WELCOME TO THE EUROPEAN

CENTER FOR LIMBIC SOVEREIGNTY


Getting our nervous systems steady — for the post-cruelty world.


take a breath.

what exactly does democracy

feel like?



Welcome to the Center


Our Mission


Our mission is to invent new ways to protect the human capacity for calm connection

—the biological foundation of democracy.


When citizens can breathe, listen, and invent futures together,

they create the the very basis of healthy democracy: collective imagination: .


We combine psychology, technology, and civic design, to build tools and practices

that free minds from manipulation and make steadiness contagious.


Every activity -- from empathic algorithms to public rituals of coherence -- are built around our North Star:

FBAB—For the Benefit of All Beings.


FBAB [eff-bee-ay-bee] — noun: A guiding principle and design philosophy to create solutions that honor the well-being of all living systems simultaneously: human, ecological, technological, and spiritual.


Etymology: Acronym of For the Benefit of All Beings, first used in early 21st-century civic-tech and psych-design movements.


Usage:


“Before launching a policy or prototype, the council ran it through the FBAB lens — if any group’s dignity diminished, the design failed.”


Synonyms: Common Good 2.0 ; Human Coherence Governance ; Ethical Systems Design.


Antonyms: Zero-sum Optimization ; Extractive Efficiency.

Why AI?



We live in one of the most exciting times in history - for a moderate sum we can have access to an extraordinary tool with two unusual features:


1 - A computer that can take in a million different parameters and come out with a helpful answer - essential when you're looking for solutions to problems that Benefit All Beings.


2 - A mega-computer you can program just by talking to it in natural language. No need to learn a complicated code or hire an expensive programmer.

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why now


For the first time in human history, technology can amplify

– calm, empathy, and coherence, or

– chaos, confusion, and division

at a scale once possible only in small human groups.


In short:

The attention economy destabilizes.

Ethical, human-centered technology steadies.


When biology and technology work together calmly we have all the conditions needed to grow democracy.

our safeguards


At the Center for Limbic Sovereignty, everything begins with one rule: human dignity is non-negotiable.

AI can unsettle people — and rightly so.


We build technologies that stabilize, clarify, and protect instead of overwhelm.


Our safeguards:

  • Human first.
  • The person leads; the system adapts.
  • Radical transparency.
  • No hidden logic. No opaque processes. You see what the system is doing and why.
  • True consent.
  • Nothing is stored, tracked, or shared without explicit agreement.
  • Zero manipulation.
  • No nudges, hooks, or behavioral pressure. We reject the attention-economy playbook.
  • Calm as infrastructure.
  • Our tools are engineered to regulate the nervous system, not provoke it.
  • Human agency preserved.
  • The technology supports clarity, but decisions remain entirely yours.


This is the ethical spine of our work: AI that strengthens connection, protects emotional safety, and honors the sovereignty of the human nervous system.


what we do


Step One —

We Steady the Nervous System


We bring people together in creative pods to invent accessible, unexpected ways to use modern technology to help humans feel steady.


When people feel safe, oxytocin — that beautiful hormone of trust — begins to flow again.


Our first goal: reset the human nervous system on a global scale.


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Step Two —

We Imagine the Possible Futures We Want - Joyfully


From that calm, we open the chamber of imagination.


We remind people: imagining a calm future together and democracy are the same thing.


Plus - the futures we invent are so alive, so full of promise, that people will want to join in.



We work at the intersection of:

Clinical Psychology

Public health

Civic Strategy

AI Ethics

Narrative Engineering

Global Cultural Design


what we believe


  • a calm bond between us is -- in and of itself -- a stabilizing element in human society.
  • calm bonds allow us to come together to invent better futures - the most basic goal of democracy.
  • why now? because today's technology gives us the opportunity to come together on a massive scale to imagine solutions that benefit all beings. research shows some are using it to do the very opposite.
  • dignity, respect, and creativity are literally our strategy, they are both the means and the end, the more we build the more there will be.


who we are


The European Center for Limbic Sovereignty is a non-profit research center, a think tank and a playground of experimentation.


We were founded on one simple biological principle:


What binds us, the living bond between us, literally gives us the capacity to:

  • steady one another,
  • to imagine futures together, and
  • to bring democracy to life through joyful co-creation


We help those passionate about democracy co-imagine and implement better futures for the benefit of all beings.


We bring together:


Scholars

Clinicians

Civic leaders

Spiritual leaders

Tech gurus

Artists

Filmmakers

Out of the box thinkers


All committed to making democracy a lively creative experience for all citizens.

Our Code of Ethics


Write FBAB into the code. 


Every doc, prototype, or prompt we ship has that clause right at the top. It’s our checksum—anyone can inspect it.


Keep human oversight explicit. 


Decisions, money, messaging—always two human signatures minimum. That way, no algorithm can drift into messiah mode.


Publish an ethics log. 


Short entries, open access, timestamped: “Here’s what we changed, here’s why, here’s how it serves FBAB.” 

Transparency beats paranoia. Every time.