Our Theory of Change
Only collective action can transform systems. Activist enterprises and alternative spaces help us envision new while inside the old.
Our Mission
Highwire is a multidisciplinary, B2B/B2O, liberatory-oriented grassroots oriented inter-independent consulting collective supporting institutions and start up support ecosystems looking to serve and advocate for entrepreneurial survivors, newcomers, women and diverse genders, activists, radical dissident thinkers, creators and post growth, solidarity-based economy community builders.
Our program design work and facilitation philosophy aims to re-write the narrative and contemporize entrepreneurship education. Through practical, radical feminist-grounded education, we help people turn lived experience, courage, bold ideas and shared purpose into enterprises that transforms the self, strengthens communities and challenges business as usual.
Our Why?
We know we need a radically different civilization. Supporting exploration, experimentation and experiencing alternatives is how we are going to get there.
Let’s talk. Debate. Struggle together. Try new things that will help us determine the pathway forward. Let nothing be off limits.
Let’s also work to educate ourselves. Let’s move beyond reform (social entrepreneurship) and resource pioneering culture makers, artists, dissidents, creatives and the increasingly essential solepreneur and micro enterprise founders.
Feminist business practices. Collective resourcing. Anti-oppression-based governance. Social justice based governance. Distributed-ownership. Mutualism. Alternative financing (i.e. ROSCAs). Post-growth entrepreneurship. Biomimicry-based venture and ecosystem models. New economy venture crafting tools and frameworks.
Yes, we can create a life affirming next gen civilization and economy without reliance on a billionaire led profit-centred, extractive economy.
We can start by supporting spaces that can ferment, and amplify these new ideas and support folx who are working workout how to put ideas into practice
How?
Struggle is innovation in action.
We work to open minds, hearts, facilitate co-creation, liberate imaginations, share emerging tool kits, frameworks and relevant lived experiences to shift entrepreneurial pursuits towards a new, post-growth, post-capitalist economy that can support and encourage a pluriverse-defined flourishing for all beings -including Mother Earth.
