The Quicker We Slow Down, The Faster We Return Home.

Not enough people enter the cocoon stage of personal growth.
It's that innate choice to reflect, to enjoy solitude, to go within
and invest quality time to simplify the conditioned mind,
actually getting to know what your priorities are.

We may then see the world differently.
We may then want more authentic relationships.
We may then choose for our life to have more simplicity, more depth, more joy. 
Rather than spending our lives performing, accumulating, or being chronically
 stressed, seeking external validation from people who don't
even know OR approve of themselves.

The Quicker We Slow Down, The Faster We Return Home.

LARPing (live action role playing) refers to real community games where participants physically portray characters by wearing costumes, assuming alto ego personas, and pursuing goals within real-world environments while interacting with other players in character. 

LARPs can range in size from a few participants to large public events with thousands of people.

 Games can be designed for educational or political purposes with the goal of raising consciousness, awakening or innovative and creative thinking. Ultimately, they can change how we organize and interact across digital and physical spaces. 

In this way, FWB Fest served as a LARP in cultural innovation, 

peer-to-peer economies, and decentralized self-governance.

Why were academic university researchers, radical politics advocates and 

feminist activist bands being recruited to speak at a festival?

The event was the ultimate self-organizing ad hoc network, 

with DJ sets, art installations, tea ceremonies and a livestream. 

This was not just a pop-up economy but a pop-up city. 

Micro economies emerged within it. 

Although the FWB team developed its own merch for the event, 

member @sister_jam beat it with his own, cooler merch for sale 

via cash, crypto or Venmo in the Discord chat.

The DAO provides something for people to coalesce around. 

It serves as a nexus, larger than the personal connections of its founder, 

where intersectional connections of creativity collide in curated moments of serendipity. 

FWB DAO creates trust through character, 

as friends are often told about the DAO from other friends and then vetted 

through an application process. 

Having pre-verified friends scales trust in a safe and accessible way.

The next plan is to provide a way for members to host their own FWB events, 

which will help the DAO scale its impact. 

Provisioning tools like the Gatekeeper ticketing app 

(built by core team member Dexter, a musician and self-taught software developer) 

provide a pattern to enable community members to take ownership 

of running their own events by managing ticketing 

in the style and culture of FWB.

Yet, now that FWB has built this city (both digitally and physically), 

how will it be governed and sustained? 

Its challenge is to imbed decentralized governance 

principles and processes into its next phase of growth.