COMMONERS CO-OP: PLANETARY SURVIVAL WORKSHOP SERIES*

1) Commoning by Design: ‘Deep sociology’, Participatory Action and Community Change

• Date / time: Sunday 24 Nov 10-1pm at Ross House

2) How to Plan and Communicate for a Regenerative Economy – a Design Workshop

• Date / time: Sunday 24 Nov 2-5pm at Ross House

Have you ever asked yourself how to transvest your project ideas from an extractive economy to a non-extractive or even regenerative one?

Ever dreamt of living a lifestyle based on solidarity and global equity and not being dependent on global production chains including slave labour?

How could this change look like and be practiced at the local level?

Are you getting ready for business-not-as-usual?

Or are you wondering about how we can capture all the values that make life worth living and not just the financial ones?

And how does this factor in how we account for the work we are doing?

We believe that business planning and idea development should not be left to the business economists only.

Tickets at Eventbrite:  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/commoners-coop-planetary-survival-workshop-series-tickets-78568417251

WORKSHOP 1: Commoning by Design: ‘Deep sociology’, Participatory Action and Community Change

This workshop will explore the ‘deep sociology’ needed to understand how we got to where we are as a global community, what we need to do to be part of the stirrings for change and how we can best address facilitating change at the individual and community level.

WORKSHOP 2: How to Plan and Communicate for a Regenerative Economy – an Idea Testing and Concept Generation Workshop with the Commoners Coop**

• Date / time: Sunday 24 Nov 2-5pm at Ross House

This is an experimental workshop to evolve conventional business-as-usual planning tools to assist the creation of future-friendly and regenerative practices.

**This workshop doesn’t require any previous knowledge of business planning or the regenerative economy. You do not need fully developed ideas to participate either.

THE COMMONERS COOP

The Commoners Coop is seeking new ways for human beings to live and work, connecting people, place and planet. Current activities involve supporting a range of projects in Central Victoria including the Don’t Hate Mate campaign in Bendigo, Bio-Char Workshops, Symbiotic Earth Screening and a book launch for No Friend but The Mountain with Behrouz Bouchani the journalist imprisoned on Manus Island. As well as bootstrapping a boutique Letterpress printing studio in Brunswick and developing low carbon emission web design.

*This is a fundraising event for the Commoners Coop — all workshop facilitators are working pro bono.