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🌀Process outline

Omnipresent process

• 🔦Research
• 🏋️‍♀️Mentorship
• 📸Documentation
• 📣PR / Communications

Linear process

1. 🧠Concept
2. 🗓Planning & Produce
3. 🎣Reel in the Congregation
4. 🤝Meeting 1: Welcome March
5. 🤝Meeting 2: Welcome April
6. 🤝Meeting 3: Welcome May [optional]
7. 👣Peer Coaching Session
8. 🤑Money Talk
9. 🌕The Mini-Gathering
10. 🐬Crewing

📄Table of Contents

🔦2018 - Pre-Research (mucking about)

Conception & Exploring connection || January → December

Appetize Empathy - a thoughtful dining experience (iArts poverty project) [Jan]

Appetize Empathy was an artistic dinner show in which 8 participants were selected from a wide range of socio-economic positions. The guests were invited to dine with each other for 2 hours.

The project was seeded at the start of 2018 when I began research into the state of poverty nearby Maastricht. The aim was to eventually "create an artistic dinner show" which would express my findings and reflections. I worked on this with four colleagues from iArts (Rubi Jansen, Milou Elbersen, Anchel Pablos, Mattia Vavassori).

In retrospect, I notice Appetize Empathy relates clearly to my current work of 2020:

• It was participatory - the audience interacted
• It was socially experimental - we created unordinary physical and social interventions which invited participants to interact with each other and themselves
• It intended towards a very practical takeaway - each participant voiced their professional skills and personal needs. They also wrote them down volunatrily along with contact details and exchanged with each other.

Graphic invitation of Appetize Empathy sent to participants // [✍️Mattia Vavassori & Joshua Glass]

Appetize Empathy Dining Experience 1st Test-run — Maastricht, NL | February 2018 // [📸Joshua Glass]

Appetize Empathy Dining Experience full show time-lapse — Maastricht, NL | February 2018 // [📸Mattia Vavassori]

Appetize Empathy Dining Experience full show time-lapse — Maastricht, NL | February 2018 // [📸Mattia Vavassori]

Appetize Empathy Dining Experience 1st Test-run — Maastricht, NL | February 2018 // [📸Joshua Glass]

The Treehouse Maastricht [October]

In October of 2018, my friend Timmy Davis invited me and 2 other friends to initiate a new public social space in Maastricht.

The Treehouse Project concept started as a grand experiment in creating a community, socially experimental coffeehouse and workshop space within which to explore and practice emotional integrity, deep community and the sillier sides of our humanness.

One of the first Treehouse meetings with the co-initiators (Chicco, Alfie, Joshua, and Timmy) — Dec. 2018, Maastricht, NL // [📷Joshua Glass]

Timothy Davis, the co-initiator and what we can call the “source” of the project, writes about The Treehouse Project:

“We want social spaces that touch us, nourish us, and support us. Spaces that add a new layer of depth and meaning to our existence. A cosy, warm, welcoming, and unapologetically real space where our human-ness (and monkey-ness) is recognized and respected fully. We want to grow radically, in our emotional, social, personal, and professional lives and recognise the potential of The Treehouse Project as a safe and reflective opportunity that can support us in becoming far more capable than we may realise” (Davis 2019).