What does it ask of us, to be a Feminist Entrepreneur?
Together, let’s craft a Feminist Framework for Entrepreneurship and sketch out our own personal learning paths.
How do we shape our personal path and our business's roadmap so that we can become more feminist in how we work together, provide needed products and services, generate fair revenues, and demonstrate a transformational way of doing business?
==> This workshop will be held two different times to catch folks in different time zones.
This session will be held in Toronto & New York's morning, at 9:00 pm ET // London 2 pm GMT // Dhaka 8 pm BST // Wellington 8 am NZDT Tuesday <==
In this interactive workshop, we will:
Explore what it means to be a "feminist" entrepreneur.
Define for ourselves what our radically inclusive, collective feminism entails.
Discuss feminist approaches to business, business-building, entrepreneurship, and leadership.
Assess our current strengths and gifts as feminist business people, and consider where we want to build our business competencies and our political commitments.
Craft a learning plan and a set of commitments to guide our next steps.
This workshop is best for:
People who are comfortable with saying that they advocate for a radically inclusive feminism (think "not White" or "not Lean-In") and are open to exploring what they need to learn and do next.
Folks who are in the earliest stages of starting a business, a non-profit or community, a side hustle, or any beloved project and who want to pursue their venture in a more feminist way.
Folks who have already established a feminist business or non-profit enterprise, who want to clarify their path forwards.
This workshop will also be useful for people who mentor and/or lead business accelerators and womxn's entrepreneurship programs, who want to understand how to support people with explicitly feminist business agendas.
People who are uncomfortable with feminisms that embrace all anti-oppression efforts and feminisms that envision a future where everyone and the planet flourishes may find that this workshop is not for them.
What to Expect
Prework:
Participants will receive an introductory exercise to complete the week before the workshop, as well as some pre-reading.
Drawing on feminist teaching practices, participants will be asked to reflect on different models of participating in the community and make a commitment to participating a level that works best for them.
During the workshop:
Participants will work with each other in small breakout groups as well as in a large, full group conversation.
Folks in this workshop will be asked to participate under the Feminist Collaboration Agreement, in which all parties agree to keep personal and business details private and not share them except within the workshop community.
Follow-up work:
Participants will receive a resource list for further learning and a self-reflection exercise to help you personalize your learning.
As part of the commitment you make by participating, you'll be expected to complete a feedback exercise to help improve the workshop and help us understand what support you might need as a (more) feminist entrepreneur.
As part of the workshop, participants will be invited to join a short-term online community platform which they can use to discuss insights, share canvases, and ask follow-up questions for CV and other workshop participants to help answer.
Please email cv@feministsatwork.com if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions.
Feminist Ticketing Tiers
As part of our exploration of feminist pricing strategies, we'll be using a tiered ticket format.
The Steadfast Ticket is for folx who are financially secure and covers the cost of your participation.
The Supporters Ticket is for folks who are able to contribute, beyond the cost of your own ticket, to add funds to the Community-Resourced Ticket Pool.
The Solidarity Ticket is for folx with limited financial resources; your tickets will be supported by the community and by CV.
Currently, 20% of anticipated tickets are available at the Solidarity level. I'm hoping to have 20 folks sign up, so this would include 4 Solidarity tickets. More will be added as/if the workshop signups grow.
Community Members -- Finally, folks who are already members of the Feminist Enterprise Commons (FEC) can get $5 off their ticket, using a code I've posting on the event listing in the FEC. FEC members already pay for access to the community, and I'll be contributing $5 to the FEC for each non-FEC ticket, to pay for the FEC hosting our materials and later our conversation.
Media Consent
We will be recording portions of this workshop, and these recorded portions might be used in later workshops. We expect to record and possibly re-use only the parts of the workshop where CV presents an initial Feminist Framework for Entrepreneurship along with the group's discussion. The breakout room conversations might be recorded, but these recordings would only be used privately by CV to improve the workshop. They would not be shared outside the participate group. By registering for this workshop, you understand and acknowledge that your image and voice may be recorded during the group portion and used at our discretion. If you have concerns about your image or voice being used for these purposes, please email cv@feministsatwork.com and we'll work something out.