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Strategy session hosted at #BASE2020 Speaker: Lana Jelenjev, BASE Co-founder Check out the site: https://baseconference.amsterdam/ Follow us: https://www.linkedin.com/company/base-scale-up-conference/ Powered by SPIN Ideas: https://spinideas.nl/

Businesses that are running on the triple bottom line people, planet, profit of John Elkington, are companies who have moved from surface-level community interactions and stepped in as businesses with broader community impact, accountability to the local community and champions of social good. These businesses are not run for the sole purpose of generating personal profit for shareholders. Rather, these are enterprises who espouse a set of values that highlight growing the company in, by, and for their respective communities. These are companies who firmly believe that tight-knit and engaged communities can powerfully address social problems than traditional policies and programs. These are companies who have redesigned their businesses as communities. The crucial steps in redesigning businesses as communities involve shifting our mindsets from transactional to transformational practices, from personal gains to community gains, and from leadership to “communityship”. Join Lana Jelenjev, co-author of Community Builders: Designing Communities for Change as she closes this year's Community Builder's Summit with a talk around "The Future of Human Centric Companies". ABOUT Lana Jelenjev Lana Jelenjev is a community alchemist and learning design specialist with a solid background in training and education. She is the author of Community Builder: Designing Communities for Change and The 90 Day Action Planner, a Kickstarter backed planner for creative entrepreneurs. Lana provides support in various areas related to ideation, curriculum design, community building and personal development. Lana is an avid firestarter, having co-founded initiatives like Neurodiversity Education Academy, an online platform providing awareness, education and support for teachers, parents and students on the topic of Neurodiversity. She is also a co-founder of Shift Foundation, an organisation for real life learning and awareness based collective action. Lana also established Community Rituals, a training and support platform to enable leaders to understand the language of rituals in communities. Supporting fellow community weavers, transformational leaders and impact driven NGOs, Lana also launched Community Alchemy, an online learning and mastermind program focused on designing communities for change and is the co-founder of Community Builders' Summit.

Community safety does not only revolve around physical safety. It also encompasses the perception members have on their emotional safety. Community safety allows for members who are engaged, who are keen to participate, and members who are able to express themselves. Another layer to expand on this notion of safe space is the understanding that, along with safe spaces we also need to create brave spaces for our members to fully show up. In safe spaces, member can explore ideas and express themselves without feeling marginalized. In brave spaces, full and equitable expression and participation from all the social identity groups are intentionally designed. How might we cultivate spaces where everyone actively participates and where the ability to share stories and experiences are equitable for everyone? ABOUT Anya Pearse from Let the Love In Anya is an intuitive adviser, compassion-focused positive psychology educator and consultant, and Head of Positive Psychology at The Museum of Happiness, where she co-facilitates their Certified Happiness Facilitator Training. She is consolidating her interest in “the science of what makes life worth living” with an MSc in Applied Positive Psychology, focusing on the concept of “self-as-instrument” - how our own qualities of attention, openness and presence impact others and create our first intervention - in her final year. ABOUT Lana Jelenjev Lana Jelenjev is a community alchemist and learning design specialist with a solid background in training and education. She is the author of Community Builder: Designing Communities for Change and The 90 Day Action Planner, a Kickstarter backed planner for creative entrepreneurs. Lana provides support in various areas related to ideation, curriculum design, community building and personal development. Lana is an avid firestarter, having co-founded initiatives like Neurodiversity Education Academy, an online platform providing awareness, education and support for teachers, parents and students on the topic of Neurodiversity. She is also a co-founder of Shift Foundation, an organisation for real life learning and awareness based collective action. Lana also established Community Rituals, a training and support platform to enable leaders to understand the language of rituals in communities. Supporting fellow community weavers, transformational leaders and impact driven NGOs, Lana also launched Community Alchemy, an online learning and mastermind program focused on designing communities for change and is the co-founder of Community Builders' Summit.

CMX is the world's largest network of community professionals. Our mission is to help community professionals thrive through world-class tools, training, and resources. CMXHub: www.cmxhub.com Join the conversation: https://cmxhub.com/community/ Get the newsletter: http://cmxhub.com/subscribe Join an event: http://events.cmxhub.com/ ____________________________ In order to identify, activate and support the different pathways for community engagement, we first need to identify the various stakeholders in the community. Understanding who we are designing for can amplify the inherent strengths within the community, find solutions to meet their pressing needs, and invite others to collaborate and be engaged in the community. In this interactive workshop, Lana will share tools from her book "Community Builder: Designing Communities for Change" About the Speaker: Lana Jelenjev Dream See Do Lana Jelenjev is the Director for Learning and Community Design for Dream See Do, an online learning and community platform for transformational organizations, NGOs and community cultivators. She is the author of Community Builder: Designing Communities for Change and The 90 Day Action Planner. Lana is also actively involved with the Neurodiversity Foundation and Shift Foundation.