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A 12-week community-building companion ​experience that throws out the traditional ​predefined content delivered by an expert and ​embraces a mix of right-on-time expert guidance, ​small group mentoring, and curated resources, all in ​the midst of the daily grind.

So that you can apply what you learn to your ​project tomorrow, not "one day".

Two pods available.

Each pod has only five spots.

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A learning experience that gathers five ​other professionals that are busy planning, ​building, or nurturing an internal ​community of learning and practice within ​their company.

The journey starts with a 1:1 individual ​audit of your current community-building ​stage, challenges, and blockers.

Once that's mapped out, you’ll get access ​to several videos and a Miro board, and ​you’ll have two weeks to work through ​them at your own pace.

After the audit and the content, you’ll have ​clear focus areas to work on, and we’ll ​meet every two weeks to strategically ​support your progress through advice, ​feedback, sense-making, mentoring, and ​coaching.

And the best part? You'll benefit not only ​from one person's experience and ​expertise, but from five other peers ​working on similar projects.

The content will be carefully curated to ​cater to your particular challenge and ​context and accessible asynchronously, ​assuring that the information you need ​reaches you exactly when you need it. ​You'll have lifetime access to a Notion ​resources database.

Between the live group session, you will ​apply the tools, frameworks, and steps we ​defined together. And don't worry if you hit ​a wall in between sessions: you can use ​our Slack community to ask questions and ​get unstuck.

What is this not?

A structured course with "an expert" sharing a predefined curriculum that doesn't adapt to your current challenges, priorities, and needs.

I enjoyed a complex learning experience, in terms of different ​learning "ingredients" involved—consultancy, best practices sharing, ​well facilitated concepts, learning technical tools, nice vibes—with a ​notable impact if you are building a community right now.

—Ramona Baetelu, Senior Organizational Development Business ​Partner at OTP Bank Romania

experience timeline

To offer the right balance between ​support and autonomy, I've crafted a ​learning journey that combines a variety ​of different formats, for different needs.

Online live sessions are always planned ​on Mondays:

—Group 1: starting 09:30 GMT+2

—Group 2: starting 16:00 GMT+2

Week 1

Async + 1h online

1:1 Community Audit

We’ll start with a 1:1 hour to deep dive into your ​community based on an audit framework you ​will benchmark your community against in ​advance.

This will help us identify the main challenges, ​and decide what you’ll be focusing on first.

Week 2

09:00—11:00

16:00—17:30

Kick off workshop in your pod

We kick off with a connection and focus ​workshop, to meet your pod-mates, and learn ​what everyone will be working on.

Weeks 3 and 4

Async in Miro

Async content deep dive

Based on your individual goals, you’ll watch ​several videos as I will take you through ​different frameworks like community ​foundations, strategy, member journey ​mapping, and community engagement.

Then, you’ll work through the frameworks on a ​Miro board, to make sense of what you are ​learning and apply it to your community.

Weeks 5, 7, 9 and 11

9:30—11:30

16:00—18:00

Pod Braintrust Session

Based on your individual goals what you’ll ​discover through the audit and the content, ​you will start applying and making progress in ​your daily job.

We will meet every two weeks, for two-hour ​sessions, in which you’ll bring concrete ​challenges and get unstuck by tapping into the ​collective brain of your pod.

Week 12

9:30—11:00

16:00—17:30

Celebration

We close with a celebratory session, and look ​back at the progress we’ve made.

I highly recommend this course for anybody building communities for ​work or outside of work. It has accelerated my learning tenfold and ​actually made me feel confident saying that I am a community ​builder.

—Sophie August, Global Community Lead at Baker Hughes

WHO IS THIS FOR?

For anyone currently building or planning to launch a community of learning or practice within a company or NGO.(*)

For those leading an Employee Resource Groups.

For those building or planning to launch a community alongside an internal Talent Academy, or Leadership Program.

(*) If you build a user community ​around a product, this isn't for you.

What you'll get:

YOUR ​COMMITMENT:

You'll commit to applying the practical ​insights, tips, and strategies we land on ​during the sync live sessions so that you can ​make real on-the-job progress.

Your investment:

Anamaria's sessions are "Buy-1-Get-1-Free".

Most people signup for the content she is sharing. But the real value lies in subconsciously learning how she facilitates.

—Winston L., Global Sales Enablement-China Adobe

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NEXT STEPS:

I can't wait to meet you!

I'm Anamaria, and I combine 10+ years of experience as ​HR Business Partner for a multinational retail ​corporation, with 5+ years experience as Learning and ​Development Manager, Facilitator and Community ​Builder in start-ups and scale-ups.

I have been building global communities of learning and ​practice for the past five years.

I've built the L&D Shakers Community (6,000+ members) ​and the Butter Community (1,800+ members) from the ​ground up, and I approach the design process through a ​human-centered and co-created lens.

I designed this experience to be everything I needed ​when I stumbled into the world of community building so ​that your journey can be a little smoother.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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