[Seed2009](/Seed2009) > [Agenda](/Seed2009/Agenda) > [SolSeedCharter/Values](/SolSeedCharter/Values)
### Discussion at [Seed 2009](/Seed_2009)
[Brandon](/Brandon)'s intro: Values are the "container" for participation; we can only include people who, for instance, are open to [change](/change).
Arthur Brock's ideas for values (from recording):
- Not just people but the organization must be able to adapt to [change](/change) at the speed that it's happening today
- Willingness to distribute (not concentrate) power, intelligence, and wealth within the group
- concentrated power corrupts institutions
- open-source community is an example: share control and access
- Diversity of expression
- accept the use of different symbol sets, including [different religious views](/SolSeed_and_Religion)
Kevin: diversity is a form of strength/wealth
Julie:
- Honesty
- Kevin: [Radical Trust](http://www.aboutus.org/RadicalTrust)
- Family feel
- Finding common ground and common images across cultures
- "Use [oneself](/SelfLove) to [cherish others](/Empathy)"
Shelley:
- Be nice
- Self-expressed
- Bonnie: Maintain a place for self-expression
Lion:
- Being active
- Connecting heart-to-heart
- Being sensitive and intuitive
- Inclusion
- Valuing intelligence and [wisdom](/wisdom)
- Being purposeful
- Being ready to [change](/change) at all levels
- Committing to the mainstream, because our future is not different from everyone else's
- Readiness to be surprised
- Sacrifice (paradox)
- Economic
- Artistic
- Humorous
- Clean
- Forgiving
- Clarity
Bonnie:
- Being accepted for who you are, even if it's different than what people are used to
- Avoiding intimidation--allow people to ask about things you're discussing that they don't understand
- Ted: Quality of listening
Ted: Being "in the world"
Regula:
- Respectful
- Playful
- Lion: Imaginative
- Walk the walk
- Letting go of ego and limits
[Brandon](/Brandon):
- Openness to possibility
- *Defending* difference in others
- Inquisitiveness
- Creatorship
Kevin: Protecting, supporting, and nurturing life
- [Brandon](/Brandon): Life is precious
Brenna: Personal fulfillment/[caring for yourself](/SelfLove)
Questions:
- Do we want to exclude people who don't have these values?
- We are [building spaceships](/TheDestiny) for everyone, even those outside [SolSeed](/SolSeed) as a group of people (see "committing to the mainstream" above).
- These values are not aimed only at [TheDestiny](/TheDestiny). [TheDestiny](/TheDestiny) exists partly to motivate the expression of these values in the goal of making the world a better place?
- Does [SolSeed](/SolSeed) have to include only people who are committed to [TheDestiny](/TheDestiny), splitting others off into people within the broader [network](/SolSeedNetwork) of allied organizations? Or does [SolSeed](/SolSeed) as a group of people include everyone who shares our values, regardless of what they think about [TheDestiny](/TheDestiny)?