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Microsolidarity

Microsolidarity
Microsolidarity is an open research network developing patterns and practices for mutual aid communities. This is not a podcast exactly, more like an audio diary for people participating in the research. If you prefer video to audio, you can find many of these recordings on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOjcWjpjOqzbV9T3tSR6O7z_eic-Puqaa More info at https://www.microsolidarity.cc
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Episodes

USA Summer Camp & Borderland Festival Camp reflections

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 Micro...

Aug 01, 20241 hr 5 min

USA Summer Camp debrief with Sara Bajor

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!

Aug 01, 202415 min

TPOT State Of The Network, June 2024

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

Jun 28, 20241 hr 25 min

Relational Reciprocity

Tune in here with the latest Microsolidarity Network Call hosted by Sara Bajor (from Elkenmist community) on the theme of Relational Reciprocity. What opportunities exist for improving reciprocity in the relationships we are currently tending to? If you're interested in joining her, Ioan and others at Elkenmist for the US Summer Camp this year, find all the info here . And/or if you're in Europe at the end of August, join the EU Summer Camp in Austria!...

Jun 18, 202442 min

Meditation and then what? Talking to Caleb of Community Village about community building

Caleb Tenenbaum is a co-founder with Nina Raddy of Community Village , a peer-led, co-created meditation community. Julia Karmo talked to Caleb about ways they have been building out Community Village for the past two years, about Microsolidarity practices that Caleb is using and what effect they are having on the community. Watch to get a sense for Micrsolidarity applied in the wild, follow the steps of building up a community meditators and connect with Caleb and Nina. (https://community-villa...

May 24, 20241 hr 14 min

Financing a Community House - Richard D. Bartlett w/ Gillian Morris

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

Apr 29, 202452 min

Crewing: Intentionality & (Self-)Awareness

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 ....

Apr 04, 20241 hr 10 min

Microsolidarity Network Retreat 2024 Debrief

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

Feb 13, 20241 hr 30 min

Dreaming into the future of the Network

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 you...

Feb 02, 20241 hr 17 min

Roles, Responsibility & Risk in Collective Endeavours

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.

Dec 09, 202344 min

Summer Camps 2023 Reflections & Network Retro

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 ....

Aug 04, 20231 hr 3 min

Troika Consulting Takeaways

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!

Jul 06, 202314 min

VibeCamp 2 Debrief w/ Brooke

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

Jun 23, 202352 min

Community Village, the Berlin Microsolidarity Project & the Microsolidarity Research Crew

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! Registrati...

Jun 01, 20231 hr 4 min

Understanding Change + a Micro-Insurance Scheme Proposal?

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 fo...

May 04, 202313 min

Learnings from Hosting "Embodying Collective Transformation" with Karl Steyaert

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 a...

Jan 12, 202356 min

Debriefing after a climate activist gathering w/ Jonas Gröner

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

Jan 09, 202350 min

BridgeSpace Commons PDX & Microsolidarity

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

Jan 09, 20231 hr 10 min

Reflecting on our Denver Microsolidarity Gathering in October 2022

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

Jan 06, 20231 hr 1 min

Neighborhood Organising in Pennsylvania - Seth Bush & Richard D. Bartlett

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. A...

Oct 18, 20221 hr 6 min
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