I’m crafting a document entitled Clairvaux 3D (started out as 3.0, but now it’s 3D), full of global business initiatives and dreams, and we’ll use this document to raise the first pool of funds coming from philanthropists, to sow into this growing global vision, a unified front of for-profit and not-for-profit, within a platform of international development.

Last year, on our wedding anniversary, Darlene and I launched Clairvaux Ventures Ltd. while putting the finishing touches on the manuscript of Clairvaux Manifesto. At that time, we had four different Canadian companies in four different sectors (energy, professional sports, fairly-made fairly-traded clothing, and high-end software) provide us with executive summaries, and we shopped them before potential funding brokers in Toronto and the United States. Then, we had to dive into getting the manifesto edited and to press, and the idea of Clairvaux Ventures had to wait.

Now a year later, Clairvaux 3D is unfolding and we want to put our friends ideas and exec summaries into a working document we’ll shop out to potential funders together… even potentially spice it up into an e-book format so that everyone everywhere can get in on what we are doing in real time (keeping in mind of course, anything that is proprietary needing to remain undisclosed for a season will not be revealed to the world quite yet)… raising funds together; openness and transparency and authenticity will bear fruit.

What we, and some others, can presently help with is providing some of the scaffolding, a bit of structural architecture for this vision (leaders from Hong Kong to UK speaking into it). The vision unfolding is discovering, developing and deploying 10,000 master cadets, global change agents, young professionals (young being interpreted as adventurous and young at heart, also targeting a market).

Vision: Discover them internationally; Develop them locally; Deploy them globally.

Praxis: Circles of Quiet; Abbeys of Prayer and Work; Cities of Refuge

United: Discover Circles of Quiet; Develop Abbeys of Prayer and Work; Deploy Cities of Refuge

Write: Clairvaux Manifesto; Clairvaux Ventures Ltd.; The Clairvaux Group

The snapshot of Clairvaux 3D

So, as we work on the documentation, I’m going to ask some friends to provide exec like summaries of vision and dreams, so we can show potential investors the scope of this growing international group. We’re going to show them economic equations and breakthrough technologies; how they can raise equity in existing oil and gas fields out there to be “rediscovered” and appropriately stewarded as flowing wells of energy.. a self-sustaining economic engine in oil and gas… prices are rising (we can rebrand this industry).

Your words are your words, your ideas yours, your technology yours, your companies yours… but even in our willingness to entertain the idea of a unified front, we are already more (core values of humility, mutual reciprocity and interdependence). From business towers to gutters… and back, and forth, teaching humanity to breathe again. Thankfully, there are many good examples of this…by grace alone, we will be another.

And to fully disclose, to be personally vulnerable, authentic, and transparent… (at the risk of looking foolish)… I have not had a salary or any form of structured pay for over 21 months. Personally, my family is on fumes. Many friends have supported us these past two years, as this vision has been born down, tested and refined. But, we don’t have any more debt we can bare… So, this thing is either real, or I go chop down trees for a living. Either way, I’m coming out swinging!!!

I’m not asking anyone for anything, I’m just stating how it is.

Tearing big things down; digging deep wells and foundations; rebuilding good things up; ancient things!