Microsolidarity

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

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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

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/

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

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

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/

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

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

Here's a conversation recorded at the big annual gathering of Enspiral, talking about the very practical side of starting and running Crews. This recording is annotated with lots of links, over here:

https://www.microsolidarity.cc/discussing/enspiral-summer-retreat-feb-2019

Links & background here: https://www.microsolidarity.cc/discussing/research-questions