How might we use mechanisms like the 4 day work week as one stepping stone to redefining our relationship with work?

Internationally we’ve seen great success with 4 day work week pilots for people’s wellbeing. In Melbourne Our Community participated in the global pilot program and was one of the first organisations to transition to a 4 day work week. Join us for a conversation with Daniel Teitelbaum, at Our Community House to talk about their experience of a 4 day work week.

The evening will include Daniel sharing lessons from Our Community’s pilot and then invite a shared discussion with Regen Melbourne alliance members about the bigger implications of how we work and play in service to the regeneration of our place.

BACKGROUND
This session is part of a longer conversation series within Participatory Melbourne - a collaborative initiative between Regen Melbourne, Coalition of Everyone, Menzies Foundation and the Australian Leadership Index. Participatory Melbourne is building experiments and scaling solutions which generate community agency, increase trust, create connectedness and inspire participation and action.

Over the first half of this year, Participatory Melbourne has been exploring the relationships and opportunities that make up Melbourne’s participatory landscape.

We’ve heard about the need for participation in order to move from apathy to agency, in order to belong, explore our roles in the community and the next economy, and we’ve heard that people are looking for a diversity of democratic innovations responsive to their place.

We are now exploring these interconnected themes in a conversation series while building collaborative experiments to test what else can be done in Melbourne to support our sense of belonging and agency to place and each other.