Tentative Schedule and Agenda
"INQUIRY • OPERATIONS • UNIVERSALS"
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Monday, September 21
Between 3-5 pm
Arrivals by car and at SBA Airport with transportation to Villa Rosa
3:00 - 6:00pm
Villa Rosa...Check in
Wine and hors d'oeuvres with our group in lobby
7:00 - 8:30pm
Dinner Buffet, Lobby and Poolside at Villa Rosa
8:30 - 10:00pm
INTRODUCTIONS
Each attendee will be given the name of another in advance with clear bio and web links. Read up on your assignment because you will have 2-3 minutes to introduce them; then they will have 2-3 minutes to add anything they feel is needs to be added at this time at this time. (More extensive sharing of each person’s work will happen the following afternoon).
10:30pm
SOCIAL TIME
Tuesday, September 22
Morning Session: "INQUIRY"
7:30 - 9:30am
Breakfast in lobby & poolside; yoga, tai chi, 1 block to ocean
9:30 - 10:00am
Carpool from Villa Rosa to Old Mission for meeting space
10:00 - 10:30am
Creating Sacred Space: Setting the filed with silence, visioning, and meditation (focusing on INQUIRY)
10:30 - 10:45am
Ritual: “Fresh Mind.” (whole group)
Contemplative time to consider: “What is it I bring here, know, or am known for that I need to set aside to create a fresh mind?”
Write on small cards. There is a sacred basket in middle of circle that will hold these valuable contributions safely, until needed. As each person reads their “offering” to fresh mind, they place their card into the basket.
10:45 - 11:00am
“Questions Floating in the Air” (whole group into small groups)
Questions pivotal to the INQUIRY stage have been distilled from phone interviews and attendee’s additional input. As we sit in receptivity, these questions will float before us on a screen. As anyone feels spontaneously drawn to a question, they will stand up and repeat that question, asking for 2-4 others who would like to discuss it in a small group. The group will go off and this will repeat until everyone is off in a group.
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11:00 - 11:30am
Small groups convene INQUIRY around selected question.
11:30 - 12:00pm
Small groups report summary key points of their discussion. After reporting is complete, whole group can comment on any question. (whole group)
12:00 - 1:00pm
Lunch in Old mission Dining Room and Patio
Afternoon Session: "OPERATIONS"
1:00 - 1:15pm
Game: “Big Wind Blows” (like musical chairs)
1:15 - 1:25pm
Silence to re contact the deeper field (focusing on OPERATIONS)
1:25 - 1:35pm
10 minute AGNT Video to efficiently map work and projects (whole group)
1:35 - 1:50pm
AGNT leaders express “gifts of experience”
1:50 - 2:00pm
With INQUIRY questions still “in the air,” and AGNT leaders’ gifts of experience kept in mind, a brief explanation of Living Map process leading to GEN NOW presentations on own work.
2:00 - 4:30pm
“What’s Working: Real, Here and Now.” (whole group)
Each GEN NOW leader takes approx. 12 minutes (including Q&A) to touch on their most passionate projects and initiatives. Data is added to existing map during each presentation. Special attention will be paid to emerging NEEDS (linked to projects), and RESOURCES (linked to person).
4:30 - 5:00pm
“Revealing Our Collective Map” (whole group)
Living Map is explored, revealing the OPERATIONAL relationships present among our projects, needs, resources, and capacities.
5:00 - 5:30pm
OPERATIONS AND STRATEGY: (small groups)
Attendees self-select into specific groups based on what they have learned in mapping process might be operationally in commo and/or complementary. Discussion might continue through dinner.
5:30 - 6:00pm
EXPANDING THE EVENING CIRCLE (whole group)
Brief, informal discussion to plan what the group will offer to the expanded circle, including our invited guests, during the evening gathering.
6:00 - 7:00pm
Dinner in Old mission Dining Room and Patio
Evening Session: "EXPANDING THE CIRCLE"
7:30 - 7:40pm
Silent and guided meditation
7:40 - 8:00pm
AGNT introduces themselves and welcomes community to evening. GEN NOW leaders introduce themselves and explain what we’ve been up to all day in Santa Barbara.
8:00 - 8:20pm
Impromptu performances by GEN NOW leaders?
8:20 - 8:30pm
"Radical Ideas” Will Drive Us from Emergencies to Emergences
Explanation of Group Writing process to uncover our radical ideas.
Whole group is asked to move their chairs into random groups of four. GEN NOW reps give a few examples of a radical idea that will change our future for the good. (Animations projected on screen depict many sectors of society in which emergent ideas may be called for so that each individual can choose an idea to which their own creativity is most relevant).
8:30 - 9:00pm
• Pads and pens are passed around. MC explains that 5-7 minutes will be given for everyone to write their thoughts (it might be a specific radical idea, or simply thoughts on the subject in general).
• Time is called and people are asked to pass their notes to the right.; they have several minutes to read the thoughts on the paper passed by the person next to them. THEY ARE INSTRUCTED TO REMEMBER ONE PHRASE THAT REALLY RESONATES.
• Papers are returned to their original writers and they may continue to write for another 5-7 minutes, MAKING SURE THAT THEY INCORPORATE THEIR NEIGHBOR’S RESPONANT PHRASE INTO THEIR OWN WRITING.
9:00 - 9:30pm
People share passages of their writing from the mic with some comments taken from the group on each sharing. Hopefully, we will see common themes, visions, and directions emerge.
9:30 - 9:45pm
Closing… (TBD)
Wednesday, September 23
Morning Session: "UNIVERSALS"
7:30 - 9:30am
Breakfast in lobby & poolside; yoga, tai chi, ½ block to ocean
9:30 - 10:00am
Creating Sacred Space: Setting the filed with silence, visioning, and meditation (focusing on UNIVERSALS)
10:00 - 10:30am
Universal Principles for a Radically New World (whole group to small groups)
Handout: Meta-Focus Areas of Map
Initial explanation and discussion
Goal before closing is to agree on three (or so) clear and irrefutable Universal Principles that will include, represent, and apply to the human family as a whole IN EACH META-FOCUS that we choose to address as critical to our common future.
10:30 - 11:00am
Participants self-select into small group according to which “meta-focus” attracts them. It is the task of these groups to come back to the whole group with several DRAFT Universal Principles” that apply to their focus area.
11:00 - 11:45am
Universal Principles for a Radically New World: (CONCLUSION)
As each group speaks the DRAFT Universals in their area, the rest of the group is invited to add, comment, or otherwise fine-tune in a collaborative mind framework.. END RESULT IS WORKING DRAFT of Universals in each area for further communications after the meeting is ended.
11:45 - noon
Closing TBD
Noon-
Lunch and Departures