In this thought-provoking session, Jeff explores the concept of “psilocybernetics” - the use of psychedelics like psilocybin and cybernetic principles to design more responsive and adaptive institutions. He discusses how psilocybin’s ability to promote neuroplasticity could be leveraged for institutional change, and proposes using “intents” to introduce productive entropy into networks, allowing them to self-organize in novel ways. Drawing on ideas from viable systems models, sympoiesis, and fluid democracy, Jeff challenges the group to rethink the future of civic and economic systems using biomimicry and psychedelic insights.

City/Sync reimagines local governance by blending historical perspectives on how societies organize with practical blueprints for the future. The core thesis is that governments are a kind of technology—tools for coordination, trust, and legitimacy—that must evolve in response to new scales of human organization, from villages to digital networks.

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Speaker John Ash reflects on past errors and prescient voices, showing how technology can help us stay open to continuous reflection. This is an invitation to rethink trust as a function of memory and explore how we can use technology to ensure attention, influence and even power itself flows to those who consistently help others see clearly.

https://medium.com/@speakerjohnash
https://www.byjohnash.com/
https://x.com/speakerjohnash

Daniel Lindenberger’s Metachrysalis is a playful framework for engaging in bioregional work while building community, nourishing participants, and snowballing flows and commons of permaculture capital. Emerging from a six-month fellowship on ‘Mycelial Approaches to the Metacrisis,’ this open-source ‘game’ gives people the freedom to experiment with regenerative approaches in the real world. Every ‘move’ in the game is a tangible project, recorded as part of a living portfolio that supports organic mentorship via micro-credential "skill trees", and the ability for changemakers to both find and be found by others—and to attract resources to the work they are focused on.

Roxanna Shohadaee presents on a Portal to Regen·era: Design Science Studio Evolutionary Collective x Black Rock City and 2025-2026 Incubator DSS CoheART 4 ~ during an OpenCivics General Assembly Civic Innovator Session.

This month, we turn our spotlight to Josh Spector, a community organizer, network coordinator, and intersectional weaver whose professional and personal efforts span Ethereum Localism, bioregional organizing, down to his local soil and water conservation district where he serves as a non-voting board member and Associate Director. Josh brings his infectious sincerity and kindness across the sectors and movements he participates in, helping to create the enabling conditions for communal self-determination and grassroots systems change.

As Josh remarks towards the end of our conversation, for him, blockchains aren’t tools for speculative assets, they are collectively governed networks that can provide the public infrastructure of the 21st century, enabling direct civic participation and collective direct action.

This month, we turn our spotlight to Andrea Farias, a researcher and designer dedicated to shaping digital tools and knowledge ecosystems that support the transition to a regenerative civilization. Andrea’s journey is one of deep transformation—shifting from the tech startup and corporate innovation world to bioregional organizing and digital sense-making. As a recent OpenCivics Collaborative Research Round grantee, her work will soon be published in the upcoming Ethereum Localism book alongside leading thinkers like Michel Bauwens.