Draft newsletter first issues

[catherinet1]

Acceptance

• [ ] Draft first issue/announce post Draft here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XWe8UXP7PK8iDfoUWCaw4lOmexVKdBJ5WylkFBplk5E/edit#heading=h.unkq439l1e2y

Notes

Materials

• Overview: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BOYDZJx7U6dZWfIor6i4iwp1YnY7pHha58MzFiMGvDs/edit#heading=h.q3vpn33xeuwh
• Rufus slides: https://link.excalidraw.com/l/9u8crB2ZmUo/9l8EMFqMu4V

Brainstorm of items

• "Digests" of key concepts and practices
• Personal accounts/anecdotes -- e.g. posts by (or interviews with) people sharing their experience of collective practices, e.g. Circling, Emergent Dialogue, etc.; of time in different intentional communities, etc.
• Spotlight an organisation profile
• Spotlight events hosted by people in our networks or other notable events worth mentioning
• A hopeful/inspiring news story
• Job/volunteer opportunities

❓Questions

• What are examples of similar newsletters we might draw inspiration from?
  • Microsolidarity Network newsletter - https://microsolidarity.substack.com/p/microsolidarity-network-newsletter
  • Find Enlight newsletter - https://findenlight.substack.com/p/why-even-bother
  • Intentional Society newsletter - https://buttondown.email/intentionalsociety/archive/
  • Sloww newsletter - https://www.sloww.co/sloww-sunday-newsletter-185/
• What makes them useful? What are their limitations?
• Where would I start looking for events?
  • https://dandelion.events/
  • Stephen Reid's newsletter. Latest issue: https://stephenreid.substack.com/p/in-correspondence-37
  • Find Enlight https://find-enlight.com/events/
  • See what some influential players and trusted contacts in the space are up to/organising, e.g. Emerge, IFIS, Microsolidarity...
  • "Conscious community" Facebook groups
• What are the +s and -s of the above in terms of usefulness?
• What differentiates what we're curating?
• What kinds of themes/topics/vibes of events would we like to include? e.g. not all inner work stuff, not all heady/intellectual stuff
• What are the curation criteria for constraints? e.g. location, etc. Open to public...

Notes/comments

• Really need some constraints on e.g. events. Don't want a whole catalogue of any and every possible retreat... Find Enlight list works because of (mainly) London constraint which helps make it relevant, i.e. it's really relevant to me when I'm in London, and not when I'm not in London.
  • Better to be really relevant to a smaller group of people than vaguely relevant to a large group of people (i think, probably)

Other newsletters

Sloww

• Latest issue: https://www.sloww.co/sloww-sunday-newsletter-185/
• Previous issue: https://www.sloww.co/sloww-sunday-newsletter-184/
• Weekly on Sunday
• 6 sections:
  • Lifelong Learning & Deeper Development
  • Lighter Living
  • Higher Purpose
  • Mental Mastery
  • Spiritual Seeing
  • Wise Words (inspirational quotes)
• Each section links to a section on the website on that topic, e.g. Lighter Living links to curated posts on intentional living: https://www.sloww.co/stage-1/
• Each section is often a bite-sized idea, hypothesis, or instructions for a simple practice
• ➕ I like that the title/subject line of the newsletter has a short + simple teaser of some of the main ideas in the newsletter, e.g. "Life of Mind, Taboo of Taboos, Mastery of Money, & More"; "GRACE Method, Separate Selves, Free Will, & More"
• ➖

[catherinet1]

Draft of first issue/announcement of newsletter here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XWe8UXP7PK8iDfoUWCaw4lOmexVKdBJ5WylkFBplk5E/edit#heading=h.unkq439l1e2y

@rufuspollock would you review?

[rufuspollock]

I've taken a look. I can take from here i think.

[catherinet1]

I've taken a look. I can take from here i think.

ok 👍