UEN offices, media studios and special events campus at fort worden, in port townsend, Washington state
The world is shaking. That’s not a problem. That’s our opening.
For eighty years, the world ran on agreements most of us never had to think about. The dollar would hold. The institutions would function. The phones would connect. The supply chains would supply. The treaties would be honored. The grown-ups, somewhere, were minding the store.
Look around. The grown-ups are gone. The agreements are coming undone in real time — financial, diplomatic, ecological, communicative, civic. We can feel it at the gas pump, in the headlines, in the eyes of our neighbors, in the awkward silences at our family dinners.
Most of us read this and feel afraid. That’s the right response. But it’s only half the picture.
Here’s the other half: when the old order cracks, the next one gets written.
It always does. It got written after the printing press, the first written Constitution, and two world wars. It will get written now, in our decade, on our watch — and the only real question is who and how it will get done.
If they can’t, who will and how will it happen? Those are the questions that are at the heart of UEN’s next transformational strategy.
UEN & Hubcast are building Out new global media Pipelines
Through our partnership with Hubcast Media, UEN can today deliver a Production-to-Distribution-to-Follow-Up pipeline. It will give events a far longer afterlife with music, songs, films, speeches and stories of progress already achieved that continually drive home the event’s message and inspire the people who were there and those who wish they’d been.
This is the work we’ve been doing for 43 years. We just hadn’t yet called it by this name.
UEN’s Next Step: Convening a Network of Networks
Successful or not, every company is a network of staff, customers, funders and more. UEN is no different. We’ve always had a small staff. And ever since Event #1, we’ve convened a “Who’s Who” network of musicians, set designers, security crews, food producers, and others — much like the cast and crew of an independent film.
This model worked beautifully for individual events. Today, to meet the gravity of this moment, we’re applying it to organizations — convening a Network of Networks (NON): a coalition of the centers, movements, and institutions already doing the work of transforming how we live on this Earth, in greater harmony with how the rest of Life already does.
In this regard, UEN is acting not as a boss or a brand, but as a convener: an organization that knows how to get the right people in the room, produce jaw-dropping events, enable it with a patented Market-in-One technology and coordinate it all from one of the most beautiful state parks in the United States.
If “Network-of-Networks” resonates with you, come find us at Opportunities. That’s where the doors of partnership and progress start to open.