Sunday Agenda
- Check in
- Opening Blessing
- Review WWWs
- Weekly event logistics
- Review Agenda
- Shiny Green Acorn
- Evaluation
- Closing Blessing
Agenda item for next time
- Business call scheduling
- FINANCE MEETING
Check-in
- Eric … I had an amazing day … swimming in the pool, making muffins, working on a loft in the garage to store the kayaks
- Ben … I am happy because I found out the storage unit I was issued actually does fit my bike horizontally ... also I slept in this morning and it just made me sleepier
- Brandon … I'm looking forward to a visit from some good friends … and also feeling stressed about some of the other logistical things in my life and I'm trying to get them cared for
Opening Blessing
As we come here today, our shared values and the depth of our commitment to them/Gaia create shared strength. May we find the alignment between our activities and both our highest and deepest aspirations. -- Blessed Be
WW(W)s from last time
Organize the WW(W)s by person and then due date if desired. 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
- <s>Eric … meditate regularly with Ben ... ongoing
- Eric … meditate regularly with Brandon ... ongoing</s>
- Eric … post the Uranium Rule blog post on Gaia’s People … someday soon
- <s>Ben … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing</s>
- <s>Ben … create a page on the SolSeed wiki for the Shaping Change Conference … after the move
- Ben … finish a draft of the newsletter … after the move</s>
- Ben … email Brandon about the Providence Bridge Pedal … tonight
- <s>Brandon … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing</s>
- Brandon … pay Ben for Shaping Change lodging … by Sunday
- <s>Brandon … get spacewiki.com back up … by Sunday</s>
- Brandon … create the Earthseed Meetup group … by Sunday
- Brandon … check cost of Tryon for 1 day vs 3 days
- Brandon … visit Tryon … (Sunday morning)
WW(W)s
Organize the WW(W)s by person and then due date if desired. 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
- Eric … meditate regularly with Ben ... ongoing
- Eric … meditate regularly with Brandon ... ongoing
- Eric … post the Uranium Rule blog post on Gaia’s People … someday soon
- Eric … bug contractor to see if the entrance is built … probably before doing something else at some point
- Eric … read the draft newsletter … by Monday
- Eric … pack … by Thursday
- Eric … get on plane … Thursday
- Eric … spend 15 minutes a day on Buckleberry … ongoing
- Ben … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
- Ben … look into resending invitation to CampOma … by today
- Ben ... do laundry and pack ... by Tuesday
- Ben ... look into how to do a conflict-resolution simulation ... by Thursday
- Ben … revise and send the newsletter … by Wednesday
- Brandon … meditate regularly with Eric ... ongoing
- Brandon … pay Ben for Shaping Change lodging … by Sunday
- Brandon … create the Earthseed Meetup group … by Sunday
- Brandon … read the draft newsletter … by today
- Brandon … invite the Sarvata’s to Shiny Green … by today
- Brandon … get materials for Shiny green (markers and paper) … by Thursday
- Brandon … get groceries and other stuff for Shiny Green … by Thursday
- Brandon … spend 15 minutes every day on Machine Learning … ongoing
Weekly Events Logistics
Midweek
- Aug 11 Work-Bee: 6:30 PM PST / 21:30 EST (Cancelled: Almost Everyone traveling)
Weekend Service rotation: Eric, Ben, Shelley, Brandon
- August 13 Service: 8:00 AM PST / 11:00 EST … Ben
- August 14 Business Call: (Cancelled due to Shiny Green Acorn)
Shiny Green Acorn
Arrival logistics for Thursday
- Eric and Michelle's flight arrives at 8:40 PM and they've rented a car
- Brandon could take MAX to meet them and then ride in their car
- If early enough, go back to the Sanders place and get settled in; otherwise pick up Ben on the way home
- Ben is arriving on a BoltBus at 10 PM
Schedule
- AM Friday: SolSeed Contributing Members drop Michelle off at Jamballah and then hang out
- 5 PM Friday: arrive at Tryon (or get people together at Sanders place and carpool there)
- Opening circle, write Friday/Saturday agenda
- Intro to Tryon
- Maybe a brief session
- 7 PM: Dinner (at Tryon?)
- 8:15 PM: depart for LL "Stub" Stewart State Park
- 9 PM: Festival of New Suns
- 7:30 AM Saturday: breakfast
- 9 AM: stay at Sanders
- Quick opening circle
- 1-2 sessions
- Lunch and Michelle's performance
- Go to Tryon
- 2 sessions
- 5 PM: Go to Sanders place or another part of Tryon for closing circle
- 6 PM: Dinner
- 7:30 AM Sunday: breakfast
- 9 AM return to Tryon
- Opening circle
- 1-2 sessions
- Lunch
- 2 sessions
- Final closing circle
Who
- We're okay if it's just us
- Ben would like it if some CampOma people can make it
- Ben is inviting his parents
- Brandon will invite the Sarvatas
Activities and requirements for them
- Build an ecovillage model (kids: five fingers?)
- Bring materials: construction paper
- Have someone (Ben volunteers) figure out the map to place the buildings on
- Read quotes about Acorn from Parable of the Talents (not the depressing ones)
- Someone looks them up
- Write poems about Acorn / ecovillages / intentional communities / tribal businesses
- Pencil and paper
- Draw a hypothetical illustrated timeline of how we'll develop our ecovillage
- Markers and butcher paper (we'll need those for Open Space in general)
- Create a future dated TimeLine game about the history of our ecovillage
- Markers/pens and note cards
- Conflict-resolution simulation
- Someone would need to research how to do this (or just make stuff up)
- Paint a picture of what a group of people at peace and in community look like.
- Markers and butcher paper, or canvas and paints if we do it at the Sanders place
- Get a tour of Tryon
- Tours of SE Portland ecovillages?
- Someone would have to set these up, likely not enough time
- Hear about the CampOma experience
- Just need someone who's been involved with them for a while to come to our event
- Talk about what we want in an ecovillage (playfully)
- Fun talking stick
- Watch bellydancing
- $5 / person
- Earthseed service
- Candle
- Dirt bucket and seeds
- Contraption
- Festival of New Suns
- A place to watch the stars/meteors where we can also connect with John et al
- Should we join the OMSI star party at Rooster Rock or LL "Stub" Stewart Park (it starts at the same time)?
- Could also go to Bald Peak State Park, but it takes 40 minutes to get there
Evaluation
- Ben … I’m nervous and I hope that stuff works out well
- Eric … I’m coming to Portland “wooh wooh wooh” ← some sort of shrieking
- Brandon … Yay!
Closing Blessing
We came here today one last time virtually before we will be coming together in real space. May our work here have left us feeling ready and happy and alive. May these highest values shape our highest aspirations and shape our deepest aspirations for this time that is coming. --Blessed Be