Thanks for building this, def seems like a way to save a lot of organizer time (and I appreciate how it differentiates things from a Bible group or a cult)!
To me, it seems like the main downside will be the lack of direct engagement between new people and established EAs. In a normal reading group, a participant meets and talks with a facilitator on day 1, and then every week between every 1-3 hours of EA-related reading. In this system, it seems like they don’t really get to meet and talk with someone until they go through a significant amount of independent exploration and write a reflection, and I wonder if the combination of that high required activation energy with little human-to-human guidance might cause you to lose some potentially good students as you go from the predicted 40 to 20.
You could try offering “cheaper” 1:1s to these people early, but that seems less efficient than having several of them in a weekly reading group discussion which would defeat the point. That’s not to say I don’t think this is the right move for your situation. Just that I’m extra curious about how this factor might play out, and I’m excited for you to test this system and share the results with other groups!
Thanks for building this, def seems like a way to save a lot of organizer time (and I appreciate how it differentiates things from a Bible group or a cult)!
To me, it seems like the main downside will be the lack of direct engagement between new people and established EAs. In a normal reading group, a participant meets and talks with a facilitator on day 1, and then every week between every 1-3 hours of EA-related reading. In this system, it seems like they don’t really get to meet and talk with someone until they go through a significant amount of independent exploration and write a reflection, and I wonder if the combination of that high required activation energy with little human-to-human guidance might cause you to lose some potentially good students as you go from the predicted 40 to 20.
You could try offering “cheaper” 1:1s to these people early, but that seems less efficient than having several of them in a weekly reading group discussion which would defeat the point. That’s not to say I don’t think this is the right move for your situation. Just that I’m extra curious about how this factor might play out, and I’m excited for you to test this system and share the results with other groups!