Congregating

Methods for bringing many crews together into groups of around 15 to 150 people.

Resources:

• Congregation: How-To — 8 Design Patterns for a Transformative Event. This story documents some lessons from hosting the big annual gathering of the Enspiral congregation.

• How to Run a Sharing Circle - a crucial piece of social technology, explained by Nati Lombardo from TheHum.org.

• Excellent documentation from the Pico Congregation on how they run their community gatherings

• Coordinating many crews to form within a congregation - Enspiral's pod formation process

• An example for how to invite people to a gathering to initiate a new congregation

• Notes on how to avoid cults

Congregations

Unofficial list of congregations and proto-congregations that match some of the microsolidarity patterns:

• Enspiral - by invitation

• Cultural Catalyst Network - occasionally open for new members

• Pico Island Congregation

• Intentional Society - open for new members (online)

• Starter Cultures

• Rocky Mountain Mutual Aid Network

• A New Republic of the Heart - open for new members (online)

• Blivande / Edgeryders - open for new members (in Stockholm)

• Building Belonging - open for new members (online)

• Wild Seed Society

• Terran Collective

• Life Itself (formerly known as Art/Earth/Tech)

• Regenerate Change: Social Alchemy Pods

• Alter Ego Network - by invitation

• Liminal Village

• Emerging Leaders Project - open for new members (online)

• Maastricht Congregation

• RatPark

• Future Thinkers

• P3 Berlin

• beta.gouv.fr

• Agile Open France

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