CoLab Communiversity | Tourism CoLab

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Communiversity

We believe wholeheartedly in the power of co-learning and the creation of a space where we can reflect and learn together. The power of learning comes through connection, the dissolving of boundaries between thinking, being and doing, and realising that we come to the table with the full sum of our lived experience, local knowledge, and all the ideas, thoughts and conversations we have ever had. No matter where we are in our journeys, we can always learn from each other.

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What is the Communiversity?

The CoLab Communiversity is a membership-based community for genuine collaboration, education, discussion, sharing and support for change makers. The Communiversity is:

☑️ A community-led university where where the boundaries between learning, being and practising dissolve.

☑️ An interdisciplinary space where the focus is not on tourism but how tourism can contribute to regeneration.

☑️ A pocket-sized university available on your phone, anywhere, anytime.

☑️ Grounded in genuine thought leadership, experimental action and generous collaboration.

☑️ A place that offers diverse learning experiences, coaching, mentoring and genuine dicussion about the change ahead and how to build resilience.

Why a Communiversity?

For years, our founder felt like she was working alone. Her passion to shift the system was met with a pat on the head or blank looks. Her vision to reclaim the right to host and reframe tourism so that it could make a positive contribution to communities, places and the planet meant that she had to work outside the system. But working outside the system gives one a vantage point and understanding not readily available to others. So the Colab was born.

Along the way she realised that it depends on how you see and interpret the system, what level you are working at, and who you engage with in activating change. Redesigning tourism means changing your perspective, dissolving the silos and connecting it with broader processes of regenerative development.

At the CoLab we developed how to [un]think and [re]imagine the art of hosting in place. We took a deep dive into how we think and how to think differently. We experimented by working through local communities in ways that were responsive to local conditions. We created new scalable approaches and ways of working so that tourism could deliver for places, people and nature.

We also learned that we are not alone. There are many folk who know and feel the need to work towards different ends in tourism. We started to offer global online courses in 2020. Along the way, we met so many inspiring change makers and curious adventurers seeking a new thinking, new practice, new ways of doing tourism. So we decided to formalise the Communiversity as a co-created community-led space to connect, learn, share and thrive together.

Membership Info

Our Mission

1.To provide a collaborative and supportive network for those who are working with new and regenerative practices

2. To act as thought leaders and build the momentum for regenerative thinking through a commitment to mindset shift and systems change.

3. To work with and hold space for our allies working in genuinely regenerative ways.

Membership

The CoLab Communiversity membership currently offers a base membership with a 14 day free trial for a limited time only.

COLAB BASE MEMBERSHIP

Welcome to our base membership. Come in and have a look around. Connect with others on their change making journeys, attend a drop-in coffee hour, ask a question or attend a workshop. Our ambition is to make our community welcoming, accessible and co-created regardless of where they are on their journey.

Access to a community of like-minded change makers
Access to the CoLab Lobby including webinars, coffee chats, social events, Q&A sessions
Discount and advanced notification of courses
Member spotlight seminars
Cotent included research, reports, case studies and examples
Recommended reading, podcasts and videos
The opportunity to co-create the learning environment and community

We offer a range of mini-workshops and seminars under the Base Membership. Online courses and coaching journeys are at additional cost. Prices vary according to structure and content. Check out our courses page for more information.

MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP

Including 14 day trail

AUD$22

QUARTERLY MEMBERSHIP

Including 14 day trail

AUD$65

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP

Including 14 day trail

AUD$249

COMMUNITY PRO MEMBERSHIP

Community membership is open to businesses places, professional and community groups and tourism organisations that would like to host a space in our CoLab Communiversity. With a Community Pro membership you become a CoLab Ally and part of a 'community of communities' leading change in tourism.

All the benefits of CoLab Base Membership plus...
Become a CoLab Ally and host your own private huddle space or share what you are doing with the community
Support for setting up and managing your own community (let's discuss what you might need)
Your community gets access to our resources, webinars, expertise and community
Monthly check in with the CoLab team to support the development of your community

Everyone's needs are different, so let's talk about shared possibilities and how the CoLab Communiversity can support your journey and your community!

LET'S DISCUSS YOUR NEEDS

Tell us about:

Your needs or vision

What you hope to achieve by creating your space/community

How many members

Any other details

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Why a Membership Community?

The Tourism CoLab is a social enterprise. Our purpose is to deliver inclusive and accessible learning opportunities and access to a safe change making community. Any profits generated are reinvested back into delivering our purpose through the Communiversity platform.

We Are Independent

Member Benefits

Access to knowledgeable and experienced regenerative practitioners with decades of experience in tourism, hosting, place-making and community development.
An expanded globally connected network of people just like you.
Access to a stimulating and creative discussions, coffee chats, and workshops.
An opportunity to build resilience through knowledge and skills development
Learning about regeneration through immersive learning journeys with award winning coaches and journey-makers.
Activate systems change in your place, community or organisation.
Taking part in the movement, facilitating change and helping drive the transition ahead.

We are proudly independent. We like it that way because we don't have to deliver on anyone's agenda. A key benefit of our independence is that we can create a space for creative thinking and learning without having to deliver the agenda of funders. We have the freedom to explore and can optimise a space of innovation where the boundaries that keep us separate disappear.

What We Ask of Our Members

Our ambition is to co-create a space of generous collaboration. There is an expectation that members will contribute, care, connect and co-create the community.

Regenerosity Payment Options and Low Income Countries

We seek to be as inclusive as possible in our membership while also raising funds to cover platform costs. We understand that not everyone is in a place to be able to pay the membership fee and that capacity to pay can change as we change jobs or seek new pathways. We do not want your capacity to pay to be a barrier. We also believe that what you can bring to the Communiversity might enrich us all!

For this reason, and in the spirit of regenerosity, we offer you an option to pay what you can for 12 months.

If you live in a low income or lower-middle income country as identified by the World Bank and would like to join the CoLab Communiversity, choose an option or contact us to discuss.

Pay it Forward

There are also folk who love what we do, and are in a space to pay it forward. This means so much to us! So if you are doing well, and would like to pay it forward, we offer you the opportunity to buy a membership for someone who can't afford it right now. We will follow up with the details!

Regenerosity Membership Plans

What our members are saying

Thank you for sharing the building blocks that will help our journey

I have trawled widely in preparing for my talk to try and ensure that I have understood where the debate has got to. The really clever - and rare - thing about The Islander Way and what you have shared is that you have developed the concepts into physical and moral blocks that lay a solid foundation for practical implementation. This is special and leading edge.

D.A. January 2024

Community is emerging thanks to the Regen Journey

I think it's much much harder in the high speed western world where communities are constantly changing and evolving. People are coming together and then splitting up and then moving on and it's so much harder to try and create the space or hold the space for that sense of community to emerge. Learning that through doing things together, that is when the community comes into being… That is what I have learned here and that is why what we're doing together is so important.

I'm finding this journey incredibly useful. I'm finding it really interesting because we are gradually but slowly coming together as a community. I'm very, very focused on community, and the fact that you can't just create a community. A community creates itself.

P.B. Regeneration Journey, September 2023