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* lay down the Yin and Yang attribute cards (might be better to do that while waiting for session to start as a stimulant) | * lay down the Yin and Yang attribute cards (might be better to do that while waiting for session to start as a stimulant) | ||
* quickly explain the spectrum and ask participants to help you justify where the various currencies fit on the spectrum (place them) | * quickly explain the spectrum and ask participants to help you justify where the various currencies fit on the spectrum (place them) | ||
==Table of Contents== | |||
* The Permaculture of Money: observe the flow of currency, find ways to capture and retain it, aim for inputs=outputs, share surplus | |||
* Ying Yang spectrum | |||
* Da Vinci Tai Chi dance altogether (make sure to reverse the moves when in front of the group) | |||
* Tell a few stories (as time permits) , especially High Middle Ages, Ancient Egypt and Argentina | |||
* Make Money exercise: Catalog Offers/Request on cards for all to see; write out IOU cheque vouchers, circulate for a bit, debrief | |||
* Detailed explanation of Gift Circles, Timebank and Seedstock | |||
* the 4 components of CC success (to avoid the 80% failure rate since 1983) | |||
* Real live example of CC design using a participant's project | |||
==Stories== | ==Stories== | ||
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* the story of Seedstock and Transition Towns currencies | * the story of Seedstock and Transition Towns currencies | ||
* optionally: the story of chiralkine (quantum) money | * optionally: the story of chiralkine (quantum) money | ||
==references== | ==references== | ||
Revision as of 07:15, 10 December 2012
How to put on a "Design your own Currency" Workshop
Learning Objectives
- participants will be able to identify, differentiate and determine the appropriate uses of a gift currency, a time currency, an unredeemable token currency, a redeemable proxy currency and a tax-collection currency
- participants will feel enthousiastic about the growing field of community currencies while realizing it is still very experimental
- participants with a design background (PDC?) will be able to design a currency as a component of wholistically solving a real problem they are familiar with
Prepare before the workshop
- samples of all the various types of community currencies (and some proxy yang currencies)
- prepare Yin and Yang attribute cards (ed note: insert content of the cards here or in a separate wiki page)
Introduction
- form a semi-circle so everyone can see the center of the circle
- Ask participants to throw whatever currency they have on themselves into the middle of the circle (throw your own collection in)
- lay down the Yin and Yang attribute cards (might be better to do that while waiting for session to start as a stimulant)
- quickly explain the spectrum and ask participants to help you justify where the various currencies fit on the spectrum (place them)
Table of Contents
- The Permaculture of Money: observe the flow of currency, find ways to capture and retain it, aim for inputs=outputs, share surplus
- Ying Yang spectrum
- Da Vinci Tai Chi dance altogether (make sure to reverse the moves when in front of the group)
- Tell a few stories (as time permits) , especially High Middle Ages, Ancient Egypt and Argentina
- Make Money exercise: Catalog Offers/Request on cards for all to see; write out IOU cheque vouchers, circulate for a bit, debrief
- Detailed explanation of Gift Circles, Timebank and Seedstock
- the 4 components of CC success (to avoid the 80% failure rate since 1983)
- Real live example of CC design using a participant's project
Stories
- anecdotes about Bernard Lietaer the co-designer of the Euro, Michael Linton the local and global pioneer
- the story of the High Middle Ages
- the story of Ancient Egypt
- the story of stamp scrip in USA and Austria
- the story of Argentina 2002
- the story of LETS and Timebanking
- the story of Seedstock and Transition Towns currencies
- optionally: the story of chiralkine (quantum) money