How to keep a healthy mind and maintain emotional well-being?
I remember being deeply tuched by Stephan Urbachs post about depression in the hacker community and how to deal with it. I think this is one area that is often underestimated, at least unless you have experienced some kind of psychological or emotional distress that affected your ability to achieve what you set out to do. This has certainly been the case for me, and I have to admit I still struggle with this a lot. So exploring how dynamics of online and offline interaction in communities like Edgeryders can better support community members well being and practical steps we can take together to make it happen is something I care about. And we are not starting from scratch…
At Last year’s lote one of the best unconference sessions for me was this one on Spirituality and Resilience by [Luke]. It is the first time I have been in a meaningful and generative conversation about how to keep a healthy mind/maintain emotional well being while attempting to achieve difficult things with little support and against alot of intertia. In think this is relevant to the discussion about how to leverage Creative Networked Communities to achieve impact. Any ideas or suggestions?