Yep, GalGael is very much a place where we’ve been experimenting with working together and still working with what we learned from living together in the days of Pollok Free State. Questions of how to ‘set up’ or design and sustain/maintain spaces that are countercultural have been a consistent focus of that experimentation.
Enjoyed this article from one of the Loomio founders 5 REASONS TO BUILD A NETWORK OF SMALL GROUPS “I believe the root of that challenge is essentially cultural, and the best place to grow culture is in small groups.”
Definitely agree that if the day is made up of session/s that have a clearly defined focus - not trying to do everything/too much, cos it’s potentially a massive topic - they’ll be most likely to contribute to developments down the line. What are useful frameworks/tools others have used for designing/maintaining spaces for living and working together? Also when we say ‘spaces’, I’m guessing we mean physical and relational… might be useful to tease that out?
Glad of the opportunity to learn from LOTE experiences down the years…