An integration workbook for founders, changemakers, and emerging visionaries who want to build with greater intention.
Whether a new technology or retreat center, organization or movement. Journey through the 12 Gates of Vision: embodied, relational, and ecological teachings and practices to ground what came through, learn from past experiences, and cultivate healthy soil for you and your Vision to flourish.
You’ll leave with greater clarity about whether, when, and how to proceed. With your source material preserved as the ground you create from.
The 12 Gates of Vision
A question, a teaching, and a practice for the delicate Vision stage between receiving a Vision and committing to walking with it.
Tap a gate on the spiral to open it.
Gate 1
Receiving
How do we fully receive Vision?
Just receive with a relaxed body, open heart, and deep breaths. Let it imbue your every cell.
Practice
Giving Thanks
How do you show gratitude for receiving such a gift?
Gate 2
Expressing
How do you tend the ember of what came through?
It’s wise to document things while still fresh. But when you rush to write or voice record every relevant thought, you miss the chance for pre-verbal Vision to settle into your psyche and body. To gestate thoroughly.
Practice
Ground Vision
How do you bring Vision deeper into your system?
Gate 3
Sharing
How do we share skillfully with others?
Keep the fragile seedling close. Be careful about sharing outside of a formal sharing circle or a few trusted listeners.
Practice
Vision Council
What are the wise ones in your life hearing?
Gate 4
Discerning
How do we discern what to follow?
Intensity is not proof of truth. Miracles don’t indicate inevitability. Vision must be tested against reality, community, and time.
Practice
Vetting Vision
What questions and heuristics can help your discernment?
Gate 5
Digesting
What’s the right pace to move at?
There are times to move fast. But it’s not all the time. And there’s no stage that invites more slowness than the Vision Stage.
Practices
Ask the Moon
How to know if it’s yours to walk with now?
Reconnecting
How do you stay connected to the original essence?
Gate 6
Being
How do you embody Vision fully?
Before setting sights on building something big, try taking one small step. The minimum viable expression of the world your Vision is pointing toward.
Practice
Being It
How can you live the Vision, before creating something?
Gate 7
Interpreting
How do we interpret Vision?
Maybe it’s something you’ve never done before. Maybe it’s nothing that can be sold. Maybe it wants you to support somebody else’s Vision.
Practices
Soften Gaze
What forms might the Vision want to take?
Soulcraft
How do you truly serve Vision and what it wants of you?
Gate 8
Rooting
What are you rooted to?
Nobody creates anything alone. We are always in relationship with a wider life web.
Practices
Making an Altar
How do you regularly reconnect with your relations?
Find Your Kindreds
What is right relationship with existing efforts?
Gate 9
Composting
How do we carry lessons forward from past endeavors?
An ounce of integration is worth a pound of repair. The patterns you set early in a project, whether in time management, communication, or personal health, tend to persist.
Practice
Patterns & Pitfalls
How do you avoid repeating the same mistakes?
Gate 10
Regenerating
How do we stay balanced along the way?
How will we regenerate the world if we can’t regenerate ourselves? So, tend yourself. Not once at the beginning, but rhythmically.
Practice
Regenerative Time
How do you embed regenerative practices in natural time cycles?
Gate 11
Rehumaning
How do we become more whole humans?
Put down your phone and pick up your Conversation with the World. The School of Life is open 24/7. Everything a teacher.
Practice
Rehumaning Tree
How will you rehuman yourself?
Gate 12
Committing
How do we honor the moment of conscious commitment?
There’s no rush to cross this threshold. Listen to your inner knowing, and return to the workbook when moved to. Vision isn’t going anywhere.
Practices
Visionary Vows
How will you walk with this Vision?
KPI’s ⟶ CRI’s
How will you know if you’re making good on your Vows?
There’s logic to the gates, but it’s not necessary to go through them in exact linear order. Just keep returning.
What’s inside
Part I. What Vision is, and what right relationship with Vision looks like.
Part II. Twelve Gates, each a threshold in the earliest stage of bringing Vision to life.
Part III. Additional integration tools and resources.
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My dream is that countless language and sub-cultural translations of this work emerge. Unique versions, in conversation with each other, negotiating universal principles with local specificity.
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Share your Vision
Whether or not you have the book, I invite you to add to an emerging archive of visionary experiences, projects, and possibilities. Share your conception story and your Vision through a short form.
This is part research, helping me better understand the many ways people receive Vision and orient to it. It’s also an experiment in weaving the web of visionary people and projects in the field.
In time, it could become a living library of Visions, the way Erowid became one for psychedelic experiences.
Share your VisionI won’t share your responses with anyone without your express permission. Anything published will be aggregate and de-identified, and you’ll be asked whether I may quote you and use your name.
The larger Vision
I’m working toward an entrepreneurial and creative culture with greater Vision Literacy.
The Vision Guide is the first step: a book you can hold, write in, and hand to someone who needs it.
Gift copies forward
Help underwrite copies I hand out in person as I travel, to people at the threshold of a Vision. The first goal is 100. Donations are tax-deductible through School of Wise Innovation’s 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor.
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Andrew Murray Dunn
Andrew supports fellow travelers in bringing Visions to life in ways that are better for all involved.
He started School of Wise Innovation as a home for these Vision inquiries, after serving as Innovation Lead at Center for Humane Technology. Prior to that he learned on the job as co-founder and CEO of Siempo: a pioneering Public Benefit Corporation that developed an award-winning, open-source smartphone interface. He has been an early contributor to a number of transformative startups across sectors, from Flexport to United Independents to underground initiatives quietly making waves.
Andrew speaks all over, from Big Tech companies and Ivy League schools, to community land projects and spontaneous stands in parks. He also advises and resources visionary projects across sectors.
He studied Entrepreneurship & Operations at UPenn’s Wharton School, Eco-Theology & Decolonization at Sequoia Samanvaya, and Leadership & Awakening at Luminous Awareness Institute.
Currently semi-nomadic, primarily between Berkeley, Sebastopol, Mt. Shasta, Ojai, NYC, Hudson, South Florida, Europe, and wherever you invite him to next.
How’s The Vision Guide working you?
What are your Gates and practices?
What’s your Vision?
“Essential training for moving humanity forward”
“Divine work”
“Conduit of miracles”
“I pray this culture is amplified”
The home of this work
School of Wise Innovation
The school’s mission is to re-imagine innovation education and culture, by serving as an experimental lab for educating, enculturating, and resourcing maturing founders and changemakers.
Wise Innovation Press is one of its initiatives. School of Wise Innovation is a fiscally sponsored project of HAPPI 501(c)(3), incubated out of Center for Humane Technology with support from Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp.
Moving forward, SWI plans to continue contributing Vision to an emerging ecosystem of vocationally-oriented wisdom schools, through innovative thought leadership, pollination, and experience design.
Visit wiseinnovation.schoolLearn more, get in touch, and make a tax-deductible donation.
Experiments since 2024
- Embodied Ethics course
- Cultivator program
- Wise Innovation retreat
- Regenerative Time workshop
- Ecosystem research, writing & weaving
- IRL & digital meetups
- Wisdom school development consulting
Resources
This book is inspired in part by, and in conversation with, the related works of remarkable humans.
Deeper learning
Books & papers
- Journey of Soul Initiation by Bill Plotkin
- Business Birthing Handbook by Jennifer Armbrust
- Oracular Bodies by Cheryl Hsu
- The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
- Sourcekeeping by Tom Nixon
- True Human by Samantha Sweetwater
- The Trail to the Sacred Mountain by Steven Foster & Meredith Little
Podcasts
- The Emerald by Josh Schrei
- Living Myth by Michael Meade
- Soft Earthen Futures by Dajé Alōh
- The Great Simplification by Nate Hagens
Courses
- Embodied Ethics in the Age of AI by Josh Schrei
- Magic, Prophecy and the Creative Act by Daniel Pinchbeck
- Vision Groundworks Rootcamp by Josie Siegel
- The Kinship Journey by Samantha Sweetwater
- Vision Cultivator by Andrew Dunn
Give your Vision the foundation it deserves.
Avoid the pitfalls. Grow as a whole human in the process. Create something beautiful that lasts.