Making Microsolidarity in Maastricht
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👋Joshua here! Since February 2020 a growing amount of friends and I have been weaving ourselves to support each other more intimately and frequently in doing emotionally and financially fulfilling work. This is a moment for us to open the curtains and show what's happening – out loud!
Nati Lombardo, Richard D. Bartlett, my partner Beatriz Fonseca, and a few folks from our new community will be present to delve briefly into various lenses of our philosophies and practices (including Microsolidarity). We'll give most attention to hosting YOU in a participatory experience of what we've been doing.
This will be a participatory presentation to dig into the process and practices of creating a new mutual aid community – beginning in Maastricht, Netherlands.
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I have dreamt of entering into a world of working adults who experience deep emotional and financial fulfillment in what they do; who mutually support each other to live fully alive; and who are curious enough to glimpse a bird's eye view and see the silliness and awe of their existence (that's the fun idealistic part).
Perhaps you'll leave this event with some of the following:
- A spark to connect together the people you know and trust to engage with each other in more frequent and intimate contact.
- A new tool or two for having meaningful dialogue at the intersection of personal-life/emotions and work.
- A pocketful of guidance outlining how to activate a mutual aid community.
- Some quirky interactions with strangers.
- Access to a few people and platforms which are, right now, actively seeding, sprouting and tending communities of practice and mutual support.
Project Description
Making Microsolidarity is an ongoing process initiated by me, Joshua. The intention has been to co-create a network of 20-30 people who support each other in doing emotionally and financially fulfilling work. Along this process the group and I have been learning and adapting methods of participatory process design, leadership, building community, peer coaching and hosting meaningful conversation. It began with a small group in Maastricht, Netherlands.
"Microsolidarity" is a social-design methodology synthesised from many minds with the help of Richard D. Bartlett of the Enspiral Network. Adapting the methods for a group in Maastricht, Making Microsolidarity is an experiment in weaving people to be actively connected with themselves and each other on more levels than usual.
We're working out loud and learning as we do in this messy, living and experimental process.
Who's this for? Anyone who is curious and/or actively working in fields of social process design, emotional intelligence, community building, mutual aid networks, peer-coaching, facilitation. This is also for those who are looking for inspiration to move into more depth in their relationships – both personally and work-related.
About the presenters & hosts
Richard D. Bartlett (presenter) is enthusiastic about co-ownership, self-governance and building relationships of partnership instead of domination to create collaborative workplaces. Cofounder of Loomio and Director of the Enspiral Foundation. He has a unique way of seeing patterns and speaking about complexity in simple words. Read his articles or hear his interviews at: richdecibels.com
Nati Lombardo (presenter) Born in Argentina, she travelled the world learning about community development through permaculture and creative activism. She is a Member of Enspiral & Loomio. Founder or the Newtown Tool Library. She helps groups to cultivate a nourishing collaborative culture through values-driven behavioral change and relationships of peer-to-peer support.
Beatriz Fonseca (host) has been experimenting with holding spaces, experimental learning, non-formal education, self-governance and authentic relation since she was 17. Growing up, she is collecting and contributing to many libraries of relational knowledge, and recently she’s feeling the most alive when creating meaningful ways for grown-ups to feel connected with their work and with their friends. Recently graduated and in the quest for work that is meaningful to her, together with some friends, she co-started a mutual aid community and is now brewing ideas on how to learn more & simultaneously, how to give back to her communities.
Joshua Glass (host) grew up on the East Coast of USA. 20 years later he moved to the Netherlands. He's focused much of his attention and work on photography, social entrepreneurship, and community weaving. His recent projects include co-founding a socially experimental coffeehouse called The Treehouse. Presently, he's especially committed to bolstering a new mutual aid community to be as awesome as possible. He'll graduate in July with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences, Maastricht. Also, he typed this bio himself in third-person.
🗝Access: This event requires free zoom account which you can set up here: zoom.us. Instructions on how to join will be emailed to you. 🗝
Acknowledgements. I've been seriously supported in various ways along the path to this event. Thanks especially to Percolab, The Hum, Maastricht Academy of Interdisciplinary Arts, and the awesome humans who bring those titles to life.