"We're all here to be mirrors for each other so that we become more accurate reflections of ourselves"
- Michaelangelo (Grokkist Network member)
The Grokkist Network is what we call our dedicated community platform. It's where we host all of our events and courses, a place to post things to share or have discussions, and a directory where you can find interesting people and make connections.
In a broader sense, the Grokkist Network is a way for grokkists to discover and connect with each other as grokkists. It's more than just the online platform itself or the interactions that happen on it. It's the people.
It's all about expanding our individual and collective possibility space, and creating the conditions for conversations and connections where we can show up as whole people, in a spirit of curiosity and exploration, and know that those around us are here to do the same.
Events, Courses and Classes
Click here to browse our upcoming and past events, or check out this guide to the range of events we offer.
Click here to browse our growing range of courses and classes.
We also provide support for members to host their own events. Explore ways to get involved.
Create a free Grokkist Network account
Some parts of the Grokkist Network are available to browse publicly, but you'll need to create a free account to:
- Register for our events
- Participate in our courses and classes
- Participate in the discussions area
- Explore the grokkists directory
Some additional spaces and features of the Network are available only to Full Members, such as the event recordings library.
The Grokkist Network is powered by the Circle community software platform. You can also download the free Circle app for iOS or Android.
Having trouble creating an account?
If you are part of another community that also uses Circle, you may already have a Circle account even if you don't already belong to the Grokkist Network.
If that's the case, you may get an error when trying to sign up that says an account already exists. You can try logging in with your existing Circle account, or simply use a different email address. Contact [email protected] for assistance.
Welcome tutorial
We've created a step-by-step welcome tutorial to help you navigate around, get comfortable, and find your feet. It's the first thing you'll see after you create your free Grokkist Network account.
You can move through the welcome tutorial at your own pace or jump in and explore on your own. For most people the whole tutorial takes about an hour in total.
1:1 Warm Welcome
We offer a personal 1:1 warm welcome to all our new members – it's just a friendly 'getting to know each other' call where we can learn about what brings you here and what lights you up, so we can connect you to interesting people, activities and opportunities within the Network.
If the idea of meeting with a stranger 1:1 to talk about yourself is already spiking your anxiety, you can relax! It's completely voluntary and non-obligational.
If you don't want to meet 1:1, we can correspond by email/DM, or you can come to one our social events first and then hang around afterwards to chat, or you can simply be a loving lurker who pops up when you feel like it. We value all forms of engagement and encourage you to participate (or not) in whatever way feels most natural to you.
Office Hours / Drop-in Session
We offer a monthly drop-in session where David our Community Manager will be on call to answer any questions, go over any technical issues within the Grokkist Network, and walk you through what's new for the month. Scroll through our Upcoming Events to find the next session.
You don't need to hold any specific beliefs to be here
"It's so nice to have a place to be social that isn't social media"
– our members, after each event.
Our members are interdisciplinary, intergenerational, and international, and we come with a huge variety of life experiences and outlooks.
Most of us are on some kind of personal journey to integrate the lessons life has taught us, include and transcend our past challenges and traumas, and find healthy spaces and authentic ways of relating to others that can help us stretch into the person we are on our way to becoming.
No-one here is interested in replicating the all-too-familiar garbage fire of discourse from other online spaces.
We all want to feel safe to express ourselves without having to mask or self-censor, and to explore and navigate our inevitable differences and disagreements in a spirit of curiosity, care and mutual respect.
This stuff isn't easy, but it is important. In many ways, it's the whole point. We think about it a lot.
Here's a few things we've published about how we are cultivating a culture of curiosity and care.
Nathan Dufour Oglesby
Danu Poyner
Still have questions?
Send an email to [email protected] or simply book a time with David our Community Manager to discuss.