Coop Bootcamp

Introduction to Worker Cooperatives, the WHY, the WHAT, and the HOW.


Alchemical Worx delivers a 4 hour ‘Intro to Coop’  face to face class (digital coming soon) to educate and prepare those interested to meet this bootcamp at the ‘ready to build’ stage.   As well as a two hour session on feasibility analysis specifically for worker cooperatives, so that you and your best 4 people, with a strong business idea, can build a worker cooperative. 



Coop Bootcamp is for those ready to build their cooperative. 

A minimum of 5 people and a feasibility analysis of your business idea is required. 




A worker cooperative functions from a sound, viable business, where members do the work, and members get paid. Each member is one vote, so those that do the work are part of choosing the way the work will be done. 


Our core tenets: Respect, Connect, Reflect and Direct.


These tenets allow for a solid reframing of business protocols and formation, to create the conditions needed to consider collective functioning. Cooperative business looks the same as ‘business as usual’ on the outside, selling goods and services, paying bills and taxes. On the inside we function from a mostly flat structure, negotiating power and authority as we get our work done.


In cooperative business, ‘management’ is a verb, not a noun, a doing function that everyone does, not a ladder to climb. Consensus is our deep democratic practice that enables us all to bring our wisdom and experience, and exercise our agency in the work we choose. 


Coop bootcamp is delivered over 4 sessions, fortnightly, to allow time in between each session to get the work done. Each session is a full day, 9am to 5pm. Essential documents will be explored and understood - at minimum begun, and ideally finished depending on time and the pace of the group.



Business is a series of decisions. We will assist you to define how to make these decisions consensually. The first session co-creates the protocols for your decisions, and the premise you will function from. The second session codifies the processes of relating you choose for yourselves and each other, defining accountability, authority and response-ability. The third session marks out the maps for the territory your business will cover and the fourth session will bring everything together in the ways you will implement in your business. From Purpose, to Strategy, to Process and Work flows, the Mapping of the Territory of the work you choose to do is the making of a worker cooperative. 


Following completion of this bootcamp, business coaching for your cooperative is available. 

The $5k package includes four days of education and four 90 minute coaching sessions. 

These sessions will be set up as needed, with further coaching available for a negotiated price thereafter. 


Coop Bootcamp is an expression of Alchemical Worx Cooperative Ltd. A worker cooperative.