Abundance Collective

Our economic systems have created both incredible innovations and deep structural challenges. We have amazing technology alongside growing inequality, global connections alongside environmental breakdown, and financial growth alongside widespread disconnection from community. Most of us recognize that measuring progress only through GDP growth misses what actually matters for a good life - strong communities, healthy families, stable businesses, a thriving environment. 

We've inherited ways of creating wealth that prioritize one form of capital - financial - while treating social, cultural, and natural capital as secondary or invisible. Many knowledge systems around the world understand wealth differently: as reciprocal relationships, as stewardship across generations, as the health of the whole community including the land. Yet our dominant economic models fragment these interconnected forms of value, creating artificial separations between financial success and social impact, short-term gains and long-term stability, individual achievement and collective wellbeing. This fragmentation shows up in the tensions we all navigate - business leaders seeking ways to measure success beyond profit, families working harder but feeling less secure, communities watching traditional ways of wealth-building disappear as resources flow elsewhere.

Economy is supposed to stand for our own sense of home and wellbeing, and for the larger systems of relationships that keep us (and all life on earth) alive and thriving. When economic systems consistently damage the environment, fracture communities, and leave people anxious about the future, it signals that these systems aren't serving their fundamental purpose.

Just as certain pioneering plants can prepare degraded soil for new growth, humans can intentionally rebuild healthier economic relationships and systems, starting with our own understanding and practices around money, value and wealth. This isn't about discarding what works - it's about expanding our approach to match the full complexity of what we need as human beings, in relationship with each other and the living world.

Unfortunately, internalised scarcity leads to a sense of separation, where individuals are expected to cope and respond alone to issues which are deeply collective. By opening our journey to people from a diversity of cultures and backgrounds, we foster a sense of interconnectedness and solidarity among our fellows. And most importantly, we offer an opportunity to practically experiment with more radical forms of wellbeing. Through an online, 3 months journey, fellows from around the world who feel ready to revisit their assumptions about money and economics work together, experiment with conscious economic practices, share decisions, money and power, and co-evolve a systemic understanding around their stories with money. You can read more about our approach in this article we shared with our friends at ChangemakerXchange.

The first two editions of the Abundance Fellowship have build the soil for a broader Abundance Collective to emerge. This is a space for Abundance Fellows to deepen their practice, strengthen their relational field and evolve new experiments with money and economy, rooted in our cultures and unique dreams for the future generations.

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With 38 Abundance Fellows now part of this journey and 8 of us already more strongly committed to co-organise, we feel this is a great moment to tap into our self-organising capacities even more. We are already deep into a strategic alignment process, which will lead to collaboratively articulating our way forward and larger theory of change. At the same time, we are initiating a small community of practice bringing together fellows from the first 2 cohorts and enabling their active experiments, thought leadership and sense of connection to each other.

As part of our community weaving efforts, in October 2025 we will host our first in person gathering ever, open for all Abundance Fellows. This gathering is called for by the fellows themselves, and it is going to be completely member-led. The intent is to strengthen our relationships and actively co-shape the future of the Abundance Collective. 

🫐 Exploring new wealth and resourcing models

The more we commit to each other and this work, we feel the need to explore wealth and resourcing models that are aligned with the ethos of the fellowship and our shared values. As part of our 

strategic alignment, we are exploring potential pathways for resilient, collective wealth. Partly the reason why we also decided to join Open Collective ourselves. :)  

We are grateful to share this journey with all of you. Thank you for reading, engaging and contributing. 

In reciprocity and care,
The Abundance Collective