January 10, 2010: Online Work Bee
From SolSeed
Agenda
- Peer Coaching Triads ... email is sent ... review
- First "service" meeting ... Probably February 6
- At Brandon and Shelley's House
- With potluck following
- Brandon and Shelley to provide American Tacos
- Approximate schedule: Service at 11, Lunch at noon, Done by 2pm
- Order of Service
- Welcome
- Opening Words ... lighting the Chalice
- Sharing of Joys and Concerns
- Singing a Song
- Silent time to think about topic?
- Thought-provoking reading (out loud?)
- ex. Unitarian Universalist sermon from web
- Concepts from discussion at Longest Night Festival:
- Rituals to begin and end service
- Announcement time for what will be happening in the community
- Some part of structure that is aesthetically focused (ex. singing)
- Space within structure for interchange
- People talking about what matters to them
- Making meaning together
- Theme/seed concept brainstorming
- Something about where the SolSeedMovement is currently going
- Something appropos to the moment
- Environmental focus ... what is one action I could take
- Advocacy? (write your senator, look at emails from environmental groups)
- Individual actions? (bike riding, replace bulbs w/ CFLs, etc)
- Other action-focused ideas
- Brandon: But have a greater focus on non-business-specific, inspirational concepts, focused around appreciation of Life
- Birth of Gaia out of Chaos (UU sermon)
- Reading like the one at church today
- Discussion of the Destiny as a possible theme
- If we have a church it will almost certainly have to be a church of TheDestiny as well as a church of life
- Visualize something on a laptop from the Hubble Space Telescope or something like it
- NorWesCon (April 1-4)
- Register for the Con
- Get a dealer's booth (t-shirts and books)
- Business name: "SolSeed Store?"
- Also get a fan table "SolSeed"
- Ideas for the booth
- "Gaian" aesthetic - green shag carpet, potted plants?
- Give away healthy non-processed food as "party favors" (Apples maybe?)
- Must be careful about not violating sanitation rules ... etc
- Labeled with SolSeed or in a cute little bag?
- Tea bags ... want people eating it right in front of everybody
- Seed packets! ... come with a button that says "I'm planting Seeds"
- Remote Controlled Helicopters ... raffle to win it
- Pictures of space and the Galaxy
- Karoake in the dealer's booth?
- Design and print shirts
- Get Parable of the Sower books
- Selling the children's book
- Google Sites + email
- Have email groups (discuss on future call)
- Membership
- Friends
- Triads
- Book program from OryCon
WWWs
- Shelley ... email to Ben about February 6 (ben to forward) ... tonight
- Shelley ... service program outline ... by next meeting (Sunday)
- Ben ... booth and table applications sent ... by next meeting (Sunday)
- Brandon ... invite Mark and Ted to NorWesCon ... by next meeting (Sunday)
- Ben ... email triad ... tonight (ask Shelley for phone #s if they don't reply)
