Planning Meetings
Planning Meeting Notes
2008
2007
A core group meets regularly, engaging in a very creative and dynamic process with each other. We are experiencing what Riane Eisler calls a hierarchy of actualization.
Hierarchies of actualization exist to get things done, but not to dominate:
- people are empowered, not disempowered
- accountability and respect flow down as well as up
- input comes from all levels
- managers function as mentors and helpful facilitators rather than as controllers
- more leaders emerge naturally
Our core group has accomplished a lot since August, 2007.
- created a study guide for The Real Wealth of Nations, by Riane Eisler
- developed version 1.0 of this website
- helped form five study groups that met to ready and discuss The Real Wealth of Nations in September-October, 2007
- brought Riane Eisler to Portland to speak to a group of 400 people on October 26, 2007
- held our first community networking meeting on November 16, 2007
In 2008 we want to help form more study groups, learn more about the caring economy of Portland, and dip our toe into the political arena.
– Hafidha Sofia Acuay, Judy Bennett, Andrea Drury, Kimberly Ford, Celeste Howard, Marty McCall, Marcia Meyers, Pat Osborn, Diana Richardson, and Alan Rosenblith.