Learn how to design feminist values into the revenue model of your business and the service delivery model of your non-profit.
Join us where feminist values meet business practice -- and learn how to design your business / venture using the Feminist Business Model Canvas (FBMC).
The Feminist Business Model Canvas (Harquail, 2016) is a tool, a process, and a world view designed to help entrepreneurs and teams build their transformational, inclusive values directly into the ways they identify and pursue business opportunities. It helps future-oriented businesses create their own criteria for success, building a new paradigm of feminist business.
What will we do together?
In this interactive workshop, participants will be introduced to business modeling as a process and business model canvases as design tools. With this foundation, we'll explore the FBMC and learn the feminist thinking behind the elements that compose the Canvas.
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Participants will experiment with the design process using the FBMC's unique set of questions. These questions ask you to dig into what matters to you, to establish an empathic and caring connection with your customers, and to imagine products that meet functional and meaning-filled needs.
Participants will also work to identify the unique strengths and gifts you and your team have to offer as a business.
I'll send participants an introductory exercise to complete the week before the workshop, as well as some pre-reading. After the workshop, you'll receive a resource list and a self-reflection exercise to help you personalize your learning.
Before the workshop, I'll also send you a pdf of the full FBMC workbook (about 75 pages) including blank canvases, a step-by-step explanation of the modeling process, and all the questions you'll need to complete the remaining steps of the modeling process (e.g., the Values Build-In process, Alignment Check, Adjusting the Model as Your Business Grows, Addressing Oppression).
Participants will work in small groups during a few breakout sessions, as well as in the full group.
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 me and other workshop participants to help answer. 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 our 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.
As part of the commitment you make by participating, you'll be expected to share an anonymized version of your FBMC (all juicy details removed) with the community, and to complete a feedback exercise to help improve the tool and/or the workshop.
Who is this for?
This workshop is designed for participants who already have an idea for a business or non-profit venture, who have a startup-in-process, or who are part of an established business that’s ready for real focus on building values into their ongoing work.
Folks who are interested in feminist businesses as a concept, in the FBMC as a tool for entrepreneurs in incubators and accelerator programs, or in non-feminist but still values-led businesses will also find the workshop useful but will need to 'play along' with a business idea to get the full value of the workshop.
We expect that every participant will be interested in transformational, radically inclusive feminism. If you don't support and advocate for radically inclusive feminism, this is not the workshop for you.
Your guide in this process will be me, CV Harquail, the designer of the FMBC. More info about me and the FBMC here.
Feminist Ticketing Tiers
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As part of our exploration of feminist pricing strategies, we'll be using a tiered ticket format. See Eventbrite for details.
Media Consent
We will be recording portions of this workshop, and these recorded portions might be used in later workshops. Only sections that feature me/CV speaking will be shared outside the actual session. Breakout room conversations will not be recorded.
By registering for this workshop, you understand and consent to the idea that your image and voice may be recorded. Your image in the Zoom gallery might appear later in video clips that I/CV share/s, but your voice and personal comments will not be shared. If you have concerns about your image or voice being recorded for these purposes, please email cv@feministsatwork.com and we'll work something out.