August 30, 2015: Business Call

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Sunday Agenda

Check In

Opening Blessing

In each of our lives we try our best to work toward our highest aspirations. Here, we come together to plan how our group can do the same, because the group is more than the sum of its parts. May our work today satisfy us that we are on the path toward the Great Birthing. -- Blessed Be

WW(W)s from last time

Organize the WWWs by person and then due date. We’ll start checking in on topical community protocol and meditation for each mini-period between workbees. Holacracy founder Brian Robertson says these are bad: http://holacracy.org/blog/the-insanity-of-the-what-by-when

WWWs

Weekly Events Logistics

Midweek

Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben

Business Call/Workbee hiatus

The Saumurs have really tight deadlines for getting their house ready for sale, so Eric won't be joining us for these calls until somewhere around the end of October.

Gaia Kickstarter

Call it a religion if you like. Or call it a scientific description of how our living planet works. Or call it a metaphor, a story that inspires us to be our best selves, working together to make a better world. Because we are the world: taken together, you and I, the rest of humanity, and the millions of other species who call this planet home, we form the body of Gaia, the living Earth.

And no one has yet created an image of Gaia more evocative and inspiring than the Millennial Gaia statue by Oberon Zell, which personifies her as a mother goddess figure with an accurate rendition of Earth as her pregnant belly. The rest of the statue is covered with elegant renditions of animals and plants whose interwoven evolutionary story tells us how the present glorious diversity of life came to be.

Originally produced as a seven-inch-high seated figure, we are proud to announce that the Millennial Gaia statue will soon be available in limited quantities as a human-sized monument for outdoor use—and you can help make it happen!

If you agree that the story of Gaia is a sacred story that needs to be spread far and wide, as an alternative to the dominant narrative of hyper-individualism and consumer culture that sees our planet as merely a storehouse of natural resources for human use, please join us in bringing this spectacular rendition of Mother Earth to life.

This Kickstarter campaign has three main goals:

  1. Prime the pump. Currently, our partners at Devera Publishing, the producers of these statues, say the demand for the garden statue is too low to justify the initial outlay to create the first batch. Once the first batch has been created, continuing to make garden statues on demand becomes possible. So, until the first batch is created there will be no new garden sized statues available for purchase.
  1. Scale out. We want to take something that we know works (the Millennial Gaia Statue) and increase its impact. We are hoping to see lots of these statues installed in front of homes and businesses facing the sidewalk to provide provocations and reminders that we are of nature rather than apart from nature.
  1. Scale up. This kickstarter is a first step toward creating a larger than life version of the Gaia statue for public display in a city park in Portland, Oregon. This kickstarter will raise awareness for our effort and possible raise funds to help us move in that direction.

Reward levels for kickstarter:

Free shipping of all prizes to the Continental US. Additional shipping charges will apply for other locations.

Potential new contacts interested in Gaian reproduction

Evaluation

Closing Blessing

We came together to do the work and the steps we took in doing the work inspire us to do more. May that inspiration lead ever onward to the great birthing. And may your week be filled with life and love. -- Blessed Be