About

Welcome. Collective Self is a free coworking space in Seattle’s Central District neighborhood: an informal, neighbor-supported home space where people, groups, and emerging communities come to relax, work, and recreate themselves. The Collective Self blog tells true stories of people, groups, and communities recreating themselves in this and many other spaces.

Kitchen coworking space

Grady (dog) and Ansel, Bella, and Joe (cats) run the coworking space at the moment. Lori Kane (human) takes point on the blog. Switching to first person. I began the blog in 2009 to document and reflect on my findings as a Self-Organizing Groups Researcher. Today the blog, and I, have evolved considerably. Ongoing time within these groups changed me. I hung up the Researcher title/hat. Today, my title is Community Story Wrangler. I help document the stories of emerging communities, help surface other story wranglers within communities, and help communities figure out how to build storytelling and gathering into their day-to-day way of being.

Coworking greeters

• www.facebook.com/CollectiveSelf has coworking space updates and details
• Voices of community members (my happy place)
• More about Lori
• Long rambling page about learning as self-organizing groups and community
• Part of Lori’s work dream team

Email me at lori@collectiveself.com if you’d like to talk about coworking or story wrangling. I do work I love for free. I also like to get paid when possible, because I’m part of a group determined to make sure that Daniel eventually makes his leap to full-time photographer and teacher.

Living room coworking space