Library

Frameworks become public through a family of forms.

The Library organizes Sahar Tai-Seale’s books, field guides, workbooks, governance frameworks, stewardship systems, symbolic and functional interfaces, facilitation structures, templates, visual frameworks, and implementation examples.

This is a catalogue, not a claim that every item is downloadable or publicly released. Each record names its current format and status.

Selected works · evidence register

Six pieces that make the body of work tangible.

Each record distinguishes the artifact that exists, its present access boundary, and the review or application needed to support a stronger claim.

Public working artifactPublic working edition

LIVING · Public Introduction

Reader-facing framework introduction

Evidence in hand
A complete reader-facing introduction exists, including the larger body of work, its developmental framework, operating rhythm, and collaboration infrastructure.
Access now
Selected public release; deeper source and editorial materials remain author-held.
Receptive edge
Seeking first-reader feedback on clarity, sequence, and what requires less explanation.
Working prototypeWorking edition

Oiko Ways 1–19 Workbook

Developmental workbook and learning sequence

Evidence in hand
A nineteen-part movement exists with prompts, stage logic, resource relationships, and applied-learning pathways.
Access now
Available for guided review; it is not represented as a finished curriculum.
Receptive edge
Seeking curriculum, adult-learning, and accessibility review.
Usable tool setIn development

Inhabitable Agreements

Agreement-design materials

Evidence in hand
Working materials exist for scope, roles, decision rights, information flow, limits, review, appeal, repair, and exit.
Access now
Selected excerpts may be shared through a scoped review or engagement.
Receptive edge
Seeking governance, facilitation, restorative-practice, and legal-boundary review.
Pilot instrumentPilot

Five-Element Landscape Audit

Ecological observation instrument

Evidence in hand
An observation structure exists for conditions, living communities, human use, labor, resources, maintenance, and restoration possibilities.
Access now
Pilot materials are bounded; site data and replicable procedures are not public.
Receptive edge
Seeking ecology, horticulture, landscape, and accessibility review.
Active pilotPilot

Lunisolar Stewardship Cycle

Recurring practice and documentation rhythm

Evidence in hand
A recurring structure exists for seasonal observation, walks, task selection, action, documentation, rest, and adaptation.
Access now
The public framework can be described; resident records remain appropriately bounded.
Receptive edge
Seeking a host-authorized case record and defined evaluation frame.
Public implementationActive

Spiral Ecology Experience Dome

Public ecological learning installation

Evidence in hand
A public installation was designed and led through materials, volunteer roles, visitor flow, interpretation, and festival participation.
Access now
Selected process and event documentation can form a public portfolio record.
Receptive edge
Seeking collaborator-credit confirmation and a concise public case account.

Collection 01

Core Frameworks

Foundational texts that establish the architecture, language, relationships, and developmental logic of the larger body of work.

Public introductionPublic working edition

LIVING · Public Introduction

An accessible front door to LIVING as a cooperative framework for learning how to live well together.

Framework and editorial systemWorking master

LIVING · Master Framework & Editorial Guide

The organizing source for terminology, framework relationships, status language, authorship, public boundaries, and publication consistency.

Framework guideIn development

Oiko Ways · Development and Scaling Map

The 1–19 developmental movement from orientation and relationship through participation, stewardship, transfer, and renewal.

Framework overviewPilot / In development

Five-Element Ecological Stewardship

The original framework connecting compositional ecology, landscape systems, audits, living-being observation, and practical stewardship resources.

Collection 02

Participation and Learning

Curricula, workbooks, role pathways, and learning interfaces that help people enter shared systems with orientation, support, boundaries, and developmental clarity.

Participation workbookWorking edition

Find Your Braid

A guided process for locating interests, capacities, limits, needs, contribution pathways, and reciprocal relationships within a larger ecology.

Role and pathway guideWorking edition

Role Atlas

A legible map of participation, stewardship, facilitation, sponsorship, site partnership, organizational responsibility, and earned authority.

Curriculum frameworkPilot-ready model

Cooperative College

A developmental learning structure for cooperative readiness, shared governance, ecological care, role practice, and accountable participation.

Curriculum guideIn development

The Lunar Program · The Missing Half of Organizational Development

A learning pathway for observation, integration, relational awareness, recovery, maintenance, and repair alongside visible organizational action.

Collection 03

Facilitation and Governance

Structures for meetings, agreements, authority, accountability, feedback, repair, readiness, governance review, and responsible organizational learning.

Public landing guideWorking edition

Braid Commons · Participation & Collaboration Guide

An invitation into co-development and pilot work that makes roles, contribution, readiness, authorship, and collaboration boundaries visible.

Governance handbookWorking edition

Governance & Pilot Readiness Handbook

Decision gates, authority, risk, consent, readiness, documentation, evaluation, and handoff considerations for emerging pilots.

Facilitator handbookWorking edition

Facilitator & Lunisolar Consulting Handbook

Structures for balancing agenda, action, reflection, observation, pacing, repair, and transfer across bounded engagements.

Agreement-design workbookIn development

Inhabitable Agreements

A practice for translating broad values into usable scope, roles, rights, limits, information flow, non-retaliation, review, appeal, repair, and exit.

Collection 04

Stewardship and Place

Ecological observation tools, landscape frameworks, shared-space systems, maintenance structures, field guides, and site-based learning materials.

Stewardship frameworkIn development

Five-Element Landscape Systems

A compositional approach to landscapes, material flows, habitat, maintenance, multispecies relationships, and restoration potential.

Field guide and audit toolPilot

Five-Element Landscape Audit Field Guide

Structured observation of water, soil, light, circulation, living communities, human use, labor, resources, maintenance, and redesign possibilities.

Ecological observation guideIn development

Five-Element Living-Being Audit Guide

A non-clinical environmental relationship tool for plants, animals, people, and multispecies communities.

Practice guide and visual frameworkPilot

Lunisolar Stewardship Cycle

A recurring rhythm of observation, seasonal review, task selection, supported action, documentation, rest, and adaptation.

Collection 05

Programs and Possibilities

Programme catalogues, pilot structures, site-partnership materials, sponsorship interfaces, and bounded propositions for future development.

Public working studio and project notesOpening collection

Systems in Motion

Applied essays and concept studies that begin with real precedents, policies, places, and needs, then ask how assets and resources could enter accountable cooperative relationship.

Enter Systems in Motion
Documented case record and site-translation atlasOpening collection

Lantern Method Site Atlas · Site 0

The World of Nature Learning Path as a documented 2016 prototype, followed by a bounded atlas showing how the Lantern Method changes physical language across sites without implying host adoption or publishing the complete operating recipe.

Enter the Site Atlas
Programme and site catalogueWorking edition

Programs, Sites & Possibilities Catalogue

An organized view of active work, development sites, pilot-ready structures, proposed programs, and partner-seeking possibilities.

Implementation kitWorking edition

Pilot Launch Kit

Core materials for scoping, authorship, decision authority, readiness, launch, documentation, evaluation, communication, and handoff.

Partnership guideWorking edition

Sponsor & Site-Partner Partnership Pack

A clear interface for site access, sponsorship, scope, mutual obligations, data, public claims, risk, credit, learning, and renewal.

Project brief and portable practiceIn development

AACDI · Create culture. Create community.

Art, Architecture & Cooperative Design Initiative: design-build stewardship, culture, and community labs connecting art, architecture, craft, trades, place-making, and inhabitable spaces.

Open the project room
Programme briefIn development

Baile · Build self. Build home.

A human and relational development stream building outward from inside.

Open the project room
Programme briefIn development

Farmers Matrix · Cultivate place. Cultivate society.

An agricultural, material, and productive development stream connecting land, food, water, habitat, maintenance, trades, and ecological operations.

Open the project room
Cooperative civic-design game, modular decks, and immersive learning layersProduct in development

Homeitat · Game + Immersive Civic Layers

A playable way to explore how people build self, shape habitat, share resources, rehearse civic choices, and carry one supported relationship into place.

Preview Homeitat and sign up for updates
Practice library and program-development architectureIn development

Cooperative Practice Labs · Oiko Practice Atlas

Repeatable cooperative practices with named purpose, time, energy, group size, materials, principles, accessibility, and debrief—opening toward cohorts, Pegasus Trials, and credible field learning.

Explore the Practice Labs
Site and applied-learning briefsSeeking site / proposed

Refugia & Pegasus Trials

Related forms for place-based sanctuary, ecological repair, applied learning, bounded experimentation, documentation, and transfer.

Open the project room

Collection 06

Essays and Field Notes

Reflective writing, public arguments, implementation notes, and situated analysis connecting community knowledge and lived-experience perspectives with structural principles and institutional design.

Public essay series and working archiveOpening collection

Relational Fields · Essays + Field Notes

Explorations of the work of beings at many scales, and of the self–space–society loops through which environment and social equity emerge.

Enter the essay collection
Situated essay and institutional field noteWorking edition

Embodiment Without Erasure

A situated inquiry into attribution, ancestry, material resilience, and the institutional shadow of healing work—grounded in long-form observation and translated into reusable design commitments.

Read the working essay
Course essay · feminist music studiesAuthor-held edition

Distortion, Stomp, and the Feminist Body

How rock alters gender from the inside out: slowed-and-reverb ‘rock drag,’ embodied interpretation, cultural memory, and the listener’s power to alter musical time.

Essay and organizing principleIn development

Cooperation as a Discipline

A case for moving from cooperative identity and values language toward practiced reciprocity, boundaries, stewardship, accountability, and repair.

EssayAuthor-held edition

The Difference Appropriate Tools Make

A reflection on tools, agency, co-creation, attribution, safety, and the structures that help people organize without surrendering authorship or access.

Implementation notesOngoing / selected release

Field Notes from Groups in Formation

Situated observations on participation, governance, invisible labor, stewardship, organizational learning, conflict, and institutional capacity.

Facilitation essays and question guidesIn development

Principles and Their Shadows

Tools for testing broad social-justice and community-care claims against implementation limits, power, manipulation, labor, reciprocity, and unintended effects.