March 15, 2015: Business Call

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Sunday Agenda

Check In

Opening Blessing

We come here to do the work that is aligned with our highest aspirations. We come as brothers to join our efforts together. May our work together be guided by empathy and wisdom and driven by passion. --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

Daily Practice (from Sunday to Sunday)

2014-03-08 to 2014-03-14: 23+0+19 = 44 checkmarks

Metrics (from Sunday to Sunday)

0 … articles published (blog, etc) 0 … net signups to the newsletter for the week (104 total) 2 … conversants from signup (people we are talking or emailing with) 0 … bios added to the wiki by conversants 1 … articles added to Gaia.wiki 18 … sessions on Gaia.wiki other than us 66 … sessions on Spacewiki.com 130… sessions on SolSeed.org (including Portland meetup) 1+6+4 = 11 … topical community touches 44 … daily practice checkmarks for the week

Weekly Events Logistics

Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Shelley, Brandon, Ben

Midweek

Spring Equinox

Sanders will drive up to Redmond on Sunday morning to arrive around noon PDT at Ben’s apartment.

Schedule

Ritual

Pantheacon Report

We arrived a little after it started (didn't miss anything critical). We met John and Ruth Halstead pretty early on. They took us under their wings and that made it a fun experience for us and so I am grateful to them. It had a fairly typical con feel to it. A lot of cosplay and ordinarily marginalized people hanging out with their people.

The Atheopagan group is pretty interesting. They were unable to get a normal slot so they negotiated with Pagan Scholars to use their hospitality suite and there was an open house and a workshop and a ritual (all told about 5-6 hours of Atheopagan programming). There is a ton of other stuff going on (about 13 tracks). The Atheopagan thing is really resonating a lot with people.

I feel it is the most fertile conference/venue that I have been to for Kindred; the only circle in the venn diagram that is not well represented is probably the Call (The Destiny, The Obligation, Space!). There is a lot of non-science (nonsense) going on. But there is a lot of people who are thoroughly naturalistic there. If I have learned anything, I have learned that the Atheopagan is really resonating with a lot of people and the only disparity is the Call.

Jon Cleland Host was really nice to me; absolutely Kindred guy although not certain about the call. He was talking about animism and how science is a natural extension of animism.

Thanks to this event, I feel that now is the most fertile time for a Kindred festival ever.

Ben: What about John's Earthseed website?

Boni’s Challenge

Brandon: I was talking to my Mom and she was lamenting what she originally thought SolSeed was going to be which was a lot of service and uplift, and how we didn't go that way much. Working on Bioswales is a good example (one of the few where the boys got into it). More care for Earth. More care for other People. She thought we were going to be that way and we kind of went a different way a bit. I feel kind of disconnected from that vision. I feel sad about that and I would like to address that.

August event

Proto-Kindred Festival (meeting the people who would become co-conveners of the full festival

Evaluation

Closing

We close this circle having striven toward The Destiny having cared for the earth and having taught our elephants to care for our little community. We carry these feelings of connectededness and accomplishment until we can do this again. Blessed Be.