Notes from Planning Calls Ev.Salon 3

Just thinking aloud here. . .

 I am still deeply carrying the money piece.  As few people actually know, I did some consulting to the planning team around the money issue for ES2.  I am deeply and richly alive with ideas for how we can shape the financial sustainability of the evo salons.  I am just thinking out loud here but I am also deeply called to shape the finances.

 Here is what the last invitation said about money:  "Beyond your personal travel, food and lodging, the only costs for this gathering are some shared expenses for communally available food, supplies, and documentation."

I do not think we want to repeat this sentence in the next invitation.  I believe we can co-create financial sustainability. I believe it is very important that as co-creators of evolution, that the "whole" salon community co-create financial sustainability.  I am really pressed for time, on a trip in which I am deeply and joyfully engaged in something wonderful all week so I can't explicate in detail about my ideas.  BUT I believe the invitation should read something like this:  We ask you to pay for your personal travel, food and lodging although some scholarship funds may become available as this movement grows.  (don't get hung up on my language:  I am brainstorming, not dictating) The fee for the event will be self-determined.

 This is very important:  "THE FEE FOR THE EVENT WILL BE SELF-DETERMINED."  Then at the salon we can request funds the way I did at ES2.  This way the care of the whole is undertaken by the whole, this way we are transforming both our individual and collective relationship with money.  Just as humans needs oxygen to evolve, humans need to evolve new ways of 'being' with money.

 As the salon grows, I believe it will become self-sustaining.

 Also, it is not sustainable for people doing the work of co-creating the salons go on working for free.  We can't fix all income problems for all involved in one swift stroke but we can co-create a dazzlingly different way of doing money.

 And I think it can be addressed in the invtation with "self-determined fee".  People don't have to know too much about what "self-determined fee" means because they will be living into the collective field at the salon. . . they will come to understand it, evolve into understanding it.

 Gotta go:  I am facing a wonderful day.