Launch of Slow Club
Make 2010 your year for slowing down. In keeping with the tradition of New Year’s Resolutions, the Slow Down London team is launching an 8-week course to inspire, guide and support you in your pursuit of a slower life.
We‘ll give practical tips you can incorporate into your everyday life and playful experiences to help you slow down and enjoy the city. We hope that at the end of the course you’ll have a new, deeper appreciation of your life and London.
What’s involved
Each week you’ll get an email with the following:
Slow Instructions
• Daily Task – an action (or in-action!) to do every day this week. This will not be a large time commitment: the task might take ten minutes in the day, or no extra time at all, more a matter of doing something differently.
• Weekly Task –an activity to do at least once during the week –though you are welcome to try it more often.
Slow Adventure
• An invitation to do something new in London – go somewhere you’ve never been, try something different. Suggestions will be offered each week from Hayley Cull, co-author of Slow London published by Hardie Grant, coming out this spring. Your weekly Slow Adventure might involve visiting one of London’s secret green squares, going to a farmer’s market, or into a gallery to look at one piece of art. Or you can do your own thing – it could be as simple as wandering into a different part of the bookshop. We will also be organising several group activities which you could choose to do as your slow adventure.
Slow Reflection
• Each week we’ll ask you to feed back to us (and yourself ) on how things are going. This will be a very short questionnaire that takes a couple of minutes, with the opportunity for more creative reflection if you feel inspired.
Slow ‘Progress Report’
• We will need you to fill in a slightly longer questionnaire at the beginning and end of the club, and then again two months after it ends.
‘Slow’ friends
To support and guide you during the eight weeks we invite you to:
• Tea meetings: Once a fortnight, the Slow Down London directors will host a cup of tea where you’ll have a chance to meet up with other members of the Slow Club and share experiences.
• Slow Adventures: There will be several opportunities to enjoy an activity together as a group – these may involve a walk, an art gallery talk, a session of ‘slow conversation’.
• Email us or visit our website: You can take part in our web forum, to share images on Flickr and Facebook, and email us if you’d like advice or to share your ideas and comments.
Booking information
We have now closed registrations for our first course, but we hope to run the Slow Club again – if you’d like to receive information, please ‘Sign up for Slow News’ on the right panel of our homepage.
Image by Paul Finn
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