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Reference · The Present of Work

The Present of Work
is a field, not an organization.

The Present of Work is a growing conversation about what good work actually looks like — beyond extraction, beyond endless growth, beyond treating people as interchangeable inputs. It has no legal entity, no board, no budget. It coheres through shared practice and shared values. Limicelia grows from this soil.

The Field
01

What is
The Present of Work?

Most conversations about the future of work are about technology, automation, and productivity. The Present of Work asks a different question: what is work already doing to people right now, and what would it look like if it stopped?

The field uses the term metawork — the work of being human, not occupational work. The work of showing up, relating, repairing, sustaining yourself and others. Every organization depends on it. Almost none account for it.

The Present of Work is anonymous, ungoverned, and ungovernable by design. There is no membership list, no certification, no headquarters. The field holds together the same way any living system does — through relationship, shared language, and enough people practicing the same thing in enough places that it becomes visible.

The field coheres without requiring a legal home. That's not a flaw — it's the design.

Nine Lenses
02

Nine ways to see
what work actually is.

The Present of Work holds nine lenses — not a framework to apply, but ways of seeing that change what you notice. Each one reframes something we take for granted about how work operates.

Gift
Work as continuous offering and receiving. Reciprocity, not transaction. What happens when generosity is the default, not the exception.
Practice
Work as something you do to become. Contemplative, embodied, developmental. Not performance — cultivation.
Relation
Work happens between people, not inside individuals. Mutual learning. The quality of contact determines the quality of the work.
Meaning
Aligning effort with what actually matters. Vocation in its original sense — a calling, not a career path.
Metabolism
Work is biological, not mechanical. Organizations can deplete or regenerate the people inside them. Most are depleting.
Attention
Where you place awareness changes the quality of everything. Presence is not soft — it's the most practical skill there is.
Commons
Work that is collectively tended, collectively held. Not owned, not extracted. The shared resources that belong to everyone.
Threshold
Work is liminal — always becoming. Uncertainty is the medium, not a problem to solve. The space between what was and what's next.
Play
Exploratory, not fear-driven. Wonder as method. What becomes possible when curiosity replaces control.
Expressions
03

How the field shows up
in the world.

The Present of Work doesn't have programs or departments. It has expressions — distinct projects and communities that grow from the same soil but take their own shape. The field coheres these. It does not house or own them.

Practice Communities
Starter Cultures & others
Craft-based, sustained practice communities that bridge the inner and outer work. Free, intentional, no fee barrier. Where early development happens and practitioners deepen their capacity over time.
Practitioner Network
Limicelia & the Liminal Web
A 501(c)(3) project under ISI fiscal sponsorship. Accompaniment consulting for organizations in transition. Field-adjacent, not field-owned. The place where practice meets organizational work.
Cooperative Platform
CrowdWork DC
A dual-use cooperative platform connecting vetted practitioners to organizations that need support. Shared ownership. The pipeline that moves people from practice into real engagements.
Protected Zones
Translocal Sanctuaries
Protected spaces within everyday life where people reconstitute their capacity to practice. Landing places after transition. Not retreats — ongoing containers woven into the fabric of how you actually live.
Limicelia
04

How Limicelia relates
to the field.

Limicelia is not The Present of Work. It's one expression of it — the one that faces organizations directly and does the consulting work. The relationship runs in both directions.

What flows from the field to Limicelia Values, practice lineage, shared language, a view of work that refuses to treat people as interchangeable. The Present of Work gives Limicelia its orientation — why we do the work the way we do.
What flows from Limicelia back to the field Revenue that funds the commons — access for organizations that can't pay, practitioner development, open-source tools. Limicelia's economic model is designed so that every engagement feeds the ecosystem that makes the next one possible.

This circularity is intentional. The field produces the practitioners. The practitioners do the work. The work generates surplus. The surplus sustains the field. No single part owns the whole. Each part depends on the others.

The soil
Limicelia grows from.

The Present of Work is not something you join. It's something you practice. If the ideas on this page resonate, the door is already open.

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