Focused work sessions, run inside your space.
Limen runs small work sessions for coworking members in Amsterdam. People come in, work quietly for three hours, and leave knowing a few people they didn’t know that morning. We bring the format and the facilitator. You bring the room.
What a session looks like
Three hours, and the room stays quiet for most of it.
Everyone brings their own work. The facilitator keeps the time so nobody in the room has to.
- 0:00Intro round. Name, and the one thing you want to finish today. Two minutes each.
- 0:10Focus block, 50 minutes. No talking and no calls in the room.
- 1:00Break, 10 minutes.
- 1:10Focus block, 50 minutes.
- 2:00Break, 10 minutes.
- 2:10Focus block, 50 minutes.
- 3:00Checkout. What you finished, where you got stuck. Most of the introductions happen here.
Groups are 4 to 8 people. Above that the checkout stops working.
Three hours fits before lunch, so a full day is two sessions: one in the morning, one after lunch. Members can take either or both, and the two groups are usually not the same people, which is how a space can run this once a week and still reach a wide part of its members.
What your space gets
A full room on a quiet day, and members who know each other.
Members and non-members test the space properly
Someone who comes to an evening talk sees a room with chairs. Someone who works here for three hours has tested your wifi, your chairs, your coffee and how loud the place is at 2pm. If you open the session on Luma, non-members get that experience without a tour.
The quiet days get used
We schedule on the days you want filled. Most spaces are busy Tuesday to Thursday, so we take Monday or Friday.
People stay where they know names
People stay in a space where they know names, and a recurring session produces that on a schedule instead of by luck.
Your community manager gets the credit
After every session your community manager gets a short note: who came, what they are working on, who is worth introducing to whom. They announce the session and open the room. They prepare nothing, and their name is on it.
What we need from you
A room and half an hour of your community manager's time.
- A room or corner for 4 to 8 people, three hours, on a day and time you pick.
- One announcement in your member channel before the first session.
- 30 minutes of your community manager's time, once, to agree the schedule and the rules.
- Access for the facilitator on session days.
You pay nothing, and nobody from your team has to be there on the day.
What we won't do
Your members stay your members.
We are a community brand running sessions inside your space, so it is fair to ask what we do with your members. In writing, before we start:
- We don't sell Limen memberships in your space.
- We don't export or keep your member list.
- We don't speak on behalf of your space.
- We don't run this for another space on your street without telling you first.
What we do get
- Our name in the announcement.
- Co-host on the Luma page for open sessions.
- The right to invite people we met to our own sessions elsewhere.
What has happened so far
About 20 people so far.
Sessions run at 4 to 5 people by design, and almost everyone who signs up shows up. Around 90% come back at least once in their second month.
“Pasha introduces people clean and sharp, so you instantly get this is your kind of person. That alone isn’t enough in our goldfish-attention world, but Pasha’s got that covered too. His coworks, hangouts and dinners keep bumping you into the same crowd, over and over, like it’s no big deal. I found a business partner and a couple of leads out of the transactional side of it. What actually stuck was feeling like I’ve got my people in his warm Limen.”
Ivan PashchenkoPreviously co-founder at Peerby, now building Tune“I’ve been joining Pasha’s coworkings regularly for a couple of months now, and it’s always one of my favourite days of the week. I meet new interesting people, and Pasha always has the most interesting people coming. I like the structure of setting a goal and working in pomodoros: it keeps me focused and productive while I still enjoy the company. If you’ve never tried a coworking before, highly recommend.”
Lena ShakurovaFounder at ParsLabs, AI AdvisorRead the post on LinkedIn“Did 3 rounds of pomodoro last Sunday.
Got deep work done, made two new friends, and had coffee with an old one.
Been doing pomodoro ever since.
Living life in 25 min increments is nice.
Thanks to Paul Kozlov for organizing and thanks to Lena Shakurova and Yury Sukhoverkhov for the healthy peer pressure 🤓”
Amanda SanchezBuilding AI Sports Tech at Reeplayer“I have joined already a few coworking sessions organised by Pasha. I am surprised how I found these sessions both productive (being very focused during the pomodoro timer on) and joyful (there was always a lot of laughter). It was nice meeting new people too. And because of some reasons beyond my comprehension, it was very easy going, and rather than giving a formal handshake to a new person, I mostly embraced them with a hug. So the vibe is very homy/friendly rather than formal. Will continue joining.”
Pavel KucherbaevCofounder at TimeTuna, ex-Atlassian, BookingThe pilot is built so you can stop after four sessions.
Who runs it
Pavel Kozlov
I run Limen. I open the room, keep the time, and keep the session quiet and useful.
I’ve been building formats for connecting people since 2018, when I co-founded Random Coffee, a product that introduced people to each other inside interest-based communities. We raised $100k, grew it to €250k ARR and 10,000 meetings a week, got it profitable, and I sold my stake. Since then I’ve been running founder coworking sessions in Amsterdam and teaching a startup seminar that students rate 5.0 out of 5.
Variations
The default is three focus blocks and a checkout. Start here.
Member talk
Member talks are optional and most sessions don’t have one. When the group is up for it, someone from the room uses one of the breaks to talk for 7 minutes about something they know well. No slides, no external speaker to book, and the session stays the same length. Your members get to be visible to each other, and your community manager finds out what expertise is sitting in the room. We pick the speaker from what people say at checkout.
Themed session
Same structure, one subject in the room, such as shipping a product, writing, or job search. Worth doing once there is a group that returns.
How we start
Four weekly sessions, free.
After the fourth we look at the numbers together: how many came, how many came twice, how many were not your members, how many asked about a desk.
- If it didn't work
- You stop. It cost you a room for four mornings and nothing else.
- If it worked
- You keep it as part of what your membership includes and pay a fixed fee per session.
- If it worked and you'd rather not pay in cash
- We agree a trade instead. The one we usually propose: we keep running the sessions, and once a month you tell your members about them in your own mailing.
Questions
Things operators ask first.
Is this an event?
People come to work and leave with work done. The social part happens in the breaks and the checkout, which is why it works for members who skip networking drinks.
Who can join?
Any resident of your space: freelancers, remote employees, founders, people between jobs. If you want it open to non-members through Luma, we co-host the page with you.
Do you need a closed room?
Preferably, but a quiet corner works. The checkout has to happen without disturbing people who aren't in the session.
What if only two people show up?
Two people is a session. We run it and the number goes in the recap.
We already run events. Why this?
Your events are in the evening and pull the same confident 20%. This runs during the working day and gives quieter members a reason to come in.
What does it cost?
The first four sessions are free. After that, a fixed fee per session or a barter arrangement, agreed after the pilot.