The life of RE-PEAT is as a collective, a heap of people pulled together by peat who learn from the way that peat has pulled together countless others over deep time – the dragon-flashing-flies and solemn birds, the startling flowers and microbes sopping in the moss. Like a mutalistic web our basic unit is linkage, interaction, relationship – where all participants benefit and give benefit. Honest communication is the thread through which these relationships are stitched, and problems arise most often when this frays. 

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Like an ecosystem, we depend on diversity. Everyone has something different to contribute and all of it has value. Where different perspectives and lived experiences converge or confront is where learning, where evolution and adaptation, can occur. This is only possible if individuals are equally respected and fairly treated.

In an ecosystem nothing is wasted. Similarly in the Re-peat web there are no mistakes, only unexpected links and portals into opportunity. We find excitement in processes, rather than outcomes, and value co-operative control in these. Just as a tree may stand in the peat for hundreds of years while midges fly for just days at a time, our members work at different paces and magnitudes, in different time-scales and time-zones. A resilient ecosystem will survive when nodes diminish, and so Re-peat maintains itself while its members have the freedom to grow and shrink in their capacities.