This is our first draft of these replies. We welcome additional feedback from the Ultimate community. 

 

 

 

1) SotG is much bigger than just the Ultimate community and has a massive potential to change the world for the better; we can’t hoard it, but must share it with the world.

2) Some have expressed concerns that we are trying to monetize the name with our full suite of coaching/consulting services for companies and universities. And to a degree that is true, but the primary goal of that division is not to help anybody get rich, but simply to ensure a stable and reliable source of income for the rest of our work so that we don’t have to be continually fundraising or worrying about our long term plans. 
Some of our partners will hopefully make a lot of money with SotG business services, but if so that simply means they will have raised even more money for the non-profit side of our work.   
3) Some have expressed concern that anybody who doesn’t come from the Ultimate community can’t really understand SotG.  We literally cannot count the number of people from outside of Ultimate who have immediately embraced SotG as a framework which ties together all of the areas of their lives and ways in which they have tried to live a better life. Simply because someone hasn’t heard about SotG through the sport doesn’t mean they haven’t been looking for an alternative definition of winning. Approximately 2/3 of our organization has never played the sport and if the average Ultimate player displayed the same passion for spreading these principles as those non-players do, there would be no need for our organization.

4) With that said, we will have to be diligent to ensure standards for people and organizations operating under the SotG banner, especially as it’s designed to be a decentralized platform which inspires and empowers ordinary people to step up and make a difference. 

Inevitably someone will come along who doesn’t truly embrace these values, but just sees an opportunity to use the platform solely for their own benefit. Preparing for this contingency is one of the reasons we are bending over backwards to include the global Ultimate community in this process, even though there is a gap between the sport and most of our work. We’re counting on you to keep an eye out for that behaviour and we invite you to join the Spirit Committee of the SotG Foundation, even if you don’t get involved in our work in any other way.
You can do so by contacting the head of that committee at spiritakademi@gmail.com 

In conclusion, SotG is an idea whose time has come, and it has almost universal appeal, at least for all the people who don’t think the current global status quo is simply wonderful. 
We understand that most Ultimate players don’t want to be role models for the rest of the world, and they don’t want to brag about how great their sport is, but we feel that playing the sport of Ultimate and being able to spend so much time with other people who have embraced an alternative definition of winning is a PRIVILEGE, and we also believe that with privilege comes responsibility.

p.s. please do not share this specific page outside of the Ultimate community, this is our chance to speak directly to you and address your concerns, so we’re putting language on this page which isn’t shared with the rest of the world. Thank you.