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Celebrating Our Community Growth: Join the Raffle for Some Fun Gifts! 🎁🌱

Published 7 months agoΒ β€’Β 3 min read

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Grateful for Our Growth: Let’s Celebrate with a Community Raffle!

Hi Reader,

I need to start with how honored I am to have so many new people sign up for the newsletter this month. It is inspiring to see how many people are interested in making the world a better place through connection, leadership, and solidarity. Welcome to you all, and thank you so much for being here. I'm truly humbled by your interest. To celebrate, I'm offering a raffle to everyone with what I think are some pretty cool prizes.

Read on for how to sign up, to hear about our upcoming events, and to learn more about our exciting growth.

First: Our Upcoming Events

We've got two new events coming up! The first is this Thursday May 8th, and the second is in early June.

Thursday May 8th, we have an exciting event called "Conscious Collaboration" where we're teaching skills anyone can use to create spaces where collaboration and teamwork thrive:

Next, I'm hosting a different kind of event on June 4th where we're taking a look at the concept of psychological safety. This is something that can be relevant almost anywhere, but is especially relevant in many workplaces. The problem: we're often told at our jobs that it is safe to speak our minds and to take risks, yet the reality is it still feels, or is, unsafe for many to do so.

I'm really excited for this one!

Raffle: Some Gifts for You! πŸŽ‰

I can't thank you all enough for the huge growth of the newsletter this month. To thank you, I'm offering a raffle on the following items to all newsletter subscribers. You can sign up below for all or just some of the items, and there will be multiple winners!

Here is the list of gifts:

  1. I'll send you a book of your choosing from my favorite books of 2024.
  2. Free access to one our upcoming digital courses (more on this soon), and the winner will be the first to hear about these courses!
  3. A private mentoring session with Matty around a topic of your choosing ($200 value).
  4. You can select the topic of one of Matty's upcoming social media video posts. What's been on your mind lately? You can see some of Matty's topics on YouTube shorts.

A Teaser of Upcoming Changes

We are thrilled to announce that we'll be launching our official organization with the mission of making the world a better place through connection, leadership, and solidarity. This would not have been possible without you!

Stay tuned for some exciting announcements around the launch where we'll be offering even more resources.

A Warm Welcome to Carrie, Our New Director of Operations!

Because of our growth, we've been able to hire our new Director of Operations!

Carrie brings over 20 years of experience growing and managing businesses. Her specialties are communication, leadership, and sustainable business systems, with a flair for well being.

A very warm welcome to Carrie, and I personally am so excited to have her here!

Behind the Scenes - Episode 2

I've been creating some short behind the scenes videos on what it's been like to try to build a community, organization, and (hopefully) a sustainable business helping people better connect, lead, and work together in the world.

One Thing You Can Try in Your Life

Try a Tiny Experiment! This has been one of my favorite books of 2025, which talks about how you can live your life like a scientist. In experiments, there is no failure, only data to determine next steps. I'll have more on this in the future, but at a high level you can try this:

  • Make an observation or theory about something in your life
  • Craft a short experiment (2 weeks max) theory
  • Log what happens during the experiment
  • At the end, decide if you want to continue, modify, or stop the experiment

I've been doing lots of experiments since the beginning of the year with excellent results.

That's all for this month's edition. As always, you can reply to me directly here or contact me through the social links below.

Thanks again for being here and helping to create a more connected planet.

~Matty

MATTY STEVENSON
​Founder & Lead Facilitator, Conscious Ground
​c​onsciousground.net​

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