Every Living Lab is held by Vitality Stewards: whole, multidimensional people who bring their own lives, crafts, and ways of knowing, and who have walked the Steward journey, a shared preparation in the Living Lab's practice and care.

What it involves:

• Holding one-on-one dialogues with community members, through an ecological lens

• Making sense of what is heard, alongside AI, with care for every voice

• Composing and sharing Vitality Portraits, and walking with communities as they act

• Tending your own vitality, and noticing how your presence shapes what is heard

What Stewards receive: a community of practice, the Steward strand, a voice in shaping the commons, and a share in the value of the Living Labs they hold. One proposal is that shares be set project by project, to be co-shaped together with Stewards and the community.