Microsolidarity April Network Update 🗞️
Hot off the press! 📚🔥
One thing I love more than hanging out with my friends is hanging out with my friends and making something meaningful happen together. While putting together this newsletter issue,
and I noticed how much this passion is shared among Microsolidarity practitioners.This month we’ve got Community Highlights about a collaboratively written book (put together in just 1 month!), Eric Lanigan’s highly “crewable” book and course Enjoy Existing, and some great prompts to reflect with your peers on what you’ve learnt along your hosting journey.
But first, a glimpse into the first weeks at Rich & Nati's new retreat center Casa Tilo!
Community Highlights
🏡 Casa Tilo is Alive!
After three intense weeks of sanding, painting, fixing, and moving furniture around—we're in! Casa Tilo is already becoming a home for community, creativity, and collective transformation.
A huge thank you to all the friends who showed up to help us get the place ready.
A week ago, we marked our soft opening with a gathering of local friends. It was a joyful celebration—full of warmth and shared enthusiasm.
Now, as we wrap up our first Coliving Week Experience, we can feel how the space has been infused with connection and growth. These past days have been woven through deep, genuine conversations, spontaneous music sessions, shared hikes, and long dinners under the Tilo tree. It’s a glimpse of the intentional community living experience we’re cultivating — a rhythm of shared presence, play, and belonging. If you feel called to be part of it, you can sign up here to join one of our upcoming Coliving Weeks.
We're also dreaming up events and retreats for this year — if you'd like to stay in the loop, you can subscribe to our mailing list.
🏘️ How to Grow Thriving Neighbourhoods
Michal Korzonek and the Treehouse Collective have just come to the end of an intensive 1-month collective book-writing residency and their interactive playable book ‘How to Grow Thriving Neighbourhoods’ is now available for pre-order! Get your quest hat on and buy your copy here.
📙 Enjoy Existing Book & Course
Enjoying Existing is (to me) doing what you want to do. If you’re tired of procrastination and have something you want to give your focused energy to, I wrote a book (and created a daily companion course) for you. It focuses on levering how we already engage reality to update on what actually feels fulfilling.
Form a crew and go through the book and course! Email me to let me know you’re doing this! I’d love to support your crew (or help organize people wanting to find crews). Suggested crew length: 4-6 weeks. eric@ericlanigan.com.
🎤 Latest podcasts
Listen in as Jocelyn interviews Kathrin in a follow-up call about her month-long ‘notacoliving’ community experiment in Andalusia. How do you balance individual and collective needs, structure and flexibility, co-creation and holding your hosting responsibilities and vision?
Upcoming Events
🎋 Microsolidarity Skills Tree Gathering
From 7 - 11th May,
🤙 May Network Call (May 1st at 19:30 CET / 10:30 PDT!)
Join us for this month's network call as Eric Lanigan guides us through some practices and inquiries from his latest book and course ‘Enjoy Existing’! (Read more above)
The call is open to all members. Simply join via Open Collective for €3/month and you’ll receive a calendar invite with the Zoom link.
Resources
🗺 Map Your Hosting Journey!
In the April monthly Network Call, Rich and Jocelyn hosted a session to map out participants' key hosting experiences and the key principles and insights that brought their hosting capacity to the next level.
If you missed it, you can watch the replay here, and/or do the exercise yourself here. Simply add your answers to an unused exercise template, or write in your own journal. It’s best done together with someone else. We'll be using these answers to inspire a card deck of Microsolidarity principles and patterns 🎉🫶
Get involved!
🇳🇱 Microsolidarity Amsterdam
If you’re based in Amsterdam and would like to connect with local Microsolidarity friends, there’s now a new Amsterdam thead in the Telegram group! Join the group, introduce yourself and connect here: https://t.me/microsolidarity
🙋🏾 Join the Newsletter Crew
We’re still on the search for 1 or 2 more people to form a Newsletter publishing crew! If you enjoy writing, designing, or sharing ideas, this is a great chance to collaborate and help keep our community informed and connected. If you’re interested, send an email to Jocelyn and Gui at microsolidarity@gmail.com and let’s chat!
🖋️ Share a piece in the newsletter
Do you have a Microsolidarity-related invitation, request, piece of writing, art, musing or update you’d like to share in the next newsletter?
Submit your message here by May 28th.
That’s all for this issue!
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Until next time! 🙋♀️
Jocelyn & Gui