An Economic Model for Movement

The UK is all about creating sustainable, spontaneously replicating spiritual movements in the form of missional communities, shared projects, and economic enterprise. It’s our vision to serve as a greenhouse or incubator of the spiritual and relational dynamics that produce these types of mission. We nurture the dynamics of organic movement in change agents and then launch them out to be planted in their destiny.

But what kind of economic model would make this greenhouse/incubator possible and sustainable? I spent a lot of time wondering about that about a year ago. Now for part of our Thursday/Might explorations, I’d like to get into the economic model I created and see if we can refine it together.

Right now, the model looks like a very complex Google Sheet. So there’s some work to do to explain it and get it digestible: where we could work on it a bit together.

I’d like to start with some research into business models or ways of explaining how a business works. Here are two possible videos that may help:

We could take either of these and come up with a crazy business idea to see how the model works before applying it to what I’ve been working on. Let me know what you think about these videos and what you’d like to do in the comments section.