90-Minute Workshop Plan

1. Arrival & Settling In (10 min)

• Welcome everyone, set the context, and remind them of the purpose.

2. Impromptu Networking (10 min)

• Prompt: “What brought you to Commons Hub Brussels, and what keeps you here?”
• Pairs share their experiences, switching every 3 minutes.
• This warms up the room and helps people recognize common motivations.

3. 1-2-4-All (20 min)

• Prompt: “What are the most valuable aspects of being a member?” and “What is challenging or unclear about being a member?”
• Individual reflection → Pair discussion → Groups of four → Full-group debrief.
• Capturing key insights on a shared board (physical or digital).

Notes:

• Valuable:

  • People and community, it’s not a sharky place
  • Jana brings a lot of connection
  • Price is good
  • Involvement in decision making
  • Part of something bigger
  • Family vibes, people take care of each other, try to help each other
  • You get challenged on what you do, you learn

• Valuable & Challenging

  • Commons
  • Permissionless innovation (it’s both valuable & challenging)

• Challenging

  • Staying up to date, if you don’t read discord it’s difficult
  • When away it’s difficult to read everything, also not the newsletter
  • Difficult to stay up-to-date if not proactive
  • Time management, because we also need to attend to our own business, we feel obliged to pull our weight
  • Boundaries, mental space what doing for CHB and for our own
  • Organic organization, you need to take the time to wrap around how it works, what the essence is, there is no clear resource of who does what
  • What are the business priorities of the CHB, how do we keep it all afloat
  • Token allocation is tough! Also what you can spend them on, it’s still very fuzzy
  • Our responsibilities, it’s not always totally clear
  • Doorbell can be distracting, you do feel responsible seeing sometimes the outside situation, how responsible am I for this?
  • A lot changes, sometimes difficult to keep track
  • Sometimes I feel I need to chase people (eg to get my tokens)
  • Onboarding is still not going great for me, maybe we need a kit

4. Agreement & Understanding: 25/10 Crowdsourcing (20 min) 1405

• Prompt: “What improvements or clarifications would make membership more rewarding and sustainable for all?”