Sample Meeting Agenda
Basic introductory meeting agenda (Modify as needed)
Agenda
Season for Nonviolence Task Force Meeting
Organization / DATE / TIME
WELCOME
Introductions
CENTERING
Meditations, Quotes, or Readings on nonviolence…
ABOUT SNV • ABOUT US AND OUR COMMUNITY
Forming a collaborative community based effort to promote nonviolence during SNV.
1. Who are we here in this room .. and what are we already doing?
2. SNV – what is it, how it might be a framework for helping us build on existing work?
3. How might we collaborate and leverage events that are already in place to promote SNV?
EXPERIENTIAL PRACTICE
Shift into groups of people who don't know each other.
Two questions ….
1. Name, Organization, what (or who) called you here today?
2. Deep breath for minute – Recall a memory of a kindness shown to you by a stranger …. And how that felt.
WHY WE BEGAN OUR MEETING THIS WAY:
1. Peaceful world begins with relationships
2. Relationships are based on connection .. when we connect a personal level.
ALL ABOUT SNV (Choose from among meeting tools to introduce SNV program to attendees)
1. General History Document: http://www.agnt.org/node/80
2. Welcome to SNV Video: http://www.agnt.org/snv-video
3. Video on SNV and History: http://www.agnt.org/node/54
4. (OR use Powerpoint if more convenient. Download at http://www.agnt.org/node/103
SUMARY OF VIDEO POINTS
1. Peace comes in Small steps
2. Hi Profile Support
3. Gandhi institute, AGNT
4. 64 days between anniversary of deaths
5. 10 years this year
6. Countless programs, 900 cities, 67 countries
7. Examples: concerts, walks, dialogue groups, workshops, proclamations
8. Practice Day by Day: 64 Ways and Days Living Peace Mandala at http://www.agnt.org/node/3
SNV ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND SUCCESSES
1. Video on last year’s results: http://www.agnt.org/snv-2013-results#video
2. Anthology of all reported events: http://agnt.org/snv/Anthology2013.pdf
3. Media coverage of last year’s events: http://www.agnt.org/2013-media
NEW IDEAS FOR OUR COMMUNITY’S SNV
Whiteboard or Flipchart
1. Projects you are involved in promote peace, healing ..
2. Ideas you would like to see happen in our city
Where are the opportunities for collaboration?
1. See our work in larger context
2. Know what others are doing
3. SNV framework to build on this
Email other projects and events details to ________ and we task force leaders will include them
NEXT STEPS?
1. Affinity Groupings?
2. Is there a desire to collaborate?
3. Is there a commitment?
4. Meet again and invite others
5. Expand group or wider visibility
COMMUNICATION METHODS FOR THE GROUP
CLOSE