Cooperation

Cooperation theory is a movement credited to Berny Dohrmann, founder of CEO Space, who dedicated his life to teaching and spreading cooperative theory and teaching people how to play nicely together. 

Because of his work, now there are a number of us who refuse to go into spaces that tell us that we can’t play with others or work alongside other people who are different from us. Cooperative theory is one of the most important things we can impart to the masses at this time: play well together, even if you don’t like each other. Basic manners – do it because it’s the right thing to do. And in that, if we bind together for a common goal, we might actually make something together and it might actually be fun.

Many of you are called to bring cooperation into the world – through educational reform, political reform, economic reform – where is it coming into play for you? Where are you called to have an impact? This requires first doing the personal work (which you have been doing in this course) and then stepping in to work with others.                                                      

As it is said, you can go faster alone but further together. This is no longer optional. We HAVE to learn to play together and dialogue in new ways with people who think differently from us. We have to move this through the masses so that we can stop the virus that keeps us believing we are separate. It begins with how we teach our children. Opt out of anything that perpetuates or seeds the notion that we are separate and don’t have the same divine source. Get people to work and play together.

What comes after cooperative theory?