Microsolidarity

Last week I had the absolute privilege and pleasure to attend a gathering of changemakers, community-builders, coaches, space-holders and generally awesome people in Belgium. The experience was made possible by everyone who was there and was organized by Richard D. Bartlett and Nati Lombardo (thehum.org). In this article I want…

Raising children in a modern day household is nothing short of hardcore. From the outside it’s all ‘babies first words’ and adorable little socks but under the surface it seems most parents are left feeling consistently and chronically overwhelmed. …

I paid for courses for the first time in a while. They were “Art of Hosting” and “Microsolidarity”. TL;DR Each course teaches wonderful interpersonal practices. What else you get from them and their overall value will depend on your context. …

The 3.0 of hope, care and connection: Scaling Deep I wrote these six first paragraphs some months ago: Recently, three ladies, all grey haired, sat together one morning in my office room. The time had come to sense into a next step, after a most inspiring time during a retreat-gathering earlier in the year. As we do, starting with…

A Simple Structure to Hold a New Microsolidarity Community — Last week I published the latest story in my Microsolidarity series, explaining how to start a new mutual aid community (a “Congregation”). That chapter was exclusively focussed on the initiation process: where do you start? For this chapter, I want to advance the clock a few months. Assume you’ve had…

An Open Letter To The People of #ExtinctionRebellion — I spent the last 4 days in the Extinction Rebellion camp at Marble Arch in London. Yesterday, while police stepped up their presence on site, the protestors held an assembly to discuss their next steps. …

8 Design Patterns for a Transformative Event — I’ve just come from the 2019 Enspiral Retreat, our community’s big annual gathering. This year’s retreat was primarily hosted by The Hum (me and Nati), with the support of some awesome co-hosts from Enspiral. In microsolidarity terms, Enspiral is my “congregation”: a mutual aid community that’s small enough for everyone…

Or: What To Do in the Last Decade of the Anthropocene — I’ve spent most of the past 2 years travelling with my partner Nati, trying to discover what is the most strategic & wise action to take in a world that seems to be accelerating towards collapse. After an enormous amount of consideration, I have a strategy that feels good enough…