Notes from March 9th Planning Call

Dear friends,

As the scribe for this weeks planning call, I have chosen a different way of sharing with you my notes. It is my sense that this call was a very powerful and potent grounding of energy and I ask that each of you take a moment to read what I have written as a way for us to center around a common place of intention as we continue the process of inviting. I offer a woven tapestry of our words in which I have taken some creative liberties. The first part is our collective passions and the second part is that which we sensed around inviting and the process of invitation. Again, I think it is very important that we are all connected in our intentions of invitation. You will find the full transcript of the call below.

What brings us to the play of calling into being Evolutionary Salons? What is our passion for this right now?

There is a need within our culture for a new master narrative to guide our lives. The story of evolution is a narrative that is calling. We have an opportunity to learn from the lessons that evolution has to teach us about being together on this planet, about conscious evolution, about societies consciously evolving. This master narrative is feeling more and more like the simplicity on the other side of complexity. Now feels like the right time and people are showing up, so we're here, we're in.

We have passion for transformation, heartfelt connection, and love --- may they guide us, catalyzing awakening in each of us to recognize our true soul work on this planet. We are passionate about being in collectives and dedicated to learning from how we are as a collective, discovering what is possible when we tune ourselves to the wisdom that is present, self organizing with the intention to bring something for the greatest good into being. We are excited about the many possibilities in the ecology of communication forms and technologies that open up ways to activate collective wisdom in a hurry, in a way that involves going deep.

We wish to discover and make available resources, including visionary and intellectual structures, recognizing self-organizing ways for future salons to effortlessly birth into being. We are working with others to co-create a compelling, easily replicable way to ground evolutionary salons in a sacred evolutionary context that can be handed to whoever is interested. We are exploring Wikis and open source resources for people of all and no religious traditions who want to go more deeply into Evolutionary Spirituality, deep time, and our nature. We wish to help birth for the world the opportunity to truly and profoundly experience money and human containers/human systems differently, in ways that serve the evolutionary path. We look at these salons as evolutionary experiments that add to the whole movement and we are passionate about balancing structure and creativity.

Our passionate inquiries include such questions as: How does this story and the visualization of it get refined into a central statement or message and how can it be disseminated or communicated throughout the world? What is the relationship between certainty and uncertainty in an evolutionary movement? What is the role of randomness and chance?

This work is a culmination of our life paths and we are passionate about creating consciousness around its unfolding.

What is the field we want to create and who would be in resonance with that?

May we be grounded in this woven tapestry of passion as we expand into the practice of inviting. It has been named that the power of personal invitation holds a core sense of what is being seeded here. May we heartfully live into the invitation process, centering around the field we want to create and inviting those who are in resonance with that field. This process will hopefully be a collective learning process and we will notice what happens as the result of doing this and include it in the next round.

We need to be very clear in how we stay present and connected to this process, finding new ways, forms, and structures for sensing into how we do what we do. As we individually invite, we continuously sense into the whole. We have listened to one another and now we may mindfully hold in our awareness the whole, the sense of the whole, and the essence we want to invite into being. We sense into who we are and who we want to reach with these invitations. We sense into the field so that we invite from a very grounded context. It has been named that challenges arise when individuals have varying interpretations of the freedom of invitation. It is imperative that we are mindful of who we invite: that we discern and use ourselves as measurement and that meditative silence has a place in the process. We set a very powerful pattern of inviting and welcoming when we stay consciously connected to the process. May we know the field we want to create and remember that it is crucial to trust the field at every point. May we ring the tone clear and high and resonant.

What is the field we want to create and who would be in resonance with that?

As we sensed into the essence of what we are inviting and who to seed that forward, this is what we heard:

We are calling to people that feel within themselves a deep calling to be a part of this work/play/movement. People that are drawn to this as their life work. People who see the world through significantly different world views. People who live at the heart of transformation and care deeply about what happens. People that can sustain the vision and seed it into diverse populations. People that don't have email. Youth. Elders. People of different races and ethnicities. Artists. People who are present with the wisdom of the land. People that have a relationship to deep time- both past and future. People who have the juice flowing and the passion happening and it resonates. We don't say no to juice!

In our process of being aware of who has passion for this work, it is very important to us that we expand our vision to include awareness of diversity and those we might not at first think of. We also welcome a little disparity in the field as that leads to evolution.

We invite and welcome exploration into ongoing ways of people channeling this energy. This next salon could be finding a structure for something larger than salons that has salons energy that is trying to emerge. What does that look like?

Michael has sent out a most recent version of the invitation, Tree asks that the language around money stay as it is and that you take creative freedom in all other regards, and we all agreed to wait until Tuesday at 5:00 pm to send out personal invitations.

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Planning notes from March 9, 2006
Present: Tree F, Susan, Peggy, Ashley, Michael D., Tom A., Kevin, Stephan F, Margo, Bill, Dana.

Passion that brings us here:

P:Need for a new master narrative for our culture to guide our lives.. the lessons that evolution has to teach us about being together on this planet. Passion to create a consciousness around this work.

Susan: Master narrative feeling more and more like the simplicity on the other side of complexity. Feels like the right time and the people are showing up.

Tom: Conscious evolution, societies consciously evoloving, resourses, vionary and intellectual structures… discovering self organizing mixes for the salons

Ashley: How we are as a collective… what is possible when we tune ourself as a collective

Stephen My passion is for Transformation, heartfelt connection, love…my passion for this work is to catalyze the awakening in each of us in recognizing our true soul work on this planet

Kevin: this work is a culmination of my life path… How the story and visualization gets refined and disemenated through the world

Michael: Wiki and having a open source resource for people of all and no religious traditions who want to go more deeply into Evolutionary Spirituality, deep time, and our nature…working with others to co-create a compelling, easily replicable way to ground evolutionary salons in a sacred evolutionary context that can be handed to other to do

Bill: Relation of certain and uncertainty in evolutionary movement. What is the role of randomness and chance. Looking at salons as evolutionary experiments that add to whole movement… balancing structure and creativity

Margo: Passion for being with collectives and moving with consiousness into evolution.

Dana: Excitement about the many possibilities in the ecology of communication forms and technologies that open up ways to activate collective wisdom in a hurry, in a way that involves going deep.

Tree: Many things already said. Culmination of this life and previous lives. I'm not used to carrying this clarity. I'm feeling called to help birth for the world truly, profoundly doing money and human containers/systems differently to really serve the evolutionary path. I feel that in order todo this right (in May), we have to think about how it fits into the applicable path that others have said. I'm hesitant that others will think I'm talking about something that is much smaller that what I am actually saying.

Integrative reflection, transitional thoughts, meaning making?
Tom many big vision/callings that the salon work is trying to hold. In many senses it can hold it and in others it is straining.

Michael: tomorrow at 12 pacific time – ideas and visions around creating and maintaining an evolutionary context at this next salon. Ideas, suggestions, concerns… and gifts, skills, expertise that you bring are welcomed to add to this creation.

Energy of meme group rippled through the 2nd salon and passionate groups are welcomed to meet… Tree would like to know if it will effect housing.

Agenda:
-Update letter (send or not)
-Update as to responses so far
-How we heartfully live into the invitation process
-Multiple money conversations: one for today – Are there a few people who feel called to be of service, to discern who feels called to sense into the whole of granting 'Pay it forward' calls.

Tree: Update – 11 people have filled out a survey. 6 people have paid. I have a lot of thoughts of what that means. Last week we touched on waiting to see how we send. My sense that a lot of people who were connections to Michael, Tom and Peggy, an unfamiliar list, give a different response. I'm not sure they know. I thought it would be good to have this conversation.

Expanding from that, intuitive hit, I feel that we should start sending invitations that way, people are invited via the power of personal invitation. Tom, Peggy and Michael, just see that happens, I don't have a lot of thoughts about who they should go to, send from our email accounts.

Tree: request of Michael, Tom, and Peggy to send personal invitations. I will send you the list. Invitations should be sent personally, power of personal invitation hold a core sense of what is being seeded here.

Michael: sounds good. Peggy: Yep.
Deadline: to be left.

Invitation: Tree confused about which model to use. Michael will use what she sends.

Communication: Make sure it has inviting feel. Ashley will consult on language.

Stephen: Soliciting feedback about his 'youth version' of the invite. Margo felt fine about what was written, it just felt a little long. I trust and think that it's great.

Tree: Unattached to invitation evolving into people's personal language as long as the money language is kept consistant.

Michael: After the 15th what happens?

Ashley: People forwarding the invitation because that nature is common with this type of events.
Invitations – how we heartfully live into the invitation process.
Peggy: We need to be very clear how we want to be with this…
We need to really sense into who we are and who we want to reach with these invitations. Sense into so that we invite from a very grounded context. Who are we inviting, who do we wish to call toward us?
Stephen: What is the field we want to create and who would be in resonance with that?

Peggy: A council response to that (each person's voice heard before discussion) mindful speaking

Michael: I can easily and happily defer to consensus of the group. My own sense would be see response from 1st wave and then invite all of the 1 and 2 (my hunch is we still won't be more than ½ full).This may be our last opportunity to do that as pretty soon there will be too many.

Tree: If we send to 1 and 2 I have the same hunch that we will be at 30/35. I think we should let go of deadlines. Decide who we are going to invite and keep track.

Tom: 1st come 1st serve.

Michael: I will email out to those groups from my account.

Margo: This was the purpose of the survey to find out who of 1 and 2 are interested.

Peggy: If we are sending out an invitation then we won't need a survey. Follow up that process of invitation happen through personal invitations. Clarity around 1st come 1st serve. I have a strong bias towards less is more with discerning and using ourselves as measurement, we set a very powerful pattern of inviting and welcoming.

Tree: I propose that P, T, M send out personal invite to others. Michael sends out to 1 and 2. Then I'm not sure. People can shift language to match who invite is going to.

Tom: This is where how inviting overlaps who we want to invite. We could assume that built into the structures of how we invite.. personal invites would attract who we want. Carry diversity awareness into the structure. (more that I missed)

Peggy: I'm on board and sensing the field we want to create. as we do indiv inviting, we sense into the whole.
Michael: I like and I want to alert to a challenge that we ran into of the freedom that people feel to invite large numbers where as others are more careful. Some mindfulness of the numbers each person invites.

Margo: appreciates. I think all invitations should have a sentence about how much there is a need for quick response and it could fill up fast. Holding the question of diversity

Tree: I don't think we should all feel free to invite anyone we want…I think there should be a focus on the diversity question.

Ashley:Silence…. Slow down….Calling people that have a deep calling, connection to their life/soul work

Ashley: A quickening in the pace of my heart, the speed of the conversation. What are we calling? I'm trying to wrap logistics around what I sense into, 2 different spaces. I'm going to return to what I felt in the silence, drawn to what Stephen said, life work, soul work, that's what essential about what we're creating, so many deeply drawn to aspects, intrinsically inviting people for whom this is life work, soul work. Difference between I have an interest, really this matches my lifecalling, therefore I want to be a part of this. Be aware of those people and inviting them

Dana: I appreciate the content and the slowing us down. I want to mention a couple things, noticing the energy of wanting to push out widely, hesitating and drawing back. What you just said, when I curated a show several years ago, calling for artists who had dedicating their lives to producing sacred art. I got 800 artists and had space for 40. the next 2.5 years, I worked creating a network…calling forth a moving tide of people. If you say, if you ring the tone, clear and high an dresonat, whoever is called will come forth whether or not they make intot the next salon.

Ashlye, that communication piece is so essential to welcome to invite, so great to hear, keeping the connections, the network

Tom: More things that can have ongoing ways of people channeling this energy. This next salon could be finding a structure for something larger than salons that has salons energy that is trying to emerge. What does that look like?

Bill: Absolute faith that forms will emerge… because it fits a need. I want to invite the spirit of diversity into this space. Who can we pull in that has that passion who we might not at first think.

Kevin: Diversity, individuals inviting, how to keep focus: Might I suggest specific intent on including diversity. Quota as a way to specifically address.

Bill Great idea. Could use private aspect of EvoNexus. Quota is not about limiting or encouraging diversity but more about the number of people that are being invited (Kevin: Yes). Making sure that we don't cross over and invite the same people.

Kevin: If we all have the same numbers that we can invite.

Tree: Quota doesn't seem right to me.

Stephen: In my sense of the evolutionary spirit with which we have come together to create this event, one of the core qualities is TRUST, love, connection, moving organism we are all participating in our unique and collaborative ways. If we become crystal clear about what we want to create and then ask who in our field resonates with this vision… it doesn't matter who they come through, but their resonance. An opportunity to step deeper into trust and co-evolving so that we can say "Yes!" this is what we want to bring to this event.

Tree: Diversity of invitations to people that don't have email.

Kevin: Not to be argumentative, but to make a point… Sometimes there is a need for balance between open heartfullness and thoughtful approach about our goal. It might be useful to have balance to the diversity by thoughtfully inviting people we each find diverse. Balance real human experience with heartfelt desires.

Peggy: Tree early on said that what we are about is finding new ways, forms, structures for sensing into how we do what we do. I heard Stephen's suggestion as a means to address issues of diversity and mindfulness around it= it isn't about helter-skelter inviting but being mindful to the whole and the sense of the whole… As we have each been listening (diversity, youth, people who this is their life work)… We each hold the mindfulness of that in our awareness.

Bill: I feel good about the intent. Are we at a place that we know who we want to invite.

Ashley: Knowing the field we want to create. turning back to the place of sensing in and offering the essence of that.

Dana: Crucial to trust the field at every point.

Tom: Process will hopefully be a collective learning process that we will do this and notice what happens as the result of doing this and include it in the next round.

Dana: What is so horrible about having more people than we have space. We have a 1st come 1st serve and why can't we just …

Peggy: Use it as an opportunity to grow the field itself.

Stephan: error on the side of inviting more… rather than being cautious and not having as many as we had expected.

Peggy: Lets get invitations out to ES1 and 2 and Stephen's youth list now… and then lets start simply inviting.. Is there a reason not to?

Tree: The invitation to 1 and 2 should incorporate the update… do you have energy for writing that? Update into invitation

Ashley: I can do that!

Peggy: Time… grounding into what we sensed about powerful naming of who we want. Instead of naming reflection and end call with a sensing into the essence of field into which we are inviting and who to seed that forward.

Margo: If we are all free to start sending out invites then someone needs to really be on top of registration form.

Tree: I'm on it… and topic of managing funds.
Bill interested.

Tree: I'm on it… and topic of managing funds.
Bill interested.

Tree will send a master invite to others

Kevin: What is specific timing of invites being sent out by all of us. Wait until 5:00 pm on Tuesday and then send away.

Peggy: It's snowing… Wanting to repeat the profoudness of what I heard Ashley speaking… people that are drawn to this as their life work…I add the emphasis of young people and people of color… that is who I am drawn

Tom: People who see the world through significantly different lenses
Live at the heart of transformation and care deeply about what happens

Ashley: Diversity of ways of being in the world in addition to race and age; People that sustain the visionand can seed it into diverse populations

Margo: I continue to be called to bring people in that have a relationship to deep time.
come to appreciate it from Joana Macy's

Tom: Both past and future, right Margo?

Dana: People who have the juice flowing and the passion happening and it resonates. Don't say no to juice.

Bill: A little disparity in the field that leads to evolution. The passion may look in different ways than we expect it to.