003. Join The Society of World-Builders

TL;DR

We’re rolling out a membership experience and we’d love to have you. Join as a Founding Member and get $300 of a group trip every year as well as first priority booking for Common Healing experiences. You’ll have the ability to request travel intel from myself and fellow travelers in our chat. For a limited time, new Founding Members get 20% off forever.

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World-Building w/ Friends at Big Deep in Woodstock, NY on 35mm by Analise (July 2022)

I want my days to be filled with connection. Dreams of living in community on land moved me into solidarity economics after undergrad. As soon as I learned about cooperatives, I was sold. I became deeply committed to the idea of shared ownership.

I’d like to explore what the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model looks like when applied to group travel. In a CSA, a community pays up front for a share of a local farmer’s harvest that is distributed to them over the course of a season. Community support of the farm helps manage the variables and share the risks of farming so the farmer doesn’t bear it all.

The cost of producing group trips is high and that leads to high prices for travelers. The risks associated with curating and hosting group trips include the 10-50% deposit I put down to secure vendors and suppliers for the dates of a trip much farther in advance than my ideal travelers are usually ready to book. International transactions often incur fees and suppliers steal. It takes many months to coordinate logistics and operations of the trip on the ground is 16+ hour days for 7-10 days straight.

I’m clear I’d like to spend my days researching, curating group trips, and storytelling. The purpose remains cultivating an international network of cultural workers in reciprocal relationship with one another. From cultural workers meeting and committing to the embodied practice of cooperative futures, I trust only greatness can follow.

To hold some of the risk of these group trips with me, you’re invited to buy into this society of travelers (and future commune?!) as a Founding Member annually, helping us guarantee at least 3 group trips a year and increasing the value of our visual and audio productions. You can cancel at anytime.

For $200/year, Founding Members receive:

1. $300 off one group trip annually

2. First priority booking for new group trips and travel experiences

3. Permission to start threads and request travel intel from myself and travelers in our chat

For $7/month or $70/year, General Members receive:

1. First priority booking for new group trips and travel experiences

2. Permission to start threads and request travel intel from myself and travelers in our chat

I’m running a celebratory launch promotion where you can join as a Founding Member for 20% off forever.

Thanks for being here,

Analise