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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231107T150000
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SUMMARY:Co-Learning Conversation: Vibrator Nation: How feminist sex toy stores changed the business of pleasure
DESCRIPTION:Co-Learning Conversation: Vibrator Nation: How feminist sex toy stores changed the business of pleasure\nWhat’s even better than a book club?\nA Co-Learning Conversation!!\nIn a C0-Learning Conversation\, we read the book in advance\, knowing which sections to emphasize (or skip) and what questions to pursue.\nThen\, we come together in a guided\, semi-structured conversation.\nFor 90 minutes\, we discuss business and feminist issues raised in the book\, and consider what wisdom to take away for our own feminist business practice.\nMore details to follow– but in the meantime\, get the book!\nVibrator Nation: How Feminist Sex-Toy Stores Changed the Business of Pleasure\, Lynn Comella  (2017) Duke University Press.
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/co-learning-conversation-vibrator-nation-how-feminist-sex-toy-stores-changed-the-business-of-pleasure/
CATEGORIES:Book Club / Co-Learning Convo,Feminist Business History,Feminist Practices,Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20231026T020000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20231026T160000
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UID:9694-1698285600-1698336000@cvharquail.com
SUMMARY:Nurturing Your Feminist Business: Generative strategies for growth
DESCRIPTION:How does a feminist business grow? \nWe all know that growing as a feminist business means something beyond “scaling” or getting bigger. While some of us do want our business to get bigger\, all of us want them to be better.  We want them to flourish and grow according to our own feminist\, anti-oppression\, anti-extraction principles. \nWe want our businesses to grow in how they serve our customers\, how they engage and fulfill our employees\, how they enable our agency and support our livelihoods\, and how they influence the world around us. \nWhen we reject or refuse conventional models of business success\, we must also refuse conventional strategies for prompting “growth”. We can’t rely on financial metrics to set our priorities\, we can’t focus on competition to spur us on\, and we can’t maximize extraction to make us feel efficient or effective. \nWe need different strategies to nurture ‘feminist’ growth. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll draw on two values of feminist business\, Generativity and InterIndependence\, to understand how your feminist business can grow in ways that sustain you and sustain your larger community.\n                 InterIndependence tells us to grow stronger ourselves by simultaneously helping our community grow stronger.\n                Generativity tells us to focus on care\, creativity\, and learning as modes for promoting collective flourishing.\nTickets at: \nSince all learning and growth happens in relationship\, we’ll consider which relationships are most likely to hold opportunities for your own business’s growth. Then \,we’ll draw on generative and generous business practices to create a gentle\, sensible action plan for you and your team.\nAt the end of this workshop\, you’ll have a sense of how you want to grow\, where you want to grow\, whose growth you want to contribute to\, and how you can draw on other businesses\, enterprises\, people\, and communities to sustain growth for all.\nTickets at: \nEmail me with your questions — I’ll post more details as they emerge!\n  \nRead more about generativity\, here: https://authenticorganizations.com/harquail/2014/03/28/generativity-in-general/
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/nurturing-your-feminist-business-generative-strategies-for-growth/
CATEGORIES:Feminist Practices,Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230926T200000
DTSTAMP:20230926T212121Z
CREATED:20230926T212121Z
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SUMMARY:Feminist Business History: Class #2 The Feminist Bookstore Movement -- conversation
DESCRIPTION:In this second class session\, we’ll discuss some excerpts from Kristen Hogan’s history of  The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability (2016\, Duke University Press).    Participants will receive the reading assignment\, with specific pages highlighted and a few questions to consider as they read.
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/feminist-business-history-class-2-the-feminist-bookstore-movement-conversation/
CATEGORIES:Feminist Business History,Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230912T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230912T200000
DTSTAMP:20230912T212114Z
CREATED:20230912T212114Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230912T212114Z
UID:9676-1694541600-1694548800@cvharquail.com
SUMMARY:Feminist Business History : What\, when\, and why it matters
DESCRIPTION:Are you a feminist entrepreneur hoping to infuse your business with feminist principles? \nAnd you want to work wisely\, avoiding common mistakes and building on feminist successes? \nThis Feminist Business History course might be just right for you.  Sign up here: \n  \nThis class is designed to help us remember what feminist businesspeople have already learned-– by diving into the histories of feminist businesses\, recognizing their struggles and successes\, and translating these into practices for *today*. \nIn this three-part online course\, we’ll explore the history of feminist businesses in the United States (with a little Canada and Britain). We’ll discuss how feminist businesses have flaunted the norms of conventional business\, challenged themselves and their communities\, fought for social justice\, and set a foundation for activist businesses today. \nThree Tuesday Evenings:\nSept. 12\, Sept. 26\, Oct. 10  7:00 – 9:00 Eastern time \n  \nWe’ll start by defining what feminist businesses are and how they differ from conventional businesses. We’ll look at how several different kinds of feminist businesses flourished in the ’70s and ’80s here in the USA\, and how they influenced other activists. Then\, we’ll dive into the history of a classic example: the feminist bookstore movement. Finally\, we’ll discuss the insights and implications of feminist business histories for current and future feminist businesses. \n  \nThe first and third classes\, I will compile\, condense\, and compose the material for you. I’ll draw on my study of over two dozen feminist businesses and industries as well as my own academic work on defining feminist business and guiding feminist enterprise. While I don’t really like to lecture (and look like I think my own view is the only valid\, expert one) I’ll present a rich and useful perspective for us to consider. The idea is for me to do most of the academic work (reading\, synthesizing\, pondering) so you don’t have to. Instead\, you’ll bring your curiosity and questions so that we can discuss the ideas I bring forward and focus on what matters to you. \nFor the second class\, we’ll draw on the rich\, complex\, provocative book by Kristen Hogan\, The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian antiracism and feminist accountability (2016\, Duke University Press). I’ll summarize the main points of this history\, highlighting the bookstores’ feminist products and profit orientations. I’ll also share how they worked to address racism\, classism\, and homophobia in their own organizations. Participants will be invited to read key sections of the book (but won’t have to)\, and everyone can share their insights and conclusions. \nYou can check out all the details of the class here: https://cvharquail.com/feminist-business-history-fall-23-course-details/\nWhen you’re ready\, sign up here: \nWhether you’ve already launched a feminist business\, or think you might build one\, or are determined to be a better feminist activist in your current work\, this class will give you understanding\, perspective\, and insight to draw on. \nYou’ll know you’re not alone — rather\, you’re the latest\, boldest step in the revolution we know as feminist business.
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/feminist-business-history/
CATEGORIES:Feminist Practices,Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230829T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230829T160000
DTSTAMP:20230829T220647Z
CREATED:20230829T220647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230829T220647Z
UID:9654-1693321200-1693324800@cvharquail.com
SUMMARY:Info Session: Feminist Business History (Fall '23)
DESCRIPTION:Come to this short Info Session to learn what’s planned for our next Feminist Business History course\, coming in Sept. – Oct. ’23. \nLearn about this lighter version\, designed with the busy\, curious\, feminist business person in mind. \nGet all your questions answered\, so you know whether this class is for you. \nIn this Info Session\, I’ll tell you what’s planned for this Fall’s three-class course. I’ll describe our course goals\, design\, and scope. You’ll share your own goals\, constraints\, and interests\, and we’ll see how to design these in.  \nI’m offering the Info Session on Tuesday\, August 29\, at two times: 4-5 pm ET and 8-9 pm ET.\nDrop in via Zoom:   \n\nIn a nutshell: \nI’ve redesigned the course into a more compact\, three-session arc. I’ll do most of the “work” so you don’t have do. Reading will be encouraged\, and also optional. Still\, you’ll be able to participate as a co-learner and also shape our focus with your interests. \nFor all the details on the Fall ’23 course\, go here: https://cvharquail.com/blog/2023/08/02/coming-soon-feminist-business-history-course/ \n  \nWhen I hosted a Feminist Business History Course last spring\, we all learned so much.  And\, every participant said they’d recommend the class to their feminist business friends.   \nMany other folks told me they were interested\, but they told me they needed something lighter\, with less of a time/ work commitment.   They needed to know: \n\nWhat kind of work is expected? How much? Do I have time for this kind of learning? \nWill this course cover my own questions? \nWill the insights be practical – or even relevant– for my own feminist business? \nWill the material be too “white and middle class”? \nCould this learning feel feminist? Light? Fun? \n\nIf these are also your questions\, come to this information session!\n  \nFolks in our first course said: \nI am so glad I took this course! I didn’t even know where to start before this. Now I have resources to answer questions like: How can I build feminist futures that will last? What can I learn from the past to shape this? Who are my teachers? \nA personal take-away — This class enriched my foundational knowledge of feminism. Yes\, I thought a lot about how this history related to my own current business but also I learned so much about feminism itself.
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/info-session-feminist-business-history-fall-23/
CATEGORIES:Feminist Practices,Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230719T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230719T170000
DTSTAMP:20230719T215222Z
CREATED:20230719T215222Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230719T215222Z
UID:9647-1689753600-1689786000@cvharquail.com
SUMMARY:FBMC AskUsAnything Open Zoom Convo
DESCRIPTION:Updating your Feminist Business Model?\nAsk questions. Get support.\nExplore ideas.\nJoin us.\n  \n \nIf it’s time to:\n— Revise your #FeministBusiness Model Canvas\,\n— Consider how to expand your revenue model\,\n— Strengthen connections between what you can offer and what your customers deeply need\,\n— Confirm that your business coveys your values\, or\n— Revisit challenging questions… \nJoin me and Petra Kassun-Mutch for a drop-in Zoom session. \nThis session is open to anyone who’s interested in the FBMC– especially to folks who’ve downloaded the intro versions of the FBMC or taken a feminist business modeling workshop with us. \nIn this open session\, we’ll explore anything and everything about Feminist Business and using the Feminist Business Model Canvas. \nThursday\, July 27\,\nanytime between 4:00 and 5:30 pm EASTERN.\nJust drop in at this Zoom link: \nhttps://bit.ly/FBMC_AskUsAnything_OpenSession_July\nSee you there?
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/fbmc-askusanything-open-zoom-convo/
CATEGORIES:FBMC Facilitator Workshops,FMBC Workshops,Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230405T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230405T120000
DTSTAMP:20230423T222856Z
CREATED:20230423T222856Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230423T222856Z
UID:9640-1680688800-1680696000@cvharquail.com
SUMMARY:How Feminist Business Histories Can Help *You* in Your Business Today
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URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/feminist-business-histories-how-can-help-you-in-your-business-today/
CATEGORIES:Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230329T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230329T120000
DTSTAMP:20230323T221738Z
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UID:9632-1680084000-1680091200@cvharquail.com
SUMMARY:How Feminist Businesses of The Past Can Help Us With The Future - Center for Women & Enterprise
DESCRIPTION:How Feminist Businesses of The Past Can Help Us With The Future –\nLunch ‘n Learn with the Center for Women and Enterprise\nTickets available at the Center for Women and Enterprise \nBack in the late 60’s\, when women entrepreneurs began to emerge\, the idea of a “women’s business” was still uncommon. Some women did own businesses\, of course\, but women weren’t supposed to own businesses\, much less run them or start them. Women’s businesses were rare. Outliers. Radical\, even. \nWomen in the late 60s had important reasons for starting businesses. They were seeking not only financial independence but also political\, social\, and personal agency. They were trying to create businesses that would make profits and sustain livelihoods because they changed our culture. \nTo cap off Women’s (Business) History Month\, we’ll use this “lunch and learn” session to explore the goals and challenges of culture-making\, feminist businesses of the 60s\, 70s\, and 80s. We’ll consider not only the conventional challenges they faced as new businesses with new kinds of customers and products\, but also the unique challenges they faced because they were led by women and for women. I’ll focus on three types of businesses — feminist bookstores\, feminist music companies\, and feminist toy stores — and describe how their approaches to doing business aimed to create both financial sustainability and social change at the same time. \nWe’ll use a simple Business Identity Framework to assess who these businesses were and what they stood for. Then\, I’ll delve into three areas where these businesses struggled— and sometimes triumphed— to make real change: through their products\, their missions\, and their connections with their communities. \nParticipants are invited to bring their questions about women’s business history and especially questions about feminist businesses. You’ll be encouraged to think about whether and how the challenges these businesses faced are similar to what women’s enterprises are facing today. We’ll consider what lessons and insights we might take forward into our own work to be successful financially and as agents of cultural change. For folks who want to continue learning on their own\, I’ll share some feminist business history resources.
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/how-feminist-businesses-of-the-past-can-help-us-with-the-future-center-for-women-and-enterprise/
CATEGORIES:Feminist Business History,Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230307T153000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Business Histories: Getting Stuff Done (Class #3)
DESCRIPTION:For our third class conversation\, we’ll delve into some stories about how feminist businesses managed to get things done. How did they make decisions? Share power? Act as “activists”? Make money?
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/feminist-business-histories-getting-stuff-done-class-3/
CATEGORIES:Feminist Practices,Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230221T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230221T170000
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UID:9581-1676993400-1676998800@cvharquail.com
SUMMARY:Feminist Business Histories: Products\, Customers\, & Community (Class 2)
DESCRIPTION:For our second conversation about Feminist Business Histories\, we’ll focus on three key elements: Products\, Customers\, and Community.
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/feminist-business-histories-products-customers-community-class-2/
CATEGORIES:Feminist Practices,Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230207T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230207T180000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Business Histories and Heritage: Learning From Our Foremothers
DESCRIPTION:When we know our shared history\, we can build collective wisdom.\n\n3 Classes\, 6 weeks\, to develop shared feminist business praxis.\n  \nFeminists have created many successful businesses that demonstrated and promoted feminist values and visions. \nThese feminist businesses were innovative. Revolutionary. And largely forgotten. \nFew people know that these businesses ever existed\, and even fewer remember what they were about\, what practices and strategies worked for them\, and what led to their closures— or their longevity. \nWithout knowing feminist businesses’ history\, we can’t learn from their mistakes. Worse\, we can’t build on their achievements. \nStarting in February 2023\, we will reconnect with the legacy of feminist business\, and draw from their experiences some shared principles and guidance for current and future feminist businesses. \nOur first class is Tuesday\, February 7\, from 4:30-6:00 ET\, on Zoom. \n______ \nOverview \nIn this class\, we will collaborate to create a shared understanding of feminist business history\, and to draw lessons and unanswered questions from the stories we gather. We will produce a file/living repository of resources on the businesses we consider. We will create a document that identifies feminist business practices and challenges from history\, along with citations\, that we can all use as a resource. We will decide together how to share this document with other feminist business folks. \nAt the end of this course\, we will have created a cohort of feminist business advocates who can teach others about and continue to develop knowledge of our shared feminist business history. This cohorts’ knowledge will support feminist business coaches\, mentors\, and practitioners who want to build on rather than repeat the lessons of feminist business. \nAt the end of this course\, you will be well-versed in the history of a particular feminist business or sector\, able to explain this history to another interested feminist business person. You will have developed some wisdom from the experience of earlier feminists that you can use in designing your future business activities. \nAs a facilitator and active participant myself\, I expect that our shared work will help me lock in what I’ve learned from my independent reading in feminist business history. Our work together will also help me examine and expand my definitions of feminist business and help me develop better criteria and tools for guiding feminist businesses. \nThis class will prototype a collaborative format that we can use as we build a learning program for feminist business practitioners\, mentors\, coaches\, and teachers. \n** Note\, the companies and industries we will consider are largely based in the USA with two that were based in the UK. Several of these businesses operated in Canada. However\, there are no Canadian businesses in the set that I am offering. \n\nTogether\, our work will advance feminist business practice.\nFor more details\, 
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/feminist-business-histories-and-heritage-learning-from-our-foremothers/
CATEGORIES:Feminist Practices,Past Workshops & Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221124T021358
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221124T021358
DTSTAMP:20221124T021057Z
CREATED:20221124T021057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221124T021057Z
UID:2060-1669256038-1669256038@cvharquail.com
SUMMARY:Example of Workshop by request
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URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/example-of-workshop-by-request/
CATEGORIES:Workshops By Request
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20221004T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20221004T170000
DTSTAMP:20221005T012046Z
CREATED:20221005T012046Z
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SUMMARY:SheEO Global Summit: Transforming to a Feminist Economy
DESCRIPTION:On March 9 I’ll be speaking at the SheEO Global Summit\, about Transforming to a Feminist Economy. \nThis list\, below\, has some resources for participants and readers who want to learn more about feminism and business\, the Feminist economy\, and systems change \nConnect with these websites: \nCvharquail.com \nLiisBeth.com \nFeministsAtWork.com \nFeministFounders.co (Sally Bingham’s directory of feminist businesses\, mostly Canadian) \n  \nREAD: \nFeminism and Business: \nFeminism: A Key Idea for Business\, Celia V. Harquail\, (Routledge\, 2020) \nFeminine Capital: Unlocking the Power of Women Entrepreneurs\, Barbara Orser and Catherine Elliot (Stanford Business Books\, 2015). \nBeauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry by Tiffany M. Gill\, University of Illinois Press\, 2010). \nThe Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability\, by Kristen Hogan  (Duke University Press\, 2016). \nWhat are Feminist Businesses? What are Feminist Business Practices?  By CV Harquail https://medium.com/@cvharquail/what-are-feminist-businesses-what-are-feminist-business-practices-a9a48d276cbc \nListen to a podcast of (En)Gendered with Teri Yuan (Episode 72) https://engendered.us/episode-72-cvharquail-on-feminism-a-key-idea-for-business-and-society-part-1-of-2/ \nFeminism and Economics \nThe politics of the solar age: Alternatives to economics\, by Hazel Henderson\, (Anchor Press/ Doubleday\, 1981) \nIf Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics\, by Marilyn Waring\, (HarperCollins\, 1990) \nCounting on Marilyn Waring: New Advances in Feminist Economics\, Second Edition\, by  Margunn Bjørnholt & Ailsa McKay (Demeter Press\, 2014) \nBeyond Economic Man: Feminist Theory and Economics\, by Marianne A. Ferber & Julie A. Nelson\, (University of Chicago Press\, 1993) \nThe Age of Thrivability: Vital Perspectives and Practices for a Better World\, by Michelle Holliday ( Cambium\, 2016). See also Michelle’s Website: https://ageofthrivability.com/ \nDoughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist\, by Kate Raworth  (Chelsea Green Publishing\, 2017) * Lex Schroeder’s favorite \nWho Cooked Adam Smith’s Dinner?\, by Katrine Marcal (Pegasus Books\, 2017) * Lex Schroeder’s favorite \nLiberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families\, Work\, and Globalization\, by Drucilla Barker&  Susan F. Feiner (University of Michigan Press\, 2004) \nFortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis\, by Nancy Fraser (Verso Books\, 2013) \nFeminist Economics: Theoretical and Political Dimensions\, Astrid Agenjo-Calderon & Lina Gálvez‐Muñoz\, in American Journal of Economics and Sociology\, Jan 2019.\nFree Access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajes.12264 \nOn Systems Change \nLeverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System\, by Donella Meadows http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/ \nMove As If Women Are Half the World and You Are Part of Something Larger\, by Lex Schroeder (2018) https://medium.com/@lexschroeder/move-as-if-women-are-half-the-world-and-you-are-part-of-something-larger-a2e195d36ccd \nFeminist Businesses Observe the Laws of the Earth\, by Lex Schroeder (2019) https://medium.com/@lexschroeder/feminist-businesses-observe-the-laws-of-the-earth-feminist-entrepreneurs-can-learn-from-how-bf4c228926c2
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/sheeo-global-summit-transforming-to-a-feminist-economy/
CATEGORIES:FMBC Workshops
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SUMMARY:New Jersey Women’s Conference Talk: Re-Powering Empowerment
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Empowerment is broken. After over fifty years of working to get women in business into positions of numerical parity\, it’s becoming clear that progress is slow. Too slow. In this talk\, I explain the whole problem of “empowerment” as a strategy for gender equity. Even better\, I propose THREE action steps! \n  \nI’m excited to be giving a keynote talk at this year’s New Jersey Conference for Women (on October 29th). I’m going a little bit big here\, with a presentation that will likely rile a few people up… because it’s challenging to hear a critique of Women’s Empowerment at a conference about… Women’s Empowerment. \nBut\, as I argue in my talk\, Women’s Empowerment is broken. After over fifty years of working to get women in business into positions of numerical parity\, it’s becoming clear that progress is slow. Too slow. Not because women haven’t been working hard to advance in businesses\, non-profits\, and institutions\, but because women have been taught a diminished\, ineffectual kind of empowerment. This empowerment moves some women up the ladder (which can be great) but also leaves a whole lot of women behind (which is a very big problem). \nNJWC Participants – Welcome! I hope you’re excited to re-power your own efforts to make change in the workplace\, for yourself\, for your colleagues\, and for your company. \n In my talk I propose three specific steps that you can take to make your change efforts more like the real\, transformational empowerment that can really make a difference. Conference Participants\, as well as you readers\, can download a pdf that recaps these three Re-Power Moves and explains why they work. \nClick this link to download the pdf:\n“Women’s Empowerment at Work is broken. Here’s how to fix it.” \n\nOne thing I don’t address in this talk is where to start. \nIn truth\, it doesn’t matter where you start\, but rather that you get started.  We change complex situations with actions anywhere in the system… so your efforts to change an unpleasant culture of meetings can start with changing the agenda\, the location\, the players\, the expectations\, and even the way you organize coffee and donuts.  Look for what you can change\, where you are\, with what you have. \n Even the smallest change (coffee and donuts?) can make a difference and start things moving. Consider what might happen if at every weekly status meeting\, folks took turns being the host. What if not just the same person\, but a different one each time was responsible for getting everyone their coffee and making sure everyone had their favorite donut to eat? What if we took turns taking care of each other before\, during\, and after that weekly meeting? What if some folks – regardless of their gender\, race\, status\, job title — got their first opportunity to take care of others at work? What if those who always seem to find themselves taking care of others had the chance to be taken care of\, themselves? \n Only the very first step of “empowerment” is to “take charge” of your situation and change it to make it work better for you.  Once you have that general inclination to take change and to make a difference\, you also need to ask yourself: \nWhat shall I use my power to do?\nWhat contribution can my efforts make\, to benefit everyone?
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/new-jersey-womens-conference-talk-re-powering-empowerment/
CATEGORIES:Feminist Practices
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SUMMARY:PathMinding: Get Aligned + Accountable in Your Feminist Business
DESCRIPTION:How can we hold ourselves accountable to feminist values and feminist communities as business people and as ventures?\n==> This workshop meets TWICE. The first half of the workshop will be Mon\, Feb 1 and the second half on Mon\, Feb 8\, at 2:00 pm ET for Toronto & New York // London 7 pm GMT // Vancouver 10 am PT <== Plan to attend both halves. \nBy virtue of calling ours “feminist” businesses\, we are making a public and personal commitment to holding ourselves accountable to feminist values and feminist communities.  \nHowever\, since there is no “Feminist Authority” to tell us when we’re meeting our commitments or straying from them\, we need to develop our own systems of accountability. \nIn this workshop\, we’ll explore several tactics being used in feminist businesses to hold ourselves accountable as individuals\, as groups working together\, as entities within marketplaces\, and as actors/agents in a larger feminist movement. \nTactics we’ll discuss include (and won’t be limited to) accountability statements\, quarterly scorecards\, clearness meetings\, accountability partners\, and peer review teams. \nPurchase tickets on Eventbrite. \nWe’ll also consider and help each other understand: \n– what kinds of commitments make sense for ourselves and our businesses\, \n– how we can establish relationships within which we can hold brave and effective accountability conversations\, and \n– how we can participate in our feminist ecosystem to nudge each other forward with care and love. \nParticipants will leave with a fuller sense of what commitments they want to take on personally and as a business unit\, how they want to be held accountable\, and how they can contribute to and support other feminist businesses’ goals. \nThis workshop is best for: \n\n\nPeople 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. \n\n\nFolks 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. \n\n\nFolks who have already established a feminist business or non-profit enterprise\, who want to clarify their path forwards. \n\n\nThis 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 and businesses with explicitly feminist business agendas. \nPeople 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. \nWhat to Expect \nPrework: \nParticipants will receive an introductory exercise to complete the week before the workshop\, as well as some pre-reading. \nDrawing 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. \nDuring the workshop: \nParticipants will work with each other in small breakout groups as well as in a large\, full group conversation. \nFolks 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. \nFollow-up work: \nParticipants will receive a resource list for further learning and a self-reflection exercise to help you personalize your learning. \nAs part of the commitment you make by participating\, you’ll be expected to complete a feedback exercise to help improve the workshop and help us understand what support you might need as a (more) feminist entrepreneur. \nParticipants will be invited to join a short-term online community platform (paid for as part of their ticket) which they can use to discuss insights\, share canvases\, and ask follow-up questions for CV and other workshop participants to help answer. \nPlease email cv@feministsatwork.com if you have any questions\, concerns\, or suggestions. \nPurchase tickets on Eventbrite. \nPlease note that you’ll purchase one ticket\, that covers both halves of the workshop. \nFeminist Ticketing Tiers \nAs part of our exploration of feminist pricing strategies\, we’ll be using a tiered ticket format. \nThe Steadfast Ticket is for folx who are financially secure and covers the cost of your participation. \nThe Supporters Ticket is for folx who are able to contribute\, beyond the cost of your own ticket\, to add funds to the Community-Resourced Ticket Pool. \nThe Solidarity Ticket is for folx with limited financial resources; your tickets will be supported by the community and by CV. \nCurrently\, 20% of anticipated tickets are available at the Solidarity level. I’m hoping to have 20 folks sign up\, so this would include 4 Solidarity tickets. More will be added as/if the workshop signups grow. \nCommunity Members — Finally\, people who are already members of the Feminist Enterprise Commons (FEC) can get $5 off their ticket\, using a code I’ve posting on the event listing in the FEC. 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 later our conversation. \nMedia Consent \nWe will be recording portions of this workshop\, and these recorded portions might be used in later workshops. We expect to record and possibly re-use only the parts of the workshop where CV presents an initial Feminist Accountability framework\, strategies and tactics along with the full group’s discussion. The breakout room conversations will not be recorded. Recordings will be used privately by CV to improve the workshop and will not be shared outside the participant group. By registering for this workshop\, you understand and acknowledge that your image and voice may be recorded during the group portion and used for learning purposes. If you have concerns about your image or voice being used for these purposes\, please email cv@feministsatwork.com and we’ll work something out.
URL:https://cvharquail.com/workshop/pathminding-get-aligned-accountable-in-your-feminist-business/
CATEGORIES:Past Workshops & Events
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