Bernie DeKoven published for The Coworking Insitute another Coworking Vision. The vision statement starts with Bernies definition on Coliberation.

CoLiberation is what happens when we work extraordinarily well together. Like on a basketball team or in an orchestra, when we actually experience ourselves sharing in something bigger than any one who is present. This is what Bernie calls the experience of the “Big WE.” It’s a corollary to the “Big ME” experience of self-transcendence. If the Big ME is the “peak experience,” CoLiberation or the Big WE, is like becoming a whole mountain range.

If you stare long enough at the center of the O in COworking, you may very well see what may actually look to you like an aerial view of 4 people sitting around a table, as if they were in some sort of meeting. And that black circle in the very middle of the table, between everyone, the combination of everyone together.

Bernie calls that black circle “coliberation.” It’s what makes the whole thing fun. The coliberation between people, of people. Each person helping the other do what he is best at, what he or she has the most fun doing. Each person helping the other play for fun and profit. Fun more than profit, even.

Thinking about our connection, community, conversations, and how we are each spending time doing all this - blogging and emailing, chatting and texting. How we do it for fun. For coliberating each other. For free.

How we have found a viable alternative for everything that people used to call “work.” How we join each other in some kind of virtual, actual coworking effort, coworking environment, doing something together for fun, on this particular page of the world wide web, thinking about making it more fun, and maybe even profitable for people to work together…

That’s what the black ball in the middle stands for.

© Bernie DeKoven

Bernie DeKoven published for The Coworking Insitute another Coworking Vision. The vision statement starts with Bernies definition on Coliberation.
CoLiberation is what happens when we work extraordinarily well together. Like on a basketball team or in an orchestra, when we actually experience ourselves sharing in something bigger than any one who is present. This is [...]