### Agenda
- Check In
- Review WWWs
- Review Agenda
- Next Service Logistics
- Major Events: Equinox - Basking
- [OnePagePlan](/OnePagePlan)
- [SolSeedProtocol](/SolSeedProtocol)
- Book
- Evaluation
### Check In
- Brandon ... our family is redlined right now ... stretched thin ... just trying to make it through the next week while Shelley is on the wards
- Shelley ... the wards mean I'm working full time and so I'm not getting things done that I would normally do, and Sequoia gets a little crazy because he doesn't see me as much ... this wards is a little better for patient census, but the fellowship that I'm doing is adding a huge amount of work ... really stressful and hard
- Sequoia ... had a really nice day, happy :-) clingy too
- Ben ... got worn out taking notes at the get money out of politics meeting, writing notes long hand and typing them up when I got home
- Shelley ... we're having a bad plumbing problem that is making it so that we can't do any dishes ... Brandon worked on it today and hopefully it will be fixed tomorrow
### WWWs from last time
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... look into getting a Skype subscription for group video ... by next service
- Brandon ... email Eric the info for the service ... by Tuesday
- Brandon ... nutrient cycle mural planned ... by Saturday</s>
- Brandon ... look into a sun light ... by Saturday
- Brandon ... ping Molly about the nutrient cycle ... by Saturday
- <s>Brandon ... buy a canvas for the mural ... by Saturday (actually Shelley did)
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing</s>
- Shelley ... upgrade Skype on her laptop ... by next call
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- <s>Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... print out signs for Equinox ... by Tuesday</s>
### WWWs
- Brandon ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Brandon ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Brandon ... review the equinox on meetup.com
- <s>Brandon ... invite Eric and Michelle to the next service, and ask if they can use a microphone ... by tonight</s>
- Brandon ... spend 5 hours on the book ... by next call
- Chapter 3: Bringing life to each other and our communities (general inspiring sense)
- Brandon ... ping Eric, ask him to flesh out chapter 7 ... by tonight
- Shelley ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Shelley ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Shelley ... review the equinox on meetup.com
- Shelley ... write thank-you emails to Lori, Shirley & Jerry, Brooke & Tim, Steve & Judy ... by next call
- Ben ... follow your topical community protocol for this week ... ongoing
- Ben ... meditate and keep track of which days ... ongoing
- Ben ... review the equinox on meetup.com
- Ben ... add at least 3 sections to Chapter 8 ... by next call
- Ben ... read Chapter 7 ... by next call
### Next Service Logistics
Regular Service Saturday March 31, 5pm (Invite Eric, or Shelley as backup) ... invite Eric and Michelle again
Rotation: Brandon, Jerry?, Shelley, Ben
In-person service March 31, 10am
### Equinox
- There were plenty of people
- People were cheerful
- Lori handled the crowd really well, despite technical glitches (noise level)
- It was really really hard to get all the food ready at the same time, but it worked
- The food was yummy
- All the activities were fun
- Kristianne made a bunch of ribbon streamers so not every had to make their own
- The mural was the best ever!
- The science was well received (yay Ben!)
Tweaks:
- Invest in a new main floor oven for the main floor of the SolSeed EcoVillage, move the current oven to the basement (use it as warming oven)
- Turn Lori to face the other direction
- Maybe put together a small sound system
- Fewer chairs (enough for one row around the outside)
Verdict:
- Fantastico!!!
- Total Smash, I don't think it could have gone any better with the resources we have
### One Page Plan
#### 2012 1 Year Goals
- Media: Finish what we're working on for the big book (possibly as two books/parts) and publish it
- Outreach: Maintain and develop our topical community protocols all year
- Spiritual practice: Maintain and develop the spiritual practice (daily practice, weekly services, and big celebrations for the solstices and equinoxes)
- Village: Core membership all lives in same neighborhood
#### 2012 1st Quarter Goals, due 3/31/2012
- Book
- Yellow: Have something written for each of the topics that we think is important to have in the book
- Green: A complete book outline that flows and makes sense
- Super Green: Start polishing each section and have two sections posted on a blog
- Spiritual Practice (Green)
- <s>Yellow: Continue weekly services and daily meditation practice
- Green: Attempt a new weekly format including at least one other person in addition to the four regulars</s>
- Super Green: Good plan for six weeks of two-part services including programming for children and adults, with verbal pre-commitment from two additional family groups to attend all six weeks
- Topical Communities (Super Green)
- <s>Yellow: Maintain our current protocols (but not every week)
- Green: Plan the SolSeed protocol
- Super Green: Develop some of the content for the SolSeed protocol (we have the welcome email)</s>
- Major Events (Super Green)
- <s>Yellow: Make a decision about whether to have Kindred 2012 on the Summer Solstice
- Green: Have some sort of Spring Equinox Celebration
- Super Green:
- Have an awesome Spring Equinox Celebration
- Prepare for Earth Day (going to Silverton)</s>
#### SolSeed Protocol
Marketing
- Content on other sites
- Tabling at others' events
- Outcome: website visits
Inspiring and Informing (Website)
- First contact is with content that shares the vision for SolSeed (connects with the heart, not just the cerebral cortex)
- Deeper contact uncovers content that describes our implementation and philosophy (for the cerebral cortex)
- Outcomes:
- declaring (email)
- friending (email)
- website signup (email)
Monitoring
- Watching for interested parties
- Outcome: Relationship, so that we don't lose track or do silly things like welcome twice
Greeting
- Welcome
- Ask questions
- Give a run-down of what to expect in the next couple weeks
- Outcome: Receptive to future contact
Orienting
- Drip Emails (one per week for the next)
- Offer orienting call
- Outcome: Accept an invitation
Engaging
- Developing their profile on the website
- Orientation call
- Attending a service
- Attending a celebration
- Attending a retreat
- Outcome: participation
Pledging
- Cultivating a topical community
- Attending work-bees (and taking WWWs)
- Setting aside funds to "Bring Life"
- Outcome: A new contributing member
Living in Community
#### Evaluation
- Ben ... sobering that we haven't done as well as expected this quarter (parentheses on the topical community protocols, missing details on the SolSeed protocol)
- Shelley ... good work, I'm tired ... glad I came ... liked the basking in the Equinox
- Brandon ... glad to be back in the saddle with you guys ... feeling good about this quarter