Enspiral Newsletter: January 2024

What's alive in the world of meaningful work.

Kia ora koutou katoa, Greetings & welcome all to another edition of the Enspiral newsletter.

We’re right after the SummerFest and the polaroid group pic definitely shines some bright vibes:

In the meantime our next round of collaborative funding is approaching fast. This time we’ll be distributing 20k NZD between different projects proposed by the network. You can learn more about the process in our handbook.

Last but not least, our Kumara Node, an Enspiral Node broadly serving the Asia-Pacific region, updated its membership policy.

Podcast of the Month

The Magic of Enspiral Gatherings with Bridget Mullins and Melina Chan

Resurfacing into the world, straight after Enspiral SummerFest 2024, we're exploring the ingredients that make these events so nourishing, as well as navigating tensions, challenges of organising, and how does this all fit in Enspiral.

Other Stuff

• An upcoming 8-week course from GreaterThan: Thriving Networks course: ‘How to grow networks where value, money and resources are in flow?’ starts on Feb 7th.

• Campfire - web-based chat system, where all your data, both the messages and the file uploads, live on your server - and you only need to buy the software once (no subscription).

• In case you are (or have been) using trello - it has been pawned 😔

A short note on Substack:

We're aware of the developing tension around Substack unwilling to demonetise hate speech content (see here and here). We're discussing possible alternatives for our newsletter in case Substack doesn't change their position.

Card

I was making this card during the podcast conversation with Melina and Bridget, attempting to engrave the different pieces of the SummerFest.

How would you interpret all the shapes and patterns?