This online gathering and practice space offers an opportunity to discover and learn more about ten’s partners at Rooted Global Village (Rooted) — a vibrant communal initiative — a living, breathing experiment in relational care and connection across division. During our encounter, we’ll be discussing and experimenting with Bayo Akomolafe’s recent ideas related to money and philanthropy, using Rooted, the community’s dreams and visions, as a playground for exploration.

Bayo articulates, “money is not a static resource; it is a relationship capable of misbehaving, disrupting, and opening cracks within entrenched systems.” In this session, we’ll explore a new framework for consideration: paraphilanthropy — a paradigm in which money is experienced as a dynamic force, one which may not be as productive as we think. Could money actually be autistic?  This approach disrupts traditional paradigms, uncovering new possibilities for care, collaboration, and the redistribution of resources in service of alternative social and economic futures.

Rooted's experimental and emergent nature — its lack of "clear outcomes" — often falls outside the scope of conventional funding models. Yet this very refusal to be neatly categorized is what makes Rooted fertile ground for exploring paraphilanthropy. During this gathering, we will offer glimpses into the collective care, somatic and liberatory practices offered within Rooted. It is an invitation to explore how such resource flows could challenge scarcity-driven paradigms and instead nurture a living ecology of care, creativity, and connection.

Registration is required via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcoceyvqjsoE9L_xpp7-uRBJzZRXWqsBgWj 

If you’d like to learn more about paraphilanthropy, please read Bayo’s March 2024 article, Paraphilanthropy: Giving Money its Freedom Papers.