Coworking: break open, tackle, live differently

Coworking and church - that is more than just filling a few creative projects and new places with work tables in empty buildings or putting a coffee machine with fair trade coffee under the cross. Coworking is first and foremost a culture, an inner attitude and mindset, a spiritual activity. A wealth of theological and sociological reflections, practical examples and a concluding service section inspire renewed thinking and action in the world of work as well as creative being. The book shows: coworking helps church to be church for the village or the region. Church can learn from existing coworking spaces, vice versa coworking spaces can be inspired by church to community building processes. In the examples from practice, founders:inside show their face and their work: coworking spaces that could not be more different. They all recommend appreciating the diversity of social spaces and orienting the development of services and projects to the respective local conditions. All the authors of the book encourage us to "Go for it! Do it!" This is how the world of work can be renewed. "The church has the mission to be close to the people. And thus also in the midst of an agile society with increasingly mobile work behaviour. How wonderful when the treasure of our old walls offers new territory and free space. Coworking - a great opportunity." - Hansjörg Kopp, pastor, general secretary of the YMCA Germany and chairman of "Fresh X Netzwerk e.V." "How we work says a lot about what is important to us in life. Coworking enables people to shape work in a self-determined way, according to their own values, ideas and needs, which many of us first have to discover. That is the power of coworking." - Tobias Kremkau, coworking consultant at "CoWorkLand eG" and co-founder of the "German Coworking Federation e.V." "I am very happy that the churches have decided to open up towards coworking spaces and I am excited to see what transformations this will bring to their neighbourhood." - Madeleine Gummer von Mohl, co-founder of "betahaus".