Community Media
Notes on Intuitive Network content publishing, collaborative broadcasting, & (gosh) Divine design
Here is a clear, crisp day’s waterfall of community media notes for you to browse and get nifty ideas from. (Oooh. And in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania… it just started raining. Blessings moisture-beings!)
Let’s see. Where to begin?
Ah ha. Here we go…
Anyone can subscribe to our podcast RSS feed on Substack, Mack’s Memo • Intuitive Public Radio, using this link.
That will give you audio access (including for paid podcasts if you upgrade your subscription).
As for videos, you will typically find them at YouTube.com/@IntuitivePublicTV. (More of our older video links can be found at Intuitive.pub/TV if you’d like to explore there.)
In the not-so-far future, we’re going to start posting some different special content to our original Anchor FM archive — now a Spotify podcast feed — at anchor.fm/Intuitive.
Subscribe to Intuitive on Spotify by clicking here. From here forward, it will be different from the content on our Substack feed.
We have no idea how that will go. But we are light of heart! And courageous!
(Give us feedback. Comment below, email grow@Intuitive.community, or come introduce yourself at t.me/CommunityIPR on Telegram.)
We’re making some distinctions (hopefully sustaining distinctions, distinctions with some longevity) in how we publish content.
Sometimes, when we are miraculously, marvelously fortunate, we will publish features with fully-edited transcripts and other expanded content (like our recent interview with Rob Wipond, which we recommend you spend lots of time exploring).
Most of the time, so that we can publish lots more media, we will be publishing audio and video files with just a few identifying notes-or-quotes. Some of them might only have a single word as an identifier.
For each of these, audio or video, you can always request a machine transcript by commenting on our Substack posts, commenting at t.me/CommunityIPR on Telegram, or emailing grow@Intuitive.community. These basic software-generated transcripts may not be edited for accuracy, depending on if we have the resources to do it at the time; but they’ll give you a lot of the text from the audio (along with the occasional hilarious-or-embarrassing software hiccups), which we know can still be quite helpful.
We encourage all community members — and all audiences beyond — to reach out and ask how you can support us in creating more expanded feature content with finished edited transcripts, introductory commentary, creative collaborative and study materials, and additional community insights gathered from across the worldwide Intuitive Network.
By doing so, you increase our communications mobility; and you help us bring life-strengthening resourcing into the lives of countless invisible and hardship-affected community members who cannot otherwise reach any form of kindness or assistance.
Many community members have asked if they can appear in our public content, and our answer is a resounding Yes.
In most of these cases, there is more support to be gathered so that each community member can successfully make media with us.
Most are severely disabled and struggle with communications, and yet, intensely wish for their voices to be heard and recognized.
For most of the past decade we’ve been developing ways for our most severely affected, disabled and invisible colleagues to achieve and/or reconnect their own best forms of media privilege.
This is a tricky landscape (and wow, daunting), but we’re better at navigating it than any other organization we know of.
As increased resources flow in, we’ll get to show you more and more of the astonishing outcomes we achieve through this work.
(If you haven’t already, please take a look at possibilities we offer for upgrading your subscription.)
We’re going to start compiling content contributed by community members in a more direct way, most likely in audio and video reels that include many diverse segments from different contributors.
Some of these will be topic-driven; some of them highlighting particular Intuitive platforms or projects; many massive multiplayer metafiction; and some deliciously non-linear dream sequences.
If you’d like to be part of our community media shares, reach out to us by messaging Megan on Telegram messenger at t.me/maxmorris, introducing yourself in our Share & Discuss chat at t.me/CommunityIPR, and/or emailing grow@Intuitive.community to let us know your interests.
If you’ve reached out to us already, we’re paying attention. (And please know that sometimes we miss messages while navigating challenges. Even if you’ve reached out before, you are always, always welcome to reach out to us again.)
Below are some of our notes about how we’re going to proceed.
Because currently Megan Elizabeth Morris (Mack, Max, Mētta, Mo) has limited capacity to record in real-time and is continuing to move through very challenging, long-term physical rehab, we are looking at creating more and better options for shared media to appear on our public platforms.
The first best way is for you to join us on Telegram messenger, where you can comment to connect with us so that we can invite you to a private chat.
Once you do that, you’ll be able to upload audio and video files that we can then most easily begin to incorporate into public broadcasts.
(By the way! We are looking for volunteers to help more community members learn how to install and use Telegram on mobile devices or desktop computers! Please email Megan directly at max@intuitive.pub if you can help out.)
We also sometimes have other ways that you can send files to us. (Very small files can be sent by email. Also: do you have a Dropbox account? Often that can help.) Comment on this post to let us know you want to explore that, and we’ll figure out some good next steps.
Sometimes… we’ll be able to schedule to record in real-time together.
We’re looking for those opportunities, and Megan is enthusiastic about achieving this wherever it’s safely possible for her to do so, always considering the current needs of her body (and all our bodies).
For those of you engaging with Intuitive Collaborative Direct at Intuitive.Social/Collab, this is a way to find spots in Megan’s schedule where you can collaborate directly together, including recordings.
There are a number of considerations we must tend to for each piece of content we share. Here, we will list some (not all) of those considerations; and we’ll return intermittently to continue the conversation.
Every item that appears on our main Intuitive Network platforms is keyed to outreach being coordinated by our survivor-led Intuitive groups that must be achieved for the safety and survival of core organizers and co-facilitators.
Their survival and recovery successes are necessary for the survival and strengthening of our Intuitive Network infrastructure; so that we can expand more resourcing for more community members worldwide.
For this reason, we are circumspect about how we communicate about certain topics — and we’ll help you learn how to be aware of those considerations in publishing or broadcasting with us.
We always choosing the next public media focus on the basis of our most viable outreach going on at the time.
We are always creating a way for many different kinds of people with many different kinds of experiences to participate in the conversation and feel a sense of belonging.
We anchor patience, kindness, and respect in our dialogues with one another. All voices and diverse experiences are desired and welcomed.
We ease conflict and find common ground. We do this work to help all of us understand one another better, so that we can discover more effective collaborative solutions together.
Although we will always create helpful compartments for dialoguing about the most challenging topics (including where we need to express ourselves bombastically or vent intense energy, mindfully, in a private supported space), our prime desire is to open communications bridges. We prefer never to cut off comms lines if we can choose anything else instead; and we always look for a re-opening point if for some reason that has to happen.
Many community members want to name names when discussing intense topics, which we (really, really) understand from our own personal experiences of invisiblized violence. And… we must be mindful about how we engage these topics on a collective platform with our sensitive considerations.
The way that names are named can do a lot of unforeseen damage to all parties, creating compounded or unnecessary additional conflicts or aggression, even when it is in the spirit of preserving life and honorable compass.
And yes… sometimes we do find we must reference names.
This is a sensitive kind of dialogue that can be coordinated for eventual public media with a great deal of patience, gentleness, and forethought.
If you need to dialogue about this, we are able to coordinate resources best in private chat on Telegram messenger.
It’s important to remember that although many people are able to come full-body to a physical fight for life, our most severely disabled survivors of invisible violence can be taken down for the count or outright killed by far smaller events than others are able to survive or endure.
Though we do explore intensity and learn ways to hold the sensation of intensity in the ways that are necessary on this platform, we take great care not to escalate intensity.
We want to give all our colleagues — yourself included — the opportunity to survive these challenging times, build new strengths, grow happy and healthy — and thrive.
It has been all miracles and blessings… amidst hell-scapes and horror transmutations… coordinating new resource structures at these most challenging of intersections.
The Divine design — Divine providence, Divine timing — in all of it has been a continually present power for us, giving us a sense that what comes together is what was meant to come together. Always deepening, always flowering; always weaving and re-weaving.
Each new recognition of flow gives us another bevy of graces; previously-unrealized options to be nourished by; partners to dance with; opportunities to act upon. Life energy vitality.
If we’ve been delayed in being able to respond more fully to your request to participate, please remember how severely disabled we are here in the network.
Each one of us is navigating very serious, usually invisible intersections for which there is no other source of support than the Intuitive network resources we are co-creating, ongoing.
To help us respond to more severely affected people and all others who wish to collaborate with us, please spread the word about these Intuitive Network endeavors.
If you want us to be able to respond more successfully to your communications and if you want us to be able to prioritize compiling your contributions into our collaborative media, please spread the word about these Intuitive Network endeavors.
Make posts on every social media profile you can easily reach. (And comment to us to share links to your posts, so we can re-share them too!)
Write about our content. Respond to our broadcasts from your own platforms. Narrate and speak and sing what you want to see happen.
Share publicly about your experiences in the network.
Link your friends and loved ones back to this Substack — Mack’s Memo • Intuitive Public Radio at www.IntuitivePublicRadio.network — and encourage them to subscribe and support us here.
Ask how you can help.
Make sure people know what we’re doing.
Tell them to ask how they can help, too.
We need social media amplification assistance (see also here) — and each time we have a little bit more, it gives us new increases of physical energy, resilience, and functions capacity.
It makes a tremendous difference.
Your sharing, cheering, and caring allows us to keep going under extremely challenging conditions.
You are the reason we’re still blooming.
Thank you for reaching out to us, for supporting this platform, for collaborating, for reading, for listening, for tuning in — and for being.