SelfCity – Collective governance, innovation and creativity in the face of climate change

Tools for self organization

Guidebook

Here you can find helpful tips and materials to keep your initiative running. This guidebook provides answers to questions you will stumble over at different times while working at your initiative. That’s why we follow a life-cycle of order of an initiative: from the first idea of an individual to the foundation of the initiative further to the collective organisation and professionalisation and finally to the cooperation with others and the evaluation of your own work.

Activation & Motivation

Let’s start: You want to realize your ideas? Here you will find useful tips for the foundation of an initiative: other members, motivation (especially when you loose it), development of …

Collaboration & Management

A good collaboration of an initiative will not happen automatically: How to detect/identify needs and skills of each member, to find a collective language, create decision– and communication processes in …

Professionalizing

In some cases, it is useful to transform a voluntarily sustained initiative into a formal corporation/company. Here you can learn more about requirements to professionalize, the right choice about the …

Cooperation & Networking

You can always achieve more when you gather with like-minded people and/or supporter. Cooperation – with authorities, science, economy or media – needs permanent professional attention. Umbrella organizations and networks …

Learn & Reflect

It is very important to arrange time for a systematic learning process and reflection of your done work. Only in this way your initiative will develop profoundly. Here you will …