The Stoic 101 classes have been going great. We've been doing those on Tuesdays, and I've been experimenting with different event types on Thursdays. We tried a Practice Class where we meditated, wrote in our reflection journals, and then did one of the Stoic writing practices. For the last few weeks, we've been trying out Thursday Night Discussion Group, where we've been having longer small group discussions without watching the video first. Both of these formats worked alright, but I think they will work a lot better once people have a shared foundational knowledge of Stoicism and a language to discuss it. I'm hoping to get both going again here in some format once the Locals community has grown a bit.

In the short term, I'm going to be running the Stoicism 101 class four days a week, Monday through Friday, on Meetup. I'm not a resolutions person, but I do think the new year is energizing, and I want to give as many people as possible a chance to get a crash course in Stoicism before that motivation runs out. That will go for 10 weeks, and I'll assess what makes sense to do after that once we get into it a little.

For member-only events here on Locals, I'd really like to do a Letters from a Stoic book club. I'm working on making the first 65 into videos and have a few done already to get us started. Each one is short but packed with wisdom - I think they would work extremely well as the material for a longer-form discussion group.

I'd also like to try out a less structured, more chill, AMA-style gathering, maybe on Sunday afternoons. I'm looking into some different software that we could use to make it more social than Zoom. Topia.io maybe. Let me know if you have any ideas!

Here's the Meetup schedule for the next 10 weeks. I will be scheduling "Week 10 - How to Practice Stoicism" on those open days; it's just not finished yet, and I don't want to get ahead of myself.