Good afternoon 👋
Hope you’re having a lovely start to the weekend.
Last weekend, 25 of us from the Undefinable Community travelled over to Norfolk for our 2025 Autumn Retreat. We’re going to be taking a look at some of what we got up to there in today’s blog 🍁
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I’ve been a Founding Member of the Undefinable Community since we launched in March 2023. Alongside all of our other events and meet-ups, once a quarter, we meet up to go for a weekend away, which we refer to as a “retreat”.
Over the last eight retreats that I’ve been on, we’ve done everything from improv comedy to our own version of the TV show Taskmaster, we’ve shared some deeply emotional moments and then made absolute fools of ourselves with jokes. From chilling out in a hot tub to climbing part of the Brecon Beacons, we have done so much together as a group.
So, what did we get up to this time? Here are my highlights ⤵️
🕺🏼 Dancing, singing to cheesy anthems, having a “try not to laugh” challenge (I lost way too fast. We did have a video of this, I think, I’ll have to try to find it) and more general madness with a lovely bunch of people
🧘 Dedicating more time to breath work, stretching, downtime and chilling out was well overdue. These trips help you see how tired you have been feeling lately, and help you replenish your energy in a judgement-free environment
🏆 Playing loads of games of pool – helping teach our good friend Vanessa how to play was a load of fun – even if I ended up somehow losing 🙃
🤔 Thinking about the different ways we can collectively think in decades, act in hours. Shipping ideas before they’re ready and taking action that’s purposeful in our lives
It’s amazing to see how many strong friendships have formed in the group over the years that we’ve all known each other. Plus, watching how natural our newer members instantly fit in and bring their own spin to things is fab to see.
Thanks a lot to Rob for letting me stay at his place the day before to break up the journey; it made a huge difference! There aren’t many people I’d do a seven-hour drive to see -it’s a special group we’re building, that’s for sure 👌
A shoutout to everyone who helped make the weekend another brilliant one – here’s to loads more to come.
That’s all for today’s blog. What do you think? What does purposeful action mean to you? Have you got any nice days or trips away coming soon?
I’d love to hear your thoughts and answers to the above 😎
Thanks for reading and I hope you have a lovely day!
James
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