Microsolidarity

Gillian shares her experience financing a community house in Puerto Rico, helping Rich think about his next steps in setting up a house in Spain. Gillian writes at SuperNuclear: https://supernuclear.substack.com/ See Rich’s blog about his “3-month coliving experiment” here: https://richdecibels.substack.com/p/what-we-learned-from-a-3-month-co

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

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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.

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.

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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