  • Resource sharing platforms and protocols
  • Collaboration playbooks and case studies
  • Directory of aligned organizations and projects

Who Should Join

Network weavers, community organizers, facilitators, diplomats, partnership builders, and bridge-makers who see connections others miss.

They help the global mycelial network find itself.

The Connective Tissue - Ecosystem Weaving: Mycelial network connecting diverse movements and communities
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Community Capacity & Trust-Building Guild

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The Heart:Tending the relational soil where regeneration grows

The Heart

This Guild focuses on the emotional, somatic, and relational foundations of transformation. They help communities build the capacity to hold complexity, navigate conflict, and deepen trust.

Core Functions

  • Trauma integration and healing practices
  • Somatic and embodiment work
  • Conflict transformation and mediation
  • Group coherence and collective intelligence
  • Relational trust-building processes
  • Leadership development and mentorship
  • Intergenerational healing and reconciliation
  • Facilitator training and certification

Key Deliverables

  • Trust-building methodologies and toolkits
  • Conflict transformation protocols
  • Facilitator training programs
  • Somatic practice guides
  • Leadership development curricula
  • Community resilience frameworks
  • Healing circle guides and templates

Who Should Join

Facilitators, therapists, mediators, somatic practitioners, coaches, healers, elders, and anyone committed to relational and emotional intelligence.

They help communities build the emotional, cultural, and relational capacity needed to hold transformation.

The Heart - Community Capacity & Trust-Building: Heart made of intertwined hands and embracing figures
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Storytelling & Mythos Guild

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The Memory:Carrying the myth, the narrative, and the cultural flame

The Sensory Organs

This Guild is the voice of the Planetary Party. They steward narrative coherence, document bioregional stories, and help people feel the planetary story unfolding through them.

Core Functions

  • Steward narrative coherence and messaging
  • Document and amplify bioregional stories
  • Develop visual identity, symbols, and aesthetics
  • Create media, film, photography, and documentation
  • Express cultural dimensions of the mythos
  • Craft the poetic language of the Planetary Party
  • Preserve and transmit collective memory

Key Deliverables

  • Brand guidelines and visual identity systems
  • Story harvesting methodologies
  • Documentary films and photo essays
  • Written case studies and impact reports
  • Social media content and campaigns
  • Website content and digital presence
  • Podcast and interview series
  • Poetry, art, and cultural expressions

Who Should Join

Writers, filmmakers, photographers, poets, artists, designers, journalists, content creators, and keepers of oral traditions.

They help people feel the planetary story unfolding through them.

The Memory - Storytelling & Mythos: A great tree of stories with roots in ancestral memory and branches blooming with new narratives
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Regenerative Governance Guild

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The Spine:Holding structure for collective decision-making

The Bones

This Guild offers governance architecture to support bioregions in forming their own decision-making systems. They help communities make decisions that emerge from coherence.

Core Functions

  • Design participatory governance processes
  • Support community assemblies and councils
  • Develop bioregional congress frameworks
  • Facilitate consent and coherence-based decision-making
  • Draft agreements, charters, and protocols
  • Clarify roles and organizational rhythms
  • Test and iterate governance models

Key Deliverables

  • Governance frameworks and templates
  • Decision-making protocol libraries
  • Assembly facilitation guides
  • Bioregional council structures
  • Charter and agreement templates
  • Role clarity and accountability systems
  • Governance training programs
  • Case studies of working models

Who Should Join

Governance designers, facilitators, legal experts, cooperative organizers, political scientists, and systems architects.

They help communities make decisions that emerge from coherence.

The Spine - Regenerative Governance: Council circles forming a living vertebral column with decisions flowing as light
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Event Production & Cultural Activation Guild

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The Lungs:Bringing the Planetary Party to life through gatherings

The Fire

This Guild produces convergence festivals, ceremonies, and civic celebrations. They create civic experiences that spark trust, unity, and regenerative action.

Core Functions

  • Produce Planetary Party festivals and gatherings
  • Ensure safety, logistics, and infrastructure
  • Design flow of programming and experiences
  • Create ambiance, aesthetics, and culture
  • Ensure accessibility and inclusion
  • Coordinate on-the-ground coherence among teams
  • Leave behind positive-trace infrastructure

Key Deliverables

  • Event production playbooks and templates
  • Safety and logistics protocols
  • Program design frameworks
  • Positive-trace infrastructure guides
  • Accessibility and inclusion checklists
  • Volunteer coordination systems
  • Budget templates and resource planning
  • Post-event integration protocols

Who Should Join

Event producers, festival organizers, logistics coordinators, stage managers, artists, musicians, safety personnel, and cultural activators.

They create civic experiences that spark trust, unity, and regenerative action.

The Lungs - Event Production & Cultural Activation: Festival crowds forming breathing lungs with celebration at the center
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Living Systems & Solutions Guild

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The Body:Stewarding ecological, agricultural, and place-based regeneration

The Bones (Framework)

This Guild anchors the tangible, place-based work of regeneration. They support real-world prototypes that regenerate the bioregion's land, culture, and community.

Core Functions

  • Design regenerative food and agriculture systems
  • Restore water systems and watersheds
  • Implement soil restoration and carbon sequestration
  • Steward land and practice ecological design
  • Support natural building and infrastructure
  • Develop renewable energy systems
  • Create circular economies and zero-waste solutions

Key Deliverables

  • Permaculture and regenerative agriculture guides
  • Water harvesting and restoration protocols
  • Soil health assessment and improvement plans
  • Natural building design templates
  • Renewable energy system designs
  • Circular economy frameworks
  • Ecological restoration project plans
  • Solution showcase and demo events

Who Should Join

Permaculturists, farmers, ecologists, water specialists, natural builders, renewable energy experts, and land stewards.

They support real-world prototypes that regenerate the bioregion's land, culture, and community.

The Body - Living Systems & Solutions: Human silhouette filled with regenerative landscape where vision becomes food, water, and shelter
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Regenerative Capital Flows Guild

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The Water:Guiding resources to where life needs them most

The Life Blood

This Guild stewards bioregional Flow Funds and helps capital flow with the logic of ecosystems, not extraction. They design financial systems that serve life.

Core Functions

  • Design and support Bioregional Flow Fund implementation
  • Build philanthropic partnerships and donor relationships
  • Develop regenerative economic frameworks
  • Align carbon and biodiversity project funding
  • Create metrics for multi-capital value
  • Ensure financial coherence across bioregions
  • Enable alternative capital pathways (community currencies, DAOs, etc.)

Key Deliverables

  • Flow Fund design templates and protocols
  • Trust-based giving frameworks
  • Participatory budgeting tools
  • Multi-capital accounting systems
  • Funder onboarding and partnership agreements
  • Impact measurement frameworks
  • Alternative finance mechanism guides
  • Regenerative economics training programs

Who Should Join

Philanthropists, impact investors, regenerative economists, financial designers, community organizers, and anyone reimagining how capital flows.

They help capital flow with the logic of ecosystems vs. extraction.

The Water - Regenerative Capital Flows: A watershed with golden water flowing to where life needs it most

The Anchor Circle: Upholding the Integrity of the Whole

The Muscles:Moving the body and upholding the integrity and coherence of the whole.

Anchor Circle

What the Anchor Circle Does

The Anchor Circle is a coordination body representing each Guild's voice. It maintains ethical, cultural, and ecological integrity across the ecosystem.

The Anchor Circle Represents:

  • Each Guild's voice and needs
  • Shared protocols and alignment
  • Coherence between culture, governance, and action
  • Evolutions of the Planetary Party Protocol's global framework

They help the whole organism stay attuned to itself.

The Core Fractal Ensures Coherence Across the System

The Guilds are represented by the Core Fractal, a coordination body that maintains ethical, cultural, and ecological integrity. It supports cross-pollination between Guilds and stewards shared resources and intellectual property.

Cross-Pollination

Guilds regularly share learnings, resources, and insights. What one Guild develops can inform and enhance the work of others.

Examples:

  • Storytelling amplifies Bioregional Intelligence insights
  • Technology supports Flow Fund transparency
  • Governance frameworks inform Event Production protocols
  • Living Systems solutions feed into Dashboard indicators

Shared Resources

All Guild outputs are stewarded as commons, accessible to bioregions through onboarding to ensure coherence and ethical alignment.

Shared resources include:

  • Frameworks and methodologies
  • Templates and toolkits
  • Training programs and curricula
  • Case studies and documentation
  • Technology platforms and code

Maintaining Integrity

The Core Fractal (Anchor Circle) ensures that as the Planetary Party scales, it maintains coherence with core values:

  • Ecological regeneration
  • Social equity and justice
  • Cultural sovereignty
  • Participatory governance
  • Data sovereignty
  • Celebration and joy

Ready to Join a Guild?

Each Guild welcomes new members who bring relevant expertise and align with regenerative values. Here's how to get started:

1

Explore

Read about each Guild above and identify where your gifts, experience, and passion align.

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Connect

Reach out through our contact form expressing interest in a specific Guild.

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Engage

Join a Guild orientation call to meet current members and learn about current projects.

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Contribute

Start contributing to Guild deliverables, attending meetings, and co-creating the ecosystem.

Express Interest in a Guild
Each Guild is an organ, carrying a unique function within a larger living body. Together, they form the nervous system: sensing, signaling, regenerating, and weaving coherence across bioregions.

They are the living organs of a planetary organism.