Shared Origins, Bright Mutual Future
MABUHAY GARDENS — OCTOBER 17, 2026
Shared Origins, Bright Mutual Future
An ancient-future solarpunk gathering in the San Francisco Bay bioregion at Mabuhay Gardens
Co-convened by CrowdDoing https://crowddoing.world/ and Solarpunkification https://solarpunkification.art/, hosted at Mabuhay Gardens https://themab.org/, https://themab.org/solarpunk, supported by Kinship Earth, https://www.kinshipearth.org/. Registered public satellite event of the ORIGIN Global Festival (Cradle of Humankind, South Africa) https://ourorigin.earth/
Uplink from Mabuhay Gardens facilitated by Underground Signal via Albert Lopez, https://tapin.io/community/TheUndergroundSignal/feed
Call for speakers, artists,facilitators Fractals of Bright Futures Festival Tables,
Rooms
Upstairs: 8:30 – 11:00 AM
Downstairs: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM, with 3:00 – 4:00 PM held in reserve depending on scope of responses of interest to speakers/experiences/artists
Food for sale from 8:30 AM until closing.
Upstairs
8:30 – 9:30 Breakfast mixer in Upstairs Atrium
8:30 – 9:25 Sound bowls in main room upstairs
9:25 – 9:30 Welcome and framing — 1 minute each - Bobby Fishkin, Tom Watson, Stephen Gomes, Sheridan Tsatsuno
9:30 – 11:30am Warm Data Lab, whole room, facilitated by Jessica Grooperman and Sahra Brubeck
11:00 Downstairs opens
Downstairs
11:00 – 11:25 ORIGIN downlink — selected global content received downstairs
Upstairs
11:25 – 11:30 Broadcast standby upstairs
11:30 – 11:45 LIVE UPLINK TO THE ORIGIN GLOBAL BROADCAST band plays transitions and atmospheric live score supporting context of words— 15 minutes requested
11:30 Warm Data Lab report-out, carried live from the Warm Data Lab that just closed by Jessica Grooperman and Sahra Brubeck
11:35 Solarpunk pattern integrity- solarpunk philosophy - how our most preferred future can become our most probable future through acts of radical collaboration
Mabuhay Gardens as pattern integrity — why every community needs a creative center in order to regenerate itself
Bobby Fishkin and Tom Watson
11:40 Stephen Gomes and Sheridan shares about the San Francisco Renaissance, sharing together Stephen L. Gomes, Ph.D. GAIA’S GAME, INC Chief Operations Officer and Co-Founder KINSHIP EARTH Foundation Chairman of the Board and Co-Founder
“Reasons to Hope in an Age of Transition”
Dr Howie Whitehouse- a right of passage of shared origin discovery.
11:45 – 12:00 Band bridge; the room settles
12:00 – 12:10 Global synchronized moment for peace and harmony
12:10 – 1:00 Lunch commons — food, Fractals of Hopeful Futures Festival Tables, acoustic set. ORIGIN broadcasting downstairs
1pm
12:00 – 3:00/3:30pm Upstairs Bay Area selected respondents from the open call to kindred communities- 3:00/3:30pm Closing sound bowls and send-off
3:30pm Caravan to the Bay Area Decompression in Oakland
Inviting all humans to a mutual protagonist experience of storyline repair. We all have shared roles as human protagonists together in a story weave. Each of us can have access to a story web of interdependence. Each of us is able to transform our agency individually and collectively if we can find the right relationship between ourselves and our context of mutualization of shared challenges that galvanize deep, exquisite cooperation.
About the Warm Data Lab:
“How do we think our way through the messes we’re in when the way we think is part of the mess?” – Nora Bateson (Originator of Warm Data Labs)
A Warm Data Lab is like the best after-dinner conversations you have ever had, with people you may have never met.
These experiences have been described as a “kaleidoscope of conversation”, packed with enriching stories, laughter, and insight. They nourish the soul, transform the way we approach work, life, and our communities, and ultimately, create space for new relationships to flourish. They can even plant new seeds for community projects to renew and revitalise community life. In these turbulent times, many of us feel we are standing on unstable ground.
Warm Data Lab Flow
Participants share their stories and observations about a common question, moving between small groups to explore the day’s topic from different viewpoints such as family, health, economy, and more. Everyone moves whenever and wherever their curiosity takes them, listening to each other and sharing whatever occurs to them. In the last half-hour, we come back together as one group and share what we’ve noticed and any insights we have gained.
When we come together to share our stories and listen to one another, we expand our view of life, deepen our understanding of what others in our communities are going through, and perhaps even see fresh possibilities. What is possible when people meet people as people, not as roles, titles, or experts, to discuss the changes we're living through together?
Talking together in Warm Data sessions helps us see fresh possibilities for being okay within our changing world. "I suddenly glimpsed a new way of seeing as I listened to someone else describing her sense of the complexities we all live in right now." Everyone is welcome!
Things to Know
Labs are a container. Try to arrive on time and stay until the end for the full experience.
No preparation is needed. Just bring beautiful complex self, and maybe a friend or 3!
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