Tulsa
The Tulsa assembly is the founding pilot of FREE. It began organizing in 2025 and operates as the chapter from which most of the practices in the Starter Kit were developed. The documents nested under this page are Tulsa’s adapted versions of the FREE governance templates, plus chapter-specific materials.
Chapter Overview
Section titled “Chapter Overview”Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
Founded: 2025
General Assembly: Meets every two weeks. Open to all community members. Attendance fluctuates between 15 and 45 participants per meeting.
Decision-making method: Consent-based. Proposals are adopted when no participant has a principled objection they cannot accept. The chapter uses a modified version of sociocratic practice adapted for assembly-scale meetings.
Operating structure: The chapter organizes work through nested Circles, each holding a defined area of operational responsibility. Circles are accountable to the General Assembly. Members rotate through coordination roles on regular cycles.
Active Circles
Section titled “Active Circles”The current operational Circles include:
- Root Circle — Holds overall chapter coordination and connects between Circles. Meets weekly.
- MarCom Circle — Communications, social media, podcast production, public-facing materials.
- Treasury Circle — Financial governance, donations, fiscal sponsor relationship, transparency.
- Conflict Resolution Circle — Holds the chapter’s conflict and harm resolution process. In active development as of 2026.
Additional Circles form and dissolve as the chapter’s work shifts. The list above reflects the long-running Circles at the time of writing.
Current Focus Areas
Section titled “Current Focus Areas”Tulsa is organizing across several intersecting areas:
- Participatory budgeting — Active conversation with the City of Tulsa about a participatory budgeting pilot. See tulsadecides.org.
- Land and food sovereignty — Community garden and rewilding work on North Tulsa land, in cooperation with Cooperation Tulsa.
- Public economic education — Recurring speaker events, podcast production, and public-facing organizing on economic themes.
- Worker cooperative development — Early-stage exploration of cooperative formation aligned with FREE’s broader vision.
The focus areas shift as the chapter learns and as opportunities surface. The above list reflects the active threads in early 2026.
Adapted Documents
Section titled “Adapted Documents”The following Tulsa-adapted documents are nested under this page:
- Tulsa Code of Conduct v1.2 — The Tulsa adaptation of the FREE Code of Conduct template. Adopted by the assembly. Currently in active use.
- Tulsa Digital Communication Norms v1.2 — The Tulsa adaptation of the FREE Digital Communication Norms template. Adopted by the assembly. Currently in active use.
- Tulsa Conflict & Harm Resolution Process — In development. Will be added once adopted.
- Tulsa Purpose, Objectives, and Values — In development. Will be added once formalized as a standalone document.
External Links and Resources
Section titled “External Links and Resources”- FREE Foundation website: freefreeforum.org
- Tulsa Decides (participatory budgeting): tulsadecides.org
- Substack newsletter: Published regularly with reflections, announcements, and assembly updates.
A Note on the Tulsa Pilot
Section titled “A Note on the Tulsa Pilot”Tulsa is referenced throughout the Starter Kit because it is the chapter that has been operating longest and that has produced the most documented experience to draw from. The Tulsa context is specific in important ways: the founding group was simultaneously building FREE Foundation while running a local assembly, the chapter benefited from major grant funding in its first year, and Clara Mattei’s presence as a public-facing intellectual anchored early outreach.
These conditions are unusual and should not be expected to repeat in other chapters. New chapters today can focus on local work because the foundation work is already done, and most chapters will operate at a small fraction of Tulsa’s scale and cost. Tulsa offers evidence of what can work. It does not set the standard for what a FREE chapter must look like.
Contact
Section titled “Contact”To reach the Tulsa chapter directly, use the contact form at freefreeforum.org and indicate that your inquiry is for Tulsa specifically. A dedicated channel for chapter-to-chapter contact will be available once the FREE Discord server is live.
This page is maintained by the Tulsa Root Circle. Updates reflect the chapter’s state at the time of last edit. For the most current operational details, contact the chapter directly.