About ClearMaps
Mission
Our mission is to empower individuals on their journey of self-discovery and growth by providing expert coaching, transformative dialogue, and collaborative communities dedicated to fostering the emergence of human potential.
Vision
ClearMaps aspires to be a catalyst for a cultural shift towards greater self-awareness, grounded wisdom, collaborative intelligence, and entrepreneurial spirit, where communities thrive on shared growth, trust, and the stewardship of collective potential.
Launched in 2025 in response to the collective geopolitical turmoil and uncertainty, ClearMaps aspires to be a digital home for future oriented thinkers, doers, and cultivators of human potential and spirit.
The long term solution to our planetary struggle is the development of a culture which deeply understands human nature, its developmental journey, and the skills needed to facilitate growth, collaboration, integrity, and wholeness in each other.
The ClearMaps Roadmap
ClearMaps In The Near Term
From Edward:
My ClearMaps Roadmap (CMR) article was a plan captured in an inspirational moment in time. All plans have to adapt once they start executing. Since writing CMR and the Community Operating System (COS), I have learned about Worker Cooperatives and more specifically Platform Cooperatives. In the COS article I envisioned a fabric of interdependent businesses that I’ve come to see as a Federation of Cooperatives, of which there are many examples today. With Blockchain technologies and now Agentic AI that can code, the development of a universal software platform that functions as the basis of spinning out a federation of interoperable platform cooperatives is inevitable. It’s not a matter of if, but when.
If Platform Cooperatives already exist and Federated Cooperatives exist, then what is the purpose and need for ClearMaps? The Cooperative legal structures and Platform Cooperative technology structures exist like a Trellis for vines to grow along. Each cooperative is like a petri dish growing a strain of human culture inside of it. What makes ClearMaps different is that we have a focus on intentional culture and cultivating practices of relating and behaving that embody Transpersonal Values. I have also written about Embodied Transpersonal Culture (ETC). I want ClearMaps to be a tent where people can come together to discuss, practice, and refine new culture for how we move forward with collaborative and cooperative tools to create the world we want to live in.
2026: ClearMaps starts as a Coaching and AI Consulting business, bringing people together in groups and communities to support each other’s growth and development. A ClearMaps Facilitator training program will be developed and graduate participants. By the end of 2026, ClearMaps will have a density of aligned and practiced individuals that can codify the next stage as a worker cooperative incubating individuals along their trajectories of growth, helping people make the transition to entrepreneurship for themselves, and helping other values and mission aligned businesses emerge and thrive.
2027: As ClearMaps becomes a self-sustaining cooperative, my focus will shift to building and coordinating a second worker cooperative of software developers and technologists focused on building the tools needed to sustain the vision of the COS. These two cooperatives will work symbiotically to create the virtuous cycle of surfacing the need for collaborative tools and providing the tools that meet those needs. One of the long term focuses of this software cooperative is to build the blockchain tooling that enables new cooperative financial interactions, community investment, and turn key business logistics on chain.
2028 and Beyond: Having created the two essential symbiotic organizations, the ecosystem evolves itself.
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The hardest thing to change once an organization has been created is the culture it embodies. Intentionally focusing on the cultivation of a collaborative culture ensures that the structures that emerge afterwards are values aligned.
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ClearMaps is positioning itself at the epicenter of acclimating to the rapid change that is being enabled by AI and emerging technologies. Supportive and Collaborative Culture is sticky. People like it.
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There are many ways to get stuck along our path or lose sight of our hopes and dreams. Helping individuals reconnect with their dreams and make progress towards them restores inspiration, brings back a sense of play, and awakens a desire to help others.
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Businesses are the adult playgrounds in modern society. They are the vehicles we use to navigate our concrete jungles. It is becoming an essential skill for self-actualization to build business acumen. We believe that businesses operated by aware and empathic individuals are not only kinder to its employees, but will hold an edge with its customers for quality of human interaction.
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The rate of change continues to accelerate. We adapt by creating cooperative and collaborative networks of people which share new knowledge and practices. Being part of a supportive community or business oriented to helping each other ride waves of rapid change is essential.
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Technology and Innovation has been terraforming our society for the last century, eroding our culture. This is most evident with the emergence of Social Media and reports of people feeling more isolated and alienated than ever before. The solution is to create an intentional culture that uses technology in ways to support people and create healthy human interaction. A collaborative culture that embraces technological change will enable restorative terraforming of our society.
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With a deep understanding of human psychology, memetics, and mirror neurons, it is clear that cultural change is not something that can occur through ideation alone, it must be practiced in order to be embodied.
Our lives are lived in stable feedback loops with our environment.
To effectuate meaningful change in our lives, we need to enter new contexts which help us explore and anchor the values and behavior we wish to embody.