7 Principles For Thriving Cooperatives

7 Principles For Thriving Cooperatives
Last updated 3/2025
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How to make your cooperative venture highly effective and abundant. avoiding pitfalls and encouraging authentic growth.

What you’ll learn

How to run an effective cooperative

3 principles that are damaging to cooperatives and communities

7 principles for thriving cooperatives

Analyse and understand what could be improved in your cooperative or community

Requirements

This is for idealistic people working on starting cooperatives or getting involved in cooperative leadership. It assumes you have little experience, but a lot of heart.

Description

This is a course that covers a series of basic principles for cooperative management and leadership. The principles draw heavily on the Progressive Utilisation Theory, a theory of social change that is based in spiritual principles, and has some resemblance to permaculture on a very large scale. Those of you familiar with it will recognise some of the principles, but will perhaps not have thought of applying them in these ways. It also draws on my experience in resolving problems in cooperative and community organisations. The idea is that having seen the same mistakes being made many times by cooperators I would love to be able to help you to avoid the biggest mistakes and guide your coop in effective directions. This is just a short course in basic principles, but it should guide you in key practical and philosophical directions that should drastically reduce conflict and increase effectiveness as your cooperative venture develops.We will go over the 3 main principles that seem positive but lead to issues, and then a deeper dive into each of the 7 principles for thriving cooperatives. In each one you will be given some homework to analyse yourself and your cooperative or community from that perspective.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: 7 Principles for a thriving Cooperative

Lecture 2 Diversity

Lecture 3 Equity

Lecture 4 Wealth

Lecture 5 Cooperation

Lecture 6 Service

Lecture 7 Progress

Lecture 8 Leadership

Section 3: Conclusion

Lecture 9 In conclusion

Idealistic people who want to start co-ops or improve existing ones