[epic] Sensemaking Summer School 2025

[rufuspollock]

UPDATE 2025-06-06: summer school is happening 15th-21st https://news.lifeitself.org/p/sensemaking-summer-school-exploring

Original outline (on forum)

Originally posted May 6th in forum: https://forum.secondrenaissance.net/t/sensemaking-summer-school-for-a-second-renaissance-2025/355

I've drafted an outline for a Sensemaking Summer School which I'm hoping will manifest this September at the Bergerac Hub:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-WaMC5eANi0jKCRp-j_TxtYMjnteEWCASNTKWpzxDbE/edit?usp=sharing

Context

Back in early march, in a breakout room with @naeema and @JonasSovik, I shared a long-standing dream for a "Sensemaking Summer School" related to the Second Renaissance, Metacrisis, etc ideas and vision. Now it could manifest 😄

There are already some potential co-stewards / co-contributors on board -- happy to hear from others who are interested.

Audience (to be determined)

One question to be worked out is the exact audience -- my sense is this is aimed more at people "up and coming" in the field who want to learn more than really deep experts …

Tasks

Announce

• Draft vision / outline ✅2025-05-06
• Draft announce based on that ✅2025-05-13
• Post up ✅2025-06-13

Sharing

• @finnmjclancy and Jonas to draft a plan e.g. spreadsheet with places to ping ✅2025-07-10 see https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12i4pZ1c6a-1xPVEw7Djj0NhK2R8clTMRj7Ooets1KLk/edit?gid=730879073#gid=730879073
• Create blurbs / flyer ✅2025-07-10 see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-WaMC5eANi0jKCRp-j_TxtYMjnteEWCASNTKWpzxDbE/edit?tab=t.3m5e0vapq4en
• Do the sharing 🚧2025-07-10 have started. done 2 out of 31

Extras

• 🔥 Create flyer? ⏸️2025-07-10 not now. We just send out msg (as experiment) and in a couple weeks, if not many people have signed up we can make a flyer
• Update blogpost ;🚧2025-07-10 Rufus updated with more x-risk, more accessible blurb at top. Can add organizers would be nice.
• Brainstorm FAQs about event and add to post
• Dedicated landing page for the event

Handling registrations

• Clarifying pricing options
• Set up registrations on https://ti.to or https://hi.events/ (we have an account)
• Who ✅2025-07-10 Finn
• How
• Criteria (for acceptance)

[rufuspollock]

Update re starting timeline of event from chat from Valerie

• 17th is ok. (confusion is that 15th still went out in newsletter …)
• Stewards e.g. Jonas (and Finn if he is coming), Max etc should come on 15th and help prep on 16th and 17th.
• 17th is arrival day and people self-organize supper (if tenzo not able to prep as organizing day) … and we do arrival circle
• 18th program commences …