<aside> 💡 Crewing is

</aside>

<aside> 💡 This page is a manifesto answering the question “why do crewing at the Commons?”

</aside>

Why Crewing Benefits the Commons

On congregations (the Commons is a “congregation” (12 min video):

“Because of my experience with communities over the last 10 years or so, noticing that community members who don't have a crew are often the ones who tend to be isolated and disconnected and miss out on a lot of the opportunities and the benefits of community life. It's just been a recurring pattern that the people who have the most joy, the best experiences in communities are the ones who have a great connection in a crew… when you're new… one of your first objectives should be to find your crew.”
“We support crews to form because it has this benefit for the whole network of increasing trust and increasing coherence. It becomes a really strong foundation of trust and social fabric, a baseline foundation for any upcoming challenges that the community might face. If there's lots of crews, then there are lots of trusting relationships and good communication flows. So it's a way of increasing the resilience as well as the coherence of the community.”

Goals for the Crewing Program

Per Johnson’s opinion, experience & interpretation of Microsolidarity:

Connections - more and deeper ones at the Commons
Belonging - deeper sense of it at the Commons
Personal growth/development - creating space for it and encouraging it at the Commons
All of this and more, leads to a stronger community at the Commons, and ladders up to something something golden age of society

Crewing is a practice that, at its best, effectively takes (to borrow terms from Dunbar):