Don’t Accelerate Growth, Cultivate It.
Is your organization entering a season of accelerated growth and change? Are you excited about your potential but worried about compromising your founding purpose and culture?
Join us to learn how to CULTIVATE growth and create the conditions for long-term organizational health and resilience.
Applications are open for the 6-month online program until August 23rd, 2024.
A Practical Organizational Program Rooted in Living Systems
Excited about your potential for growth but worried about compromising your founding purpose and culture?
The With Life Cultivator is a 6-month program for late-stage start-ups and established organizations entering a period of significant growth. We will work together through 60+ hours of capacity building courses and workshops, 1:1 mentorship from experienced operators, access to proven operational frameworks and tools, and peer-to-peer learning opportunities.
Built upon the With Life Approach, an approach to organizing that holds the patterns of living systems at its foundation, our goal is to help you cultivate the conditions for long-term health and resilience within your organization.
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This program offered the space to zoom out and critically examine LESS's period of rapid growth and community food work through a living systems framework. By doing this with folk from across our network and then within LESS, and by bringing learnings and critical questions back to the LESS team, this programme has helped us gain group-wide clarity around our purpose and key values, and this in turn has allowed us to see where our processes and organisational assumptions could be better aligned with our deep purpose and a healthier work culture. This has all been supported through conversations with other programme participants and during peer-group discussions. It's been a real privilege participating and I would recommend this process to every organisation that has the ability to participate.
Anna Clayton
LESS Director and FoodFutures Coordinator
We applied to this program because our small business was growing. We wanted a way to feel we were doing our best to be regenerative in nature with an all aspects of our business as we grew. The process has been altering not just in our business, but also in our life. You will grow, emerge, and most likely change how you think of doing business in the best and most fundamental way possible. I couldn’t recommend this program more. It has changed and will continue to change how we move forward with our business.
Heather Skogerson
Owner, SKÖG Haus Coffee
I chose to join this program because I wanted our leaders and team to experience this and work together in these mindset shifts. I feel like this program really adds so much value. If you're questioning joining, definitely join!
Vail Dixon
Founder, Simple Soil Solutions
Our leadership team at Zero Dropouts is just finishing up the inaugural year-long Cultivator experience. We were looking for something to revitalize and bring our leadership team together and point the way to the future during a challenging transition period in our organization. nRhythm more than did this with access to their quality team members, an organizational health assessment, courses on design and leadership, access to courses on regenerative economics and finance, and teaming with 10-15 other organizations in the program looking for opportunities for transformation. I highly recommend this experience to bring your team to a different level, and help you cultivate the conditions to bring about health and emergent outcomes for you and your organization.
Steve Dobo
Founder & CEO, Zero Dropouts
Cultivating Begins With Creating the Conditions for What You Want
WE CREATE ORGANIZATION THAT HAVE
✓ Healthy growth ✓ Thriving teams ✓ Deep partnerships
✓ Dynamic products and programs ✓ Evolving business models
✓ Scalable operating structures
Learn how life-centered organizations nurture the conditions that create resilient and regenerative organizations with greater abundance and financial viability.
Meet Your Mentors
You'll be guided by our team of experienced mentors with expertise in executive leadership, fundraising, project management, law, sales, and business development, go-to-market strategy and more.
The Cultivator Program
DETAILS
The Cultivator is a combination of our private consulting expertise with the benefits of a 6-month online cohort-based program. A typical week may consist of a combination of capacity building workshops, meetings with your mentors, connection time with a cohort of value-aligned peers, and/or office hours. Plus, anything else the program team thinks would support your experience.
STEWARDS
Capital Institute is a 501(c)3 and non-partisan think tank working to create a more just and sustainable way of life on earth. Together with our global ecosystem of 1000+ change makers, we combine modern science, storytelling, and the knowledge of timeless wisdom traditions to illuminate the path from an extractive economy to an emerging regenerative economy that supports the long-term well-being of people, planet and business.
nRhythm is a diverse team of entrepreneurs, activists, artists, scientists, farmers, writers, and designers combining our collective talents, expertise, and lived experience to address the crippling impediments we observed consistently in how we organize in business, policy, governments and communities. We are honored to be supporting organizations on six continents addressing the world’s most pressing social and environmental issues to organize in alignment with Living Systems.
Zebra Growth is a regenerative marketing partner helping purpose-driven organizations grow while staying true to their values. We've supported over 400 impact startups and scaleups globally, fostering positive influence through empathetic, transparent marketing. Our collaborations include training with Rockstart, Bethnal Green Ventures, Start COOP, and Maze Impact. By integrating living systems thinking, regeneration, and social impact into our strategies & training, we co-create solutions that drive both short-term viability and scalable positive impact.
TESTIMONIALS
Program Preview & Mentor Meetup
Join us for an inside look at the With Life Cultivator program design and connect with experienced mentors. In this immersive session, you'll gain valuable insights into the shortcomings of traditional accelerators and incubators, discover the unique benefits of the Cultivator Program, and determine if it's the right fit for your organization.
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How to Apply
Applications for our second Cultivator cohort are open! If you're passionate about building a regenerative organization, we encourage you to apply below.
Application Deadline: August 23rd, 2024 at 11:59pm EST.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. You will be notified by August 30th, 2024 at the latest if you have been accepted into the Cultivator. If you are not accepted, we will personally make every effort we can to make connections for you to others who could provide the support you're looking for.
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With Life is an approach to organizing that holds the patterns of living systems at its foundation. Whether organizing in business, policy, government, or community work, the With Life Approach empowers us to create healthy, resilient organizations.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is my application reviewed?
We are seeking to curate a diversity of organizations. The application review process considers a range of criteria to ensure we achieve diversity in this cohort’s composition. The criteria include but are not limited to: geography, industry, equity/inclusion, commitment to regeneration, a support network of partners, and an applicants’ ability to commit and fully engage in the program.
What is the application deadline?
11:59pm EST on August 23rd, 2024. If you need an extension to this deadline, please contact us at team@nRhythm.co. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until that the application deadline.
How many team members can join the Cultivator?
Up to 5 team members may join. We recommend the same core team participate in the entire program. Additional team members may join Online Courses and Workshops at an additional cost.
What is the time commitment?
The time commitment will vary throughout the program, but on average you can expect about 4-6 hours per week. A detailed schedule will be released in the onboarding period once you are accepted into the program.
Upon acceptance, what date do I need to enroll by?
The enrollment deadline is September 6th, 2024. We accept applications on a rolling basis and have limited seats in the program.
Is there financial aid available?
We are offering a limited amount of financial aid (scholarships) to make this program accessible organizations in need. At this time, we do not provide full financial aid for this program. Program fees cover the cost of the organizational development workshops, tools and services that we offer. We are not directly investing in companies or looking for equity ownership. However, as part of the resources in your Cultivator toolkit, access to regeneration-aligned investors will be provided.
We ask that any organization interested in applying for financial aid complete the Financial Aid Form in addition to the full application form. In this form, you will be asked to indicate how much your organization can contribute to the cost of the program so that we can do our best to accommodate your unique context.
Our team considers financial aid requests holistically for each cohort and will determine what financial assistance we can offer your organization based upon the information you provide below and in your initial application.
If the Cultivator feels overly cost prohibitive for your context, we invite you to consider other programming that we offer, such as the Regenerative Design Lab, Regenerative Leadership Program, nRhythm Fellowship, Introduction to Regenerative Economics, or Finance for a Regenerative Economy.
How do payments work?
The program is paid for in three installments. First installment of $10,000 due September 6th followed by two additional installments of $5,000 on October 1st and November 1st.
Who is this program designed for?
This program is designed to for late-stage start-ups and established organizations entering a period of significant growth.
It is not designed for: individuals exploring how regeneration can be applied to a project for the purpose of systems change (consider the nRhythm Fellowship); individuals who want to study regenerative systems (consider Capital Institute’s courses); individuals or teams with an idea that’s still in development (consider Regenerative Design Lab); individuals looking to network (join nRhythm.Community).
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