Help us celebrate the end of a full year of rekindled Less Wrong Sydney! We will be holding a Summer Solstice event, Sat 21st in Centennial Park.

Come along from 6pm to have dinner and socialise, then watch the sun go down at 8pm, and take part in a final end of year group activity. We will be supplying candles and Less Wrong members can hold the floor and deliver a reading, a focused exercise, etc.

Please leave a comment with the type of exercise you'd like to run (or if you have an idea you'd like to suggest someone else picks up and runs).

If you know anyone else outside of Less Wrong who you think would enjoy the evening please invite them along also!

This month we'll have the first ever dojo run by John August. Given that this dojo won't use material in the previous ones, it's a great opportunity to come along and be able to get right into it. As per usual, there will be an optional group dinner after the end of the dojo (6pm) for those who can make it.

The next dojo will be run by our new CFAR alumnus Taryn, who will be talking about focused grit and trigger action planning. Now is a great time to come if you have been considered coming before but haven't yet made it!

Afterwards (6pm) there will be an optional group dinner for those who are interested.

We'll be examining how to connect your desire for goals or outcomes to specific emotional urges to perform the actions to bring about that outcome.

After the session is over, there will also be an optional group dinner.

This time around we will be looking at how to establish or replace habits. I personally think the ability to establish habits deliberately is crucially useful in crafting the life you want.

As per usual, we will be having an optional dinner after the main event.

Following on from the last dojo covering agency, this one will be discussing dealing with aversions. 4pm - 6pm, with the opportunity to hang around for dinner afterwards.

To add to our monthly discussion dinner meetups, and the social meetups, we're now trialling a rationality dojo meetup. This will be different from the existing meetup in that it will have a stronger focus on one person leading a discussion and exercises related to a particular rationality skill, and less on group discussions.

We'll be finishing up at 6 on the Sunday. Those who need to go home afterwards are welcome to leave then, but I'd love it if people wanted to go get dinner together afterwards.