[NLC] followup from last evening: worksessions

[jan spencer]

hi

thanks steve

the idea of interaction between nlc reps about n'hood concerns arose 
independently from each table

another idea, nlc reps could meet  - at someone's home, coffee shop, 
anywhere people cared to, could be a potluck, whatever, when ever they 
want to, to discuss n'hood concerns and ideas, this would be totally 
apart from 4th tuesday meetings, anyone from the n'hoods could 
participate, it would just be a matter of people taking the iniative to 
send out invites and meeting

we do a bit of interaction at cos meetings, its great to hear what 
people are doing in thier n'hoods, and we could use more time for 
interaction as well

thanks everyone who came last night

jan






Stephen Lamb wrote:
> Hello NLC,
>
>   I wanted to follow up on a suggestion that I made last night
> at the NLC gathering.
>
>   There was a very strong thread in the various ideas that came out
> around the idea of interactive exchange between neighborhood leaders.
>
>   To me, it also seemed clear that none of the proposed "ideal agendas"
> found a way to convincingly fit all of the "required" program into 2 
> hours.
>
>    I want to reiterate my suggestion from last night.
>
> *SUGGESTION: Have every third (or even every other) NLC meeting be a *
> * worksession, with no predetermined agenda, and no moderation, no 
> mediation.*
> * Just let leaders talk to each other about what they need help with 
> in their *
> * own neighborhood, in an open roundtable (rectangular-table) format.*
>
>    For the other meetings, push the format/structure/agenda towards our
> "ideals" from last evening.
>
> *WHY?* In a "formatted" meeting, the most time we are ever going to
> be able to carve out for an "interactive" mode is 20 ... 30 minutes
> (perhaps 40 minutes, tops). Even 40 minutes is just not sufficient
> *
> /to accomplish truly substantive open exchange of knowledge/.
> *
>
>    Thoughts?
>
> -Steve
> FWNA chr.
>
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