Helfrich and Bollier (2020) argued that autonomy and democracy are learned in relationships because they can be experienced and lived. According to the architect Christopher Alexander, patterns can be understood as tools that promote life. They can be used in many ways and are needed to shape a free, fair, and sustainable world. Since patterns contain proven experiential knowledge, they describe the essence of successful solutions to problems that may occur in comparable contexts. The complex interplay between context, problem, and solution is critical; thus, these three elements are never isolated from each other and are found in all 33 patterns that comprise PLC. The PLC card deck condensed the experiences of more than 400 interviewees from SMOs into 33 patterns, which aim to support sociality, cooperation, and co-production. PLC aims to transform collective imaginaries and support a prosocial, cooperative and democratic praxis in and of organizing. The card deck aims to re-imagine and support individual and collective reflexivity. It addresses the social, political, and economic life from an ontological perspective and based on an integral understanding of sustainability and inclusion. This deck of 33 reflection and orientation cards (Helfrich & Bollier 2020) encompasses illustrations, problem questions, short descriptions, examples, and connection patterns based on visual-linguistic illustrations of success-critical “process patterns” in the fields of Social togetherness, Self-organization through peers and Caring and self-determined management. As an aesthetic artifact, PLC promotes a new frame of reference “among people and between people and the world” (Helfrich & Bollier, 2020, 78). It targets sustainability innovation, collective understanding, and developing an ethical attitude of the common good (cf. Helfrich & Petzold 2021). It aims to facilitate patterns of problem solving (cf. Leitner 2015, 33) to promote ethical and process- and relationship-oriented attitudes and stances. As the patterns suggest a “best practice” to use, the patterns have a hypothetical character (cf. Alexander & Ishikawa 1995). This hypothetical character supports their empirical and (research) methodical application. As a new praxis of organizing, PLC may support transformational strategies toward the integral inclusion of the social, political, and economic spheres. As an organizing pattern, it may transform the quality of conversations and self-organization. It may not only ‘re-invent’ existing organizations (Laloux 2015). From a Foucauldian perspective, it may be understood as an ‘epistemic boundary object’ towards not only the tenet of diversity, but towards the onto-epistemological shift toward commoning education – and toward a commoning organizational education (Weber 2022).

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