Cohado® and the Startup Champions Network present the Cohado® Ecosystem Culture Challenge to ecosystem builders across the country and beyond. This proven evolutionary approach to building and strengthening dynamic and emergent culture will be held in the Fall of 2024. This 8 session program is designed for individuals stewarding communities and ecosystems where the desire is to foster sustainable and reciprocal relationships characterized by respect and trust.

Program Kick off: Monday, October 7

The program meets weekly for 8 weeks. Two hours each session

Who Should Join

We view ecosystem builders as individuals serving as community stewards. They are natural connectors — in their essence, community organizers are dedicated to bridging the resources to the needs, are gatherers of new resources, and co-generators of resilient and flexible models and structures that support those most marginalized from access. They are collaborators, committed to ensuring the voices that the systems created to support are at the center of solution-building. 

Those joining will be in a central stewardship role within the ecosystem they represent. The ecosystem may be new to formation, or established and desiring to evolve to be more inclusive and/or cohesive. Individuals seeking to be a part of this cohort must have a commitment to engage members of their ecosystem regularly throughout this challenge.

What is the Structure of the Challenge?

  • Theme: Seeding Regenerative Culture

  • 8 Weeks including one Hybrid Session at SCN Bay Area Summit. Sessions will begin on October 7 and culminate on November 25 with a reflection and application session on December 2nd.

  • Number of Participants: 14

  • Weekly 2 hour zoom sessions

  • One hybrid session at SCN Bay Area

  • “Audit” of ecosystem in advance of start of program

  • Anticipated 1-3 hours weekly ecosystem engagement related to the content of each session

  • Development and presentation of Ecosystem Jumpstart Strategy at the close of the program

  • One virtual ecosystem coaching session following the culmination of the program

LEARNING OUTCOMES

  • Deepened understanding of the challenging process of building community and ecosystem culture

  • Results from the ecosystem Audit to share with ecosystem members and to apply throughout the program

  • Real-time application of these processes within the local ecosystem

  • A safe environment to practice and explore skills and challenges experienced within the ecosystem

  • Sustained relationships with other cohort members as allies and colleagues

  • Concrete facilitative tools that can be applied toward collaborative planning in a

  • Wide variety of contexts

  • An Opus 1 Cohado® set for use in the ecosystem

  • Access to Virtual Cohado® multiplayer platform

Participant Investment

  • SCN Members: $4,000

  • Non-members: $5,000

* If you are committed to this work and need financial support, please reach out to CohadoConnect@gmail.com.

Instructor: Paulo Gregory Harris

Paulo serves as Chair of our Intercultural Unity (ICU) committee. He is the inventor of Cohado, a flexible design structure and tool to understand collaborative and sustainable design. Paulo is also the President of Cohado Consulting, a social enterprise dedicated to leveling the economic game through developing models and vehicles for economic ascension of economically starved communities, and the Director of Ignoma Foundation, whose mission is to develop sustainable solutions to poverty. He recently launched the Black Butterfly Network and Exchange in Baltimore (more about that here).