How to thrive in our lives, work, relationships, and communities as we integrate the praxis of anti-capitalism in a world that prioritizes profits over people.
The Fact Is
Profitable businesses and Anti-capitalism CAN co-exist.
However, we must shift the goal from being exploitative to being a regenerative business. A business that enhances the lives, lands, water, air, and world that we live in. Instead of funneling profits upwards, we should be sharing profits.
You might be thinking, how do we do that?
The Fact Is
Profitable businesses and Anti-capitalism CAN co-exist.
However, we must shift the goal from being exploitative to being a regenerative business. A business that enhances the lives, lands, water, air, and world that we live in. Instead of funneling profits upwards, we should be sharing profits.
You might be thinking, how do we do that?
Let me give you an example...
A conventional business has to exploit its labor force by overworking its labor, underpaying wages and benefits, and extracting from the environment to become profitable.
Instead, they can use innovation, technology, and cost savings to offer additional benefits to their employees such as extra vacations days, fewer hours + higher wages, and zero deductibles on your insurance.
In practice, grocery shops and libraries have embraced self-checkout technology in conventional businesses. They could instead give extra paid time off to their staff or invest in their staff instead of laying off ‘unnecessary’ staff.
The problem is the board of directors of a corporation is expected to legally prioritize the shareholder value and profits at the expense of their labor force or the environment. They ultimately fire their staff and replace them with technology.
Instead, they could choose to reward their staff for the time saved and give them paid time off each week and the company could redistribute a percentage of their profits to give to the local Indigenous groups or rehabilitate the lands or create more sustainability in their supply chains.
Instead of moving their profits offshore to avoid taxes and lobbying for more corporate welfare, they could choose instead to be a force for good by supporting a living wage in their community or pushing for reparations to Black communities.
A conventional business has to exploit its labor force by overworking its labor, underpaying wages and benefits, and extracting from the environment to become profitable.
Instead, they can use innovation, technology, and cost savings to offer additional benefits to their employees such as extra vacations days, fewer hours + higher wages, and zero deductibles on your insurance.
In practice, grocery shops and libraries have embraced self-checkout technology in conventional businesses. They could instead give extra paid time off to their staff or invest in their staff instead of laying off ‘unnecessary’ staff.
The problem is the board of directors of a corporation is expected to legally prioritize the shareholder value and profits at the expense of their labor force or the environment. They ultimately fire their staff and replace them with technology.
Instead, they could choose to reward their staff for the time saved and give them paid time off each week and the company could redistribute a percentage of their profits to give to the local Indigenous groups or rehabilitate the lands or create more sustainability in their supply chains.
Instead of moving their profits offshore to avoid taxes and lobbying for more corporate welfare, they could choose instead to be a force for good by supporting a living wage in their community or pushing for reparations to Black communities.
The problem is greed.
Society glorifies billionaires and excess. They are rewarded with tax breaks and corporate welfare for being ‘job creators,’ while insisting historically disenfranchised individuals are forced to pull themselves up by their bootstraps…
But, it doesn’t have to be this way!
You can be a part of the solution. And it starts here, right now.
Through deep conversations, exploration, and intentional strategy, we can step into post-capitalist paradigms while remaining aware of and acknowledging our own needs to make a living in the world.
As we move into life, work, and relationships beyond capitalism, we need places of possibility, vision, and space holders to grow something new.
Introducing
Sowing Post-Capitalist Seeds for Business
A place to explore the history of how we got here, understand how events, beliefs, and laws impact us, and how to navigate towards a regenerative business going forward.
Perfect For: Business owners, community organizers, and non-profit founders—anyone who works with teams, clients, and communities who are ready to engage in new post-capitalist ways can all benefit from this course.
Inside this course you’ll:
- Learn historically, how did we get here, to late-stage capitalism.
- Understand how the indoctrination of capitalism shapes us as business owners.
- Experience a hands-on space for us to learn to navigate your business in a new way.
- Recognize the roots and history of capitalism
- (Re)evaluate where you are in kyriarchy (linkages between power and oppression)
- Gain clarity on where we are in our own ecosystems, niches, and cosmos (these spaces are often rich for amelioration and attention)
- Cultivate practices around grief & gratitude and create supportive rituals and rhythms
- Contemplate prompts for reflection to face the truths of the world without turning away
- Embrace anti-capitalist practices throughout our relationships, projects, and communities
- Connect with other rad people in their exploration and praxis in community with others.
What’s Inside Sowing Post-Capitalist Seeds for Business:
Module 1: Introductions and Planting Seeds - We will start our journey together in planting our seeds of intention and diving into the curriculum.
Module 2: The Roots of Capitalism - Exploring how capitalism impacts business, historically and in this moment.
Module 3: Reclaiming Ourselves from the Legacy of Colonialism - In this module, we'll look at the ongoing impact of colonialism.
Module 4: Grieving & Releasing - In this week, we'll explore ways we can bring grief and ritual into our work.
Module 5: Integrate/ Q&A - Our first of two integration weeks where we'll have space to explore and discuss.
Module 6: Finding Our Place - In this week, we'll dive into finding the ecosystem and niches of your business within the wider conversation.
Module 7: Mutual Aid: From Theory to Praxis - We'll be exploring how to use and participate in mutual aid as a business or non-profit.
Module 8: Bodies, Relationships, and Labour - This week we look at bodies and labour and the ways they intersect in business.
Module 9: Team Building - We will be exploring ways to create an inclusive environment for you, your team, your customers, and the wider community.
Module 10: Integrate/ Q&A - This is our second integration week for questions, discussions, feedback within the group.
Module 11: Money & Profit, In this week, we will look at how our ethics around financials can be anti-capitalist.
Module 12: Land Ethic and Decolonization, We will explore the importance of land ethic, decolonization, and Earth's resources in how we do our work.
Module 13: Cooperative Approaches to Business and Community In our penultimate week, we will dive into the powers of collectivism and keeping pressure on the government and industry to meet the needs of the community.
Module 14: Carrying Our Seeds into the World In this last week of the course, we will share what seeds we have planted in our business and beyond, and explore ways we can continue to make an impact.
What you’ll Get:
- 14 Live Calls* (Value: £1400)
- Pre-recorded Modules* (Value: £1000)
- Bonuses
- A chance to share your praxis or case study via guest blog post and/or our upcoming podcast. (Value: £200)
- Alexis P. Morgan has generously created a resource called, A Bowl of Soup, a booklet and mini-workshop on magic and money for all Sowing Post Capitalist Participants. (Value: £200)
- Six Post-Capitalist Guideposts document written by Moriah & Anuradha (Value: £100)
Total Value £3,200
Regular Price: £1397
Introductory Price: £600/£799/£899 (for May 2022 cohort)
*All calls will include auto-generated closed captioning. In addition, all the modules and calls will be recorded, with closed captioning and transcripts available.
Course Details:
When: 14-Weeks Course, starts June 23, 2022.
14 Live calls 1 - 2:30 pm Eastern time via Zoom, Tuesdays, June 23 - September 22, 2022. Recordings, closed captioning, and transcripts will be available.
Place: Discussions on Mighty Networks.
Materials: Our curriculum is based on open source or publicly available articles and texts, our own practices and tools, and we will also be using some excerpts from the book Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici. We ask participants to purchase the book or use our Lending Library.
Investment: (Sliding Scale & Pay-What-You-Can)
We have a few payment options. We trust you to select the payment plan that works for you.
Introductory Price:
£899 (allows us to be fully paid for our labor)
£799 (allows us to be fully paid for our labor)
£600 - allows us to pay for
(covers the admin support for the course)
Pay-what-you-can, 1 BIPOC Scholarship and 2 Work-Trade opportunities once we reach 10 in our cohort.
Price starts at £40 (covers our basic administrative costs)
There is space for upto 16 business owners.
At the end of the course, you will experience a paradigm shift that will help you see endless possibilities of things that were never on your horizon, and empower you to make different choices about the way you do business. Instead of focusing on conventional or sustainable business models and approaches, you will embrace regenerative models that nourish you, your team, your customers, and your communities.
By undoing the indoctrination of colonialism and capitalism in how we run our businesses, we can be like trees holding each other below the surface of the ground, bracing and supporting new life. We need containers to grow seedlings of ideas into whole ecosystems, like micro-economies that can support all of us abundantly.
By undoing the indoctrination of colonialism and capitalism in how we run our businesses, we can be like trees holding each other below the surface of the ground, bracing and supporting new life. We need containers to grow seedlings of ideas into whole ecosystems, like micro-economies that can support all of us abundantly.
WHAT OUR PAST PARTICIPANTS HAVE SAID
'Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds utterly changed my relationship with capitalism and money. The seeds are still growing- but it shifted something deep inside me.'
- Meg Lightheart
'Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds was like Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. We time traveled with the ghosts of capitalism’s past, present and future and saw the chilling threads. We also saw the threads of resistance and possibility. We had the opportunity to reflect and share along the way.'
- Katie Manaras
'The Sowing Post-Capitalist Seeds Course will ground you in your scattered thoughts on how to be a good human this day in time. Anuradha and Moriah are excellent guides and teachers, providing a curriculum and course structure that is both full of resources, recommendations, tools for learning, live calls, and exercises, while at the same time is a place of non-judgement, flexibility and community. They do not just lecture, but share life experiences and perspectives and invite us to share as well. The work is intense and worth the commitment as I know more now about capitalism, its roots and how I, as little me, can create change in my own life and business that can ripple out and be a benefit in this life-time without the urgency to save the world all by myself!'
- Miranda Wildman
'I wish I could have continued having Moriah and Anuradha as teachers forever. I’ve never encountered teachers that deliver such a complex and often heavy subject matter in such a manner that it created space and movement within me, rather than weighing me down. This is what teaching looks like outside of the cisheteropatriarchal, white supremacist, capitalist paradigm. I found the course healing and empowering and some months down the line, much of what I learned in the course has become an essential part of my personal practice of anti-capitalism.'
- Emma Moody
- Meg Lightheart
'Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds was like Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”. We time traveled with the ghosts of capitalism’s past, present and future and saw the chilling threads. We also saw the threads of resistance and possibility. We had the opportunity to reflect and share along the way.'
- Katie Manaras
'The Sowing Post-Capitalist Seeds Course will ground you in your scattered thoughts on how to be a good human this day in time. Anuradha and Moriah are excellent guides and teachers, providing a curriculum and course structure that is both full of resources, recommendations, tools for learning, live calls, and exercises, while at the same time is a place of non-judgement, flexibility and community. They do not just lecture, but share life experiences and perspectives and invite us to share as well. The work is intense and worth the commitment as I know more now about capitalism, its roots and how I, as little me, can create change in my own life and business that can ripple out and be a benefit in this life-time without the urgency to save the world all by myself!'
- Miranda Wildman
'I wish I could have continued having Moriah and Anuradha as teachers forever. I’ve never encountered teachers that deliver such a complex and often heavy subject matter in such a manner that it created space and movement within me, rather than weighing me down. This is what teaching looks like outside of the cisheteropatriarchal, white supremacist, capitalist paradigm. I found the course healing and empowering and some months down the line, much of what I learned in the course has become an essential part of my personal practice of anti-capitalism.'
- Emma Moody
COURSE DETAILS
When: 14-Weeks Course, starts May 10, 2022. Applications close May 15, 2022.
14 Live calls 6:00 - 7:30 pm BST/1 - 2:30 pm Eastern time via Zoom. Recordings, closed captioning, and transcripts will be available.
Place: Discussions on Mighty Networks and Learn (Thrive Cart).
Materials: Our curriculum is based on open source or publicly available articles and texts, our own practices and tools, and we will also be using some excerpts from the book Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici. We ask participants to purchase the book or use our Lending Library.
Investment: (Sliding Scale & Pay-What-You-Can)
We have a few payment options. We trust you to select the payment plan that works for you and your organization.
Investment:
£900 (covers our guest speakers fees, scholarships)
£800 (covers the admin support for the course and covers our costs like the website, Mighty Networks, Zoom)
BIPOC Scholarships or Work-Trade Positions, Pay-what-you-can starting at £40 (covers basic course administration)
Other payment details:
Read more about our economic and accessibility statement to understand our philosophy. For this cohort we will have real time closed captioning provided by Otter.ai and transcriptions available afterward. All calls are recorded and available to re-watch in the Mighty Networks forum. In addition, we will be donating a minimum of £150 to a mutual aid efforts.
Read our FAQs and what our past participants have said.
14 Live calls 6:00 - 7:30 pm BST/1 - 2:30 pm Eastern time via Zoom. Recordings, closed captioning, and transcripts will be available.
Place: Discussions on Mighty Networks and Learn (Thrive Cart).
Materials: Our curriculum is based on open source or publicly available articles and texts, our own practices and tools, and we will also be using some excerpts from the book Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici. We ask participants to purchase the book or use our Lending Library.
Investment: (Sliding Scale & Pay-What-You-Can)
We have a few payment options. We trust you to select the payment plan that works for you and your organization.
Investment:
£900 (covers our guest speakers fees, scholarships)
£800 (covers the admin support for the course and covers our costs like the website, Mighty Networks, Zoom)
BIPOC Scholarships or Work-Trade Positions, Pay-what-you-can starting at £40 (covers basic course administration)
Other payment details:
- All of these have payment plans (we don't add any additional costs to the payment plans). Payments will be handled in GBP. Exchange rates may vary.
- Outside of those options, if you would like to propose an alternate payment plan send it to us here.
- We have 1 Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Scholarships available. We have 2 Work-Trade positions available. For the work trade, you'll be supporting cleaning up the transcripts on Otter.ai and similar types of tasks. Make a note in the application if you would like to be considered for these options, they are first come, first served. They will be a pay-what-you-can option, starting at £40 to cover the basic administration of the course.
Read more about our economic and accessibility statement to understand our philosophy. For this cohort we will have real time closed captioning provided by Otter.ai and transcriptions available afterward. All calls are recorded and available to re-watch in the Mighty Networks forum. In addition, we will be donating a minimum of £150 to a mutual aid efforts.
Read our FAQs and what our past participants have said.
ABOUT THE GUEST SPEAKERS
We'll be announcing our Guest Speakers closer to the course start date.
WHAT OUR PAST PARTICIPANTS HAVE SAID
'I can see how capitalist resistance is not only possible, but already a part of how I've been living my life. I can now dig into those practices, lifestyle choices, projects with full abandon, knowing that my role in creating the new world after capitalism is being fulfilled in the things I find most joy in. If you have a feeling you don't like capitalism, but you can't pinpoint or explain exactly why, join this program! It has brought me so much clarity and given me the language I was missing to explain why I'm interested in creating something beyond capitalism.
Anuradha and Moriah are amazing, caring, thoughtful facilitators who model what post-capitalistic living can look like.'
- Lilly Piedra
'This course is super helpful if you are looking for a broad introduction to anti-capitalist thinking. The very structure of the course embodies the ideas they are promoting, and creates a safe space to fumble towards a new world together. This course is a journey through and beyond all the ways capitalism touches our lives, with fellow travelers who are committed to seeing the possibilities beyond it. I was impressed by the amount of trust that was able to be built over Zoom in our group.'
- Murphy Robinson
'It was the most thought-provoking and challenging material I've had in my life since college. I think about feminism, racism, capitalism, appropriation, community resilience and oppression completely different now that I've taken this class. I love the dynamic between Anuradha and Moriah. They are great teachers, both challenging and kind.'
- Sarah Wineberg