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

Links:

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

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

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:

More links:

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

More info  here: https://www.loomio.org/d/rqZAmHl6/the-dok-rak-community-ongoing-congregation-update-thread-

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

Reproducing Ari's podcast, originally posted here: https://soundcloud.com/ariintheair/courage-cooperation-rich-bartlett

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

A little taste to show you what we mean by microsolidarity: Ronan speaks for 7 minutes, Rich reflects back for 2 minutes, then they switch roles. An extremely simple relational practice that can make a big difference in less than half an hour.

http://microsolidarity.cc

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