Local Ecosystems

Launching and growing city based venture-building ecosystems.

Many high-capacity leaders in the global Praxis community are searching for ways to serve like-minded entrepreneurs in their city by running experiences that develop a venture-building community in their context.

Host Experiences

We’ve packaged our design, content, and event tools to make it easy to host an Experience that cultivates redemptive imagination and venture building in your context.

‍Learn more here.

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Who is Labs Team Training for?

Praxis looks to partner with ecosystem-minded builders who have a passion to see redemptive entrepreneurship advanced in their ecosystem. 

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  • Humble, ambitious Christian builders with entrepreneurial experience
  • A desire to serve founders and help them integrate the Redemptive Framework
  • Convening power with founders, mentors, and funders
  • Visionary, yet action-oriented and able to execute a world-class experience

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What is an Ecosystem Intensive?

We begin with a 3-day in-person gathering with the Praxis team. Think of it as going through a Praxis Experience as a participant and then getting a behind-the-scenes tour to see how it all works.

The next phase is virtual and self-paced. We provide a resource library of how-to videos, systems, templates and tools.

Upon completion and approval, Praxis grants a license that:

  • Allows leaders to run as many Experiences as they'd like in their ecosystem for 1 year
  • Gives them access to a suite of Praxis Experiences and tools

Key tools offered by Praxis to Ecosystem Leaders include:

  • Principles of building a venture-building ecosystem
  • Event scripts and execution plans
  • Templated invitations and pre and post event communications for attendees
  • Onboarding and post-event surveys
  • Event book template (with our Redemptive Playbook content and follow-up exercises)
  • A web portal to manage and share about your event

For more detail, see the Frequently Asked Questions page.

Ecosystem Intensives

Location: Various
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Next Intensives:
Singapore Regional Gathering 14-16 January 2026
Nairobi Regional Gathering 26-28 January 2026
New York City Intensives 16-18 March 2026

Who you are now

Humble, ambitious Christian seeking to live out your faith as fully as possible in your vocation, and eager to help other entrepreneurs do the same
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Experienced entrepreneur with capacity and passion to bring your experience to bear across many ventures;

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Active leader and developer of local entrepreneurial ecosystem with a platform to convene founders, mentors, and funders

What you’ll learn

How to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem and run a Lab in your context

What redemptive entrepreneurship is—in principle, theology, and practice—and how to guide others in its application

Guided “insider tour” of Praxis’s frameworks, principles, and tools for growing a venture-building ecosystem

Where you’re going

Using the Lab as a tool to convene, test, catalyze, and sustain a venture-building ecosystem in your context

Format

Ecosystem Leaders first go through training at a 3-day in-person intensive with talks, panels, and mentoring with the Praxis team.

Timeline

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis

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Next Steps

APPLY FOR A FUTURE Ecosystem INTENSIVE

Praxis hosts several Intensives each year – either at our headquarters in NYC or at our global gatherings around the world. Each gathering has a limited number of seats, made available through a rolling, invitation-driven process that incorporates those who are very active in our community as well as those who are looking to be. For those ready to host Experiences in their city, please fill out the Interest form below and note which of the gatherings you're interested in joining.

If you have further questions, consult the FAQ or you can email us.

Interest Form nominate

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REDEMPTIVE LABS INTENSIVE & LICENSE FEES‍
Thanks to the generosity of our funding community licenses are offered at no cost. Attendance at global gatherings includes a small attendee fee to cover the costs of meals and materials. Participants in need of financial assistance can inquire about a limited number of international scholarships.There is no program fee for events held in New York City, NY, USA, however Labs Teams are responsible for the cost of their own travel and lodging and spots are limited.

A note on our faith commitment: As a Christian community, Praxis finds its theological identity most clearly stated in the Lausanne Covenant (1974) and the Cape Town Commitment (2010). All Praxis staff and program participants are asked to affirm The Apostles’ Creed as a statement of their own beliefs.