SOL @ The Hub: for investors in sustainable community: SOL – The Spirit of Life Centre, Greece.

A place to pause, re-connect and continue on your journey, renewed.

SOL @ The Hub – take a look at the people who inspire us, the organisations
whose values we share:

 Resurgence Magazine
 Schumacher College
 The Spirit of Life Centre, Greece
 Flow Internet Cafes
 Fair Trade Foundation
 Slow Food
 The Soil Association
 Forum for the Future
 International Business Leaders’ Forum
 Alliance for a New Humanity
 FLOW
 Zaadz.com
 Temenos Academy
 Frank Water
 The Hub
 University of Bristol
 Centre for Human Ecology
 The Natural Step
 Friends of The Earth
 The Soros Foundation
 Shambhala Foundation
 Sustainable Futures Foundation

The vision we share, the books we refer to:

1. In principle: Resurgence values.
See: www.resurgence.org or
2. Read “Soulution: The Holistic Manifesto”
by William Bloom.
3. See www.flowidealism.org and read:
Good Business, Leadership, Flow and the
Making of Meaning.
http://www.amazon.com/Good-Business-Leadership-Making-
Meaning/dp/0670031968

4. In practice: see: “Marketing without Advertising”: How to inspire

Customers to create Lasting Success:
See: http://www.amazon.com/Marketing-Without-Advertising-2nd-
Ed/dp/0873373693 or
5. Study the words of Dr Patrick Dixon: www.globalchange.com.

The role you play

With your own Hub-like Organisation you can serve as a “one-stop shop” for your
clients’ and members’ communication needs.

Your ethos
As a SOL member you can commit to the principles
of:

Fair Trade, Slow Food, Eco-living, Right Livelihood,

Social Enterprise, work-life balance, human-scale
education, sustainable business development, multi-
cultural understanding and continuous improvement
– kai-zen.

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SOL @ The Hub: for investors in sustainable community: SOL – The Spirit of Life Centre, Greece.
A place to pause, re-connect and continue on your journey, renewed.

A network of co-operation
At the same time you can meet, network and
collaborate with like-minded students and
professionals, engage in informal networking or
formal Co-ventures via our online communities and
real-life collaborative networks.

The rewards of Co-venture

As a Co-venture you can introduce your members
and clients to the benefits of sustainable business,
Whole Person Development, Slow Food and healthy
lifestyle.

What we offer
We enable you to act as a Hub.

A Hub-like Organisation has some or all of the following Hub features at its centre
for members and clients to draw on:
 Food and Drink (Slow Food, Fair Trade tea and coffee)
 Hub resources: ideas incubation and start-up support (for Members and
non-members)
 Hub services: IT support and design services (for Members and their
guests)
 Courseware for learning, eco-learning and Whole Person Development
 Course development services (for those interested in Human Ecology)
 Expertise and experience (advice and consulting)
 Personnel and manpower
 Contacts and introductions
 A physical meeting point
 A venue to meet in person, network, collaborate
and enter into formal and informal alliances and
co-ventures
 A place to access local produce and community
services
 Overseas contacts – a chance for international
network for cross-border exchange
 A place to study, learn, attend workshops
 A flexible workspace for “hot-desking” Social Entrepreneurs

What we offer

1. Offering products and services on demand

We can provide you with resources to meet the long-

term needs of corporate clients, professionals and their
organisations that can draw on your services.

Alternatively, we can conduct a review of what existing

resources you have to offer and carry out market
research to assess demand for what you offer.

2. Your communications – and client enrolment

We can provide the Form of Words, brochure-ware and client data capture
interface that you need to engage with corporate and professional clients.

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SOL @ The Hub: for investors in sustainable community: SOL – The Spirit of Life Centre, Greece.
A place to pause, re-connect and continue on your journey, renewed.

Alternatively, we can review your existing communications strategy and

conduct a branding and identity health-check.

3. Personalised learning, human scale education and EFL

We can provide you with courseware for students and

learners individual and corporate clients to access
learning support, lifelong learning, on demand, by
subscription.

Alternatively, we can conduct an assessment and

review of your existing curricula and resources for
learning and conduct market research for demand in
the chosen location.

We can help you develop curricula and learning centres

for your own branded courses in the fields of:

 Whole Person Development

 Eco-learning
 Human Ecology
 Dharma Study
 Right Livelihood
 Social Enterprise
 Management training; marketing, project
management and leadership
 Healthy lifestyle: communications, nvc, and
emotional intelligence
 Business Fitness, multi-cultural
understanding, managing creativity,
managing diversity – kai-zen
 Language learning and EFL

4. Corporate and professional services

We can provide you with “white-label” services that you

can use to look after the long-term communication
needs of professional and corporate clients and
corporate subscribing members. You use the Form of
Words, combined with local promotion to make client
contact. You look after the client relationship.

Our award-winning design and creative specialists

provide back-office Enterprise support services, branded to suit the look and
feel of your organisation. We put in place client data capture and membership
enrolment systems. You deal with the client directly.

Alternatively, we can conduct market research in the chosen area of operations to

assess demand for marketing and communication services and train up your staff
to meet that demand directly.

5. People power

We can provide training and E-Campus services to prospective recruits and

associates of your organisation. All induction is provided in one of our chosen
locations in: Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, UK or Central Europe.
Alternatively, we can provide interim management to your organisation directly.

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SOL @ The Hub: for investors in sustainable community: SOL – The Spirit of Life Centre, Greece.
A place to pause, re-connect and continue on your journey, renewed.

6. Strategic alliances

We can provide contacts and

introductions to membership
organisations that can reinforce your
offering and serve as reference points to
your communication strategy and
mission.

Alternatively, we can review your organisation, its brand and mission

statement and research the marketplace for like-minded organisations that
you can approach to reinforce your mission.

7. Events and event management

We can provide you with an online calendar for you to

have your own event programme at your venue or venues
of your choice. We can set up an event calendar with
online registration and online fee collection. We can also
provide locations in other parts of the UK, Europe or North
America for you to run workshops and seminars and
courses.

Alternatively, we can do a corporate health-check of

where your expertise lies and conduct market research to
assess demand for learning, individual learning, personalised learning, on
demand learning, tutorial support and career support.

8. Continuous improvement – kai-zen

We can introduce overseas contacts and associates and

provide the agreement for you to co-operate with short-
term or long-term resellers and licensees on a Co-venture
basis.

Alternatively, we can conduct a health check of your

organisation and take a brief of other kinds of contacts
that you want to establish to reinforce your mission,
based on market research for the demand that you seek
to meet.

9. One-stop shop

We identify complementary products and services that

you can bolt on to your offerings so as to act as a
“one-stop shop” for your clients’ and members’ long-
term needs.

Alternatively, we can conduct market research into

demand for other products and services that reinforce your offering.

We can also provide management training to enable you and your staff to
“read the marketplace” and understand and apply the Seven Pillars of
Sustainability – principles of profitable organisation and an understanding of
brand management. All of these can enable you and your organisation engage
in continuous improvement – kai-zen.

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SOL @ The Hub: for investors in sustainable community: SOL – The Spirit of Life Centre, Greece.
A place to pause, re-connect and continue on your journey, renewed.

About us – Zen Cafes @ The Hub

We’re based in Bristol @ The Hub and provide

a range of helpful services aimed at those on
a modest budget. Take our Café Society
package for SOL members, for instance.

A detailed PR and marketing assessment,

design review and business health-check
includes either one-to-one services or a full
report. As part of the package new businesses
get a fully designed web site, 3000 promotional leaflets, 500 business cards,
your own business plan, PDF brochure and all the help and advice you need to
initiate a grass-roots word-of-mouth viral campaign – for under £2000.

Give us a call and ask for Marcus. Alternatively, drop in and see us. Coffee
and muffins are included, for free!

Concept management and ideas incubation are all part of the no-fuss
approach that we offer to all who want to find out about Social Enterprise and
the benefits of Right Livelihood.

Café Society – serving the needs of:

 Creative specialists – Independent

professionals
 Retailers – Food and drink co-ops – Café
proprietors
 Dharma Practitioners – Educators
 Freelance specialists, Business Mission
Advisors
 PR and Marketing advice
 Graphic Design
 Business Coaching
 Websites
 Lifelong Learning on demand - by subscription

10.Co-ventures and Schools Programmes

As a Co-venture we can put together a Schools

Outreach programme for you and your staff to
introduce education outreach.

We can train independent teachers and associates to

take your message of: personal development and
healthy lifestyle, work-life balance, eco-learning and
Whole Person Development, into schools and
colleges in the area of your choice.

We can provide training and independent support for

each self-employed lifestyle mentor or tutor you
invite and approve.

Alternatively, we can research the market and appraise and evaluate your
mission statement and draft an appropriate response to take to a wider
audience.

Café Society – a membership organisation for investors in sustainable community www.cafesociety.biz

SOL @ The Hub: for investors in sustainable community: SOL – The Spirit of Life Centre, Greece.
A place to pause, re-connect and continue on your journey, renewed.

We can conduct market research to identify demand for your product or

service, or teaching.

The next step

To set up your own Co-venture for the town
and city – or towns and cities where you
want to sell products and services or
provide teaching and learning – on demand
– by subscription – contact us directly @
SOL.

Café Society – a membership organisation for investors in sustainable community www.cafesociety.biz