“Reflections on EA Spain’s First National Retreat” by AnthonyL, Melanie Brennan, Tristan Williams

Introduction We recently hosted a weekend-long, 22 person retreat in Spain to bring together budding EA communities from the two biggest cities: Barcelona and Madrid, as well as EAs from other parts of the country. In this post, we’ll walk through a brief history of community building in Spain, why we chose to do the retreat, how we think it went, and what our plans are for the near future. We think the How did we plan the retreat? and Lessons Learned sections will be particularly valuable for other community builders thinking of hosting a retreat, and we’ve also shared some of our documentation in the Resources section, which you’re welcome to copy and make use of. This post was written by Tristan Williams (Madrid), Melanie Brennan and Anthony Lara (Barcelona).A brief history of EA in Spain Effective Altruism (EA) in Spain is still fairly underdeveloped. Like other [...] ---Outline:(00:13) Introduction(01:04) A brief history of EA in Spain(04:02) Why do a retreat?(05:04) How did we plan the retreat?(07:57) How did the retreat go?(09:29) Lessons Learned(09:33) Things We'd Keep the Same(12:20) Things We'd Change(16:27) Future plans(17:13) Conclusion(17:45) en-US-AvaMultilingualNeural__ Group photo outdoors, people sitting and standing among trees, everyone waving.(17:56) Thank you(18:20) Resources--- First published: August 29th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/yjFSsa7X6GkcPH8xE/reflections-on-ea-spain-s-first-national-retreat-1 --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.