Dip in and out

What I’d like to say to people who really want to also get this project over the line is: ‘Please help us if you can, when I ask for bits and pieces’. I understand that everyone is so busy and it is my job to hold this project and take it forward for those of us who will be there at the end of the day, and that’s my pleasure and raison d'être. It may be overwhelming and scary for you to think of getting involved/overcommitted and that’s partly why we are planning much professional assistance. But if you can help us with bits and pieces, don’t hold that back – come and go as you wish, dip in and out and know that this is perfectly fine.

Dip in and out

What I’d like to say to people who really want to also get this project over the line is: ‘Please help us if you can, when I ask for bits and pieces’. I understand that everyone is so busy and it is my job to hold this project and take it forward for those of us who will be there at the end of the day, and that’s my pleasure and raison d'être. It may be overwhelming and scary for you to think of getting involved/overcommitted and that’s partly why we are planning much professional assistance. But if you can help us with bits and pieces, don’t hold that back – come and go as you wish, dip in and out and know that this is perfectly fine.

'How to Build a Village'

Just revisited a GREAT book I purchased in February 2008 called ‘How to Build a Village’ by Claude Lewenz who lives in NZ.
On the home page of the website (below) there are a couple of short videos….just in case we had forgotten why we want to develop an ecovillage! You might like to have a quick look when you get a moment.
http://www.villageforum.com/

“Creative Community Governance and Decision Making”

Yesterday I attended Robin Clayfield’s “Creative Community Governance and Decision Making” session at Bondi. She is an excellent facilitator. She introduced a number of techniques for encouraging discussion and decision making. The ones in particular that I thought could work well for SCEV are ‘World Café’ and ‘Open Space’ for encouraging conversations and discussion, A process she called ‘Synthesis’ for asking people to start narrowing down their answers, comments, opinions. There was also some discussion around ‘Dynamic Governance/Sociocracy’ as the new-kid-on-the-block when it comes to decision making. I am presenting “A taste of Dynamic Governance/Sociocracy” in about a fortnight as a way of pursuing a decision making system for SCEV that by design encourages inclusivity, equality, transparency, accountability, creativity and discipline. I hope you will come along, see what you think and tell us if you think it would be good for our purposes.
PS: also happy to send you my notes on the process mentioned above.