Let’s build communities designed for flourishing for all.
Perhaps, the deepest truth is not what we see, but what we can imagine.
— Glennon Doyle
O N E of O N E C O L L E C T I V E is a nonprofit specializing in place-based healing & systemic flourishing.
We’re working together to redesign the way we live with each other & the planet by building communities (like villages & towns) designed toward flourishing for all.
A Flourishing Community is designed to:
cultivate reciprocal connections · regenerate life · foster diversity & uniqueness · improve the ecosystem · require less infrastructure & transportation · trap carbon · increase resiliency through more decentralize resources · connect people with nature & natural exercise · build value for local communities · attract tourism · foster love & respect
What is flourishing?
What is Systemic Flourishing?
Our gnarliest problems like racism, climate change, poverty, most health problems, etc. can only be healed by redesigning the way we live top to bottom, systematically reconnecting us to ourselves, each other, & the natural world, one place at a time.
Imagine a place where you felt safe, loved, & valued?
What if diverse people were asked to:
And we used the best of today’s technology & history’s lessons to
create the places we wish existed.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the problems all around us in the world right now. But when we bravely & calmly look at them, the problems are our teachers & our collective, best-case-scenario dreams show us the way.
When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.
— Alexander Den Heijer