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Open Heart & Mind

Creating new ways for communities to share, care and coordinate. 

We’re building Wisdom, a free and open system that helps communities recognise contributions, reciprocate value, and coordinate collective action.

OHM Gathering

OHM Gatherings are inclusive, participatory events bringing together art, music, science, wellbeing, and culture, while creating space to test and refine the Wisdom system.

Open

We follow Open Science principles: transparency, sharing, inclusivity, fairness, reproducibility, and accountability. Our research and tools are made freely available under open source licenses wherever possible. We record and review contributions transparently, so we can recognise and reward everyone who brings value to the collective.

Heart

Gifting, gratitude, and inclusivity are at the heart of our community. By collaborating with diverse people across the arts, science, non-profit and technology sectors, we ensure the tools and processes we develop embrace everyone, regardless of skills, background, or financial means.

Mind

Our framework captures the wisdom of the crowd, recognising contributions and rewarding people who bring value to the collective. By testing Wisdom across diverse contexts spanning gatherings, conferences, research, technology development and more, we’re creating replicable templates for communities to self-organise, celebrate contributions, and coordinate with clarity.

Ways to Give

Our vision is ambitious, and there are countless ways to contribute. Support our work with a financial contribution or get in touch to explore other ways to contribute.

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OHM Team

OHM is a diverse collaborative effort, where every contributor earns recognition for their efforts. Meet some of our core team below, or view our most recent Contributor Honourboard.

Dr Cooper Smout

Design & Research

Laura O'Brien

Administration

Samson Barratt

App Development

Mohammed Muntaser

App Development

Angela Sierra

Design & Art

Troy Backus

Community Manager

Dr Anna Finnane

researcher

Dr Aidan Tan

Researcher

Prof. Ginny Barbour

Researcher