Sojourners

Community

Framework & Practices

Subject Areas & Resources

Interest Groups for Travelers and TLCs

Why? Because one month is not enough time to evaluate properly the benefits of community membership, while a whole year is too long to pay to be stuck in a place that's not a good fit.

We support "upskilling" throughout adult life for the sake of a job, work, or career. BUT we're more about supporting your calling or vocation – which is not necessarily the way you make a living.

Most adults (re-)educate themselves continuously over the course of a lifetime. Sojourners encourages hobbies and enrichment learning, BUT our focus is on learning for the sake of a larger cause.

A community of practice is a group of people gathered together online or in real life (IRL), for the sake of an important activity they share. In Sojourners' case, that activity – the practice they cultivate – is lifelong learning.

Community members share best practices, experience, resources, expertise, and advice.

Community members provide accountability for each other.

Our metric of success is for community members to become accomplished learners, for the sake of their vocation and life's mission.

Autodidacts by definition are self-taught. DIYers by definition are those who like to do it themselves.

Cultivating a lifelong learning practice means becoming an effective and savvy autodidact.

Sojourners attracts self-motivated and driven learners and provides them with just enough structure and community to help them achieve their goals.

Sojourners seek to gain skills, knowledge, understanding, practical application, and wisdom for the sake of their mission to help others and make the world a better place.

Participation in a community can be overwhelming, and take time and energy away from what you need to be doing.

Events can be too frequent, too socially demanding (think: constant breakout rooms with total strangers!), and too emotionally draining.

That said, introverts need and want to connect with other humans to find encouragement, advice, and accountability.

Sojourners concept of ®JustEnough Community works to solve these dilemmas and find the right balance.

We emphasize asynchronous over synchronous communication, although both types are available.

We promote highest quality events and don't overdo it, letting you decide when to participate through live attendance versus recordings and replays.

We'll never push you to have camera or mic on.

We'll keep live events to small groups, ideally with people you've already come know.

We won't do breakouts. No throwing you in a Zoom room with complete strangers and forcing you to speak up and be "vulnerable."

We'll help match you with compatible community members (if you want) to cultivate high value, long term relationships.

We'll work towards IRL meet-ups, with local chapters, so you can get to know real people over time.

We aspire to travel with like-minded fellow sojourners!