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://derknote...
Sep 02, 2022•31 min
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...
Aug 24, 2022•1 hr
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
Aug 23, 2022•1 hr 8 min
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: ...
Jul 30, 2022•1 hr 28 min
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Jul 28, 2022•13 min
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
Jul 20, 2022•1 hr 5 min
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
Jun 13, 2022•48 min
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/
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 42 min
Polarity Management tweet is here: https://twitter.com/RichDecibels/status/1361705188285906945 Learn more about Microsolidarity here: http://microsolidarity.cc
Jun 09, 2022•1 hr 23 min
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/
Apr 27, 2022•22 min
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
Mar 09, 2022•51 min
QC is @ QiaochuYuan on Twitter.
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 20 min
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/
Nov 22, 2021•1 hr 37 min
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/
Nov 22, 2021•58 min
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 co...
Oct 02, 2021•51 min
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/l...
Sep 02, 2021•1 hr
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...
Jun 21, 2021•1 hr 19 min
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 wi...
Jun 20, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPwQeAbyWN4&list=PLOjcWjpjOqzbV9T3tSR6O7z_eic-Puqaa&index=8 Cultural Catalyst Network: http://culturalcatalystnetwork.org/
Jun 01, 2020•28 min
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...
Apr 29, 2020•1 hr 2 min
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...
Apr 07, 2020•1 hr 4 min
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 Ping me on Twitter
Mar 20, 2020•28 min
This is the first meeting between Markel Cormenzana and Rich. We get to know each other and talk about some of the design philosophy behind our work. More info at microsolidarity.cc
Mar 18, 2020•1 hr 5 min
Bea + Josh are starting a new microsolidarity community in Maastricht in the Netherlands. This is their first conversation with Rich where they present their plans and seek his feedback. We talk about leadership, facilitation, boundaries, and the tension between abstraction and practice. More info: microsolidarity.cc
Feb 11, 2020•59 min
More info at http://microsolidarity.cc/crewing and http://handbook.enspiral.com/guides/pods.html
Dec 13, 2019•32 min
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
Feb 27, 2019•1 hr 12 min
Links & background here: https://www.microsolidarity.cc/discussing/research-questions
Feb 15, 2019•46 min
