Those activities all sound fun and useful, and my gut also says that this will be foreign to a lot of people (i.e most of my friends / people I know at meetups) and it won’t actually turn out that well (that’s not at all me suggesting to avoid these ideas). Are the people at your meetup already used to these sorts of activities?
I agree with your comment—at a typical meetup this would invite raised eyebrows. For the retreat we’re running, we pick the invite list carefully. Participants will have a baseline level of rationality, with about a third of participants with experience in circling, half with meditation, and a handful of ‘context artists’.
Never having run these activities before, it will be interesting to see how it works out :)
Those activities all sound fun and useful, and my gut also says that this will be foreign to a lot of people (i.e most of my friends / people I know at meetups) and it won’t actually turn out that well (that’s not at all me suggesting to avoid these ideas). Are the people at your meetup already used to these sorts of activities?
I agree with your comment—at a typical meetup this would invite raised eyebrows. For the retreat we’re running, we pick the invite list carefully. Participants will have a baseline level of rationality, with about a third of participants with experience in circling, half with meditation, and a handful of ‘context artists’.
Never having run these activities before, it will be interesting to see how it works out :)
Sounds like an interesting crew. I’m also interested to hear how it goes!