Podcasts about microsolidarity

Rich Bartlett helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralized organizations. He's the co-founder the community building network Microsolidarity, and non-hierarchical management consultancy The Hum. He also co-runs Fight Wise an online course about developing courage in your relationships, standing up for yourself, skillfully navigating conflicts, and asking for what you want.Resources:* Improvise for Real* Keith Jarret* Fight Wise: Find Your Backbone* People mentioned: Guy (RivalVoices), Visakan, Romeo Stevens, Vivid VoidYouTube: This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit themetagame.substack.com

You can find the original conversation with Ioan & Josh here: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/Microsolidarity/episodes/BridgeSpace-Commons-PDX--Microsolidarity-e1t5o7t Bridgespace website: https://www.bridgespacepdx.com/

One month on from the Microsolidarity EU Summer Camp, two of the hosts Jesse Evers and Sarah Pelham facilitate a discussion to consider, how were we together? And what are take-aways and considerations for the design processes and hosting of future gatherings? The recording starts as we are discussing - which structures and practices enabled or inhibited our collective ways of being, and how? If you want to hear more about how the camp was set up and structured, have a listen to '2024 Microsolidarity EU Summer Camp - Hosting Crew Debrief' (recorded 17 September 2024). Sign up to the Microsolidarity newsletter for information on future gatherings and more: https://microsolidarity.substack.com/ 

The October 2024 Microsolidarity network call was all about unpacking the September Summer Camp experience. Participants shared stories of turning awkward moments into opportunities for connection, discussed the concept of "slack capacity," and explored how to handle unexpected challenges with a positive attitude. The group dug into the nitty-gritty of creating spaces where people naturally connect and how campers navigated conflicts constructively.

In this conversation the hosting crew of the 2024 Microsolidarity EU Summer Camp share their insights from the camp which concluded 2 weeks ago. Join the next network call to hear more from participants and hosts alike! You can join here: https://www.microsolidarity.cc/participate/events#online-monthly-network-meeting

Tune in to this month's Network Call in which Uta gets some supportive reflections around introducing crewing to her Housing Coop project, Didzis gets a surprising helping hand for planning a Microsolidarity winter retreat in Lapland, and the group reflects on experiences of being invited into new connections by people we trust. Express your interest in the next Vibes and/or Crewing Practice Program here: https://tinyurl.com/mr3utmk3

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 Microsolidarity newsletter here: https://microsolidarity.substack.com/ Get your ticket to the EU Summer Camp here (before 15th Aug!): https://www.microsolidarity.cc/eu-summer-camp-2024

Jesse Evers is the founder of Highside, a workshop / events venue / community space in New York. He sat down with Richard D. Bartlett to discuss what he's learned from 3 years running the space. Chat with Jesse on Twitter: https://x.com/_jlevers Info about Microsolidarity summer camps: http://microsolidarity.cc

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-village.org/)

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Rich Bartlett joins Ashley to discuss the art of crafting co-created events. Discover the intricacies of collaboration, community engagement, and fostering inclusivity. Rich Bartlett co-founded tech co-op Loomio, community building network Microsolidarity, non-hierarchical management consultancy The Hum, and director of the social impact collective Enspiral. You can check out his newsletter here: https://richdecibels.substack.com/ And you can find Rich on Twitter @RichDecibels

Jim talks with Richard Bartlett about the ideas in his essay "What we learned from a 3-month co-living experiment." They discuss Jim's visit to a co-living house, community & its recent decline, starting small & iterating, the co-living experiment in Andalusia, pre-registration, co-living plus events, finding the right place, the importance of landscape, the vibe, finances, membrane design, organizing transit, events, the emergent TPOT network, paying community organizers what they're worth, weaving weak links & strong links, social transitivity, curation, selection criteria, containment vs ejection, a pluralistic attitude toward respect, assuming good faith, focusing on what you want to see more of, systems for participation & coordination, the danger of oversystematizing, resentment minimization, just-in-time system design, increasing capacity for hosting, the arrival process, mastering hospitality, biasing toward small-group participation, unscheduled time, what's next, GameB finance, and much more. Episode Transcript Rich Debels (website) JRS EP51 - Richard Bartlett on Self-Organizing Collaboration "What we learned from a 3-month co-living experiment," by Richard Bartlett  @visakanv on Twitter Richard Bartlett helps people grow high-trust communities and decentralised organizations. He is a co-founder of the tech co-op Loomio, the community building network Microsolidarity, and the non-hierarchical management consultancy The Hum, as well as director of the social impact collective Enspiral.

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

Richard Bartlett is a community organizer, entrepreneur & coach who helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralized organizations. Back in 2011, he was a part of the Occupy Wall Street movement, a pivotal moment that set him on the path to becoming a key player in Enspiral - an organization that shares money, power & information to help its members do meaningful work. He went on to found Loomio, a software that helps companies seamlessly navigate the intricacies of decentralized organization. Later he founded the Hum, a non-hierarchical management consultancy that's rewriting the rules of how we work together. His latest venture is a community-building network and movement known as Microsolidarity. In this episode, we speak about essential modalities & practices for community builders, building trust and accelerating personal growth through community, navigating the polarity of autonomy and belonging, collective intelligence, how to integrate vulnerability into the workplace, creating decentralized organizations and so much more. 

In this episode of Relating to Self, I have a conversation with Richard D. Bartlett.Richard helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralized organizations.He's a co-founder of tech co-op Loomio, community building network Microsolidarity, non-hierarchical management consultancy The Hum, and director of the social impact collective Enspiral.Topics, resources, and useful links mentioned in the episode:Why Richard is suspicious of the SelfRelating to Self as inner conversations with mischievous kidsComing to a more agentic state of mindRelating within a groupGood company as a privilege, how to create it?Extending co-regulation into our identityHow to be a good mammalCultivating trust as a practiceMaking relationships themselves as the object of curiosityThe meaning of "grace"The balance between our animal and human sidesThe illusion of free willMeeting people where they areNon-attachment to outcome and wonderNot pushing your reality onto other peopleBeing famous for values that serve peopleWhat's difficult for RichardOptimism as a lensIf you enjoyed this episode, consider sharing it with a friend and leaving a rating or review. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Sign up for the Relating to Self newsletterFollow Joachim on Twitter

Here's the invitation Nicki, Jocelyn & Karl developed for the Berlin Microsolidarity Project: https://gardenlove.notion.site/Berlin-Microsolidarity-Project-f294d1f05a9a4a3dbcc45ebe66bfed48

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

Rich Bartlett helps people grow high-trust communities & decentralised organisations. He's the co-founder of tech co-op Loomio, community building network Microsolidarity, management consultancy The Hum, and director of the social impact collective Enspiral. We talk about microsolidarity, fellowship and belonging, being optimistic and pessimistic about the future, cooperation and coordination, increasing agency, commitment, and identifying what you're good at. — (01:04) Why do we need better human coordination? (06:25) Straddling the line between optimistic and pessimistic; being “pro” things instead of “anti” (12:23) Stories drive cooperation (15:51) Does he have a fundamentally good view of human nature? (20:24) How to increase human agency (27:10) How and when do you know to commit to something? (33:33) Identifying what you're uniquely good at (37:57) Rich's final question for listeners — Loomio: https://www.loomio.com/ Enspiral: https://www.enspiral.com/ Microsolidarity: http://microsolidarity.cc/ The Hum: https://www.thehum.org/ Rich's Twitter: https://twitter.com/RichDecibels Rich's site: http://richdecibels.com/ Spencer's Twitter: https://twitter.com/SP1NS1R Spencer's blog: https://spencerkier.substack.com/

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

In this episode I spoke with Richard Bartlett (@RichDecibels), a co-founder of tech co-op Loomio, non-hierarchical management consultancy The Hum, and director of the social impact collective Enspiral. His most recent endeavour is a community building network called Microsolidarity, Although I've followed him for a while now, we met in person at the Solarpunk NOW event in Austria organized by the Crypto Commons Association part of the Breadchain Cooperative.  During the interview we discussed his experience in building high trust communities, his thoughts on crypto world, and dealing with the contradiction of being on the left and needing to both live within and be against capitalism at the same time. If you're interested in learning more about decentralized organizing, I highly recommend checking out the  Better work together book written by those who have been a part of Enspiral. If you liked the podcast be sure to give it a review on your preferred podcast platform. If you find content like this important consider donating to my Patreon starting at just $3 per month. It takes quite a lot of my time and resources so any amount helps. Follow me on Twitter (@TBSocialist) or Mastodon (@theblockchainsocialist@social.coop) and join the r/CryptoLeftists subreddit and Discord to join the discussion.Support the show

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Ioan, Josh, and Rich discuss BridgeSpace Commons, and in particular, the challenges of creating a different kind of community space that can be shared by different groups of people with different goals and values Josh @pdxregencommons is part of Portland Commons Technology Project, a group building commons infrastructure for people and creatures. A budding economic solidarity bloc between arts, mutual aid, and ecology in Portland, OR. Richard D. Bartlett @RichDecibels is a Director at Enspiral, a network of self-managing, purpose-driven companies. He co-founded Loomio, a worker-owned company that builds collaboration software, and The Hum, helping decentralized organizations thrive. He's the author of a community building practice called Microsolidarity. He's enthusiastic about co-ownership, self-governance and building relationships of partnership instead of domination to create collaborative workplaces. Read more at richdecibels.com Ioan Mitrea @awarenesss Founder @SellerEngine, Aspiring animist regenerative custodian of woods, creeks and meadows. Quantum physics and chaos theory. Friendly Bridgespace troll

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

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

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

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

Rich, Steph, Roscoe and Ashley discuss their experience at the Microsolidarity Retreat in Denver in October 2022. Tune in to find out if Ashley did battle with the hippies or became one! Steph Soussloff @stephsoussloff is an animal-lover, artist, gardener, cook, daughter & friend passionate about co-creating cultures of care, authenticity & embodied creativity. A design strategist & org development consultant by training, she loves to support clients in unfolding their shared capacity for collaboration, strong relationships and brave communication. She is a catalyst of a community project called Starter Cultures where she hosts a writing circle and a peer-coaching space. Roscoe is a 58-year-old white guy living in Boston, Massachusetts, working as a counselor. An artist and synthesizer by wiring and practice, he cares about using the meta as a tool for advancing the ordinary good. Richard D. Bartlett @RichDecibels is a Director at Enspiral, a network of self-managing, purpose-driven companies. He co-founded Loomio, a worker-owned company that builds collaboration software, and The Hum, helping decentralized organizations thrive. He's the author of a community building practice called Microsolidarity. He's enthusiastic about co-ownership, self-governance and building relationships of partnership instead of domination to create collaborative workplaces. read more at richdecibels.com

Microsolidarity Denver '22 Lightening Talks by Holding Unfolding

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. At the end of the convo, Seth gave me some great advice about how to be a better coach. Seth & I are mutual friends of Jonas Gröner, who I spoke with in a previous episode: https://anchor.fm/Microsolidarity/episodes/Weaving-Social-Fabric-With-Climate-Justice-Activists-e1jnoei Join us in Discord: https://discord.gg/Kp2xVuSFAX And find out more about microsolidarity here: https://www.microsolidarity.cc/

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://derknoten.wien/ If you want to join us for the next monthly network call, see here: https://www.microsolidarity.cc/participate/events

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

Our 43rd episode of Doomer Optimism sees Ashley Colby (@RizomaSchool) having a one on one chat with Rich Bartlett (@RichDecibels), writer, intellectual, and founder of Loomio and The Hum. Conversation ranges from what constitutes a "cult," how to organize effective organizations, and the intersection of community and governance. About Rich Bartlett Richard D. Bartlett is one of those people with a lot of websites. He's the co-founder of Loomio, a platform for small-scale digital democracy inspired by the 2011 Occupy Movement. He's also co-leader of The Hum, a training & consulting company that supports decentralised organisations to work without domination hierarchies. He's also the co-director of the Enspiral Foundation, which is a professional network of friends supporting each other to do more meaningful work in the world. And he's the author of a community-building methodology called Microsolidarity. About Ashley Colby Ashley is an Environmental Sociologist who studied at Washington State University, the department that founded the subdiscipline. She's interested in and passionate about the myriad creative ways in which people are forming new social worlds in resistance to the failures of late capitalism and resultant climate disasters. I am a qualitative researcher so I tend to focus on the informal spaces of innovation. She's the founder of Rizoma Field School and Rizoma Foundation.

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/

In this episode, we speak with Rich D. Bartlett. Rich is a co-founder of Loomio: a platform for small-scale digital democracy; as well as The Hum: a consultancy for improving the operations of decentralized organizations. He also is the designer behind the Microsolidarity methodology of community-building. In this episode we'll dive into process facilitation for decentralized organizations, methods for developing a sense of belonging, and how to create containers where people can actually change their minds. We also run our first ReRoute collaborative brainstorm for finding non-traditional forces to stay grounded to real needs as an organization.>> Links and References

Just what is Web3, why are people so excited about it, and how likely is it to really change the world? In this episode, Life Itself co-founder Rufus Pollock talks with Rich Bartlett and Stephen Reid on the promises, possibilities and pitfalls of Web3. Learn more: https://lifeitself.us/web3/ Richard D. Bartlett Has operated in the space of decentralised governance for some time through projects such as Loomio, The Hum and Microsolidarity. He is also a Director and longstanding member of Enspiral - a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work. Richard is a recent convert to the power of Web3 in supporting decentralised governance. Stephen Reid is a teacher and technologist devoted to the flourishing of Life on Earth who has trained in the fields of complexity science, physics, software development, meditation, psychotherapy, plant medicine, conscious sexuality and political activism. He is currently teacher of the How to DAO, Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance, The Promise of Decentralisation & Introduction to web3 courses, and a member of the not-for-profit worker co-operative Dandelion Collective, where he leads the development of the Dandelion platform for ticketed events and co-created gatherings.

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Experimenting with microsolidarity crews, published by 4thWayWastrel on February 6, 2022 on LessWrong. In 2020 I was introduced to "microsolidarity", a set of ideas and methodologies on relating to others in groups. Over the last 6 months I've been experimenting with it in the form of "crewing". This post is a casual outline for anyone interested of the steps I took organising crews of rats and EAs to meet weekly and: help each other with life problems nerd out over mutual obsessions, from wellbeing to emergence to ambition just generally connect as human beings I didn't set out with a plan, I just did what felt right at the time so take this as less of a recipe and more of a retrospective from which you might want to pick and choose some stuff of your own to try! What I did: #1 Collect "free electrons": I'd keep an eye out for people I suspected might be interested in crewing and would be fun to hang out with. I found mine: In "introductions" slack channels for events (be on the lookout for key interests like "community", "governance", "wellbeing" or "relating") At virtual conferences for communities like effective altruism, complexity weekend, or radicalXchange People I know in real life (though never more than 1 per crew) People recommended by other free electrons #2 Connect: I'd reach out to these people to see if they'd be interested in a 1-1 chat Normally this would be a message like "Hey, if you were interested in jumping on a call sometime to connect I'd love to chat about X

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Experimenting with microsolidarity crews, published by 4thWayWastrel on February 6, 2022 on LessWrong. In 2020 I was introduced to "microsolidarity", a set of ideas and methodologies on relating to others in groups. Over the last 6 months I've been experimenting with it in the form of "crewing". This post is a casual outline for anyone interested of the steps I took organising crews of rats and EAs to meet weekly and: help each other with life problems nerd out over mutual obsessions, from wellbeing to emergence to ambition just generally connect as human beings I didn't set out with a plan, I just did what felt right at the time so take this as less of a recipe and more of a retrospective from which you might want to pick and choose some stuff of your own to try! What I did: #1 Collect "free electrons": I'd keep an eye out for people I suspected might be interested in crewing and would be fun to hang out with. I found mine: In "introductions" slack channels for events (be on the lookout for key interests like "community", "governance", "wellbeing" or "relating") At virtual conferences for communities like effective altruism, complexity weekend, or radicalXchange People I know in real life (though never more than 1 per crew) People recommended by other free electrons #2 Connect: I'd reach out to these people to see if they'd be interested in a 1-1 chat Normally this would be a message like "Hey, if you were interested in jumping on a call sometime to connect I'd love to chat about X

Richard Bartlett describes himself as “one of those people with a lot of websites”, and he's right. He's the co-founder of Loomio, a platform for small-scale digital democracy inspired by the 2011 Occupy Movement. He's also co-leader of The Hum, a training & consulting company that supports decentralised organisations to work without domination hierarchies. And he's also the co-director of the Enspiral Foundation, which is a professional network of friends supporting each other to do more meaningful work in the world. And he's the author of a community-building methodology called Microsolidarity. Rich is a fanatical Twitterer, and tells me he is a halfway decent blues guitarist. He grew up in a fundamentalist Christian community in New Zealand and now lives literally as far away as you possibly can, in Lucca, Italy, for reasons that become clearer in our conversation. I haven't met Rich in person yet, although I know him from some work he did earlier this year with SEEDS, the complementary currency. I was impressed with his very practical wisdom, so I was inspired by that interaction to take a course with The Hum, hosted by Rich and his partner, Nati, which was excellent. In this conversation we talk about complex systems, chaos and coherence, nouns and verbs, cultural innoculation, methodologies rather than mission statements, trust, partnership and domination, Riane Eisler and Kim Stanley Robinson, heaven and hell and Christianity, LSD, fear of death, polarisation and harmonisation. What I took away from this conversation was a greater understanding of, well, understanding. In our world it often feels like many people are talking, and not so many are listening. When we really listen, it becomes easier to focus on our similarities rather than our differences, and to tune into the shades of grey between the black and white extremes of polarised discourse. I love the work Rich is doing. It makes me feel hopeful. Just a reminder that our archive of conversations – with Charles Eisenstein, Tim Jackson, Jude Currivan, Bill McKibben, Sharon Blackie, Ted Rau, Paul Hawken, Peggy Liu, John Buck and Monika Megyesi, and Kimberly Carter Gamble are available for free on Spotify, and now also on Apple Podcasts!

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

Ethan Zuckerman is a voice that you need to know. He’s a pioneer for the use of media as a tool for social change, for cultivating international development with technology, and for the activation of new media technologies by activists. Ethan is uncommonly insightful about the currents and trends of our society. In this conversation he helps us understand the shape of our public discourse, and relates it to the world of today and tomorrow. Show Notes:Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - Sonder (05:00)Book: Rewire (08:00)MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media (12:00)Nathan Matias (Cornell)Catherine D'Ignazio (MIT)Molly Sauter (University of Maryland)The Good Citizen Michael Schudson  (16:00)The Social Machine Judith Donath (16:20)Rachel Barenplat: the velveteen rabbi (18:40)QAnon (22:30)Global voices  (28:40)Small communities doing digital connection well (29:50)Michael Wood Lewis - Front Porch ForumEsra'a Al ShafeiSara Lomax-Reese - WURD RadioOrigins episode with Richard Bartlett and Microsolidarity (33:45)The slow professor by Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber (35:00)Mistrust (37:00)Twilight of the elites Chris Hayes (38:30)Black lives matter and defund the police (40:30)Problem with a zero sum view (44:30)The sum of us by Heath McGhee (47:45)Lightning round (50:40):Book: The Creation of the Media by Paul StarrPassion: Music and ethnomusicologyHeart sing: Traveling (blog) and board gamesScrewed up: RelationshipJoke answer: invented the pop-up adFind guest online:Twitter: @EthanZhttps://ethanzuckerman.com/'Five-Cut Fridays’ five-song music playlist series  Ethan’s playlist

This week I'm joined by Richard D. Bartlett for a deep dive into what it is that drives us both to cultivate community. We question whether our passion is coming from a wholly integrated place and explore how our trauma often compels us to act the way we do. We also break down the constellation of thinkers that have most inspired us and zero in on the difference between linking and ranking in social contexts. I enjoyed this conversation with every ounce of my being and hope it touches you the way it did me. I recommend you check out the courses that Rich and Nati offer through the Hum, I made some really great new friends after doing the Microsolidarity course last year. https://www.thehum.org/events http://richdecibels.com/ https://www.microsolidarity.cc/

In this episode of Talk of Today we're joined by Richard Bartlett. Richard is an expert in bringing people together and catalysing decentralised forms of organising. He's co founder of Enspiral (Enspiral.com) - a network of people supporting each other to grow up and to get paid for doing meaningful work. He's currently working on a project called Microsolidarity (microsolidarity.cc) that's focused on building and sharing a collection of methodologies for community building, answering the questions of How can we build small scale, high trust, mutually developmental groups. I'm a huge fan of Richards work and the joy he seems to exhibit in living and interacting with people. I first came across his work on twitter — I highly recommend following him. For show notes and links to Richard's work and other things discussed in our conversation, head to my website website (samhbarton.com) . I'm excited to share this conversation with you all. Our ability to tackle the grand global challenges we face ahead is dependent upon us, all of us, coming together in the places we call home, and taking action. Links The Hum (https://www.thehum.org) Enspiral (https://enspiral.com/) Microsolidarity (microsolidarity.cc) Richard's Website (http://richdecibels.com/) Richard's Twitter (https://twitter.com/RichDecibels) Richards newsletter (https://richdecibels.substack.com/) Rich's Book: Patterns for Decentralised Organising (https://leanpub.com/patterns-for-decentralised-organising/) Support this podcastSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/talk-of-today/donations