Taking my own advice

This fortnight the letter is a video — about ten minutes of me talking through what has been going on around Grokkist.

I have spent years telling people that showing up unpolished is the point, and that it is your aliveness that lights the room rather than your polish. So it seemed about time I took my own advice. Tell me what you make of it: if you like the format, say so, and if you don't, say that too.

Links to everything I mention in the video:

Finding your way around

> The Crossroads — greets you by name, and shows this week’s question, your next gathering and where you are up to

> How to arrive — six minutes on what this place is for

> The Realms map — seven territories, each asking a different quality of attention

> The quests — small ways to take part, one at a time

> This week’s question, in the Commons

> The Glossary of Grokkistry

Rooms and practice

> Facilitator Sandbox — Ember Parkin, first session 8 October

> Remembering Forward — Theresa Sansome, 20 October

> A Sweet Boy: Finding Peace in Vulnerability — Samuel Saltman’s Red Thread Talk, 18 October

> Writing Salon — Alan Raw

> “Shoes-On” Studio — Kendra Fee

> Draw with Margarita — Margarita Steinberg

The Press

> The Practice of Being Alive — Jim Palmer, out 13 October

> Members: your free ebook is in the Membership Hub

> Healing Fragmentation — Marcus Barrick, published in five sections with a reader circle alongside

> Readers Circle Café, Section One — 18 October

> Marcus’s Red Thread Talk, written up

Further afield

> Online Facilitation Unconference — 5–7 November; Grokkist is a community partner again. More details here.

Coddiwomple with care,
Danu