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Planning the next salon: How are you called to contribute?

Submitted by Ashley Cooper on February 21, 2006 - 17:13.

There have been a flurry of email exchanges passing between the group of people that have volunteered to help ES3 (and now possibly ES3.5) come into form. There are many ideas and points that people feel both passionate about and called to respond with the contribution of their energy and attention.

If you wrote an email that has deep meaning to you, please consider reposting your words in this space. If you have been watching as the emails are exchanged and there is a contribution of thought, action, reflection, or inquiry that you feel called to offer, please follow the urge.

There is a lot of energy around this topic and an expressed desire to see the exchanges continue to unfold in this nexus space. Please use it for our shared intentions.

 
Warmest regards,

Ashley
 

Thanks, Dana. . .

Submitted by Tree Fitz on February 23, 2006 - 22:32.

I am happy to see people undertake many new directions but right here, right now, I am focussed on getting the invitation out to ES3.  In writing what I wrote above, I was not complaining. . . I was trying to make my process a bit more explicit.

 

I absolutely do not want to be holding all authority or all details. . . just trying to get the invite out. . . and it is close, very close. . . 

Thinking about Timing

Submitted by Dana Lynne Andersen on February 22, 2006 - 05:06.
If this process is adversely affecting your ability to plan and finalize logistics- why don't we just breath and wait a few days- these are bigger issues that need some time. The California 3.5 can be explored on the ground a bit in the meantime. I've organized many events so I know what you're up against. I don't think anyone wants to make that process harder for you! We are all just bumping into unanticipated choicepoints as we co-create- unfolding from the field in the moment what is ripe to emerge....

Carrying the conversation forward

Submitted by Dana Lynne Andersen on February 22, 2006 - 04:51.
I agree with what you've said- the planning for EV3 needs to be entrusted. Logistics needs to happen as you've outlined. The spillover EV 3.5 idea seems to me to be a separate issue from this, as does the issues raised by the 'spawning' phenomenon. Seems to me that conversation/exploration should be able to carry forward separate from logistics for EV3. What do you, Tree, and others- think about this?

an addendum

Submitted by Tree Fitz on February 22, 2006 - 04:31.

It is too much work for a work group to step up, do the work they were asked to do by the larger group and then be asked to redo the work over and over each time someone has new ideas.

 At the evening circles at EV2, we asked people to discern within themselves who felt called to open the large circles the next day.  Then the large group gave them some input about the general energy, what's up, what are folks thinking. . . and then we trusted those folks to do the work.

I have assumed that we would work this way to plan ES3.  When work needs to be done, we will ask who feels called to do it.  We have an opportunity to give these people some input.  And then we need to trust the results of their work. 

We don't know we are all on the same page, do we?

Submitted by Tree Fitz on February 22, 2006 - 04:28.

I am having a very hard time using evonexus.  I want to be a good player and use this tool but it seems pretty dense.

But here is how we can work together and this is how I am asking all of us to work together.  We agreed last week that I am the Registrar for EV3.  I am adopting a new title:  I am the Hearthkeeper.  I am going to do my best to guide the planning work in alignment with the field we co-created at ES2.  I am going to do my best to listen to the middle, to discern within myself what, if anything, I feel called to do and then I am going to assume that I have the trust of my fellow planners to make decisions on behalf of the whole, working with others who feel called to do certain work.

 

There have been three subworkgroups for ES3, thus far.

 Group one: drafting the invitation.  Susan Cannon, Margo Adair, Halim, me and Tom Atlee said, in the first phone call, that we felt called to write it.  I believe Susan has captured people's minor edits and the invitation is just about done, awaiting details about pricing and registration.

Group two:  logistics planning.  Susan, Margo, Halim, me, Ashley Cooper and Stephen Feig said they felt called to work on this.  We are working on it.  Halim and I have talked by phone.  I have scheduled meetings on Whidbey Island to work on pricing, spreadsheet, financial management.  I have put a lot of hours into this but I don't have a lot of fixed details, which await my meetings tomorrow, Wednesday.  I am empowered to pull this work together and I will do my best to communicate with the people who said they were interested.  I need more help than I have been getting.  Susan has indicated she will come to the institute meetings with me if she can get away. . . Whew!  What a relief!  I can't do this all alone.  On the otherhand, as the Hearthkeeper, which the group already agreed I am, as we move forward I will be making countless decisions.  It is my intention to collaborate as much as possible.  At each stage, I will solicit input.  For example, after we send the first invitaiton wave, I will evaluate how to send the second inviation wave by talking to the people on this team.  If you want to be involved in this work, then let us know and you will get the communication.  We are not going to do work, come up with decisions and then revisit them ad infinitum ech time we go public.  I say this because if you feel called (if you are interested, you might not be called. . . check and see if you feel called to make a contribution to this particular aspect of the work). . . I am also going to try to stop apologizing, either out loud or secretly within myself for managing plans and executing decisions.  

 Group three:  managing the invitation process.  Marc, Susan, Margo and I said on the last phone call that we felt called to work on this piece.  We are working on it.  We will have a proposal for Thursday's phone call.  We are happy to hear your input but we have been chosen by the larger group to do this work and we are trusting ourselves to do it.  Who knows?  Maybe we will have a wonderful proposal on Thursday.

WHERE is the conversation?

Submitted by Dana Lynne Andersen on February 21, 2006 - 21:27.
I like this invitation and I'm also confused since I've also gotten a flurry of "go here to post your thoughts" followed by a link _____(which by the way is in linear techo lingo e.g. 'greek'- my mind doesn't 'read' anything it just pushes a button and I'm somewhere inside the site. I can't look at two web links and see the difference easily. I do hope for icons- pictures- so that whatever conversation thread is linked with a little picture or a shape/color code)___so are we all posting here now? How do we know that all are on this same 'page' about where the conversation is actually happening. How can we transfer what's already been posted for the history?