Minutes of 6/15/09 ESAG Special Meeting

[Susan L]

Below and in the Files section you will find the Minutes of today's
meeting.

What is your reaction to getting the Minutes straight from my desk
without their having gone through the private revision process we've
been doing in the past? My intention is to meet needs for clarity and
aliveness (timely information) by posting the Minutes here as soon
after the meeting as I can get them together. Participants are still
welcome to request revisions if I've misrepresented what they've said,
and I will negotiate the reconciliation of discrepancies off list (to
reduce email traffic). There will still be a final Consent process at
the following meeting. From what I can remember, the slower, more
labor-intensive process we've been using was an attempt to meet needs
for safety/privacy expressed by someone who is no longer with us. If
there are any objections, please Reply to this email and say so,
including helping me to connect with whatever needs of yours would not
be met by simplifying this process.

I'm having difficulty contacting Judy Nommik, and she is the one
person who has requested a 10:00p.m. "special" meeting so that her
youngsters will be in bed and she can be fully present. Can anyone
make sense of this error message?

SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT
TO:<judyatt...@surfglobal.net>:
host mail2.surfglobal.net [64.30.60.25]: 450 4.7.1
<judyatt...@surfglobal.net>:
Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for 5 minutes:
retry timeout exceeded

It feels a lot like when I couldn't get through to John Mudie when
others could, so what I suspect is that some servers don't like each
other or some servers are suspicious of small, private servers like
propeace.net. (In reality, it's probably something about spam
filtering.) So if anyone is in touch with Judy, would you be willing
to check if she is getting her messages, and if she is not, let her
know what's going on and that I am trying to reach her?

I'm so delighted with the process and the outcome of today's meeting
that my willingness to host a second meeting has intensified into
eagerness. So Judy, if you are getting your messages, please
respond. I am really longing to connect with you at this time in the
evolution of our slice of the Global Network. I suggest this
Thursday, June 18th, at 10:00p.m., although I would also be open to
Wednesday at 10 if that works better for you. I'm especially hoping
that Dominic Barter will join us, but he is in transit until tomorrow.

If you don't enjoy using the doodle tool, please Reply to Author (not
to the whole group on mundane logistics like scheduling, please) in
response to this email and let me know what works for you in terms of
times/dates. Also, Judy, if you're willing, send me your phone
number; if it's just the two of us, perhaps a regular phone call
instead of a conference line would feel more intimate.

English-Speaking Americas Group (ESAG)
Minutes of Teleconference June 15, 2009
Playback Link: http://apps.calliflower.com/conf/download/3517?rec_key=ded641e77e45d44ab6576d76ff722f4ece10a1c7
Next meeting: TBD

Opening Round

Susan Livingston (Facilitator, Clerk), VA; Craig Sones Cornell, CA;
Mercedes Frace, FL; Tina Michel, KY

Remembering provided by Mercedes, read by Susan
The Real Work by Wendell Berry
It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come our
real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have
come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not
employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Content

After about 10 minutes of discussing what is and what has been
regarding connection among CNVC, the GCC, and the NVC Global Network,
and regarding the certification of trainers in general and the CNVC
certification process in particular, we spent about 30 minutes doing
several rounds in which participants said the names of people they
would like the GCC to invite to their strategic planning conference(s)
and gave their reasons for naming each one. For the sake of brevity,
only the names are listed here:

Dominic Barter
Bridget Belgrave
Anne Bourrit
Jeff Brown
Conal Elliot
Miki Kashtan
Barbara Larson
Martha Lasley
Mary MacKenzie/Mark Schultz
Kit Miller
Ian Peatey
Kamran Rahimian
Jorge Rubio-Vollert
Daniel Rybnick
Rodger Sorrow
(I)An-ok Ta Chai
Gail Taylor

There followed a 15-minute overall reaction round in which
participants were invited to respond to what they had heard during the
meeting.

Closing Round – request to name at least one need that was met by the
meeting

Mercedes – camaraderie, connection, and information
Craig – hope and clarity
Tina – clarity and meaning/purpose
Susan – community, support, and mattering