Technosocial
I think both unMonastery and Edgeryders as a whole is struggling to find healthy working practices that don’t put too much pressure, or power, in the hands on a small number of people. Which is inevitable when not enough people are willing to step up and put in resources to support all the invisible work needed to keep these kinds of initiatives going. At the same time, this is often because people who would want to help don’t see a point of entry unless they like yourself try this are willing to take the time to explore and figure it out themselves or at least put their ideas in practice and then share their findings with others. Improving this requires those with the overview to structure clearly defined tasks and a social contract which makes doing them an attractive proposition. Them people who realistically can do that tends to be the small group of people doing the heavy lifting, who are usually operating under a lot of pressure on their time and attention and without support it is not feasible that they can do this work on top of everything else. It is not unique as we found when doing a structured analysis of the conversations around stewardship. The question is how to move forward, we have a few ideas for how to do this, but discussing them requires a number of committed and reliable people discussing things in a calm and reflective manner in which there is a clear separation between interpersonal, legal and financial points of tension. This is not the case at the moment and it is my hope that the process Caroline is offering to steward can help. I would ask everyone who genuinely cares about Edgeryders and its potential, and is sufficiently removed from current conflicts, to get in touch with her and help build it, as it is far too much work for any one person to carry alone.