How Meditation Can Improve Your Social Entrepreneurship

The School for the Future's ongoing 6 week pilot course, Virtue and Value, is built to train you in both the entrepreneurship skills and the self-transformation skills to make you as effective as possible in getting your company off the ground. The course participants have already made significant progress on their ventures (more details on the results of the pilot when it ends in a few weeks).

Part of this progress has been due to the meditation practices we've been doing together. So I thought it appropriate to share the practices we've been doing, how they fit into building successful social ventures, and our current hypotheses about why they're helpful.

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Zach Schlosser
Effective Campaign Design

The School for the Future's first activism course will be Effective Campaign Design,  facilitated by Roger Hallam, a veteran Wales- and London-based activist, Ph.D. student at King's College London studying the strategies of historical social change movements, and long-time social entrepreneur and organic farmer.

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Zach Schlosser
Ownership and Governance Principles for the School for the Future

In this summary document I outline the current intention for the ownership and governance structures of the School. The school is meant to model the worlds it is built to give birth to: worlds in which it is an ever-increasing pleasure to live while contributing ever more value to others. Our goal is to choose an organizational structure that will best contribute to toward ever-increasing flourishing in the world. To achieve this the school  has adopted the following principles for the governance and ownership of the school:

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Zach Schlosser