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Sydney Rationality Dojo - May

Join us for focused discussion and exercises on rationality skills, planning and motivation. A social dinner is held afterwards for those who wish to join.

Sydney Rationality Dojo - April

Join us for focused discussion and exercises on rationality skills, planning and motivation. A social dinner is held afterwards for those who wish to join.

Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - June 2017

Join us for focused discussion and exercises on rationality skills, planning and motivation. A social dinner is held afterwards for those who wish to join.

Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - May 2017

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - June 2017

WHEN: 04 June 2017 04:00:00PM (+1000)

WHERE: 10 Shepherd Street, Chippendale

Join us for another chance to polish your planning, motivational and other rationality skills. Social dinner afterwards.

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - June 2017

Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - April 2017

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - May 2017

WHEN: 07 May 2017 04:00:00PM (+1000)

WHERE: 10 Shepherd Street, Chippendale

Come improve your plans, motivation and other rationality skills at our monthly dojo. Dinner afterwards with the group nearby.

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - May 2017

Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - March 2017

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - April 2017

WHEN: 02 April 2017 04:00:00PM (+1100)

WHERE: 10 Shepherd Street, Chippendale

Join us from 4 - 6 to sharpen your planning, motivation and other rationality skills. Afterwards there'll be a social dinner for those who want to stick around.

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - April 2017

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - March 2017

WHEN: 05 March 2017 04:00:00PM (+1100)

WHERE: 10 Shepherd Street, Chippendale

Join us from 4 - 6 to sharpen your planning, motivation and other rationality skills. Afterwards there'll be a social dinner for those who want to stick around.

Discussion article for the meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - March 2017

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I'd definitely be interested to read it!

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Venues are definitely a problem -- we're lucky enough to have a relatively central humanist group who let us hire out their meeting space once a month, but occasionally it has been difficult to scramble to find an alternative.

I wonder if there'd be some value in having a list of suggested ways to find a venue for people organising meetup groups.

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Did you get people that did crossover from these meetups to the others? It seems like a more lightweight / fun topic like this might be good for letting people get involved more easily?

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How did you go about finding people to come to your meetups? Pre-existing friends? LW site postings? Something else?

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When you say most of the original people moved away, do you mean the group stopped meeting, or its meetings acquired new members and a different focus?

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Do you track where new people come from? I'm wondering about what channels it makes sense to focus on maintaining a presence in. (Hadn't thought of doing it on r/ssc)

One of the most valuable services the Less Wrong community has to offer are the meetup groups. However, it strikes me that there isn't a lot of knowledge sharing between different meetup groups. Presumably there's a lot that the different groups could learn from each other -- things that can be done, experiments that have or haven't worked out, procedural and organisational tips. Hence this post. Please go ahead and write a summary about your local less wrong meetup below:

What meetups do you run?
What's worked?
What hasn't?
How is the group organised?

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Social meetups

Shortly after we started back up, we ran intermittent social meetups, such as a night out at laser tag, or a walk over the Sydney harbour bridge, followed by a picnic. These were pretty enjoyable, but organisation fell through and these lapsed. We're currently thinking about how we want to start these back up.

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Dinner meetups

We have a monthly meetup at an RSL in Sydney -- we've found this is a good venue, as people who want to can get food and drinks, but not everyone needs to. At a cafe there is more pressure to have to make purchases over time if you're taking up their floor space.

This was the first meetup we ran when the Less Wrong Sydney group resumed meeting -- at first we ran them with a focus on group discussions, and talking about a particular topic, but we found that often a topic was more of a reason for people to stay away, than for people to come. With the advent... (read more)

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Meetup : Sydney Rationality Dojo - February 2017

Rationality Dojos

We started these off using material taken from CFAR workshops -- gradually over time related topics such as Kegan's Immunity to Change have been introduced.

We started off running these as one two hour session, all given by the same person, but after a year we switched to a new format, where we break off into two - three segments run by different people. This keeps people's attention better, reduces the amount of work individual presenters do, and allows us to experiment with new material without having to worry that if it doesn't work out the whole session will be rendered pointless.

There's a strong focus in the dojos of doing work on real problems people have -- we want to avoid sessions where people give talks, everyone feels enlightened, but people then don't go ahead and use the new knowledge. We also take advantage of the monthly timing to allow people to lay down goals for the next month that they'll be made accountable for at the next meetup.