Hello @reef-external , the mighty @JeroenStruys has volunteered to join us. This is great news indeed, welcome Jeroen!
I propose an online meeting to brainstorm what to focus on in 2025, after the signing of the deed, so it could be during the third week of December. What do you say?
Hello again @reef-external! We have plenary on Monday, so how about Tuesday 17th at 19.30 for a team meeting?
By the way, I would encourage you to have a look at the TEDX talk by Tom from restless.brussels, I found a lot of the same spirit that animates The Reef. I took the liberty to reach out to propose an event on cohousing. It could be an opportunity to increase the visibility of cohousing and that of The Reef in the expat community (they have a 3,000 people mailing list), but also to involve local politicians, for example, apparently they do this a lot.
Today we will all be in Namur and we can touch base. If @joannes wants to participate after all we will reschedule. If not, he and @Odile (who works evenings, so no meetings for her) can maybe contribute ideas in writing on this thread.
I came across this page: Wij in de buurt – Cohousing Bijgaardehof
Consider that they are much larger than we are and have been in operation since September 2022.
From the list of activities:
About one activity per month
They keep a record of activities from before they opened
Great initiative Alberto! Did you receive any answer from restless.brussels? I agree with you that we need to increase the visibility of The Reef in the expat community.
Any of you know this organisation: cOarchi | Coarchi ? They seem to help some cohousing project to find suitable candidates for their projects.
Yes, we know them. They are basically a company that runs the project for you: find the site, recruit the group, facilitate the meetings etc. We decided to go self-managed, though.