As an aside, I think good community is about providing people with repeated low stakes chances at engagement. “You don’t want to come on the intro fellowship? No? That’s okay, we’ll run past eachother again”
My question would be, how do EA orgs at unis run events such that by the end of 3rd year, most students who would want to be involved are and few students who don’t are hurt or turned off. I think these should be regular (someone might have a possible interaction every couple of weeks) and low friction (it takes 5 seconds to engage).
Some thoughts might be:
EA discussion night, which anyone can bring people to
4 week courses run twice a year
Low friction friendship matchmaking
EA mentoring
Ways to hear about EA socials
increasing the findability of this forum/EA twitter/ EA reddit
low friction way to get hold of EA books
Just to give some colour, I was a Christian at uni and Churches/Christian Union in various guises ran a lot of events. Some were less effective than others, but still, note the opportunities:
Church services
Bible studies ~10 ppl
College bible studies
Socials
3 person friendship groups
Text a toastie—where you could ask a question and get a free toasties
2 mission weeks a year
Giving drinks/sweets to people going clubbing
Giving tea and coffee to random people
One-off worship nights
Gave everyone hoodies (feeling familiar :P?)
Alpha courses (the Christian precursor to the intro fellowship)
I think that the Christian Union sometimes got people’s backs up, but it was more or less impossible for someone not to have had the opportunity to hear. If the tone could be set right, and the best options chosen, I think this is a good model.
Really like the point of it being good for the to be a lot going on at once. Days of cause-area specific talks and videos and binging, months of weekly discussion groups, small group dinners to talk about the ideas and uncertainties, things going on at different places and rhythms all the time.
As an aside, I think good community is about providing people with repeated low stakes chances at engagement. “You don’t want to come on the intro fellowship? No? That’s okay, we’ll run past eachother again”
My question would be, how do EA orgs at unis run events such that by the end of 3rd year, most students who would want to be involved are and few students who don’t are hurt or turned off. I think these should be regular (someone might have a possible interaction every couple of weeks) and low friction (it takes 5 seconds to engage).
Some thoughts might be:
EA discussion night, which anyone can bring people to
4 week courses run twice a year
Low friction friendship matchmaking
EA mentoring
Ways to hear about EA socials
increasing the findability of this forum/EA twitter/ EA reddit
low friction way to get hold of EA books
Just to give some colour, I was a Christian at uni and Churches/Christian Union in various guises ran a lot of events. Some were less effective than others, but still, note the opportunities:
Church services
Bible studies ~10 ppl
College bible studies
Socials
3 person friendship groups
Text a toastie—where you could ask a question and get a free toasties
2 mission weeks a year
Giving drinks/sweets to people going clubbing
Giving tea and coffee to random people
One-off worship nights
Gave everyone hoodies (feeling familiar :P?)
Alpha courses (the Christian precursor to the intro fellowship)
I think that the Christian Union sometimes got people’s backs up, but it was more or less impossible for someone not to have had the opportunity to hear. If the tone could be set right, and the best options chosen, I think this is a good model.
Really like the point of it being good for the to be a lot going on at once. Days of cause-area specific talks and videos and binging, months of weekly discussion groups, small group dinners to talk about the ideas and uncertainties, things going on at different places and rhythms all the time.