Open Heart & Mind

Growing a new culture of collective care, where every contribution is seen, valued, and shared.

We’re developing Wisdom—a free, open-source system that helps communities recognise contributions, reward effort, and coordinate around what they value most.

OHM Gathering 2025

A participatory, gift-based gathering of art, science, wellbeing, and more — powered by gratitude and collective Wisdom. Offer what you love to give. Vote for what you value most. Gather and create magic, together.

Open

We’re guided by open science principles: transparency, sharing, inclusivity, fairness, and reproducibility. All of our research and tools are freely available under open source licenses. We strive to document and acknowledge every contribution to ensure fair recognition and reward for the value each contributor provides.

Heart

Gifting, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of what we do. By collaborating with diverse populations across the arts, science, and technology sectors, we ensure the tools and processes we develop are radically inclusive—embracing all people, regardless of skills, background, or financial means.

Mind

Our framework captures the wisdom of the community, designed to celebrate contributions and elevate contributors who bring value through their efforts. We’re creating replicable templates for diverse contexts, so we can decentralise labor and resources and enable autonomous coordination across aligned communities.

Ways to Give

We recognise all contributions through the same system we’re building, earning contributors governance rights and a fair share o resources. Financial contributions are also recognised, earning donors respect and tracing the impact of every dollar. Our vision is ambitious, and there are countless ways to contribute. Connect with us to get involved.

Our Team

OHM is a dynamically evolving, collaborative effort, where everyone can participate and earn recognition for their efforts. Here’s some of our core contributors.

Dr Cooper Smout

wisdom lead

Angela Sierra

open Art

Troy Backus

Community Manager

Mohammed Muntaser

Developer

Shay Lavi

Developer

Njenga Mũrĩu

Developer

Dr Anna Finnane

researcher

Dr Aidan Tan

Researcher

Prof. Ginny Barbour

Researcher

Meet more of the cOHMunity here.