Module 1: What are the six classes of problems that legal / governance forms solve?

•  Pre-work: "When I look at the economic, monetary, biosphere, energy, climate, food etc. systems, what do I see, think, and feel? What am I choosing to do about it?"
• What is a company, and what is it for?
• The three dimensions of a company. (Human interactions, Work interactions, Stakeholder and Capital interactions)
• The old problems conventional incorporation types are designed to solve.
• The new problems regenerative, impact, sustainable, or circular companies' legal forms must solve, and why they are left fragile in conventional company legal forms and many improved versions of these.
• The Valley of Stability, and why many teal companies are neither stable nor teal. 
• John Fullerton’s Eight Principles of Regeneration
• Polman and Winston's Five Net Positive Principles.
• Eve Poole’s Seven Toxic Assumptions in Capitalism
• Bookstaber’s Four Horsemen of the Econopocalypse—the reality that traditional economics can't cope with.

• Work team Lab 1: "To what extent have these traditional forms of incorporation contributed to the economic, monetary, biosphere, energy, climate and food systems collapse? Which of these problems are relevant to my business model and ought to be solved by my legal form?”

Module 2: Introduction to the six classes of legal forms.

• The myth of ownership, and other myths holding us back.
• Introduction to the key functionality, advantages and disadvantages of each type of incorporation, in particular vs. the principles of Regenerative, net Positive, and healthy capitalism..
•     Type 0: Limited Companies (Ltd):
•     Type 1: Employee Ownership
•     Type 2: Mono stakeholder Co-operatives (worker, or customer.)
•     Type 3: Intermediate Models (Multi-stakeholder co-ops, Public Benefit Corporations, Steward Owned For-Purpose, etc.)
•     Type 4: FairShares Model
•     Type 5: FairShares Commons / Free Companies 

• Work team Lab 2: Evaluate, for my business model, each of these legal forms vs. the problems relevant to my business model and that ought to be solved by my legal form to best put its intent into excellent execution? What does this imply about the functionality the legal form must have?

 Module 3: The legal / governance functionality needed to enable a regenerative business.

•  Each class as a pattern language for company functionality.
• Solving the purpose problem: context and need drives the evolutionary purpose.
• Stewards and principles of stewardship, allocation of wealth and power.
• Deeper dive: advantages and disadvantages of Type 3, 4, and 5 solving one or more problems of limited, employee-owned, and mono-cooperative models.
  • Type 3: Intermediate Models
  • Type 4: FairShares Model 
  • Type 5: FairShares Commons / Free Companies

Work team lab 3: For my company to be able to execute with excellence, what functionality do I need, and which legal form is best for it? Deliver a draft design brief. 

 Module 4: Turning to Action

•  Structures vs. agency and flows.
• The company as a living being, accountability vs. agency, 
• Recap of all models covered and comparative analysis: see comparison table
  • Governance structures
  • Profit distribution—Ergodic Ecosystems segway
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Legal and regulatory considerations
  • Tax considerations
  • DAOs and blockchains
  • Scalability / decentralisation / nested systems
• Decision matrix exercise: Matching incorporation types to different business scenarios
• Present your chosen incorporation model for your company and get the gift of feedback from all.