The Problem
If you’re like me, you long for a community, though you may not know it.
You want a space to connect with others: to be nurtured, to be held accountable, and to create ideas and praxis as we reach towards a post capitalist future together.
You want a community of care.
You want a space to connect with others: to be nurtured, to be held accountable, and to create ideas and praxis as we reach towards a post capitalist future together.
You want a community of care.
What Does That Mean?
Instead of spaces built with a hierarchical focus, we’re moving towards building a space where we co-create, self-organize, and build consensus.
Instead of a boy’s club or girl boss club or a rah-rah-get-it-done club, we’re moving towards a space where the only right way to do things is the way that works with and for your full self while serving your communities, not just yourself or your bottom line.
Instead of a space that centers whiteness, enforces the gender binary, and overlooks disability, neurodivergence, and mental health; we’re moving towards centering those oppressed identities and needs, to make sure the most marginalized can and will be heard.
Instead of a leadership or administrative team that makes decisions without accountability or addressing systems of oppression, thinking that employing token staff or members of the group suffices, leaving community members not being heard, we’re moving towards a space where we are the leaders.
Instead of a boy’s club or girl boss club or a rah-rah-get-it-done club, we’re moving towards a space where the only right way to do things is the way that works with and for your full self while serving your communities, not just yourself or your bottom line.
Instead of a space that centers whiteness, enforces the gender binary, and overlooks disability, neurodivergence, and mental health; we’re moving towards centering those oppressed identities and needs, to make sure the most marginalized can and will be heard.
Instead of a leadership or administrative team that makes decisions without accountability or addressing systems of oppression, thinking that employing token staff or members of the group suffices, leaving community members not being heard, we’re moving towards a space where we are the leaders.
An Invitation
As a former Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds: Foundation Course participant, we invite you to join us in The SPCS Alumni Community.
Our Membership Community is Built Upon These Pillars:
A common starting point.
Everyone invited to this space has or will participate in the Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds: Foundation or Business course where we focused on answering the question: How can we thrive in our lives, work, relationships, and communities as we integrate the praxis of anti-capitalism?
This means all of us have a common background of information grounded in post capitalist thinking and praxis. We will continue to dive into our initial question while extending our conversation to bring in current ways to embody and create change in our communities.
We all have a commitment to post capitalism and collective liberation in this space.
People centered.
We’ll be looking to your needs as we create programming and make decisions for how the space works.
We’re moving away from algorithm-based spaces like Facebook and Google, where often only the most popular people or those best aligned with privilege get heard, instead of all of us.
We’ll be embedding accessibility into our praxis, centering the needs of the members that show up. We’ll have closed captions, transcripts, various ways to engage and participate, and bring in tools to make things easier to connect.
Strategy focused, practical.
With a common language and starting point, we can dive right into discussion, embodying the praxis we would like to see in the world. We aim to make space for focused discussion and reflection, balanced with practical solutionizing, and learning from what works in other movements.
Uplifting voices that are often ignored or silenced.
We look to people around the world working and fighting to build participatory and liberated communities. We center the voices of people marginalized by global systems of supremacy: Black, Indigenous, and people of color, people who are queer, trans, impoverished, undocumented, disabled, neurodivergent, fat, and sex workers who are fighting for the rights of all.
In Summary
Moriah Helms and Anuradha Kowtha are merely the facilitators, structure creators, and space holders; the leadership and direction comes from all of us.
Consistently, people have said the SPCS community was enriching and we’ve seen many connections form between the participants. Here’s your chance to join this community as we sow our seeds for the future, together.
Everyone invited to this space has or will participate in the Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds: Foundation or Business course where we focused on answering the question: How can we thrive in our lives, work, relationships, and communities as we integrate the praxis of anti-capitalism?
This means all of us have a common background of information grounded in post capitalist thinking and praxis. We will continue to dive into our initial question while extending our conversation to bring in current ways to embody and create change in our communities.
We all have a commitment to post capitalism and collective liberation in this space.
People centered.
We’ll be looking to your needs as we create programming and make decisions for how the space works.
We’re moving away from algorithm-based spaces like Facebook and Google, where often only the most popular people or those best aligned with privilege get heard, instead of all of us.
We’ll be embedding accessibility into our praxis, centering the needs of the members that show up. We’ll have closed captions, transcripts, various ways to engage and participate, and bring in tools to make things easier to connect.
Strategy focused, practical.
With a common language and starting point, we can dive right into discussion, embodying the praxis we would like to see in the world. We aim to make space for focused discussion and reflection, balanced with practical solutionizing, and learning from what works in other movements.
Uplifting voices that are often ignored or silenced.
We look to people around the world working and fighting to build participatory and liberated communities. We center the voices of people marginalized by global systems of supremacy: Black, Indigenous, and people of color, people who are queer, trans, impoverished, undocumented, disabled, neurodivergent, fat, and sex workers who are fighting for the rights of all.
In Summary
Moriah Helms and Anuradha Kowtha are merely the facilitators, structure creators, and space holders; the leadership and direction comes from all of us.
Consistently, people have said the SPCS community was enriching and we’ve seen many connections form between the participants. Here’s your chance to join this community as we sow our seeds for the future, together.
What it includes:
- A monthly Community Session
A monthly 90-minute community session, with a discussion prompt, space for meet & greet breakouts, and timely announcements, opportunities, and action items. The session schedule will vary in order to support multiple time zones.
- A monthly 15 minute check in with Anuradha
A monthly-check in with Anuradha via Zoom.
- Community Chat on Signal
We’re starting a new community exclusively for Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds members. You’ll have a chance to ask questions, share your praxis, and connect with the community in an on-going way.
- A chance to be featured on our podcast/blog/newsletter
When we get these items launched in 2022, you’ll have a chance to be featured or interviewed about your amazing projects or work.
- Quarterly Workshop or Training
We’ll be hosting guest speakers and other conversations as webinars, workshops, and trainings over the year. These will be open to the public as a paid ticket event, for you, they will be free to attend. If we record these events, you’ll have access to them in the membership portal.
- Invitation to an Annual Retreat or other events
We’d love to start an annual live or virtual retreat. You’ll be invited to all of our retreats at a discounted price for membership participants.
- Occasional gifts or notes
We’ll occasionally surprise you with notes or messages, gifts, and other tokens of appreciation and support.
We’re excited to have you join us. Let’s continue to sow post capitalist seeds for the future, together.
A monthly 90-minute community session, with a discussion prompt, space for meet & greet breakouts, and timely announcements, opportunities, and action items. The session schedule will vary in order to support multiple time zones.
- A monthly 15 minute check in with Anuradha
A monthly-check in with Anuradha via Zoom.
- Community Chat on Signal
We’re starting a new community exclusively for Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds members. You’ll have a chance to ask questions, share your praxis, and connect with the community in an on-going way.
- A chance to be featured on our podcast/blog/newsletter
When we get these items launched in 2022, you’ll have a chance to be featured or interviewed about your amazing projects or work.
- Quarterly Workshop or Training
We’ll be hosting guest speakers and other conversations as webinars, workshops, and trainings over the year. These will be open to the public as a paid ticket event, for you, they will be free to attend. If we record these events, you’ll have access to them in the membership portal.
- Invitation to an Annual Retreat or other events
We’d love to start an annual live or virtual retreat. You’ll be invited to all of our retreats at a discounted price for membership participants.
- Occasional gifts or notes
We’ll occasionally surprise you with notes or messages, gifts, and other tokens of appreciation and support.
We’re excited to have you join us. Let’s continue to sow post capitalist seeds for the future, together.
Investment:
Sliding Scale £240 - £480 / year (app $325 - $650 USD)
- Introductory pricing, join before May 1, to lock in this price for the lifetime of your subscription.
- Payments will be handled in GBP. Approximate USD conversion at time of publishing - please check current conversion rates. Exchange rate calculated on Jan 7, 2022.
- Annual or Monthly membership subscriptions available.
- Get in touch with us here for accessible/Global South pricing or to arrange a work-trade.
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