The modern concept of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was only invented 90 years ago by an economist called Simon Kuznets in the US, who warned against it being adopted as a measure of economic wellbeing as it had several inherent limitations, including externalising the societal and environmental costs of human activities. And yet, it was adopted at Bretton Woods in 1944 as the official metric to measure the well-being of our people. And that is now 80 years old.
Now, look at intelligence that goes back 60,000 years or 100,000 years (or even 300,000 years when humanity first emerged) on this beautiful, beautiful planet of people living in a totally different way. We might have a different frame to look at what we measure and what we even consider as impact.
We're not here to challenge the world; we're willing to take some old frames and move to new frames. But what we've inherited in more recent times, in the last 80, 10, 500 years, are these colonial empires that have made us believe you are an individual, you have to look out for yourself, and you have to always look after your own back and well-being. In that, we've created this tendency to accumulate wealth, to offset things we do so long as it's all good in my backyard.
Now we have the opportunity to look at more holistic measures of how we might look at this thing called impact. How might we look at a systemic view? How might we look at things in movement instead of things that are stuck? And how might we look at movement over time captured in real-time, brought to life through stories that have numbers in them, that have really solid grounded impact numbers that take us on a journey from the old to the new, which is where we need to get to.
Enter the Gross Relational Product (GRP), a working methodology we’re inviting researchers and economists and practitioners and nation states to come develop and implement with us.
GRP looks to isolate the value of the node in the network. To look at the value of relations between people and between other living beings. GRP explores how to understand the role of super nodes in the network that are in relation and have capacity to be headwater system leaders.
The GRP research project is housed inside of the world’s first digital nation state IMAGI-NATION, and is led by IMAGI-NATION{University}.
IMAGI-NATION provides a container to understand the movement of people across planet earth, from inside and outside the margins who have untapped relational potential and the set of tools and development experiences inside IMAGI-NATION provide a framework for citizen through to institutional development to enhance the capacity to find and be in healthy relation.
The market that GRP is looking to unlock the is the 125 Trillion Nature centred market place. Currently valued at higher that total global GDP and this is because we currently do not know how to measure the value and wealth of nature & our relations with it. IMAGI-NATION & the GRP measurement project is looking to make the invisible value of human to human healthy relations, and human to non-human kin - nature relations - visible.
IMAGI-NATION has identified 5 key action groups across our nation states and they are:
1. Indigenous people
2. Corporations
3. Marginalised Schools
4. Young People - 16-30 - focus on marginalised young people and Indigenous youth
5. Citizens leading change
The GRP value proposition is that there is dramatic movement available for untapped value and wealth creation if these 5 groups can re-orient how they shape and position value and success.
The transformation experience in IMAGI-NATION allows the 5 key parties to move in the following ways:
1. Indigenous people from trading on culture to moving to the start of the design queue as Indigenous knowledge Systems Labs - unlocking a 800B global consulting market place and positioning this intelligence source as the key bank for how to unlock a 125 trillion nature centred market.
2. Corporations from obsession with products, to a focus on relations - opening up a pathway to be the central source of relational wealth and health for every town and city on earth as they move to becoming accredited as JOY Corporations and making the externalities like nature and joy - onto the balance sheet.
3. Citizens leading change moving from the individual hero journey which plagues the non-profit sector around the world and leads to innumerate waste in competition and energy not directed at the systemic levers to systems change citizens learning from Indigenous patterns and working in deep collaboration and understanding the enormity of the map of life on earth.
4. Marginalised Schools moving from production lines born of the soviet era, into real time labs, harnessing the intelligence from outside the margins to bring schools into a trading relationship with the global economy and giving the kids inheriting this treacherous system the chance to apply thinking today to build what’s needed tomorrow.
5. Young people - all of whom born today are now marginalised with the climate and energy disaster we are in and deepening by the day, many of whom like the Indigenous young people of the world have been marginalised for generations, and right now in this critical design decade we need the young people to seed the case studies of the custodial economies we require for the 125 Trillion nature centred economy to be realised. These young people will move from protest to economic stimulus as Presidents of a new nation, IMAGI-NATION they will apply their projects to create custodial economies from the local to the global.
This collective movement and value of GRP will be track across a variety of measurement systems developed by IMAGI-NATION and the team behind IMAGI-NATION AIME and it’s custodians.
The value measurements will include:
1. Hoodie Stock Exchange - tracking the movement of citizen and the impact on the local and global bottom line
2. Message stick impact
3. Knowledge Based Tokens
4. Energy
5. Cultural Indicator Species Health
We will be looking to deepen research around Metcalfe’s laws and other relational patterns of Indigenous kin mapping and hope to leave behind for every nation state on earth a roadmap as to how to stimulate a relational economy.
The focus of the key participants is mapped off Robin Dunbar's research and fused with Tyson Yunkaporta’s work and other deep Indigenous systems thinking. It gives a path as to how to engage, deepen, and then to shift planetary health. With focus on the people that can influence 10000+ in their lifetime we can see below the stages of relational strength and governance patterns to move the inactive and invisible to the active and undeniable.