Outdoor activities groups near Jenison, MI
Outdoor Afro - Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids, MI
Welcome to Outdoor Afro Grand Rapids!
From all of us who share community here, we're thrilled you've joined us. Every healthy community has basic norms, expectations, and rules of engagement. Here's ours:
This Space Centers Black People
In this space, Black outdoor experiences, voices, history, and content are centered. Also - we say "Black" a lot. Are there non-black allies in this space? Yes. Will they be centered? No. Does this space exist to “teach” non-black people about systematic or interpersonal racism? No. There are many other groups that exist with educating allies as the primary function.
If the amplification of black joy and humanity makes you uncomfortable - this group will be a restless experience for you. We recommend another forum or creating your own.
Outdoor Afro is a national non-profit founded in Oakland, CA in 2009. We are a community that supports reconnecting African-Americans with natural spaces through recreational activities such as camping, hiking, biking, skiing, birding, fishing, gardening, and highlighting Black history in the spaces where we recreate.
Please visit our organization's website for more information: http://outdoorafro.com
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Greater Social Life Union of Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids, MI
The Thumoslang Network is an association of groups whose members use Thumoslang, the nomenclature for social clarity, as their basic strategy for greater social life. Part of the network is the Greater Social Life Union (GSLU). Its mission is long-lasting joy for its members through faster actualization of their personal ideals.
There are many steps on your journey to greater social life. Here are the first steps for members of GSLU. After reading the rest of this introduction, you should read the 2021 book The Guide to Thumoslang. Many of our members put this new knowledge into practice as suggested by The GSLU Handbook.
When you spend more time in damage control mode and less time benefiting from your various relations, you waste a great deal of effort in your social life. Such a cost of opportunity keeps you from going at high speed towards your ideals, in creating your ideal self, and in actualizing what you truly want to become. This is likely due to a lack of social clarity, which is essential for internal conversations and vital for meaningful relationships.
Unintentionally created in 2017, accidentally discovered in 2018, and first taught in 2019, Thumoslang is the nomenclature for social clarity. It is used as a language for faster communication, be it in complex collaboration or difficult conversation. The first widespread use of social clarity has been predicted by Thumoslang pioneers to be just as important as the first widespread control of fire. All is explained by The Guide to Thumoslang, which is backed by The Dictionary of Thumoslang.
Again, the Thumoslang Network is an association of groups whose members use Thumoslang, the nomenclature for social clarity, as their basic strategy for greater social life. Part of the network is the Greater Social Life Union (GSLU). Its mission is long-lasting joy for its members through faster actualization of their personal ideals.
Your ideals are the same as your ideal self, which means what you truly want to become. "Everything else is secondary," said Steve Jobs. Our group activities involve you with the first practical steps in the further development of your ideals, in keeping others from interfering with your life, and in building a group of in-person friends who keep on encouraging you and nurturing your ideals. To be sure, if you lack social clarity in your internal conversations, face unwanted drama too often, are not sure of your social life or your path into the future, or have no friends and no groups available on a regular basis to help create your ideal self, this group is for you.
*** MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS ***
Our group activities bring you the following benefits:
Benefit 1 - Mastery of Relationships
As new GSLU members participate in the union's activities, they will quickly find themselves having noticeable enhancements in their social lives. The further they participate in GSLU activities, the faster they naturally acquire the mastery of relationships.
Benefit 2 - Best Friends for Your Ideals
Our group activities include practical steps in building a group of in-person friends who keep on encouraging you and nurturing your ideals.
Benefit 3 - Internal Dialogues More Effective
Thumoslang is a set of terminology whose use is intended to benefit one's clarity in social situations. Consequently, Thumoslang allows you to have clearer communication with yourself in your mind.
Benefit 4 - Meaningful Relationships Much Stronger
Our members use Thumoslang to mend or strengthen their existing relationships, build new relations, and achieve greater social life.
Benefit 5 - Faster Actualization of Your Ideals
The actualization of your ideals goes faster when it regularly involves your best group, which is the small group of in-person, second-mind friends who are the best for the nurturing of your ideals. Our activities help you speed up the actualization of your ideals by reducing social roadblocks and increasing social shortcuts in your life.
