• How to run a knowledge swap

    Restore community, restore traditional knowledge

    Re-establish and restore the first principles of domains of knowledge

    Restore domains of knowledge based on first principles

    Undo the fragmentation and loneliness that contemporary society creates

    No money involved, knowledge is the 'currency'

  • What's a knowledge swap?

    A knowledge-swap is basically a workshop with no money involved; the currency is knowledge itself.

    If you hold a knowledge-swap, the people who attend have a duty to offer a knowledge-swap workshop on something that they know about, at some point in the near future.

    So, if you decide to hold a knowledge-swap, you have to make sure that people understand the arrangement before it begins.

    Once it gets started and people get the hang of it, it will grow and you'll discover that it leads to wonderful experiences of ordinary conversation and cooperation, and new friendships often form.

    Your sense of community spirit will grow and that gnawing sense of fragmentation and isolation that pervades our hyper-corporatised societies will dissolve - and be spontaneously replaced by ordinary joyful human friendships.

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    See below for downloads- a booklet called 'How to run a knowledge swap, and templates for letter box fliers and Facebook posts.

  • Contact

    Hi my name is Elisabeth Cave and I live in New Zealand. This is a project I've set up to run quietly on its own, in the background of my life, while I attend to other projects. I hope it's self explanatory and that it can be picked up by anyone passing by on the internet!

    If you'd like to reach me, please either hand write a letter to my postal address (that would be so nice!), fill in the form, or send an email to knowledgeswaps@gmail.com. I might not reply quickly because I have so many projects happening. But I will check my messages and get back to you. Thank you, Elisabeth.

    22 Pacific Drive, Rakaia Huts, Canterbury, New Zealand