Our Monastery Principles

Our monasteries are built around some basic principles that we have been developing and honing over the past eight years. Through a process of trial and error, we have learned how to do economic and community development in way that is repeatable and explainable. It is a blueprint for changing our community, one space at a time.

Place-based

Each hub is rooted in a geographic community. It doesn’t have to worry about other places, but focuses on the here and near. This allows the hub’s people to focus on delivering change in the place they can influence- their own community.

Economic engine

Each hub, once fully launched, is self sufficient. This gives its staff control, agency and self determination. The extra profits are all returned to the community, helping to make real our Luke 4 vision of a fairer, healthier economy.

Blended community

Each hub is a mix of different people: left and right, spiritual and secular, well and ill, intellectuals and learners, artists and engineers, young and old. This diversity is an asset, making us stronger than a group made of just one type of person.

Individual and community development together

Our hubs create an environment which fosters both personal and collective development. When we combine individual self actualisation with collective support and communal goals, we create the potential for world changing activity.