Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Weekly Events Logistics
- Call for a SolSeed Creed v3.0
- Review Outreach
- PERMA questionnaire ... https://sasupenn.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_4P0CKmXVx3CJ4Y4
- One Page Plan
- Evaluation
Check In
- Brandon ... my ankle is not sprained very badly
- Eric ... cold is not very bad anymore
- Shelley ... I think Brandon's Facebook post is very funny ... funny clever
- Ben ... still sleepy
WWWs from last time
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... buy plane tickets for the Summer Solstice ... by next call</s>
- Ben ... work on "the gospel according to Ben" ... by next call
- <s>Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing</s> ... made banana bread and brought it to the neighbours and when they were not there she went back at 6 AM while they were scrapping the delicate American frost off the windsheild of their car and gifted it to them.
- <s>Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... make the new book available to the rest of us ... by next call
- Brandon ... buy plane tickets to Ottawa for S, S, & B ... by next call
- Brandon ... bring up meeting Ben for lunch with the ASF board ... by next call</s>
WWWs
- Eric ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Eric ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Eric ... add inviting two Facebook friends to like SolSeed to my topical community protocol ... by next call
- Eric ... do PERMA Questionaire ... by call after next call
- Eric ... Think about phases of Solseed
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... transfer these notes to the wiki ... by tonight</s>
- Ben ... look up frickin' bus schedules for Awakening the Dreamer mk. 2 ... by Friday
- Ben ... work on "the gospel according to Ben" ... by next call
- Ben ... do PERMA Questionaire ... by call after next call
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Shelley ... invite two Facebook friends to like our page ... by next call
- Shelley ... do PERMA Questionaire ... by call after next call
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... invite two Facebook friends to like our page ... by next call
- Brandon ... do PERMA Questionaire ... by call after next call
Weekly Events Logistics
Service Saturday January 26, 8:00am PST 11:00 EST (Ben) Rotation: Brandon, Eric, Shelley, Ben
Work-Bee Sunday January 27, 1:30 pm PST 16:30 EST
In-person service with Vliets: Saturday the 26th, 10:30 am Seeing Nature Readings and Practices: next is 2013-02-17 13:00 EST
Creed v3
- Talk about arete, how it's in the nature of life to flower and spread
- Revise empathy to be more in line with the science
- Revise wisdom (Ben: +1) and tweak passion
- Drop the still and then in the start bit (Eric)
Outreach
- SolSeed's Facebook page is now a convenience store (711 likes)
- "Know science, know truth" post got 4 times the "virality" of anything else we've done
OnePagePlan
Agenda
- <s>Where do we want to be in 20 yrs? In 10 yrs? In 5 yrs?</s>
- Boil down these goals into short evocative statements with substantial elaboration behind them
- <s>Read through values, beliefs etc of the OnePagePlan</s>
- What are the projects that we want to do soon?
- What are the first 3-4 projects?
- Consider order and overlap of projects first and ask (how long is it going to take?)
Where we want to be
Where do you want us to be in 20 yrs?
- Ben ... in 20 yrs I want us to have built an institution that perpetuates our goals, (whether it's an ecovillage or a company, etc), particular the unique aspect of being interested in Life both on Earth and in space
- Is the main institution a religion?
- Eric ... in 20 yrs I would like to have a climate-controlled greenhouse project in the North growing trees that we've bred that are able to withstand really harsh environments, and making money to support itself by growing food for people in the North. The third thing it would be doing is Biosphere 2 type closed-ecosystem-life-support testing. And we would have a network of groups across the continent (maybe around the world) who are inspired by this work and who are supporting it.
- Shelley ... we should be living in communities, and we should have a really solid spiritual or religious practice that makes it inconceivable to the group that it would ever splinter or fall apart (this is the direction of their whole life) ... the communities could be doing various projects like biospheres, organic gardening, etc, but in any case the work is grounded in a larger spiritual context/vision
- Brandon ... in 20 yrs I'd like to see a second generation of SolSeed contributors, meaning children of members who joined, who found the practice meaningful and voluntarily continued their involvement as they became adults ... I would like to see the Kindred network being very much aware of itself and having a wide onramp in society, specifically at least 3 strong intentional societies, one of which is SolSeed, and several other fledglings, all of which meet in person once a year for a big celebration, and communicate regularly online and through an exchange program ... these societies would be characterized by people who have shining eyes when they talk about their life's work and who have found the support they need to pursue that life's work
Where do you want us to be in 10 yrs?
- Eric ... I would like to see us have the network of groups already in place, even if they aren't maybe big enough yet to support the greenhouse project, but they are working toward helping us ... they will be working toward greening their own communities, building ecovillages, building green cities
- Shelley ... in 10 years there are two nodes of communities that may or may not be living together, but have a shared spiritual practice and shared goals
- Ben ... Critical mass of people who are ready to start building at least one organized institution, as described in my 20-years statement, whether they are in the same place or not; a lot of them would probably have to be, but virtual technology may allow multi-location groups to be more powerful.
- Brandon ... what you all said, plus we're strong: we have momentum that we can point to in terms of committed members, religious traditions that give shape and meaning to our lives, and we've collected and are nurturing several other groups as they are building the same for themselves ... we've identified our spiritual ancestors and our past and present teachers, and are deeply plugged into our entire narrative (past, present, and future)
Where do you want us to be in 5 yrs?
- Ben ... in 5 yrs I would like us to 10 members that are actively working on things, and some degree of people in the relevant topical communities knowing about us ... i.e. we've joined the communities that are working in the general directions we're working.
- Eric ... in 5 years I would like us to have 50 contributing members and many more members that are on and off taking part in thing. Like Ben said, I'd like us to have made alliances with other groups that have similar goals and I would see them being environmental groups a lot of times (in addition to space groups).
- Shelley ... One community as described above
- Brandon ... I'd like us to be almost entirely about practice (digging in the soil, building things, having celebrations etc) rather than ideation (figuring out who we are and where we're going), whatever size we are
Phases
- Full suite of practices
- Have: Daily individual mindfulness practice (meditation), Work bees, Small Group "Service" Discussions, Seasonal Celebrations,
- Missing: compassion (for weak, for earth), simplicity, digging in the soil, making things that bring life (SpaceHacking, DIY ecology, robots, kites and balloons that map things, etc), Congregational Size "Being Together" Meetings, ecological sacrifice (celebration and support, space in our lives),
- For Discussion: Tithing, Sabbath
kindred festivals
- 1 city node: Portland, Seattle, or Ottawa
- At least 4 contributing members in one of our founding locations
- Big Family: (like 20 contributing members)
- Member by declaration
- Practicing member
- Contributing member ... reconsider definition to include practicing
- Establish process to make business meetings work well at that size (consensus, nonviolent communication?)
- Or just have small local work bees and keep the 4-person "cross-pollinating" work bee calls?
- We don't know whether we'll grow beyond the current 3 localities
- 3 city nodes: Portland, Seattle, Ottawa, and/or Somewhere else.
- At least 3 people in each node
Evaluation
- Ben ... I do like it when we are so engrossed in something that we totally lose track of time (flow, engagement) ... but we have to be a little bit careful
- Shelley ... I like the idea of having strong practice; replacing one or two busines calls a month with making things
- Sequoia ... zzzzzz?
- Ren ... wooo Waaaah
- Brandon ... I really like the evocative, concrete named phases, particularly "full suite of practices" as a first phase
- Eric ... I'm pumped about building the one-page plan this way, I'm pedal-powered pumped by my one-year anniversary, and I'm pedal-powered pumped about working with you guys