Thriving Networks is an 8-week immersive online course that will help you take your collective, community, or distributed organization to the next level and find support from peers to address common challenges around money, value and resource flow.
In the last two years, our world as changed at a dramatic pace. Fueled by urgency, passion and technological breakthroughs, we are seeing new ways of organizing pop up all over the globe, challenging the notion of traditional organizations: from freelance collectives, to impact networks, to distributed communities and DAOs. But to truly fulfil their potential, these network structures and group cultures need to face difficult questions around money, power and value flow. And they don't have to do it alone.
From our experience working in such networks for a decade, we have seen certain challenges surface in networks repeatedly: power and workload imbalances, tensions between volunteer and paid work, burnout of core members, not knowing how to develop healthy and effective leadership, feeling stuck around money and how to talk about it openly.
This course will help you take your network to the next level, by creating a space for you, with a cohort of peers, to safely explore these uncomfortable topics and equip you to navigate these challenges.
8 Weeks
Up to 30
2 hours per week
2-4 hours per week (incl. live sessions)
Regular 450€ or 900 €+VAT
Late Bird 550€ or 1050 € +VAT
You are starting or part of a nascent network that is facing questions of value and money flow for the first time.
You are a network leader or highly active member of a mature network and want to take it to the next level.
You are a curious explorer who wants to learn about this topic in a concrete, applied way.
You are starting or part of a nascent network that is facing questions of value and money flow for the first time.
You are a network leader or highly active member of a mature network and want to take it to the next level.
You are starting or part of a nascent network that is facing questions of value and money flow for the first time.
Francesca is an ecosystem builder, facilitator and organization designer working in the field of distributed leadership and participatory work. During the last decade, she has been a leading member of the self-organized communities Ouishare and Enspiral, participated in DAO experiments and supported dozens of other organizations with her hands-on experience in network governance and community building.
Alícia is a designer and facilitator of distributed leadership, community building and decentralised governance. In addition to practicing these in her own communities, she co-authored research on these topics with the Institute for the Future. Her work is focused on how self-organised teams and communities can be places for personal growth. In the past five years, she has been a catalyst for several social innovation organisations, from social start-ups, to a women network, to social movements.
J.D. is a facilitator, coach, consultant, and community builder working at the intersection of somatics, self-management, social justice, and regeneration. He is a Greaterthan Associate, a somatic coach trained at Strozzi Institute, the principal of Open/Up Hospitality, and a founding member of Building Belonging.
Each week we dive into a different topic starting from the hosts lived experience in networks. You will apply what you are learning in your own network projects. To learn more about the context and why of this course, check out this article.
This course is for what we call "Purpose Networks" and "Impact Communities". This ranges from professional to livelihood-focused networks, online to locally rooted communities, communities of practice or interest, to DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), "neo-guilds" and movements. What they all share is that they have a larger purpose and intention to catalyze action, beyond connecting people and organizations.
We use the terms network and community interchangeably, since the difference between them is often blurry.
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The course contains 8 x 2 hour participatory live sessions, featuring a combination of content, reflection and practice.
Week 1 | What is a thriving network? Introductory session to connect with your cohort and dive into what it means for a network to be thriving.
Week 2 | Crafting Roles & Contribution Pathways
Creating a system where network membership, different levels of engagement and types of contributions are in balance.
Week 3 | Reclaiming Money
Surface and explore your personal stories and myths about money.
+ Bonus Experience: the Money Game+
An experience to deepen your reflections and learning about your personal relationship to money. Learn more about the Money Game.
Week 4 | Collective Money Practices
Discover how to work with personal money patterns in the collective context. Learn about innovative models for accounting value.
Week 5 | Making Decisions Around Money
Explore the challenges of collective budgeting and financial decision-making, as well tools and practices to address them.
Week 6 | Unlocking your network challenges
Reflect, digest and apply what you have learned so far to your network
Week 7 | Redefining Leadership and recognizing 'Source'
Discover Peter Koenig's Money and Source work, and how to apply it in networks to unlock collective leadership capacity.
Week 8 | Integration & Closing
Walk away with tangible insights, practices and experiments to try in your network
Our next cohort runs from October 12 to November 30, Wednesdays 3-5 PM Paris / 9-11 AM New York
Can't make this time? Learn about asynchronous learning options.
Below you can find our fixed pricing. To learn more about the story behind these numbers and our discount and scholarship options, read here.
It's great to take this course with fellow network members! We offer discounts when you join with one (20%) or two or more colleagues (25%).
A deeply empowering and transformative experience—a true treasure box for every network nerd. I'm still impressed by the co-creative and safe space created by the hosts.
Thanks to this course, I now have the foundation to help take my networks to the next phase and am excited to start working with the tools this course provided!
Highly recommend for anyone starting and scaling a network that wants to clarify how to collaborate, exchange value and honour the principles of cooperation. A practical space to learn with peers, access real case studies, and put the learnings into action during the course timeline.
A brilliant way to meet other people, share experiences with organisational structure and decision making models, and think through collective solutions to common problems
Our courses are practice-based, intimate and participatory. It's your entry point into the emergent knowledge and practices that Greaterthan has developed and tested over the past decade.
Our courses are practice-based, intimate and participatory. It's your entry point into the emergent knowledge and practices that Greaterthan has developed and tested over the past decade.
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