Gravity DAO service provider proposal for ENS
Name and website of Provider:
ENS: Gravitydao.eth
Website: https://gravitydao.org/en/
Name of main point of contact:
Project leader: juankbell.eth
Team members: biscoito.eth, durgadas.eth, zeptimus.eth
What do you want to build on ENS?
We want to facilitate a culture of competence in managing conflict on ENS. Working on learning to overcome obstacles individually and collectively would benefit the growth and adoption of ENS worldwide, as teams would be able to solve frictions effectively and peacefully, improve communication, and develop a stronger relational fabric to foster smooth coordination.
We have seen how easily, internet drama can affect the well-being of a community, and our work supports minimizing snowball effects and having adequate processes to look for solutions to disputes while caring for all parties involved. By minimizing the negative impact of conflict and maximizing the learnings that can come from it, organizations can become resilient to stress and prevent violence or unresolvable conflict.
We have been building good practices to manage conflict in DAOs for over 3 years now, having already 5 cohorts of live Graviton Trainings, which are our certified 8-week online social skill boot camp, where we educate and develop multiple skills, that are key to increasing the competence of the collective in regards to transformation. We also developed our first Free online course, which is open 24/7 for everyone who wants to learn about these concepts as an async alternative to the live cohorts.
With this application, we propose to have two Graviton trainings on the ENS Discord Server during 2024, one each semester of the year. These learnings are better developed when continuously practiced, and we will certify the participants, to create a nucleus of “Gravitons” or conflict management agents in the community.
During 2024, we are also planning to develop our second free online educative course, this one focused on leadership, and once we have it, the ENS community will be the first ones to be impacted by it.
Our goal is to support DAOs to be sustainable over time and to foster nonviolent ways to solve disagreements. We are proposing solutions to specific coordination issues, and the work we are doing is key for the ecosystem, even when usually underseen.
Why should YOU be picked?
Gravity DAO is uniquely suited to support tightening the relational fabric of ENS because of its expertise in creating trust in teams, developing conflict transformational platforms, and deep understanding of blockchain systems. We’ve proven our ability to design and create solution spaces that respect and uphold the values of communities. Our approach is conceptually robust, minimal in governance, and efficient in progressive decentralization.
Our team has consistently displayed dedication towards Open Source Work by creating free content that is forkable and adaptable to any organization that decides to get inspired by it. A big part of our educational offer is available 24/7 in the online course, but we also like to host live spaces on trust creation practices, nonrelated to work conversations, co-creation, Study Groups, and facilitation of simulations and roleplays about conflicting scenarios.
The biggest milestone we’ve had has been to position our message in the web3 space by carrying the flag of social development in communities. At this point, we have worked with big organizations, like Aragon, Commons Stack, Giveth, Token Engineering Commons, and Optimism, where we’ve provided educational and consultation services, developing a high impact towards community building and maintaining positive relations. We want ENS to be the next community to intentionally make space for conflict management in its DNA.
We are a public good project in development for over 3 years (first as a Working Group of the TEC), and managing our funds as a DAO for 1.5 years, with transparency and accountability over treasury using Dework, having more than 200 tasks reviewed to over 30 contributors.
At this point, we have mediated over 30 conflicts in DAOs and trained more than 50 “Gravitons” (1st & 2nd gen , 3rd gen , Aragon gen & Optimism gen) to be active ambassadors within public goods communities.
Some of the Frameworks we use are:
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Non-Violent Communication
- Process-Oriented Psychology - Deep Democracy
- Serious Play - Liberating Structures
- BATNA and negotiation strategies
- Ho’Oponopono Healing practices
- Cynefin Contextualization for decision making
- Mental Health and Individual wellbeing
- Polarity Mapping
- Elinor Ostrom’s Principles for the Commons, and more.
We have uniquely curated content bridging social sciences to Web3 and we want to continue being a beacon of nonviolence and human-centered coordination in Web3
Size of team and commitment
5 core members: (10 to 20 Hours/week)
Juan Carlos Bell. Twitter: @ Bellcho, Political Scientist, MSc in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Project Lead.
Bianca. Twitter: @ biancagadelha, Psychologist, researcher, Coordination manager
Zeptimus. Twitter @ zeptimusQ, Economist, Transparency and accountability advocate
Durgadas. Twitter @ durgada29002529, Yogi, Polymath, Contextualizer, and Operations Manager
Nikola Creatrix. Twitter @ NikolaCreatrix, Mediator, Framework developer, Active Graviton
15 external contributors (5 to 10 Hours/month)
These contributors are SMEs that contribute to our project by facilitating calls or creating content according to their fields.
Links to documents with further information
- Gravity DAO Twitter
- Gravity presentation: Conflict management and Trust Creation in Web3
- Graviton training on Optimism
- Graviton training on Optimism recordings
- Past Graviton Training slides
- Collection of POAPs on Juankbell.eth
- Treasury and rewards management on Dework
Conflict of interest statement
Our team does not have any conflict of interest with this application on ENS.
10k Endorsement link:
We haven’t been able to make the snapshot, will update this post once we can propose.
Budget Requested: $100.000 USD/y
We expect the majority of the budget to be spent on salaries. We don’t plan to stop our work on a time base, and we want to continue developing conflict management in online communities for the long term.