By Patty Freedman | Global Director POP-UP Festivals
Hello friends!
We’d love to share this update with you about what’s been going on with POP-UP Festival over the last few months. We had a really big year planned for 2020 and had to adjust our goals dramatically in March to meet the moment.
Because POP-UP materials are all distributed online we were lucky to have that part already done. Also our online training for mentors has been virtual. So the biggest challenge has been to envision how POP-UP Festivals can be virtual experiences and still build connected communities. We’re currently working on this and will have more to share soon!
A huge accomplishment has been the addition of Paige who will be Global Mentor Coordinator this year. She’s been meeting with our 2020 Mentor Team them monthly with the goal of building stronger networks of volunteers regionally. Paige has been a lead mentor with POP-UP Festival for the past several years and is an invaluable resource for our team. Go Paige!
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We wanted to give a shout out to a couple of incredible mentors who are building communities of POP-UP Festivals in their countries:
NOTES FROM CHINA
This year pop-up in China has been amazing! we have a wechat group with more than 200 volunteers, and Summer together with Chamie have done an amazing work engaging the volunteers. Summer realized last year that for “newbies to EQ” it was challenging to feel confident if they didn’t get prior knowledge on EQ, so she designed and delivered more than a month of weekly and daily messages- introducing eq, the model, the philosophy! she also organized a pop up festival with volunteers from the certified network to play some of the games, take videos and share with everyone. Thank you to them and to everyone in the global team supporting this project
NOTES FROM JAPAN
POP-UP Festival Japan team led by Ayaka started officially in February. All of us are all EQPC and moms and have had POP-UP events before! And we actually created some new activities for POP-UP for Japan. We are going to have monthly zoom mini POP-UPs and try to make POP-UP in Japan a lot bigger than last year!
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As we prepare over the next few months to launch POP-UP Festivals, I want to thank each and every one of you who have contributed to our fundraising efforts. With your help we’ve been able to actively connect with our mentors and volunteers, providing community support during this time of disruptions and isolation. With POP-UP Festivals, people are able to connect in a playful way and have heartfelt conversations that wouldn’t otherwise have.
Thank you for your continued support and stay safe!
YAY for POP-UPS
-Patty and POP-UP Team
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