Cost sharing

In a cost sharing workshop this week, we killed two birds with one stone. 

1. Introduction to a collaborative way of sharing costs, and
2. Pay for the course

We started off with some exercises to get us collaborating and organising in general. Then there was a fun creative process for helping us to reduce the sense of power money has.

We then got in to small groups to talk about our family background with money and any financial responsibilities we have.

After that each group discussed amongst themselves how much they thought the course cost the organisers / and how much they thought they could afford. We took those group figures back to the whole group and added it up. Then the organisers put up the actual amount. Our combined amount was $400 higher. Pretty close!!

We went away and reviewed our amounts based on what we’d come back with and got even closer.

Outcome: The course is paid for based on what people felt they could pay while managing power and financial dynamics in a really healthy way. We also chose to assign the surplus we gave to improvements around the house.

Thoughts: I'll have to give this one a try some time!