DiscoverEA Forum Podcast (All audio)“EA in the Lakes - Reflections” by Kestrel🔸
“EA in the Lakes - Reflections” by Kestrel🔸

“EA in the Lakes - Reflections” by Kestrel🔸

Update: 2025-09-03
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This is a set of personal reflections from running EA in the Lakes, a lower-cost retreat in the northern UK. (we've also got some great photos of reflections in water sources, if that's more your thing.)

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The organising team: I was the organising team. To be fair, my housemate (who works in mental health) was going to come along and do participant welfare / shuttle driving but then had to be at counselling supervision, and my backup event cook friend got a paid cooking job that weekend as well. The perils of volunteer organising! Never mind, I can organise, cook, welfare, first aid, and drive if I have to (don't plan to do this). I appointed a couple of helpers on free tickets from our EAs for content-based query handling and extra super-boring logistics work like bin emptying.

To anyone in EA thinking of solo organising, my advice [...]

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First published:

September 3rd, 2025



Source:

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/YzH8QzxYJDkR7Gm7X/ea-in-the-lakes-reflections


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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.


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Images from the article:

Hiking back to the car at Ennerdale valley.
The fell road path leading from Pardshaw to Loweswater.
EAs at Loweswater lake. We didn't spot any drowning children.
Bouldering on Pardshaw Crag. Rating:
We had some very nice settings to use for 1:1s, and maybe should have exploited this more.
Animal welfare considerations were brought to life by meeting some local animals on our walks.
Picnic on Pardshaw crag.
Brown and white chickens foraging near bushes on grassy ground.
Three black and white belted cows resting in a grassy field.

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“EA in the Lakes - Reflections” by Kestrel🔸

“EA in the Lakes - Reflections” by Kestrel🔸