What does it ask of us, to be a Feminist Entrepreneur?
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?
In this workshop, we'll work together to craft a Feminist Framework for Entrepreneurship and sketch out our own personal learning paths.
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==> This workshop will be held in Toronto & New York's afternoon, at 1:30 pm ET // London 's evening, 6:30 pm GMT // Vancouver's morning, 10:30 am PT <==
Please note that this will be a 3 hour workshop, with a 15 minute break. We'll spend our time flowing between idea presentations, small group work sessions, and full group discussions.
In this interactive workshop, we will:
Explore what it means to be a "feminist" entrepreneur.
Define for ourselves what our radically inclusive, collective, transformational feminism entails.
Discuss the challenges we feminists face as we "make things that matter", such as businesses, ventures, services, products, and communities, in a world that pressures us to submit to the status quo.
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.
What to Expect
Prework:
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.
Participants will receive some introductory reading to complete during the week before the workshop.
During the workshop:
Participants will work with each other in small breakout groups as well as in a large, full group conversation. Our four small group conversations will comprise a full hour of our workshop time, so plan to be actively involved in your own and each other's exploration.
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 outside the workshop community.
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Follow-up work:
As part of your participation in the workshop, you're making a commitment to complete a feedback form at the end of the workshop to help improve the workshop and help us understand what support you might need as a (more) feminist entrepreneur.
Participants will receive a resource list for further learning and a self-reflection exercise to help you personalize your learning.
Follow-Up Office Hour: As part of the workshop, participants will be invited to rejoin together for a one-hour Zoom conversation, on Weds July 13 at 3:00 pm ET. We'll share insights and discuss any questions that came up during the workshop and followup work.
Please email cv@feministsatwork.com if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions.
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.
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