This course is being offered using gift economy principles. This means that rather than you having to pay a price in order to access the course, we are offering it because we want more people to learn Convergent Facilitation no matter what money they have access to. And at the same time, we are asking you to give us what you can and want to, in order to help sustain us in doing this work. We invite you to give as much as you can without overstretching or tension, which includes giving us no money at all. 

In discerning the amount, please think of your financial situation, as well as what will sustain the providers and organizers in relation to this offering (and support future work).

We wanted to give you some idea of what amounts we are hoping to receive in total:

• Receiving GBP 4300 // US$ 5500 in total would be the lowest amount that would make this course sustainable for us. 

• Receiving GBP 6700 // US$ 8500 in total would contribute to those of us directly involved in this course being able to expand our work

• Receiving GBP 10200 // US$ 13000 in total could sustain us and support a wider group of people who are working to bring Convergent Facilitation into the world. 

We hope that there might be very roughly 50-80 participants on this course, though we really don’t know because we are trying to reach out to networks of people who may not have heard of CF before. We’re saying this to give you a basic idea of how many people might be contributing some amount of money to us, and it might be a lot less or quite a few more. We would like you to discern what you are able to contribute, with the above amounts as one reference point, rather than dividing the amounts by the number of people. This is because we believe many people may not contribute any money at all, and we don’t know how many people will participate, and because we’re inviting you to follow the principle of contributing what you feel willing and able to. We invite those of you who can give more to do so, to support us and those who don’t have the same access to financial resources. We really want those who are motivated to learn CF in order to contribute to transformation in the world to be able to do so.

🔺For any transfer method (if possible): Please put "CF Intro 24" as a code/reason for transfer so that we know you sent the money in relation to this offering.

📠 [Preferred] Method 1 — Direct bank transfer (for UK and EU):

Depending on where your bank is located a direct bank transfer might have the least (likely none at all) transfer fees.

👉 If your bank is located in the UK please send GBP to 23-08-01 · 55745534 (Verene Nicolas)

👉 If your bank is located in the EU please send EUR to IBAN FR7610278079160001565960196

 BIC CMCIFR2A (Verene Nicolas)

📠 [Preferred] Method 2 — WISE:

Our preference is for you to use WISE over PayPal, because lower or no fees from our experience. 

If you are not yet on WISE, you can use this referral link to get a free transfer: Sign up to WISE with free transfer

If/Once you are on WISE: you can send money directly to Verene using the email address “mail@verenenicolas.org” 👉 https://wise.com/send. If you want to send money in EUR, GBP or USD please select “Same currency” for the transfer, else select “International” and select “GBP” for the “Recipient gets” field. 

📠 Method 3 — PayPal / Credit Card:

PayPal usually charges significant fees, so we try to avoid it. Please select “Family and Friends” as the payment method if asked. You can either use your own PayPal balance or use a credit card. 

👉 Support this offering via giving to Paul's PayPal

📠 Method 4 — Stripe (various methods):

👉 USD (Credit Card): https://buy.stripe.com/fZeaIA9i03hGgJGaEJ 

👉 GBP (Credit Card): https://buy.stripe.com/4gw03WfGo2dC652148 

👉 EUR (Credit Card + various other methods): https://buy.stripe.com/cN25og3XG2dC8dadQW