Collaborative Entrepreneurship & Collaborate Thinking ~ Jan 22 & 23

In these challenging times how can we use collaborative forms of leadership, innovation, fundraising and community building to strengthen our entrepreneurial and change projects?

A weekend workshop on this theme will take place in The Greenhouse, 17 St Andrew Street, Dublin 2 on 22nd and 23rd January.

The workshop will introduce:

The U-process, offering a set of principles and practices for collectively creating the future that wants to emerge; a breakthrough methodology for collaborative innovation and accessing deeper wisdom

How to best use social networking to create business possibilities and to stimulate inspired actions.

Crowd Funding: Rethinking the way we finance our projects and initiatives, beyond bank loans, through collaborative efforts that make full use of the internet and new social media tools.

Community Enterprise models that are more than just individuals pursuing their own interests.

Green Entrepreneurship with a focus on upskilling the workforce for the growing opportunities within Ireland’s Green Economy.

The workshop promises to be highly interactive and will feature short presentations from leading practitioners. Our learning will grow out of everyone’s contributions and presence. We will support each other as co-learners. We will learn by observation, through stories from experienced practitioners, through reflecting on our own experience and practice, using interactive processes to build a safe and inspiring learning environment. We invite you to a collective inquiry.

The facilitators will include Simone Poutnik, a social entrepreneur, designer and facilitator of collaborative innovation processes who co-founded the Hub Brussels – an inspiring space for people with ideas for a better world, Hendrik Tiesinga, co-founder of Natural Innovation and the Finance Innovation Lab, a multi-stakeholder collaboration for sustainable innovation in the financial sector in the UK, Chris Chapman, an experienced facilitator and host who specialises in creating safe spaces to support deep and transformational work, and Davie Philip, Communications Manager at the Green Works Tipperary Hub and who runs the Community Resilience programme at Cultivate.

The workshop will take place from 09.30 – 17.00 on 22nd and 23rd January.

Cost: €175. Early Bird €150 ends 14th January.

See www.cultivate.ie for further details.