I've noticed a couple of times in workshops, retreats and conferences that folks quite new to their jobs in EA orgs find themselves in a position where they are talking about their org's work and mission statement and get questioned on their theory of change, and while the first two make complete sense, the last one often gets met with "I've just started my role" or "I've only been at X for Y weeks".
This is perfectly reasonable, but I wonder if this has been noticed by other people, and this overall makes me feel we need to see more experienced members of an org dedicate more time to being public-facing in said events!
While this point didn't directly touch upon mental health, I still want to shout out this EA Mental Health Resource document, and I'd highly recommend this post about Imposter Syndrome. No one deserves to struggle by themselves.
Thanks for hosting this Kes! I really enjoyed helping out with the mental well-being sharing circle, and I hope that there are more EG retreats in the future :)
As a tl;dr from my initial thoughts on the original post: I think this has individually been really beneficial for my work, and I’m excited to potentially see it grow :)
While I am by no means an "experienced" organiser nor the main organiser for EA Manchester as a whole, I've decided to fill out the form anyway as I think my insights may be useful after a year of starting a separate branch (AI Safety Manchester) at our EA society :)
I've noticed a couple of times in workshops, retreats and conferences that folks quite new to their jobs in EA orgs find themselves in a position where they are talking about their org's work and mission statement and get questioned on their theory of change, and while the first two make complete sense, the last one often gets met with "I've just started my role" or "I've only been at X for Y weeks".
This is perfectly reasonable, but I wonder if this has been noticed by other people, and this overall makes me feel we need to see more experienced members of an org dedicate more time to being public-facing in said events!
While this point didn't directly touch upon mental health, I still want to shout out this EA Mental Health Resource document, and I'd highly recommend this post about Imposter Syndrome. No one deserves to struggle by themselves.
+1 on the vegan point, it's surprisingly easy to fall for processed crap when being vegan (speaking from personal experience)
This is sick! I'd pay for a tee-shirt or sticker with the same design.
Thanks for hosting this Kes! I really enjoyed helping out with the mental well-being sharing circle, and I hope that there are more EG retreats in the future :)
Really excited for EA UK's work in the future with @gergo as director now! Congratulations :)
So glad to have seen this published, great stuff Chris!
As a tl;dr from my initial thoughts on the original post: I think this has individually been really beneficial for my work, and I’m excited to potentially see it grow :)
While I am by no means an "experienced" organiser nor the main organiser for EA Manchester as a whole, I've decided to fill out the form anyway as I think my insights may be useful after a year of starting a separate branch (AI Safety Manchester) at our EA society :)
Thank you for organising this!