(This post is part of a sequence of year-end efforts to invite real conversation about CFAR; you’ll find more about our workshops, as well as our fundraiser, at What's going on at CFAR? Updates and Fundraiser.)

If you’d like to know more about CFAR's current workshops (either because you’re thinking of attending / sending a friend, or because you’re just interested), this post is for you. Our focus in this post is on the new parts of our content. Kibitzing on content is welcome and appreciated regardless of whether or not you’re interested in the workshop.

The core workshop format is unchanged:

4.5 days of immersion with roughly 8 hours of class per day
Classes still aim partly to prime people to have great conversations during meals/evenings
Almost everyone stays in a shared venue
Roughly 25[1] participants, and 12-ish staff and volunteers
Mostly small classes

“Honoring Who-ness”

We added a new thread to our curriculum on working well with one's own and other peoples’ “who-ness” (alternately: pride, ego, spark, self-ness, authorship).

What, you might ask, is “who-ness?”

Alas, we do not (yet?) have a technical concept near “who-ness.”[2] However, we want to make room at the workshop for discussing [...]

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Outline:

(01:12) Honoring Who-ness

(01:28) What, you might ask, is who-ness?

(04:59) Concrete components of our honoring who-ness thread

(06:11) Classic CFAR content

The original text contained 7 footnotes which were omitted from this narration.

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First published:
December 29th, 2025

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ww6Mv8bkMCMcdKDRm/more-details-on-cfar-s-new-workshops

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

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“More details on CFAR’s new workshops” by AnnaSalamon

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“More details on CFAR’s new workshops” by AnnaSalamon