What is Time Banking?
A time bank is a reciprocity-based skills sharing in which hours are the currency. Give one hour of service to another, and receive one hour credit in return. For one person to earn a time credit, however, someone else has to agree to give it. Timebanking happens when a network or circle of members have agreed that they will give and receive credits for services that other members provide. Those networks are called “timebanks.”
Around the world, timebanking concept is bringing the transformative powers of kindness, connection and mutual help into people’s lives.
At The Hatchery Place, we kick-started this initiative as a social experiment back in December 2021, when discovering no one else is doing the same locally. We hope to continue providing a platform for our small neighbourhood & community to facilitate & nurture a gift economy culture. Members of the community have avidly exchanged services with each other using time.
We organize Time Bank meetup every two months at The Hatchery Place. In each meetup, we create a circle of opportunity allowing everyone to share their skills, service and needs to be reciprocated by other members of the community.
Join Elaine this session to connect with other Time Bank members in the community!
https://www.thehatcheryplace.com/timebank
About Elaine Wong
Co-founder of The Hatchery Place
Elaine Wong is a Creativepreneur and the co-founder of The Hatchery Place, a conscious creative movement. The Hatchery Place is a cozy in-home coworking + coliving + colearning founded by Elaine together with her partner, Kevin Yeoh. It is a space with an unpretentious personal style that welcomes all conscious creative nomads.
Formerly a Software Consultant, Elaine became a corporate quitter in 2015 to embark on her creative dream of becoming a full time artist (painter). She is a visionary and intuitive artist whose art practice serves as an extension of her quest to get to know herself deeper and through it, cultivate a more intimate connection with herself and with the universe as a whole. Her art studio is hosted at The Hatchery Place, where she shows up every day to grow her art and the community around her.
Located in a suburban home in Subang Jaya, Selangor, The Hatchery Place is the base for an inspiring community of creative souls who gather to share and exchange their skills, cultures, and experiences with each other. It is a platform that meets the requirements of travelling creative nomads, creators & makers to expand their opportunities, ignite creativity, promote innovation and cowork with the local neighbourhood’s creativepreneurs.
Founded by growth-oriented creative souls and nurtured by creative community builders, The Hatchery Place is an incubator of heart-centred friendships, creative inspirations and conscious endeavours that bring impact and illumination to the world around them.