The burning questions clustered by Finn Voldtofte

 1)  What are the things you liked or valued most?

<!---->seeing friends and having plenty of time to connect with people one to one. meeting new people. the large number of people present who have the capacity to hold a spiritual focus while participating actively. the young geeks.

 2)  What advice do you have for those organizing the next salon?

it felt more like a gathering of the clan than an evolutionary salon. if you want to get traction on the great story as a unifying thread for the social transformation movements, you need to be more focused and informative and intentional. open space and even world cafe are too divergent without a stronger intention, a way that people understand that the task at hand is to understand the work they are doing in light of the great story.  perhaps the ingathering in the morning should be presentations and the afternoon more
fluid processes.  also, all value for me came in smaller groups and the larger group tended to lose energy and foster speechmaking that didn't contribute clearly to the theme.

all this said, i created great value for myself precisely because i could roam freely and pursue personal interests - but i suspect that didn't help you guys achieve your goals.

  3)  How do you imagine your gifts contributing to the future of this movement (of which Evolutionary Salons are but a part)?

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i am not sure, as who i am in the world and how i express it is still very fluid.  my outer work tends to be more pragmatic and visceral, less big picture theoretical - i think people (not just the cultural creative types
the great story attracts) are so swept up in the turbulence of the synergizing crises that they will be moved by things that address more immediate problems... and through that will begin to see the bigger picture.
the old 'does it hoe corn?' issue. so perhaps the evolsalon thread will be for folks like the ones who gathered, not a larger circle.  this said, i am personally moved by my increasing intimacy with the miracles of existence,
and the great story strings these miracles together in a powerful way.  as you know, the jury is out for me about 'conscious evolution' - my sense of how the universe works is ever more steeped in mystery and i am less sanguine that 'a small group of concerned citizens can change the course of evolution through conscious overarching intentions.' i do believe we need a more immediate capacity to govern ourselves globally in a more rational, peaceful, cooperative way and to the degree that the great story provides inspiration and impetus to do this very hard, essential work, i'll incorporate  it.