Anti Networking Networking
You don't hate networking.
You hate the hyper-individualistic, inauthentic, sell-yourself version that our extractive capitalist work culture has convinced us is what "networking" means.
Welcome to the Anti Networking Networking Club!
This is where we do it differently.
We are bad-ass visionary social-justice centered organizational leaders, business owners, consultants, strategists, academics, practitioners, writers, funders, fundraisers, donor organizers, cultural workers down to strengthen our networks as ecosystems so they effectively facilitate actionable connection, build true relationships, generate sustainable work, and meet our collective needs.
Whereas conventional networking can end up being an (ironically) isolated individual labor-intensive burden, the Anti Networking Networking Club is a blatantly irreverent name but stands ten-does down in building collective power that strengthens our individual capacity to create collaborative, cooperative, and financially sustainable values-aligned work.
We are here to make rad sh*t happen. And cultivate joy and ease (and humor) along the way.
Core Principles
꩜ Collective Power = Individual Thriving. We are rooted in Solidarity Economy principles of solidarity, cooperation, community investment, economic democracy, and collective liberation.
꩜ Transparency as Care. We name real things with real talk – needs, budgets, scope, capacity, defined asks and offers – to facilitate direct connections that meet clear individual, organizational, and business needs.
꩜ Curated Connection. Virtual and IRL gatherings are curated to who is in the room and designed to facilitate and "seed" actionable connections that grow beyond our gathering.
꩜ Regenerative Reciprocity. We give generously of our time and resources based on our capacity and generously receive what others have to give based on our needs. This ebbs and flows individually but builds and expands our collective capacity to (re)generate what we need.
꩜ Defiant Joy. We name and do not bypass the f*kery we are all navigating and we commit to building authentic connections with irreverent humor and defiant joy.
Monthly Events
Commons Welcome
🗓️ Monthly virtual (and soon-to-be IRL) gathering on Zoom for new members.
🗓️ Facilitated meeting to introduce yourself, what you do, what initiatives you are developing, job-search or hiring connections you are looking for, resulting in concrete connections for follow-up when there is shared interest.
🗓️ Participants fill out a brief form prior to the meeting with their introduction and details so I can tailor the facilitation to who is in the room, map connections, and include in our shared directory (with consent).
🗓️ I send a follow-up summary with connections made, ideas generated, and contact information shared (with consent).
Common Ground
🗓️ Monthly virtual (and soon-to-be IRL) gathering on Zoom free for all Anti Networking Networking Club members.
🗓️ Facilitated and designed around member-generated topics, resources, and needs from our network to share amongst our network with opportunity to engage, map connections, and create follow-up actions.
🗓️ Upcoming topics: Resources for Successful Consultant and Organization/Business Engagement; Bringing Solidarity Economy Principles into Practice; Creating Content with Purpose, Intention, and Your Soul Intact.
Weekly Newsletter
🎙️ New Member Introductions – so we know who you are, what you bring, and how we can connect with you.
🎙️ Job postings and hiring needs from our networks
🎙️ Offers + Needs roundup from the Network – collaborations and connections needed and wanted to move ideas forward and make rad sh*t happen.
Tell me more about you!
If we don't know who is in our networks and what they need, it ain't (net)working.
Could you give me 2 minutes of your time to answer these 3 short questions that will help shape Root Commons content and offerings?
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