Kes, this was such a great weekend, so thoughtfully put together. It really helped me recentre. I came away feeling more authentically connected to people in the EA community I hadn’t met before.
Outing myself as the effective giving community-builder who ran the outreach and advocacy workshop. Was genuinely surprised how engaged and high-agency everyone was. Strong +1 on the value of this sort of workshop for highly-engaged EAs. Probably the best hour I’ve spent in the last few months. Substantially better than most EG group sessions I’ve attended at EAGs.
Really hoping EA in the Lakes becomes an annual thing, and that Pardshaw being is used more in general. Place felt truly EA: unpretentious, humble, a little basic but all the more charming. Great place for honest conversations and reflections.
I agree, there is a spark of true EA in the place, which is a significant amount of why I have been attracted there. Although they could do with some access-related building updates! (Which are on the cards—I have gotten in at just the right time, I think.)
I’m also organising at Pardshaw for other communities—I am turning the place into a low-cost community LARP site, working with a bunch of local LGBTQ+ community organisers about mental health nature retreats, and I’m shortly hoping to start a midweek refugees and asylum seekers holidays programme supported by other Quakers. EA is one part of a wider portfolio here. I’d like it to be a stronger part, at least to the extent where it’s maximally useful.
Kes, this was such a great weekend, so thoughtfully put together. It really helped me recentre. I came away feeling more authentically connected to people in the EA community I hadn’t met before.
Outing myself as the effective giving community-builder who ran the outreach and advocacy workshop. Was genuinely surprised how engaged and high-agency everyone was. Strong +1 on the value of this sort of workshop for highly-engaged EAs. Probably the best hour I’ve spent in the last few months. Substantially better than most EG group sessions I’ve attended at EAGs.
Really hoping EA in the Lakes becomes an annual thing, and that Pardshaw being is used more in general. Place felt truly EA: unpretentious, humble, a little basic but all the more charming. Great place for honest conversations and reflections.
Thanks, Lorenzo!
I agree, there is a spark of true EA in the place, which is a significant amount of why I have been attracted there. Although they could do with some access-related building updates! (Which are on the cards—I have gotten in at just the right time, I think.)
I’m also organising at Pardshaw for other communities—I am turning the place into a low-cost community LARP site, working with a bunch of local LGBTQ+ community organisers about mental health nature retreats, and I’m shortly hoping to start a midweek refugees and asylum seekers holidays programme supported by other Quakers. EA is one part of a wider portfolio here. I’d like it to be a stronger part, at least to the extent where it’s maximally useful.