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On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
If you make a cooperative, you have to know that you can’t design them; you can only grow them, like plants. If you grow one and you do it with other people, then everyone will undoubtedly have ideas about what the best way to grow it is.
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
There are a lot of organizational structures and lived practices embedded in our bodies that we just enact by default. But through explicit facilitation practices or when we make meetings happen in a certain way, that helps change these conditioned ways of operating. In the process of learning to work this way, what really helps is, again, trust. T... See more
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
When you trust in other people, really incredible and unexpected things can happen. Usually, it’s things where you’re like, “Oh, I didn’t even think of doing that,” or, “Oh, I don’t think that will work out well,” but it actually does. Part of trusting other people might involve letting go of certain images you have of what the outcome should look ... See more
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
If you make a cooperative, you have to know that you can’t design them; you can only grow them, like plants. If you grow one and you do it with other people, then everyone will undoubtedly have ideas about what the best way to grow it is.
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
a currency of generosity or something. It needs to be reciprocated in some way, in order for it to be sustainable.
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
social acknowledgement of burnout, before it gets out of hand and things stop being sustainable, is really important.
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
There are a lot of organizational structures and lived practices embedded in our bodies that we just enact by default. But through explicit facilitation practices or when we make meetings happen in a certain way, that helps change these conditioned ways of operating. In the process of learning to work this way, what really helps is, again, trust. T... See more
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
in a cooperative, you are one plant contributing to the larger garden. Has it been hard to learn to operate this way yourself, and then teach other people how to operate this way? What has it been like to create these sorts of non-hierarchical spaces within a country that functions primarily through capitalist and patriarchal structures?
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
self-checking means asking, “Do I feel really comfortable?” And if I do, I’m probably holding some power that I’m not too aware of.