Community Building

Charging for some events helps improve participant commitment and gains you autonomy on determining what kind of programs you want to offer to your community.

One of the most difficult questions of the Community Weaving Framework is “what needs healing”. This blogpost is my attempt to explain why this is such an important question to answer, while acknowledging it’s something difficult to figure out and might be something that will take time and intentionality to discover.

Being a leader is a burden. To sustain ourselves, we need to be intentional about creating spaces of care for ourselves and for one another. I started the Community Leaders Retreat as a way to not only start creating a space, but also to better understand how these types of spaces can be held for…

Similar to my desire to help “multiplier” types of people like entrepreneurs, it was no surprise that I gravitated towards doing work to support grassroots community leaders.

We decided to finally register as a legal organization so that we’re able to better support our local community. With the registration, we’re able to issue receipts, and be able to present ourselves with confidence in front of potential partners.

The Product Tonic Retreat Bohol 2023 gathered 42 product experts from 7 countries. The event aimed to create a supportive environment for learning and reflection. I got the chance to co-organize this retreat and I’m hoping to share what I learned from the experience to help other organizers in the future.

Community members suggested that I share my lessons learned from doing various online engagement experiments that I’ve been running the last few months so I decided to host a few small-group discussions with them on virtual facilitation. I learned a lot from the discussion and this blogpost is my attempt at summarizing everything.

In my effort to make myself and others feel more at home while on virtual meetings, I explored different discussion formats with community builders in my country to see how we might improve the way we interact online.