Founders Forge

Overview:

The TenTogether Founders Forge operates in person and online to support founders and creatives. It is a community and program that strengthens founders through teaching, coaching, retreats, and shared connection — focused on the personal development and the real challenges of the people behind the businesses they build.

Ideas come easy, starting them is hard. Have you ever been at a gathering where the conversation moves to what great business ideas we have? Each person has one and they are exciting to talk about. You meet the same group months later and nobody has started, but each has some new ideas. Why don't we start? Why are we stuck? What do we need?

The Forge is designed to resource founders to start, and to provide a community of support through the creation journey.

We are committed to cultivating the leadership required for building well. Strong founders create strong businesses. An initiative's success is critically linked to the people behind it — and no one is more important than the founder. The founder's journey is often lonely, with pressure on all sides. The Forge exists so that no one has to walk it alone.

Two Tracks

The Forge runs two tracks:

  1. Before the Launch — for those who carry a dream to build something and feel stuck on how to begin.
  2. Already Building — for founders already in motion, who want to grow as leaders alongside others on the same path.

The Program

  • Cohort size: 10 founders
  • Who it's for: founders and creators — whether you have yet to begin or are already building
  • Structure: 10 weekly sessions — five weeks, a break, then five weeks
  • Each session: 2 hours
  • Retreat: a 5-day in person retreat
  • After the program: an ongoing community with monthly gatherings, events, and access to future trainings and retreats — plus four monthly follow-up sessions

Inside a Session

  • Shares from the week before — 15 min
  • Teaching — 30 min
  • Exercise — 30 min
  • Break — 10 min
  • Small group discussion — 15 min
  • Small group shares with facilitator feedback — 30 min
  • An assignment to carry into the week

Curriculum

  1. Introduction to TenTogether and the program — an overview of the journey ahead
  2. Source Principles — Who leads what? Where do ideas come from?
  3. Storytelling — Business as story, using the Hero and Heroine's Journey.
  4. Connection — The ability to see the other. The magic that emerges through human connection.
  5. Authenticity — Aligning action with inner conviction. Power of honest self-awareness
  6. Power — Developing into leaders who can stand. Finding voice and holding boundaries
  7. Money — The archetypes of dealing with money. Business models that reflect values.
  8. Creation — How innovation really happens. Birthing and growing what you have sourced.
  9. Intuition — Tapping into deep wisdom. Trusting what you know but can't prove.
  10. Building a high-impact company culture — If your organization has people, it has a culture. How to craft and steward a culture that reflects your values.

Cohort dates are announced per intake. To apply or learn more, contact us.