But also, my experience is this doesn’t work either (in particular if your goal is “people show up every week.” People showing up every week is a lot, and you need to be offering them something they can’t get anywhere else for that. The groups I’ve seen attempt to go this route didn’t work either because they were too generic to matter.
You don’t necessarily have to have every individual person showing up every week, though, just often enough that the thing happens in aggregate. Choir manages weekly during concert season and biweekly the rest of the time! D&D groups often manage weekly. It’s still hard but it’s not, like, completely obviously impossible like “every person shows up every week”.
But also, my experience is this doesn’t work either (in particular if your goal is “people show up every week.” People showing up every week is a lot, and you need to be offering them something they can’t get anywhere else for that. The groups I’ve seen attempt to go this route didn’t work either because they were too generic to matter.
You don’t necessarily have to have every individual person showing up every week, though, just often enough that the thing happens in aggregate. Choir manages weekly during concert season and biweekly the rest of the time! D&D groups often manage weekly. It’s still hard but it’s not, like, completely obviously impossible like “every person shows up every week”.