[epic] Conscious Coliving Masterclass Series

laurenwigmore commented 11 months ago

A10 #257
Course #566

Purpose & Principles

We have launched a free conscious coliving email course which has gained a good response (140 participants after 2 months live). Our Whatsapp chat is growing significantly (200+) and getting good engagement so far. We have an opportunity to really take this forward.

We have already chosen to go with Masterclasses as the next offer as a way to take forward the conscious coliving project and make it sustainable #257. As feedback from the CC101 form, people are seeking tools and practices for community living, so the masterclasses will be based around this.

The aim is to create a deeper body of work around conscious coliving that is the next step in the pathway way after CC101.

Outcome Visioning

By end of first quarter of 2024 we will have a series of 5 masterclasses about conscious community practices and approximately 100 participants for each one.

Acceptance

[ ] 5 masterclasses live and in use
[ ] 100 participants to at least 2 of the masterclasses

Tasks

[ ] Brainstorm masterclass ideas and facilitators 🚧 Spreadsheet of potential guests
[ ] Figure out how we will host the masterclasses 🚧 https://thinkific.com/pricing/ or circle.so or teachable or https://www.mightynetworks.com/ - need to do analysis
[ ] Decide on profit share model (with facilitators) - do we pay up front or make a profit share?
[ ] Outreach potential facilitators
[ ] Film first masterclass
[ ] Promote and sell first masterclass
[ ] Refine and repeat

Bonus

[ ] Create a proper learn page for conscious coliving
- [ ] Include breakdown of what we want to explore, plus the course and a roadmap

Meetings / Notes

2023-08-10

Brainstorm - resources & ROI v3 Strategy Revision Coogle

Situation:

We have launched a free conscious coliving email course which has gained a good response. Our Whatsapp chat is growing significantly and getting good engagement so far. We have an opportunity to really take this forward.
There is growing trend of people interested in reconnecting offline and building community. Also due to increased mortgage rates, cost of living etc, people are looking to co-house for economic reasons, but additionally connecting reasons and particularly community and partnership. Mutual support is also important. Also the rise of organisations like CSAs are helping to shift into a more conscious and community oriented paradigm.

Complication: We are in a chicken and egg situation, where we need to invest more resources to get an ROI on the community and communications, but for us the invest more we already need a return.

There are people in the community but not actively engaging, which in turn reducing our potential impact
We don't know where the world is going. We don't know how to take something that is an email course to create actually communities. We don't know how to guide people and have the expertise and we don't know how this will look.

Question: How do we bridge the gap between resources and return on investment?

Ideas	Pros	Cons
Curated Newsletter	Build us as authority, Unique to the space, 40% of survey responsdents wanted it, more control over frequency, builds consistent income over time, natural network effect	Ongoing Effort, needs to be consistent, need to know where to get the information, resource intensive on sourcing information, slow build audience, low ROI initially
CC Course	One-time development, Large ROI (£200-300 per person), funnels easily into other offers, leverages our existing network of experts, Can be scaled (smaller low cost course first and then expanded), participants likely to be hot leads to upsell to	Build time may be long, requires filming quality content (not our forte), can become outdated and will need to be updated, requires ongoing advertisement and promotion (people pay once)
Paid Community	We're already doing it, space for everything to be, internal sales funnel, more economical for people, build consistent ROI (membership based), opportunities for further development, A greater network effect, has more potential to be self-sustaining (in terms of engagement)	Empty room syndrome potential, No-added value if we don't know where we are going, ongoing effort, consistency (regarding marketing and internal value)
Online Summit	Huge potential to position us as authority, good for repurposing, build massive email list, enables us to cover a lot of topics	Huge upfront effort, resource intensive, not a huge financial ROI, kind of go big or go home
Masterclasses/Workshops platform	Easy to do one at a time, scaling potential, opportunity to network, can become bundles with scale, affordable for people	would need to split the profits or pay them up front, how to set up the contractual aspects of intellectual property, filming required, resource intensive, more structure required around what they are presenting
Mentorship Program/ coach landing page		Would need people to mentor,
Live gathering
Residencies/Incubator

Appendix

Brainstorm of ideas

Marc hub practices Valerie cooking for community Catherine non-violent communication Sylvie imagination and creativity Rufus economics or science of awakening\ Nathen sharing is caring Lauren personal wellbeing, energy systems ETF/nervous system Karl Steyaert - Internal Family Systems Liam Kavanagh - Contemplative Activism, Interbeing Boaz - Somatic experiencing/relational embodiment Zencaster 'I want to know how to recruit people to my community' Course on community living practices

laurenwigmore commented 10 months ago

meeting 2023-08-29 notes

We can film during my time in Bergerac.
Q: What is the course about?
- Should lead off from CC101
  - Practices for conscious community?
  - Who else is at the hub?
  - Marc hub practices
  - Valerie cooking for community
  - Catherine non-violent communication
  - Sylvie imagination and creativity
  - Rufus economics or science of awakening\
  - Nathen sharing is caring
  - Lauren personal wellbeing, energy systems ETF/nervous system
  - Karl Steyaert - Internal Family Systems
  - Liam Kavanagh - Contemplative Activism, Interbeing
  - Boaz - Somatic experiencing/relational embodiment
  - Zencaster
  - 'I want to know how to recruit people to my community'
  - Values Masterclass on Aligning Coliving Values
  - Conflict resolution masterclass

Course on community living practices

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nathenf commented 9 months ago

@laurenwigmore lets link this to beacon epic and maybe transfer the notes from here that are relevant to the beacons issue

rufuspollock commented 1 week ago

This was an idea from summer 2023. In ideas inbox as may return to it one day. Wasn't really shaped - more ideation atm.

life-itself / community