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Sample Meeting Agenda

Submitted by the Long Beach Task Force

 

Agenda
2007 Season for Nonviolence - Long Beach Community Based Effort
November 17, 12:30 – 2pm

Welcome

I am Rev. K.  Thank you for taking time today.

Explore forming a collaborative community based effort to promote non violence during upcoming 2007 SNV.

  1. Find out who is we are .. and what we are already doing
  2. SVN – what is it, how it might be a framework for what we are doing and help us build
How we might collaborate and leverage events that are already in place such as “The Enlightenment” .. use for kickoff for city and to promote other activites connected with SNV

Centering

Several of you handed quotes about Peace … ask you to read them in a moment.

Ask us to join together for a moment.
Relax .. let go of activities of day.
Let go of anticipation of what today is.
Reconnect to possibilities that we each might experience a level of peace, of harmony, that many of our wisest souls have know is possible.

Reading….

Wisdom be our guide.

Ice Breaker time ….

Shift to group in which you know fewer people…
Two questions ….

  1. Name, Organization, what (or who) called you here today?

Deep breath for minute – Recall a memory of a kindness shown to you by a stranger …. And how that felt.

 

Why we began that way:

  1. Peaceful world begins with relationships
  2. Relationships based on connection .. found when we connect a personal level.
  3. 10 minutes .. experienced some of that. SNV Exemplifies that.

SNV

  1. Grassroots effort – very much about making connections to remind us of options for resolving conflicts, making changes in all sorts of areas of life ... options that are non-violent.
  2. Framework to hold activities that promote and teach methods of non- violence as exemplified by Martin Luther King and Mahatma Ghandi, and others.  To raise all or our awareness of not just little ways we do violence to one another, but the little ways as well.
  3. In that way .. we build a world that works .. one person, one awareness at a time.
  4. SNV is not new … 10 years ago it began.
Video showing history, explaining

VIDEO Plays

Summary 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. 300 programs, 400 cities, 18 countries
  7. Examples:  concerts, walks, dialogue groups, workshops, proclamations
  8. Practice Day by Day

Hand outs …

Samples of what has been done.

 

What are we doing, what ideas we have…

Chartpad on Walls .. 2 questions

  1. Projects you are involved in promote peace, healing .. that you are excited about.  Name of your organization
  2. Ideas you would like to see happen in our city

(city banners, city calendar, etc)

Share 2 minutes on several existing ideas .. til 1:40
(Include Enlightenment here!) … Carol?

Observe energy .. what is possible in collaboration

  1. See our work in larger context
  2. Know what others are doing
  3. SNV framework to build on this

Email other details to SNV@namasteplace.com and we will summarize these.  Everyone ok with email sharing?

 

Where do we go next?

  1. ID Affinity Groupings?
  2. Is there a desire to collaborate?
  3. Is there commitment?

Scaffold:

  1. Meet again, inviting others … breakout sessions by affinity groups.
  2. Add city wide group to talk visibility
  3. Other option is to meet in small groups, loose synergy started here.
  4. Date? – leverage Enlightenment … week of Dec. 11th? 1st week in January?

Communication

 

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