The Promise:

By learning how to rapidly learn and retain what you’ve learned, you will gain self-realization and the confidence that comes with limitless possibility. We understand that more can be achieved by teaching our fellows how to learn than by simply teaching them how to do.

By learning how to design and build, you will access self-actualization and realize that if you can imagine it, you will have the skills to create it or the confidence to know you can rapidly learn any additional skills necessary to build almost anything. This will redefine what’s possible for you and present you with limitless potential.

With OSE’s latest programs, you will learn the art of learning in ways that will inspire you, challenge you, and fulfill you. You will also participate and make a meaningful impact on OSE Extreme Builds, such as building an entire home with your cohort in only five days. You’ll even learn how to build the tools necessary to accomplish this. Not only will you gain all the skills needed to succeed, you’ll have the confidence, the mindset, and the collaboration skills necessary to solve problems and overcome challenges as they appear.  By becoming a part of this program, you’ll be part of a very powerful community of problem solvers, creators, and innovators with unlimited potential to improve any industry and overcome any challenge. This program will unlock potential and possibility in your life in unimaginable ways.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

The Relationship: I dunnit you can do it framework. 4 years of time + financial independence.

You’ll have two separate relationships with OSE during your time in the program. You’ll most importantly be a student and a learner where you’ll be expected to commit to embracing the art of collaboration. We believe that what’s possible for many in harmony is impossible for many individually or competitively.

Once you’ve built the necessary skills, you’ll also be an apprentice and you’ll be participating in the Extreme Builds, and as such, you will be compensated at a fair market rate.

The expectations of you are different in each of these relationships and what success looks like will be different as well. It’s important to know that effort, attitude, creativity, trust, and enthusiasm from you and from OSE are the keys to success in both relationships. We prioritize collaboration and critical thinking both in the classroom and on the worksite.

As a paid apprentice, you’ll be expected to produce at a level commensurate with your skill level and your talent. You’ll be held accountable to meeting expectations, deadlines, and showing up on time ready to work. Your performance will be evaluated and regularly reviewed with you so you can understand and focus on areas where you have the opportunity to improve or make an even greater contribution.

As a student, you’ll be expected to be mentally and physically present. To show up with curiosity, an open mind, humility, and passion to learn. If you do, you’ll succeed and achieve growth you didn’t know was possible. Your performance as a student will be regularly evaluated and reviewed with you as well again to call out areas where you have the opportunity to improve or make an even greater contribution.

The Commitment: This section needs work!

4 year program:

A typical week will have 2 days of classroom time, 2 days of building, and 1 day of Collaborative Problemsolving:

• Learn How to Build - with our innovative rapid-learning techniques, you will learn functional proficiency in 20 trades to qualify as an Integrated Builder capable of doing every aspect of the build.
• Learning How to Learn - learning the why of lifelong learning - or integrated learning for wholistic thinking and problem solving in an integrated, systems-thinking perspective. This involves the distillation of 1000 most important lessons that you can learn in a 4 year period - allowing you to understand where the Edge of Knowledge is - so that you can innovate upon it.
• Learning How to Think and Solve Problems collaboratively - we learn collaborative literacy hands-on by applied design and applied problemsolving that gets us ready for solving pressing world issues through entrepreneurial creativity.

Tracks:

• Builder - everyone starts on the Builder Track, but can advance to other tracks: Designer and Global Steward
• Designer - learning CAD, product design, house and site design, landscape design, community planning, and other options across housing, technology, energy, and other areas.
• Global Steward - this is the genius track, integrating design-build and enterprise aspects where you learn big picture systems thinking. This builds upon Learning How to Learn, and is reified by your ability to design and build real things. The goal is a lifelong learning lifestyle of solving pressing world issues.

You’ll live off site and on site facilities include:

• Rapid Learning Facility - modules and exercises in a learning environment that maximizes effective learning by combining hands-on experiments with design thinking- allowing  you to learn 20 trades in the time it takes to learn one.
• Classroom - for the  1000 lessons of the Edge of Knowledge
• Workshop - this is where we produce and learn production engineering, complementary to real house builds on the build site
• Break room - kitchenette

Time Off:

• The year includes 4 weeks off for vacation
• Christmas break
• Thanksgiving break
• One Week Spring Break Project - opportunity to volunteer on important projects, such as improving infrastructure on site,

Benefits:

• Personal Dashboard - transparent accounting of skills for advancement and clear conversion to pay scale based on hyperlinks to work product and assessments. This allows you to see exactly where you are and how the team is performing - effectively letting you set your own payscale based on well-documented performance metrics.
• We are hiring - successful graduates start at the top 2% of the pay scale in the building trades, as a Civilization Builder. This means an Integrated Builder - pushing the state of art in ecological, integrated housing as a foundation of sound civilization: towards homes that use local and recycled materials in construction, and produce all the energy, water, food, and fuel that each household needs.
• On-Site Housing -  successful graduates gain access to free on-site housing after meeting criteria of site stewardship
• Continuing Studies - successful graduates can apply for the Senior Fellowship - a 6 year program focusing on entrepreneurship and systems design - a Civilization Designer track in which you learn to build and run your own Campus.
• Financial Independence Package - continue working with us if you would like to continue your access to financial independence. You will .

Any benefits being provided??? Workman’s Comp, paid vacation, certifications for achievement…