How to start a tent in the 2R Oasis - Guide

Oasis Tents
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:circus_tent: Starting a tent in the Oasis

A simple guide for those who feel called to create a tent in the Second Renaissance - this is a living post and will be updated as we iterate and receive feedback

The Oasis is an online space and organizing infrastructure for those who want to take action in alignment with the Second Renaissance. Like an island of water and growth in a desert landscape, The Oasis is a gathering point, a growing settlement, and a staging ground for pilgrims and caravans from all across the land :r

What is a Tent?

Tents are lightweight, open structures. They can hold projects, research, sensing, co-creation, storytelling, prototyping, or practices of being.

Tents support the spirit of the Second Renaissance to bring about wise action aligned with integrity, transformation, artistry, collective intelligence, and systems change.

:wrench: How to Start a Tent

You don’t need permission to start a tent, but we do encourage you to reflect upon some initiating questions and then define some simple structural elements to helps others find you and know how to engage. Here’s how to begin:

1. Clarify the Purpose

Every Tent begins with an idea or impulse. Ask yourself:

  • What is this tent here to explore, make, sense, or shift?
  • Is it primarily a space for building, researching, connecting, listening, creating or something else?
  • What energy does it want to bring into the broader field?
  • Why do you sense this is important?

2. Define the Rhythm & Activities

What happens when the tent is “open”?

  • Are you hosting regular calls, workshops, coworking, jam sessions, or async threads?
  • Is it weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, seasonal?

Start light - it’s okay to find your rhythm over time.

3. Invite Participation

Consider:

  • Can people simply show up, or is prep needed?
  • How might others contribute — presenting, curating, coordinating?
  • Are there async ways to engage (docs, forum posts, chats, boards, etc.)?

4. Clarify the Commitment

Help others self-select:

  • Is this a casual, drop-in vibe?
  • Or are you stewarding a more consistent crew?
  • Are there roles, responsibilities, or invitations for deeper involvement?

:tear_off_calendar: Weekly Oasis Call

We encourage the tents to plug into the weekly Oasis call (currently on Tuesdays 6pm CEST for 90 minutes).
Format of the Oasis Call:

  • First half: Being (relational practice, shared presence)
  • Second half: Building (breakouts for active Tent spaces)

If your tent is active that week, it can host a breakout. You don’t need to join every week, but showing up periodically helps your tent stay visible and connected to the wider community.

:lollipop: Share about your tent

Once your tent has some shape, create a first forum post in the Oasis Tents category (the admins can set up your tent with a subcategory) using this template.

Please include these elements:
Title Your Post: About the [Tent Name] Oasis Tent

  1. Tent Name
  2. Led/Initated by
  3. Tent Schedule (format of: “Weekly”, “Every other week”, or “Nth week of each month” etc)
  4. Tent Purpose
  5. Tent Activities and Ways to Participate
  6. Commitment Level

This post will become your tent’s homebase on the forum — a living document and invitation for others to find you.

You’re welcome to include more information than the above and/or to create a post on the wiki as well. Content from the forum posts will also be updated and appear on secondrenaissance.net/oasis as part of the broader tent directory.

You’re welcome to reply here with questions, and feedback.

Example first post: About the GiveWiser Oasis Tent

— The Curators Team

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@laurenw
Hi Lauren, is ‘tent’ an online space to host your own 2R related project?

I would love to post chapters of my book, “how to win a revolution; a process of understanding history and the revolutionary future that awaits” for feedback, contribution and co-creation.

Would this be the space to do it?

Many thanks

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Hi @Josehsan, a tent is a space " where community meets project for catalyzing energy. Tents are self-organized and autonomously run by their leaders, and set a cadence between weekly and monthly for how often they are “open” in the space."

Generally, at least how they are being formulated at present, they are wider than an individually focused project but would / could / do include other sub-projects within them. So, for example, if there was a Writing a Book or Authors tent where authors gathered to support each other and there were regular meetings and check-ins that continued ongoingly to support this - then this would have more of the tent energy.

For your book feeback and co-creation I sense it would be better suited to a smaller collaborative group, sourced outside of a tent theme.

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Made a “propose a tent” template: Proposing the <template> Tent