💪 Undoubtedly, the social layer is the most powerful DAO coordination layer.
☀️ If people have strong trust relationships and are happy with their working environment, the sense of community is strong, which makes the community very resilient. A prominent example was set by the Steem community, who collectively coordinated a hard-fork to prevent centralization by a hostile takeover by Tron founder Justin Sun. Healthy communities can withstand all kinds of bad weather.
⛈ However, if the social layer is damaged and people are not trusting each other or are unhappy with their working environment, even the best tech and algorithms cannot help. Minor conflicts can grow into large ones and block people from coordinating, working efficiently, or worse, making them leave the DAO.
Conflicts between persons or groups occur naturally - like bad weather. They affect all kinds of organizations, where they cause strong emotions or reactions and are often related to
Especially in leaderless and organically growing organizations that we strive to become, the points mentioned above are often unclear or constantly shifting.
Instead of stigmatizing conflicts or pretending that they are not there, we should allocate time and resources to actively care about and solve them so that everyone feels well and likes spending time here.
This is the aim of the Umbrella Proposal ☂️
The Umbrella proposal aims to foster a cultural build to protect us from bad weather.
What are important parts of this cultural build?
All of this is implicitly contained in our Community Guidelines.