Notes - March 30th Planning Call

Evol.Salon 3: conference call March 30st

Here are notes with some additions from Tom's    

Present: Steven (left early) Ashley, Tree, Peggy, Ashley, Susan , Tom, Bill & Sheri (came 1⁄2 way through)

Reread theme for the next ESalon: “listening into the future, what is calling, where we are going, where we might go as a plane?”

Try a chat room next time for taking notes collectively

Visions emerged from the silence:

Steven — from silence –a lot of joy from event came to me.

Peggy — had  deep pool of emotion “growing our capacity for whatever shows up whether joy, anger or grief—that we know, earn, sense into riding that wave in service of the times that are coming

Bill — Just went by where the tragedy happened (Six young people got killed by a seventh for no reason at a party, right in our neighborhood.  People dancing and healing there, prayer vigil, city officials made clear not a reason to creack down on young folks.) flowers and healing everywhere—that kind of  healing in EV salon too

Tom — I feel called in this event as in others—evolution waking up through us—conscious collective evolution—  What can we realize and do together to set the conditions such that the direction of civilization and its impact on the world arises from an expanding collective awareness of what is most deeply and broadly true, what has heart and meaning, and how healthy systems self-organize and evolve.

Ashley —healing (me or whole?) explorations into deepening our capacities to listen as individuals and as a collective

To Cover:
Registration update

Rotate the roll I have been playing on these calls
Deeper sensing and how we want to go about that—design and other related decisions

Reflection space
Online presence
Chat line minutes

Registration update

No new registrations this week (22 registered)  About 7 new people.  One african american.
1⁄2 dozen people call but  haven’t heard from them.

Related: Where does the online biography stand with Susan?  Slow
Don’t have bios up. Tree has been telling them to go to the website but Susan and Tree don’t have the skills to get the info up.

Chasing down photos.  –  week link in our system
Bill will help Susan to see if a easier system can get put in place

How has inviting been going?

Sending out an update –invite people to invite
Michael has already sent out in invite to send out invite to everyone who was there

Double check on if the registration form is overwhelming—identify the basic and put in the other questions after registered.

This would mean doing another survey. Is it possible to change the order?
Is the main issue the form??

What if we had a salon with 30 people?
What is our minimum number to break even?
If we are going to calculate a break even point no more financial aid available.
Peggy-- Back away form looking at the issue from detail

Peggy hasn’t been in inviting mode as she as been in her book—part of the issue is to be in an invitational frame
Tom-- I haven’t sent the invitations out to my 1500 people

Tree—a shift between the first and second—we have lost the famous people
Something fundamentally shifted in what we are doing.  Part of what was attracting the famous people. People asking who is coming want to know who famous.  Doesn’t necessary mean this is bad.

People on the planning team have to be actively inviting.
Any young people who came from Steven?  2-3 people approaching me about financial aid, but then they don't follow up.

Tom could send to his list.  Some excitement about that.  Others have networks they're involved with?  Margo?  Maybe time to leap beyond one-to-one inviting and make it a broad-brush invitation to our networks.  But is this still invitation only -- so people can't just come and sign up?  Do we WANT it invitation only?  Tree hasn't invited people who wanted to come; she was turning away people because we were trying to keep standards.
Need to upgrade the website.

Let's get the invitation on the web, and open up the invitation process.  But there's a quality of event that can be different if we deal only with invitations to people we know.  We're not putting ads in papers.  We're making it a buzz among our networks; there's still a relational connection.  Let's be deliberate and conscious of what we're doing and what the results are.
We can carry our personal passion for this into our networks, which will resonate with our networks.

Sheri and Ashley can help with inquiries from prospects.  Not everyone has done their invitations, they are stretched to the max.  Personal calls are great.
Peggy — as checking in on that—sense of excitement of doing this Time to make a broad brush welcoming of the networks of which we are a part

Invitation only?? 

I get a flurry of excitement when we think about opening it up!   If the invite has a clear question for people: “ Do you feel resonant to this?”

Tom: If the webpage could be brought up to date that would make a big difference before sending out the invites

Put  the invitation on the web. Yes let’s open it.  (I say this for information; it will change the event substantially)

The process itself of doing salons is evolving.  Be conscious of what we are doing when we do it. 
We are limited to 65 people

It isn’t the question of numbers—quality is different if you know the people.
Putting the invitation out there is still a relational question there. Our being mindful about a quality of invitation.  Really testing the resonance of the call in a broader way, that excites me.

As we open it up and trusting the field, can we as a core team, can we speak and name the intention of what we are looking for?
Feedback loops is important for our evolution.  Can we design an email inquiry? Appreciative feedback—I think that information would be really valuable

Intention—a lot of people respond intuitively
When you invite to your network, good to put in personal note why you are engaging. Money and numbers do not have to do with why the registration is low.

Ashley can help with responses to inquiries that Tree is getting (Sheri too)
Have we read through all the feedback from ES2  posted on Nexus? They are really valuable.  (the one that Michael sent out  a few weeks after the salon)
Trying to follow where there is energy present.

Maybe send out questions that were going to go out before and  inviting information for the design (idea died)
Need to separate feedback for outreach

Simplicity of next steps – to go to our networks.

- Reflection space??  Ashley would like feedback and will send around what she has done

- Ashley  and Sheri will look into best way to do  chat room notes

- Margo will hold space next call

Silence about anywhere else energy stuck.  Where is it moving?
Peggy -- It is stuck in me

Margo –stuck in me and need to be together to reweave the energy—maybe if there could be a gathering of those who can make it
Ashley -- moving in us;  stuck in relations (ours or out?)

Tom—my energy isn’t stuck but swirling—sending out to my list opens energy for me
Peggy –want to offer my house as a gathering place

Bill—energy  is moving for me; I feel a hungering for content; how are we going to serve these questions—sensing more into what we want to see happen at ES3 –creating design parameters for a design team,
Tree —do feel we will have 65 people; webpage stuck—going to be perfect

Sheri—  moving:   trusting  the field    stuck: intention question; released as she heard Tree –speaking highest intention for the gathering feel powerful for me
Susan — head tired

Peggy —   will send out a couple of dates for a gathering 1⁄2 day or evening.  When we come together sense into elements of design; and we can use a conference call for some of that time

Sheri —    will offer a summary of feedback (see http://www.evolutionarynexus.org/node/160)
Homework would be reading it

Sheri —   feeling a new fresh start, sending invitation to a few small networks
Ashley—was the invite that went out the latest of out original? Yes

Reflect on our process
Tired energy in the field

Spring fever
Important to do what we are asking people to do. (People who signed invite and haven’t registered)

Peggy won’t make next meeting (good timing)
Margo will send out notes to call list