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We had a great workshop Wednesday! Very informal and very fruitful. The topic was Making Front Yard Gardens. TimeBank member Christopher Daly offered to create a Front Yard Garden project so we co-led yesterday’s workshop, along with Mary Girard (DCTB Board member) who had organized our previous Garden Projects. We had around 20 participants representing…
We held a Builders Workshop, the 20th in our 2 year (nearly-) monthly work and learn series, last Wed. January 28. The title was “Mutual Aid in Dane County and Beyond” and the focus was on how work in and around Dane County TimeBank is coalescing in ways that make us ripe to go granular,…
Hello! This post is a bit overdue, simply because there’s so much exciting yet time-consuming work to do on the ground that I’m having a hard time getting to the reporting-about-it part. So… the last two Builders’ Workshops: BW #18 was about project facilitation, and we just kept it low-key, only promoting it to…
The topic of the July 23 Builders Workshop #17 was: How can we build a cooperative economy that better addresses issues of housing and homelessness? We invited people to this workshop largely through those coordinating our work in the various projects we work with that pertain to issues of homelessness. I didn’t send a press…
hello! On Wednesday June 25, 4-6pm we held Builders Workshop #16 on how Mutual Aid Networks can redesign work and build a regenerative economy. I had the pleasure of co-presenting with new Time For the World/Mutual Aid Networks Co-Coordinator Chris Petit, who wrote these notes: Our June builder’s workshop was focused on Mutual Aid Networks…
Our April Builders Workshop centered on how to use timebanking to better meet our transportation needs. We had about a dozen people in attendance. Kristin Sage began with this slide presentation about how transportation exchanges currently work within Dane County TimeBank. Carmen Smith, visiting PhD student from Bath University in England, graciously took notes. I…
Hello Last Wednesday we held our March Builders Workshop, Increasing Capacity in Your Organization. This was geared toward helping our timebank’s organization members to better connect with each other and timebank members at large, in order to fulfill their mission as robustly as possible while facing the same funding shortages common to most of us…
This year’s Builders Workshops will be more focused on the work session piece. Our first workshop was geared toward helping us to develop software teams. While we had a fairly small group of participants, they represented a wide variety of skills and interests, so we made some good progress! We’re viewing the work as four…
Hello all As usual, we had a very stimulating discussion during the latest Builders’ Workshop. We had 14 participants representing these interest areas and organizations. Marc and I started by talking about our presentation from the Int’l Complementary Currencies Conference in the Hague. We shortened some of the theory stuff and added a few slides…
Hello! We’ve had a very eventful few weeks here. This report will cover our Wisconsin statewide gathering Time For a Healthy Wisconsin: How TimeBanking and other Cooperative Practices Can Help Build a Healthier State, plus the following week’s Deep Dive Discussion: How we’ll apply what we’ve learned and Tech Collaboration Lunch Discussion. We chose to…