<aside> ✍🏻 updated by Joshua Glass | 04 April 2020

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<aside> 🌻 "The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it." David W. Orr

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Dear YOU!

We are so so happy to be officially inviting you to our Maastricht Microsolidarity Congregation !!!

If you are receiving this invitation it’s because you are well-trusted by whomever is sending this to you! Over the past couple years we – Joshua and Bea – have met brilliant, creative, fun and lovely people like you (and like us), who are looking for a way of living in which our work is meaningful, our minds mature and aware, and we remain playful, trying not to take the game of life too-too seriously. We see ourselves as creatures who are looking for something that is a little bit more than the ordinary; something that gives us purpose and connection, and doing work that feels genuinely valuable. Oh, well!! We have now decided to try and round up all of these fantastic people to see if together we can create a small intentional community of work, play, and care.

Here's what's happening:

• SO FAR: a first group of nine of us have met for one day in March of 2020 in-person to define a common vision for what this network of people can be and how we will make it a reality.

<aside> 🍯 Take a few seconds to catch up on the main points of our first meeting: Welcoming Meeting | March

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• We are now inviting YOU with the aim for this mutual aid group to reach about 30 people total – most of whom will be based in Maastricht, some in UK and other parts of Europe.

At this moment we ask you for one small commitment for the sake of exploring this idea beyond the text and getting down into the concrete:

• One full-day meeting on April 12th via Zoom video call; the main goal here is to explore the group and to get an experience of what a mutually supportive community could be for all of us. We'll be joined by someone who has loads of experience in these kinds of congregations and who will help give some concrete, experiential clarity (i.e. practices, cultures, possible visions and systems for supporting each other).

Should you feel as excited as we are now after this April meeting, this is what the rest of the plan (and commitment from you) looks like:

• A moment to meet and practice peer-coaching and explore shared economy and money work with Nil Roda-Naccari Noguera (mentor of Joshua and colleague of Ria Baeck) of Percolab 24th of May via Zoom.
• An in-person 2-3 day residential Gathering with us all in Mid-June or July (given Corona restrictions are lifted) to get together, dive into some deep topics, play about, check-in on our experience and decide how to continue.
• A second residential Gathering sometime in November / December 2020.
• Keeping in touch with your Crews once per month from June/July until November via whichever platform and to whatever level of attention you choose.

<aside> 🌍 We had originally planned to meet every time in-person. Because of Coronavirus restrictions, we have decided to continue our meetings using virtual means of connection! Luckily, our external facilitator Ria is a pro and has experience in hosting lovely, warm, productive groups online.

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In this 8-month experimental journey we will get to know each-other more intimately, and join forces in bringing our dreams and aspirations into something we can touch, lick and share! Together we will reflect on our desires, needs and boundaries and consider how we can actually support each-other in our daily lives (as friends, colleagues, partners, etc). This is not only a journey for us as a group, but also an invitation to reflect on our individual selfs and our paths. Hopefully with this Congregation and with our smaller Crews our lives will become more vital, richer, clearer, more energetic, purposeful and directed.

We are so looking forward to see what this process will bring us!

We hope that this invitation sparkles joy and curiosity in you!

🤞For now, shoot us back a message to say if you will join us via Zoom on Sunday, April 12th from 10:30 until 16:00 for two 90 minute chunks.