Pricing & Financial Solidarity Model

Claiming Each Other is an offering of Associação Comadres — a non-profit, community-run initiative in Southwest Portugal. It’s our intention that all of our offerings are as financially sustainable and accessible as possible, and that those who work with us are able to make a comfortable and fair wage.

Inspired by collectivist, anti-oppressive and decolonizing principals, our pricing model aims to acknowledge the diversity of resources amongst our students. This is Community Supported Embodiment (CSE). It’s organized into 4 tiered levels: Redistributor, Payer Forward, Sustainer, and Solidarity Recipient.

If every student pays at the Sustainer level, we break even. Revenue created from those paying in the two more-resourced levels is collected in the CSE Fund and made available to Solidarity Recipients. These recipients specify what they are able to invest and if possible, the CSE Fund covers the rest required to meet the Sustainer (break even) level. This allows for greater accessibility and inclusivity for the spectrum of differently resourced people across our communities. 

When you register for the Claiming Each Other training, you’re not just investing in yourself and your fellow students. You’re also providing important financial support for community care projects and services such as the women’s shelter, community library, apothecary, and herb farm run by Associação Comadres in Southwest Portugal.

Which price level should I choose?

Please read each level carefully and decide which one most accurately describes your current financial situation. When you register for the Claiming Each Other certificate training, you will be asked to indicate your choice.

  • Please invest at this level if one or more of the following apply: 

    • you have abundantly more than enough to meet your basic needs

    • have a trust fund or other intergenerational family wealth (property, guaranteed access to high paying work or higher education, allowance, etc)

    • own a newer or a higher market value home

    • rent/lease a higher-end property

    • own multiple properties

    • graduated from college debt-free

    • have reliable work that does not depend on the Portuguese economy

    • do not need to work to meet your needs

    • can easily afford to travel every year

    • have adult children who you regularly support financially

  • Please invest at this level if one or more of the following apply: 

    • you have stable employment that pays comfortably above the minimum living wage in Portugal (€740 / $820 USD monthly)

    • are comfortably able to live beyond meeting your basic needs and desires

    • received family assistance buying a home or paying for college or can reliably request financial support from your parent(s) 

    • regularly buy new clothes

    • have grown children who you sometimes support financially

    • are able to regularly choose “extra” pleasures like eating out, community classes, beauty treatments, festivals, etc. without having to sacrifice paying for basic needs

  • Please invest at this level if one or more of the following apply: 

    • You are financially stable enough to regularly meet your basic needs and desires

    • have limited expendable income but are still able to choose occasional “extras” like eating out, community classes, beauty treatments, festivals, etc., 

    • have been recently denied access to work based on your physical ability, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation but have savings or assets to fall back on

    • have more unstable or seasonal employment

    • have little or no access to savings but are still reliably able to meet your basic needs and some desires.

  • Please invest at this level if one or more of the following apply: 

    • you have work that depends fully on the Portuguese economy/minimum wage

    • you struggle to reliably meet your basic needs and paying would be a significant hardship to you or your family

    • have been been recently denied access to work based on your physical ability, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation and have no access to savings or other support

    * Please note: This option is available depending on availability in our solidarity fund. Upon registration, you will be asked to specify the amount you are able to invest.

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We offer big gratitude to Alexis J Cunningfolk at Worts + Cunning Apothecary for their time spent compiling wisdom on equitable access and sliding scale capitalism.

Huge respect and gratitude to the radical Earth activists, healers, artists, humanitarians, social warriors and teachers who offer their gifts with the knowledge that our collective success and thriving is interwoven. And as always, to the ancestors - past, present and future. May our life-work be in honor of our shared wisdom and of the Great Mysterious Wow. To the healing and thriving of the collective earth community! Viva!