In this conversation the hosting crew of the 2024 Microsolidarity EU Summer Camp share their insights from the camp which concluded 2 weeks ago. Join the next network call to hear more from participants and hosts alike! You can join here: https://www.microsolidarity.cc/participate/events#online-monthly-network-meeting

https://www.pnwtpot.com https://x.com/_StevenFan https://x.com/Sassafrassalass https://x.com/richdecibels

We had a really insightful, practical and reflective conversation about Crewing in this month's Network Call.

The theme - Crewing - was inspired by the recent Intermediate Practice Program which focused mainly around crewing and facilitation. Tune in to hear participants Sarah and Jackson share some of their takeaways and insights from the program, and the rich conversation that followed!

For more info on the next practice programs, click here.

Debrief with the Organizing team of Limicon 2024

Jocelyn, Sara, Gui, Jonas and Rich debrief the Winter Retreat 2024. Check out Substack to receive more updates and a summary of the outcomes of the retreat: https://microsolidarity.substack.com/ Learn more about the intermediate practice program here: https://www.microsolidarity.cc/practice-programs/intermediate-program

video version: https://youtu.be/48pbES-eqvw

In yesterday's Network Call Gui and Jonas hosted an inquiry into what we're individually and collectively visioning for the Microsolidarity Network, and how it can support us in the year ahead. See the prompts written below, and feel free to share any of your own responses! We'll be taking them into consideration within any ideation and planning sessions during the upcoming winter Network Retreat in Spain next week.

- What challenges and uncertainties are you expecting in the year ahead, for yourself, your community and our network?

- What would become possible for your community if those challenges where no longer there?

- How can the network support your community to move forward?

- What is your vision for yourself, your community and our network?

For this month's Microsolidarity Network Call, Gui Trevisan led us through a connecting authentic relating game, surfacing topics that are present for each of us in our lives at the moment. Listen in to the conversation that followed as we reflected on what had come up in our smaller group conversations.

Video of this conversation is here: https://youtu.be/UVbqPDQsjKo

Video of this conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vissfYXI5rs

More info: http://microsolidarity.cc

Here's the invitation Nicki, Jocelyn & Karl developed for the Berlin Microsolidarity Project:

https://gardenlove.notion.site/Berlin-Microsolidarity-Project-f294d1f05a9a4a3dbcc45ebe66bfed48

If you want to join our monthly network call, subscribe here: https://opencollective.com/microsolidarity

In this month's Network Call, the hosts and participants of this year's two Summer Camps (in the US and Germany) share some reflections on their experiences.

Listen in also for a retrospective of the last 6 month's of our Network: What are we celebrating? Where do we sense untapped potential? What has been challenging? And what do we want to explore now?

If you're a Network member, feel free to add to the retro board via this link.

Tune in to this month's Network Call in which Uta gets some supportive reflections around introducing crewing to her Housing Coop project, Didzis gets a surprising helping hand for planning a Microsolidarity winter retreat in Lapland, and the group reflects on experiences of being invited into new connections by people we trust.

Express your interest in the next Vibes and/or Crewing Practice Program here: https://tinyurl.com/mr3utmk3

In this month's Network Call, our small intimate group of 6 tuned in from the US, Europe and Asia to tap into each other's wisdom, support and creativity with a Troika Consulting practice. Tune in to hear our reflections and takeaways!

Links mentioned in the conversation:

Previous interview with Brooke: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/Microsolidarity/episodes/VibeCamp-Debrief-with-Brooke-e1ffnat

Critter's reflections from his experience as a VibeCamp participant: https://t.co/gB9q3LWcBS

https://www.microsolidarity.cc/participate/events

Listen along this month as Caleb Tenenbaum shares about his community-based meditation program, Community Village, Nicki and Jocelyn share about the Berlin Microsolidarity Project, and Abi gives us an update on the Network's very own Research Crew!

Here are few further links mentioned in the call:

Microsolidarity Summercamps! USA Europe Microsolidarity Practice Programs (June 6 - 15th) Learn the basic Microsolidarity concepts and connect & practice with other community builders! Registration is now open! If you're a microsolidarity practitioner you can become a member and join our calls by contributing a minimum of €3/month via our Open Collective

Tune in here for a summary of this month's Microsolidarity Network Call! This month Community Alchemist Lana Jelenjev ran a skill share session on the Satir Change Model, while a 'network support' breakout room allowed space to chew on a proposal for collectivising the financial risks of running community events. Could we have a new network "micro-insurance" scheme in the works? LINKS to further info: Download the full Satir Model guide here. (Put MICROSOLIDARITY in the coupon code to get it for free) Learn more about Understanding Organisational Change from Lana! Check out her upcoming courses through The Hum. See the Doc outlining the new "micro-insurance" scheme here Your feedback and critical thinking is very welcome :) And, if you'd like to help get the ball rolling, we welcome any contributions you'd like to throw into the hat! Microsolidarity Summercamps! USA Europe Microsolidarity Practice Programs (June 6 - 15th) Learn the basic Microsolidarity concepts and connect & practice with other community builders! Registration is now open - click here!

If you're a microsolidarity practitioner you can become a member and join our calls by contributing a minimum of €3/month via our Open Collective

Catch a snapshot of the vibe and explorations during the Microsolidarity Network Call on 6th April 2023.

Reflecting on the experience of building microsolidarity crews while living on the road.

Karl Steyaert is an IFS Practitioner, NVC Trainer, Therapist,  Transformational Facilitator, and general change agent. Together with  Jocelyn Ames, Catherin Tran, and Nadine Helm, he hosted three  back-to-back month-long “Embodying Collective Transformation  Residencies” at the Life Itself Hub in Bergerac France, in the fall of  2022.   

In this conversation, we explore some of the lessons learned from  running this massive community experiment. It feels like we only  scratched the surface. Still, there are definitely some nuggets in  there, including topics like framing an event like this, being explicit  about the purpose of any gathering, the nuanced challenges around  leadership that come with shifting roles during an event, how living  together in a close container produces a lot of learning material for  personal growth and how inner and interpersonal work relate to the  “world work”.  

To get informed when the ECT team puts up new offerings, you can sign up  for the newsletter of the Cultural Catalyst Network: https://culturalcatalystnetwork.org/contact/ 

For a deep dive into this project's philosophical and ideological  underpinning, you can check out this conversation with Karl and Theo on  the Life Itself Podcast: https://lifeitself.org/podcast/embodying-collective-transformation-with-karl-steyaert  

Jonas also wrote a series of articles on his own learnings from  participating in the November residency. You can find them here: https://jonasgroener.com/learnings-from-the-embodying-collective-transformation-residency/  

More about Microsolidarity: https://microsolidarity.cc

A conversation with Jonas Gröner reflecting on his recent gathering of climate justice activists from around Vienna, Austria.  

You can catch up on our previous conversation here: https://anchor.fm/Microsolidarity/episodes/Weaving-Social-Fabric-With-Climate-Justice-Activists-e1jnoei

More about Jonas: https://jonasgroener.com/  

More about microsolidarity: http://microsolidarity.cc

video of our conversation is here: https://youtu.be/SGvr4r_hB28

find out more about Morgan's work at Morganic Movement - https://morganicmovement.my.canva.site/

I'm extremely hyped by the curiosity, sincerity and collective growth building within this Network right now. In this month's Network Call we had a stimulating and enriching time reflecting on the latest USA Summer Camp at Elkenmist, and the Borderland festival "Microsolidarity-ish" camp experience in Sweden. What did we learn? How have those experiences helped us to grow? Looking forward to seeing you all again for the next call on 5th September (after the EU Summer Camp!) Sign up for the Microsolidarity newsletter here: https://microsolidarity.substack.com/ Get your ticket to the EU Summer Camp here (before 15th Aug!): https://www.microsolidarity.cc/eu-summer-camp-2024

Ioan, Josh & Rich talk about the joys & challenges of organising a new community centre in Portland OR  

learn more about the Community Mastery Board here: https://drew.agilelearningcenters.org/alc-one-pagers/ 

and support Microsolidarity here: https://opencollective.com/microsolidarity

Rich Bartlett, Lisa-Marie Pierre, and Jordan Lyon reflect on our experiences and harvest our learnings from an Autumn 4-day Microsolidarity gathering in Denver, CO from October 26th-29th.

Video here: https://youtu.be/p0y4qGz0pXQ

More about Microsolidarity: http://microsolidarity.cc

I spoke with Seth Bush, who is organising his local neigbhorhood in Pennsylvania. It sounds like they’re having an awesome time at the hyper-local scale, creating more connections between neighbours and exchanging mutual aid.   

We talked about legal structures for collective finances, how to scale from one neighbourhood to many. We also talked about how microsolidarity is coming from a slightly different set of priorities compared to the main currents of the contemporary social justice movement.  

At the end of the convo, Seth gave me some great advice about how to be a better coach.   

Seth & I are mutual friends of Jonas Gröner, who I spoke with in a previous episode:  https://anchor.fm/Microsolidarity/episodes/Weaving-Social-Fabric-With-Climate-Justice-Activists-e1jnoei

Join us in Discord: https://discord.gg/Kp2xVuSFAX 

And find out more about microsolidarity here: https://www.microsolidarity.cc/

Here's a recording from our monthly Microsolidarity Network Call, hosted by Jocelyn. Video is here.

Presentations by:

• Drew & Caroline - Shared Ground, Denver - http://sharedground.co
• Diana - Blivande, Stockholm - http://blivande.com
• James - Intentional Society - https://intentionalsociety.org/
• Nicole - Primal Gathering - https://primalgathering.co/
• Lisa-Marie - Crewing in New York - http://limapea.com
• Rick - Medley, Berlin - https://medley.berlin/
• Jonas - The Node, Vienna - https://derknoten.wien/  

If you want to join us for the next monthly network call, see here: https://www.microsolidarity.cc/participate/events

Primal Gathering is an environmentally, socially and psychologically regenerative gathering used to restore people, forests and ecosystems all over the world. This year, they’re planting 1000 trees in Lagos, Portugal, in between yoga classes & live concerts & permaculture workshops. Nov 17-20. Info & tickets: https://primalgathering.co/reforestation-vale-da-lama-2022

They've just published a handbook explaining their approach to community building: https://primalgathering1.gitbook.io/community-as-a-practice/

More about microsolidarity: http://microsolidarity.cc

Ananta is @meansinfinity on Twitter. She recently organised a gathering of Twitter people at Medley, a new creative space in Berlin: http://medley.berlin

Rich interviewed her to share any lessons learned.

More about microsolidarity at http://microsolidarity.cc

Talking with @kaisoapbox about his experience organising a gathering for twitter friends, with his hosting team: @herrowna, @zrkrlc, @michhmatch, @aballrolling & @amirism_  

Kai's thread of upcoming camps: https://twitter.com/kaisoapbox/status/1552288561638289408

Rival Voices' post-jesscamp thread: https://twitter.com/nosilverv/status/1501171643393191938 

Notable mentions: @frideswyth @nosilverv @m_ashcroft @gptbrooke @tpotvibecamp @Aella_Girl @visakanv   

Past interviews with organisers:  

• Silvia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu_jNf6Eqpk 
• Brooke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaQqVBGYPQA 

More about microsolidarity: http://microsolidarity.cc

more at http://microsolidarity.cc

This conversation is about using Twitter to make meaningful community. Rich is in conversation with Silvia, who recently organised a 30-person gathering in Lisbon.  The fundraiser Silvia mentioned: https://www.gofundme.com/f/buddi-and-hap-relief-fund  Join us in the Microsolidarity Discord: https://discord.gg/Kp2xVuSFAX  More at: http://microsolidarity.cc

A conversation with Jonas Gröner about his plans to create more community among the climate justice activists in Vienna, Austria.  More about microsolidarity: http://microsolildarity.cc

The 2024 USA Summer Camp at Elkenmist just came to a close, and here we have host Sara Bajor giving us a brief low-down of how it was such a success!

Learn more about Microsolidarity here: http://microsolidarity.cc

Learn more about Doomer Optimism here: https://anchor.fm/doomer-optimism
and here: https://doomeroptimism.substack.com/

Polarity Management tweet is here: https://twitter.com/RichDecibels/status/1361705188285906945

Learn more about Microsolidarity here: http://microsolidarity.cc

1st Microsolidarity Gathering is happening in Belgium May 2022 (now sold out). 

If you want to join the 2nd gathering, in USA in November, see http://microsolidarity.cc for more info. 

More about Karl: http://www.karlsteyaert.com/about/

Vibecamp is https://vibecamp.xyz/

Brooke is @gptbrooke on twitter

Here's how you can donate to the organising team.

Video of this conversation: https://youtu.be/DaQqVBGYPQA

See http://microsolidarity.cc for more

QC is @QiaochuYuan on Twitter.

Richard Bartlett speaks with Tasshin Fogleman about Enspiral, microsolidarity, collapse, cults, DAO's, and more.

Originally published on the Reach Truth Podcast:

https://tasshin.com/podcast/

James Baker, founder of Intentional Society, speaking with Richard D. Bartlett about their community building experience, especially focussed on questions of how to decentralise leadership.  Their website is here: https://intentionalsociety.org/

A conversation with Diana Monsberger, community organiser at Blivande house in Stockholm. They're having their first team retreat soon, so Diana talked with Rich about how to design the gathering.  

Some questions:  

- how to work with 35 people
- how to include people who don't desire structured intimacy
- how to make it fun and not too serious
- how to include people who can't participate for the full duration of the retreat
- how to encourage people to speak with people they wouldn't otherwise connect with
- how to connect the newbies with people who have been around for longer
- what kinds of rituals can work in this community  

Links:
- Blivande House: https://www.blivande.com/
- Troika Consulting: https://www.liberatingstructures.com/8-troika-consulting/
- Open Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
- Authentic Relating: https://authenticrelating.co/what-is-ar/
- Jojojo question cards: https://www.jojojo.cards/

Silvia Bastos is one of the co-hosts of the recent Pico Island gathering: https://anchor.fm/Microsolidarity/episodes/Pico-Island-Congregation---1st-Summer-Gathering---June-2021-e136g6k

She interviewed Richard Bartlett, one of the co-hosts of the recent Enspiral Europe gathering. 

Video of this conversation is available here: https://youtu.be/W6T65zm2Jl4

Mentioned in this conversation: 

https://visakanv.gumroad.com/l/friendlynerdbook
https://LifeItself.us
https://en.lacuisinedelabienveillance.org/les-messagers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
https://www.liberatingstructures.com/8-troika-consulting/
https://epiccollaboration.com/approaches/mg-taylor-practiced-anz-paz
https://www.thehum.org/post/how-do-we-want-to-be-together
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1145867.Sitting_in_the_Fire
https://www.moodcafe.co.uk/media/50868/1.1%20Trigger%20Logs.pdf

http://microsolidarity.cc

Silvia Bastos, Michal Korzonek & Richard D. Bartlett have a "debrief" conversation after the first gathering of their microsolidarity community in Pico Island, off the coast of Portugal.

Lavishly documented here: https://pico.microsolidarity.cc/projects/summer-gathering-2021

Join the next Microsolidarity practice program: http://thehum.org/microsolidarity 

More about the Microsolidarity project: http://microsolidarity.cc

Video of this conversation: https://youtu.be/4CmvciBqGTk

Talking with 4 organisers to hear what they think about the current state of the TPOT network / scene / community / twitter social graph.

Joshua Vial is the founder of Enspiral: we talk about what it's like to be a community founder, how to decentralise power, creating adult-to-adult relationships, vision, experimentation, safety & harm, freedom & responsibility... and lots of other good stuff :)

If you're not familiar with Enspiral, here's some introductory links:

• a 2 min video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY6eZIbgNrM
• a 30 min presentation from Alanna Irving: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ABqCgKi4X0
• an interview with Jim Rutt and me https://www.jimruttshow.com/rich-bartlett/

More links:
http://microsolidarity.cc/
https://joshuavial.com/
https://handbook.enspiral.com/

Video from this conversation available here: https://youtu.be/1_3OxvUkPPo

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPwQeAbyWN4&list=PLOjcWjpjOqzbV9T3tSR6O7z_eic-Puqaa&index=8

Cultural Catalyst Network: http://culturalcatalystnetwork.org/

Previous episode is here: https://anchor.fm/Microsolidarity/episodes/Microsolidarity-in-Maastricht-pt-1-ebnh65

Bea + Josh are starting a new microsolidarity community in Maastricht in the Netherlands. This is their second conversation with Rich & Nati where they present their plans and seek feedback. We talk about crews, how to develop a sense of shared ownership & participatory culture, and meeting online vs in person.

More info: http://microsolidarity.cc

Video of this conversation here: https://youtu.be/QL6ajLeaBA0

Karl shares his plans for a new community of practice he is about to launch; Rich gives feedback; then they get deeper into the personal questions of what it is like to be us doing this community weaving work at this time.  

- digital connection with physical distance 

- choosing which 1 thing to work on and which 9 things to put down (how to delegate) 

- Internal Family Systems Therapy and how it applies to our roles 

- going with the dao of life, moving from inspiration not obligation 

- a 21st century ashram that is non dogmatic, a life giving structure that creates the routines and structures that bias towards healthy interior states 

- practicing aikido, making music  

Karl's recommended resources here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1muX7TuVo-XiJujrRevxJW1MGAE6FgBD1ymZS6Mh8ze0/edit#

Cultural Catalyst Network: http://culturalcatalystnetwork.org/

More on microsolidarity here: http://microsolidarity.cc