What does it cost to attend a workshop?

Nothing. Workshops are free to participants and stay free. They are funded by paid consulting engagements, which begin at a 500 US dollar Media Audit, and by direct support.

What is actually taught?

Media Company in a Box — four moves: story to message, phone to studio, content to platform, platform to revenue. No equipment budget required; it starts with the phone already in the participant's pocket. Participants finish owning the platform, the archive, the intellectual property, and the revenue pathway.

How can an organization host a workshop or book Joshua to speak?

Schools, NGOs, churches, foundations, training centres and conference organizers can email joshua@joshuatberglan.com with their location, audience and approximate group size, or book a conversation directly on his calendar. In-person delivery is available across Cameroon; virtual delivery is available anywhere.

Teaching Weekly · In Person & Virtual

I Teach This Everywhere I Go.

Media Company in a Box — taught in person across six Cameroon cities while I travel the country, and virtually in partnership with organizations in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana. Before Cameroon I taught it in the United States with SCORE and in American schools. It has always been free to the people in the room.

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Base: Limbe, Cameroon
In person: 6 Cameroon cities · Virtual: Nigeria · Kenya · Uganda · Ghana
Previously: SCORE & U.S. schools

The Thesis

Not Rescue. Infrastructure.

Media Company in a Box is a four-move curriculum — story to message, phone to studio, content to platform, platform to revenue. It requires no equipment budget, because it starts with the phone already in your pocket. Participants finish owning the platform, the archive, the intellectual property, and the revenue pathway. It is free to every person in the room, everywhere I teach it.

The old model asks communities to be photographed, pitied, funded briefly, and then forgotten — dependency with better branding. This works the other way around. People do not need to be reduced to their suffering in order to deserve tools. Give someone the microphone, the archive, and the rails, and they stop being a subject in someone else's story. It is not aid. It is architecture.

And it is going somewhere. Every room I teach in is a step toward The Sovereign Franchise — sovereign media hubs that communities own outright. The teaching comes first for a simple reason: the hubs have to be run by people who already know how to run them.

The Footprint

Three Ways This Gets Delivered.

The curriculum does not change. The room does — a classroom in Bamenda, a video call with a partner organization in Accra, a small-business session in an American town. Same four moves, every time.

In Person · Cameroon

Six Cities, Still Travelling

I live here and I teach here — in schools, not-for-profits, technology centres, and community halls, moving between cities as invitations come in. This is the ground the whole method was proven on.

Virtual · Africa & Worldwide

Four Country Partnerships

Live virtual workshops and masterclasses delivered in partnership with organizations in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, and Ghana — and available anywhere a group can get online.

United States · Before Cameroon

SCORE and American Schools

I taught this in the United States as a SCORE Certified Mentor — SCORE is a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration — and in American schools, before I moved to Cameroon.

Limbe South West

Tiko South West

Souza Littoral

Bafut North West

Bamenda North West

Yaoundé Centre

Nigeria Virtual

Kenya Virtual

Uganda Virtual

Ghana Virtual

The Six Layers

What People Leave Holding.

A workshop that ends in inspiration has failed. These are the six layers a participant should be able to point at afterwards — things that exist, that they own, and that keep working after I've gone.

Training

Media Labs & Workshops

Hands-on sessions inside classrooms, computer labs, churches, nonprofits, youth groups, and virtual rooms that already exist.

Voice

Podcasts & Interviews

Local voices become hosts, interviewers, and documentarians who publish their own narratives rather than being interviewed about them.

Publishing

Books & Archives

Community knowledge, testimony, and cultural memory become books, guides, articles, and archives that outlast the workshop.

Documentation

Field Documentation

Communities record their own reality from the inside — not as outsiders extracting stories, but as people building their own record.

Ownership

Platforms They Control

Channels, pages, newsletters, and archives that belong to the creator — not rented from an algorithm that can revoke them.

Economics

Revenue Pathways

Skills, services, products, and audience ownership that turn into income — so the training sustains itself instead of needing a next grant.

Documented Sites

Four Places It's Written Down.

The teaching is continuous, so most of it never gets a page. These four were documented in full — each one an independent organization whose own work and results belong entirely to them.

Limbe · Cameroon

King Black Welfare

Workshops delivered on site at an established not-for-profit that had already trained 4,000+ students before I arrived.

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Souza, Douala · Cameroon

Grace Digital Solutions

Media architecture layered onto a nine-track technology school — proof it works on top of an existing digital-skills programme.

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Bafut Kingdom · Cameroon

The Sovereign Protocol

Home ground. The Bafut Royal House, COTECC student platforms, cultural preservation, and the Royal Echo Village in Nchum.

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Nakivale · Uganda

Sovereign Media

Refugee-led media with Kairos Transformative Lives — visual poetry, testimony, and women's practical skills training.

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How This Stays Free

Three Ways to Move It.

I don't charge the people in the room. What pays for the room is client work — so hiring me and hosting me are the same act, viewed from two ends.

Hire Me

Consulting & Architecture

Organizations hire me to design media systems their own team builds. It starts at a $500 Media Audit — and every engagement directly funds a workshop that stays free.

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Host Me

Workshops & Speaking

Bring a workshop to your school, NGO, church, or conference — in person anywhere in Cameroon, virtually anywhere else in the world.

Send an Invitation

Back Me

Direct Field Support

There's no salary and no NGO behind this. Direct support covers travel between cities, equipment, and simply staying on the ground where the work is.

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Common Questions

Direct Answers.

Where do you teach?

In person across six Cameroon cities — Limbe, Tiko, Souza, Bafut, Bamenda and Yaoundé — and I keep travelling as invitations come in. Virtually, in partnership with organizations in Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and Ghana. Before Cameroon I taught in the United States with SCORE, a resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration, and in American schools.

What does it cost to attend?

Nothing, and that doesn't change. Workshops are funded by paid consulting engagements — starting at a $500 Media Audit — and by direct support.

What's actually taught?

Media Company in a Box: story to message, phone to studio, content to platform, platform to revenue. No equipment budget needed — it starts with the phone in your pocket. People finish owning the platform, the archive, the IP, and the revenue pathway.

How do we host a workshop or book you to speak?

Email joshua@joshuatberglan.com with your location, whether you want in-person or virtual, your audience, and roughly how many people. In person across Cameroon; virtually anywhere.

Are host organizations franchisees or licensed hubs?

No. Every host — King Black Welfare Association, Grace Digital Solutions, Kairos Transformative Lives and others — is an independent partner. Their students, programmes and results are entirely their own. I used to number these partners as hubs, and I have stopped: teaching somewhere does not make it a hub. The Sovereign Franchise — the longer build of sovereign media hubs — is separate work, and very much still the goal.

Is this charity work?

No. Aid creates dependency; architecture creates ownership. People leave holding the tools, the platform, and the intellectual property — as builders, not beneficiaries.

Bring It to Your Room.

If you have people who need this — a classroom, a congregation, a youth programme, a conference — the fastest way to make it happen is to say where you are and how many are coming.

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