The Collaborative Cohort
Negril 2024
Co-Convened by Center for Cultural Innovation
The Collaborative Cohort
Negril 2024
Co-Convened by Center for Cultural Innovation
Black Imagination Lab accelerates the placement of reparative capital by educating and expanding our community of like-minded peers and practitioners. We’re curating immersive learning experiences that fuse capital, social entrepreneurship, technology, arts and organizing to leverage proximity to communities and innovators to fully actualize freedom. Every year, we invite a cohort of people together who have a keen insight into potential societal transformation. Each person is driven by a passion for justice, equality, and liberation, and possesses a unique ability to inspire and mobilize others toward collective action.
Black Imagination Lab accelerates the placement of reparative capital by educating and expanding our community of like-minded peers and practitioners. We’re curating immersive learning experiences that fuse capital, social entrepreneurship, technology, arts and organizing to leverage proximity to communities and innovators to fully actualize freedom. Every year, we invite a cohort of people together who have a keen insight into potential societal transformation. Each person is driven by a passion for justice, equality, and liberation, and possesses a unique ability to inspire and mobilize others toward collective action.
the black imagination lab inaugural retreat
Negril, Jamaica
December 1-6, 2024
the black imagination lab inaugural retreat
Negril, Jamaica
December 1-6, 2024
Gathering Schedule
8:00AM – 9:00AM
Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:00AM
Plenary welcome from Jessica:
- Talk about the grounds we’re on
- What inspired you
- What you believe is possible
- Connect this message with Garvey
- Purpose of the gathering
- What’s possible when we gather
- Guide on the next activity in small groups. People from the Jamaican community
10:00AM – 10:15AM
Transition Time
10:15AM – 11:15AM
Small groups doing the individual questions
11:15AM – 11:30AM
Transition time
11:30AM – 12:00PM
Each group: 10 mins to share top takeaways.
12:00PM – 1:15PM
Lunch
1:30PM – 2:30PM
Group Gathering
- Innovators Present
- Entrepreneurs talk about their ventures
- How is your venture idea reparative? What’s the potential scale of this?
Break | Snacks available
3:30PM – 4:45PM
Beach-Side Speed Dating
Speed dating (reorganizing people who were not in the group with each other to talk.
[10 min exchange answering one question]
- Question: If we were to operate with a new value proposition around the Black innovation, what could be different? (dreaming)
- Participants get a speed dating list
Break before dinner.
6:00 PM
Drinks
6:30 PM
Dinner
8:00AM – 9:00AM
Breakfast
9:00AM – 9:30AM
Gathering Point before excursion
- Welcome
- Encourage them to keep talking to each other. The magic is already happening. Trust it.
- Talk about the excursion–why that, what to expect.
9:45AM – 1:00PM
Excursion
(9:45 AM Bus departs for excursion
1:00 PM
Lunch Out
Natural conversations — encourage people to make sure they’ve spoken to anyone they haven’t had time with. Everyone should know each other and their dreams.
2:45 PM
head back to venue from lunch
Space for Open Conversations
6:00 PM
Drinks
6:30 PM
Dinner
8:00AM – 9:00AM
Breakfast
9:00AM – 10:30AM
Recognizing the Amazing
- A reminder of the magic
- Ask two open questions
First Question
- If we were to operate with a new value proposition around the Black innovation, what could be different? (dreaming)
- Have people respond open mic style.
Second Question
- What would be a win coming out of this gathering?
- Have people respond.
10:30AM – 10:45AM
Break
10:45AM – 11:45AM
Small Group Gathering
- What ideas could be explored this year?
12:00PM – 1:15PM
Lunch
1:30PM – 2:30PM
Share Back
- Share back the ideas from the groups
- Question: What ideas could be explored this year?
2:30PM – 2:45PM
Break
3:00PM – 3:45PM
Open Question
- What might be interesting as a next for this group?
3:45PM – 4:15PM
Closure
- Final words: A new value proposition
- Call to action based on what was harvested from ideas
- Any next steps from the Black Imagination team
- Encourage keep getting to know and building relationships
4: 15PM – 5:15PM
Filming/Group Photos
Dinner (after the sun goes down)
DEPARTURE DAY
- Breakfast
- Departures