Festival of Commoning at Stroud – An Annal for Eirúnomics

A companion to the attached structured notes. Each section is rendered as a short annal tying learnings directly to Eirúnomics and DAGDA: Debt-Free Mutual Trust & GráAncient WisdomGenerative AI & TechgnosisDialogue & CohesionAlternative Connective Healing as Cumann.


1) Opening Orientation & Ethos

We arrive as two druids on the road, remembering that commoning is a verb—how we are together.

Eirúnomics begins inside: sensing, reflecting, then responding. Our craft is truthful speech and deep listening, not perfection but creative responsibility. While Britain pits ideas on a battlefield, we take the Japanese way of tending—ideas grown like trees. Hence

DAGDA’s first discipline: impeccable agreements—clear offers, clear terms, clear change-control. This is how Debt-Free Mutual Trust becomes culture, not theory; how Grá moves as a living heartifact in every promise we make.


2) Money, Finance, and ‘Unmoney’

We name the spell: money as the OS of capitalism, optimized for profit extraction and taxation. Yet collaborative finance(LETS, crypto, local instruments) reveals a path where exchange is remembered and trust is tallied.

In Eirúnomics, Grá (Unmoney) is the remembrance layer—a circle of exchange with memory, reciprocity, and repair. 

Debt-Free Mutual Trust is the engine: credit issued as reputation and contribution, not as debt bondage. 

Techgnosis tracks flows; Dialogue & Cohesion governs norms; Ancient Wisdom grounds ethics.


3) Mutual Aid, Insurance & Rotations

Town pools, rotating benefits, and credit unions teach that risk shared is risk reduced. We cultivate the muscle of a self-provisioning cumann (Irish word for kinship / club): small trusts with rules, accounts, and the humility to stop paying in once surplus self-insures. DAGDA encodes these cycles as Commitment Pools under Grá. 

Alterative Connective Healing adds care-protocols so financial stress does not fracture the circle. Where fear blocks British cooperation, we re-awaken folk memory with Brehon-style meitheal.



4) Case Studies & Cautions (LETS, Bristol Pound, Time Banking)

Bristol Pound, tax friction, aging stewards, missing Dialogue—these are pattern warnings. Eirúnomics learns: do not over-romance the brand; design for succession, tax-aware settlements, conflict-ready Dialogue, and clear alignment between score-keeping and meaning.

Grá must be useful, transmissible, and coachable;

Techgnosis must be simple enough for the next steward to inherit without heroics.


5) Governance of Commons & Dialogue

Ostrom and Bollier echo our principle: rules emerge from those who use the resource. The “tragedy” trope is psy-ops against commons sense. Eirúnomics therefore trains Dial-logic: slow convening, shared sense-making, and iterative governance. DAGDA’s Dialogue & Cohesion provides facilitation, consent mechanics, and grievance pathways. Debt-Free Mutual Trust grows when governance is human-scale and transparent.


6) Co-ops, Mutuals & Trust Fragility

From Northern Rock’s demutualisation to fiat shocks in community projects, we learn: non-active membership fails. Eirúnomics designs active rolesminimum viable participation, and Grá-based thresholds to signal engagement. Agreements—not cash—anchor consent. We ask constantly: does this money flow cohere or coerce? DAGDA flags coercion as a system smell.


7) Trust Dynamics, Land & Jubilee

Trust thickens when score-keeping relaxes and bonds become assurance. We face the land paradox: two-thirds of money = capitalised land; peak rent approaches. Eirúnomics supports jubilee logic—periodic resets, rent caps via commons claims, and pre-sold memberships (season-tickets) as currencies. Island grids like SARK hint at energy as commons; we will build local energy treasuries where creativity and kilowatt-hours are peers.


8) Anthropology of Commoning, Institutions & ‘Cumann’

We remember Cumann—club/kinship—older than Roman property. Institutions drift into self-preservation; we counter with outstitutions that sunset gracefully. Eirúnomics teaches ownership as interference when mis-scaled; Grá restores relation. Commons practice ≠ common law; we hold both wisely. Ancient Wisdom keeps scale and season, Techgnosiskeeps audit and handover.



9) Shape & Scale (Bands, Electricity Commons)

Shape-holding is sacred craft: size by function, not fashion. Bands demonstrate multi-asset commons (gig, audience, rights). Electricity commons must be “hundreds-homes” scale. Eirúnomics supplies shape charterskeel-tests (“is our hull wide enough?”), and a library of meso-scale templates. DAGDA helps clusters interlock without swallowing one another.


10) Scope, Belonging & Next Steps

Belonging is declared, not assumed: who/what/where do we cover? Hastings Commons shows re-engineered legals are possible. Eirúnomics curates agreement-stacks as living institutions—rent set by capacity (“pay what we can”)—and prototypes novelty labs that replace protest with practical construction. Gaza and Iraq remind us: build alternatives, don’t only resist.


11) Authority, Law, Practices & Peers

We replace parental law with peer-lawBrehon presence drops grudges. Mortgages and jobs often encode shame; we answer with practices not meetings and gatherings not town halls. Eirúnomics operationalises this through Cohesion CirclesBrehon Steward roles, and Grá-backed restorative pathways.


12) Socioeconomic Critique & SMEs

SMEs shoulder personal guarantees and late-payment stress. Our response: meso-clearingsupplier webs, and Grá-credit to smooth cashflow without debt. We treat towns as 50/50 economies where Commoning is a behavioural risk discipline—trained like safety—so the wealth within the commons becomes liquid without extraction.


13) Rollout Vision (Eirúnomics, DAGDA, Circles.money)

We seed in the Six Counties, spiral out to provinces and Celtic diaspora. AEON-scale meets our shapes when we get out of the way. Pillars: DAGDA / COMMONS / DÚCHAS / TECHGNOSIS. With Reinier (Aeon with Mú) we form the triad. 

Circles.money grows the meso-economy; we bring Ancient Wisdom + AI to steward it. We carry Grace and honour—and invest in named allies—so Britain remembers pre-Roman sovereignty.


14) Infinity Loops & Panarchy

From micro body to mythic polity, loops interweave. We begin with Brehon, move through Fellowship, include cosmic. DAGDA maps these panarchies so Grá can flow up and down scales without tearing membranes.


15) Civil Disobedience, Denizonics & Sovereignty

ARCHONS organise across military, religion, academy, economy, culture. Our counter is denizonic practice—not civic subordination but peer estates meeting as equals. Use ecclesiastical lawprivate diplomacycommon law to protect practices, not to perform purity. The eco-cycle reminds: birth → maturity → dogma → creative destruction → renewal. Eirúnomics designs for graceful shedding.


16) Portfolio, Platforms, Markets & Money as Spell

We curate a portfolio: Time (activity), Services (products), EOLAS (tools), Dialogue/Cohesion/Healing (process), Relationships (assets). We publish via SKOOL and steward platforms. We name the spell of money—and break it with demurragemeithealfeis settlement, and bottom-up financial commons. Our numbers show the sleeping equity already present; Grá is the gentle pump that starts movement.


17) Unbounded Commons, Othering & Stewardship

Bounded co-ops risk othering; unbounded commons invite beings beyond the human. Stewardship replaces consumption; self-owning assets and transparent ledgers show value created by public goods. We cultivate doubt as method, kindness as norm, and move from I → We under propaganda winds. We build self-funding seed forms; we choose tribe and commons when the wave crashes.


18) Process Worldview, Ethics & State Critique

We weave rights/responsibilities as process. Ethics multiplies: public, felt, prosocial, pro-biosphere. The civic state trends to control; commons must remain unstate. We forecast wealth shocks at the top and prepare mutual assurance below. Eirúnomics offers medicine, dialogue, AI, ancient wisdom, mutual aid—an ecology of coherence not built on growth.


19) Life & Evolution Analogies; Membership & Crisis

Life handled oxygen’s danger; we can handle volatility. Membership is open; non-othering is a discipline. We must learn to disagree, to be collapse-ready, to wield AI as multi-node agent. Move from theory to addressable exits from debt bondage. Build, show, invite funding that follows coherence.


20) Charters, English Commons History & Credit as Promises

Charters can protect or imprison. From forest law to the 1217 confirmations, we read both theft and lightning-rod. We ask of every token: Is the promise trustworthy? Who bears loss and gain? Banks issue promises; so can we—as commons credit, cleared by practice. Use blockchain only when social requirements need it; otherwise keep it human-readable. The WE-verb guides the charter: sacred, nature, tech and non-tech, human and animal—all named as parties.


21) The Festival Mirror: Learning-by-Not-Commoning → Praxis

The room shows us what not to do: control, hypocrisy, over-detail, sociocracy addiction, IP prisons.

Our answer: Paid-as-you-like commonsmutual partnershipssimpler agreements, commons underwriting itself.

For energy: citizens as producers, OEM lease-to-share, community energy treasuries, efficiency-dividends, shared-savings ledgers.

For culture: prosumers who love their craft, cafés without class markers, circles as prayer. Trustees fear wasting assets; we design safe-to-try pilots and denizon guarantees so sharing is lawful and brave.


Closing: Eirúnomics Next Moves

  1. Debt-Free Mutual Trust: Launch Grá-denominated commitment pools; define jubilee cadence and demurrage.
  2. Ancient Wisdom / Dúchas: Seat Brehon Stewards; write shape charters as living covenants.
  3. Generative AI & Techgnosis: Ship human-readable ledgers; succession-proof dashboards; minimal-blockchain where needed.
  4. Dialogue & Cohesion: Train Dial-logic; institute grievance repair; require active roles.
  5. Alternative Connective Healing (Cumann): Embed care protocols; normalize rest, ritual, and medicine as system hygiene.

We begin small, spiral wisely, and let Grá remember us to ourselves.


PAUL MOONEY PERSONAL NOTES FROM FESTIVAL OF COMMONING

Festival of Commoning – Structured Notes (Stroud)

Compiled from Paul’s raw notes. Organised into sections without removing or altering any points. Original phrasing is preserved; only headings and grouping have been added for clarity.


1) Opening Orientation & Ethos


2) Money, Finance, and ‘Unmoney’


3) Mutual Aid, Insurance, and Rotating Systems


4) Case Studies & Cautions (LETS, Bristol Pound, Time Banking)


5) Governance of Commons & Dialogue


6) Co-ops, Mutuals & Trust Fragility


7) Trust Dynamics, Land & Jubilee


8) Anthropology of Commoning, Institutions & ‘Cumann’


9) Shape & Scale (Eirúnomics, Bands, Electricity Commons)


10) Scope, Belonging & Next Steps


11) Authority, Law, Practices & Peers


12) Socioeconomic Critique & SMEs


13) Rollout Vision (Eirúnomics, DAGDA, Circles.money)


14) Infinity Loops & Panarchy


15) Civil Disobedience, Denizonics, and Sovereignty


16) Portfolio, Platforms, Markets & Money as Spell


17) Unbounded Commons, Othering & Stewardship


18) Process Worldview, Ethics & State Critique


19) Life & Evolution Analogies; Membership & Crisis


20) Charters, English Commons History & Credit as Promises


21) The Festival Mirror: Learning-By-Not-Commoning; Toward Praxis