Priceless Pricing
November 8th - November 22nd

More than a century ago, Oscar Wilde quipped, "Nowadays, we know the price of everything and the value of nothing." Much of today's society is designed through the lens of financial wealth, which often turns our multi-dimensional relationships into singular transactions. How do we build a bigger pie, that not only helps us shift transaction towards trust, but also values the subtler -- and often priceless -- gifts of our human experience? What is love's business plan? In context of a quid-pro-quo culture, what design principles help us effectively circulate alternate forms of wealth like time, community, attention? In absence of extrinsic motivators like accumulation, what unique challenges does a flow bring up? What offers us resilience as we transition from one model to another? A lot of these questions come to a head, when we determine how we price our offerings and how we engage with the gift spectrum.

Starting Nov 8th, we are hosting a 14-day "Priceless Pricing" pod to collectively dive into these questions. We are grateful that the Pod will be supported by diverse pioneers of alternative pricing, from Giang Dang's unique "University Without Walls in Vietnam to Julia Wienzettl's pay-forward interviews in Austria to Joserra holding space for stillness in Spain to a Silicon Valley investor who accepts non-financial returns to educators in Romania accepting "unTickets" for their conferences to an interfaith minister Bonnie Rose, who coined the phrase after experiments with her Church community, and of course, many others.

If such inquiries resonate, we invite you to apply below! Fellow participants will be an intimate group of people who are actively engaged or keenly interested in creating new models of turning "transaction to trust".

14-Day Timeline

Day 0	Nov 8: Orientation Call We'll start with a virtual orientation call to connect all Pod participants and volunteers and to take you through the process of daily prompts and other pod details. Time: 90 minutes (8AM PST)
Day 1-6	Nov 9-Nov 14: Building the Field! Every alternate "inhale" day, you'll get a daily prompt with a "head" reading, a "hands" practice, and a "heart" reflection. On the other "exhale" days, you'll be reading the live curriculum -- of reflections from podmates! -- and adding your responses to it. Time: 1-3 flexible hours per day. It's self-regulated, depending on how deep you want to dive. :)
Day 7	Nov 15th: Group Call In between, we will have a group call to see each other's smiles, explore edge, and engage with various guest speakers. Time: 90 minutes (8AM PST)
Day 8-13	Nov 16-Nov 21: Digging Deeper Similar to inhale/exhale process of the previous week, but our themes of the week will be rooted in case studies of real-life experiences. Time: 1-3 hours per day.
Day 14	Nov 22nd: Thanksgiving Call Our closing call, to summarize some of our learnings and explorations, with guest speakers and some fun surprises. :) Time: 90 minutes (8AM PST)