In this Collaborative Conversation, Regis Chapman of GravityDAO and Christine Francis of Circle Trust explore the spiritual, strategic, and systemic layers of collaboration infrastructure for a regenerative future. This session reveals a rare synthesis of Vedantic insight, integral theory, and applied token engineering — bridging paradoxes with practice and transforming theory into living design.
Regis shares a deeply personal and polymathic journey: from building a temple-like yoga studio based on yantras, Fibonacci numbers, and the goddess Durga, to crafting coordination tools and tokenomic systems rooted in non-dual Vedanta, Ken Wilber’s integral philosophy, and the paradoxes of Web3 collaboration.
He introduces the “ZZ Top Strategy” — a metaphor for weaving cultural legacy into contemporary innovation — and the shift from purely educational approaches to real-world tooling for organizational diagnostics, decentralized governance, and regenerative token systems.
Together, they explore:
🔹 GravityDAO's evolution from conflict mediation to collaborative systems design
🔹 Paradoxes at the heart of Web3: decentralization vs centralization, anonymity vs accountability, innovation vs stability
🔹 The importance of transcending and including dualities in human collaboration
🔹 Design of protocols that embed sense-making into voting and governance
🔹 Spiritual and symbolic architectures as templates for social systems
🔹 Eight forms of wealth and the integration of Ashta Lakshmi into regenerative economics
🔹 Soul lineages, multidimensional selfhood, and cultural context in coherence work
🔹 Circle Trust’s journey toward building bioregional economic tooling and community currencies
🔹 Frameworks at play: Ostrom’s Principles, Betty Martin’s Wheel of Consent, polarity mapping, and the Wilber-Combs Lattice
This conversation bridges systems thinking with soul resonance — a living example of how regenerative infrastructure can be artful, philosophical, and pragmatically coherent.
🔹 Coherence 2025: https://coherence.tv/
🔹 GravityDAO: https://gravitydao.org/
🔹 Regis Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/regischapman/
🔹 Circle Trust: https://circletrust.network/
🔹 Christine Francis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-francis1111/1