Thanks to everyone who made the January meeting happen, including our featured speakers from Harbin and Doris for hosting the meeting in her home. It was a good showing, around 30 people in all.
Russell and Heather, our presenters from Harbin Hot Springs, shared
what it’s like to live in their intentional community. It’s a special place where
they take community seriously, and it shows in all they do. They invited y’all
to visit them and see for yourself.
Below are the meeting notes. There’s gold in them thar hills, really.
You should check ‘em out because the gifts and needs are matching up all
over the place. Feel free to reach out to help and get help.
Our next meeting is Thursday, February 28th. We’re featuring Chun Yu,
an award winning poet who is making a documentary about a Japanese
man who taught school in China right after WWII. She will share this true
story about an ordinary man who does an extraordinary thing in response to
an atrocity. Learn more about Chun here: http://www.chunyu.org. Her life
is also an amazing story.
We hope to see you then to create culture and connection that manifest
fun, friendship, meaningful work, intellectual stimulation, authentic connection, health, and happiness.
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JANUARY MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS
Name: Maritza
Passion: changing Western culture
Needs: web developer
Gifts: communications strategy, nonprofit knowledge
Name: Doris
Passion: urbanism, urban scouting, people
Needs: live / work loft in NYC at a good price
Gifts: scientific knowledge about social networks & social network analysis
Name: Xander Page
Passion: facilitating authentic dialog and global change
Needs: collaborative conversation with social entreprenuers
Gifts: holding space for visioning and creating, planning out of intention
Name: Victor Rose
Passion: community, decentralized and nonhierarchical
Needs: new career in the city
Gifts: trained clairvoyant, willing to work exchange
Name: James Miner
Passion: fresh air
Needs: writer
Gifts: software for developing a book cover
Name: Russell Gonzaga
Passion: Elyseum Writers Group, Harbin Community, Sufism
Needs: attendees at upcoming Harbin Elyseum retreat, presenters at Harbin
Gifts: resource and info for youth advocacy, asian arts, and Islam
Name: Tom
Passion: understanding and helping others to understand where we are now, as a society
and more. And where we’d like to be. Abundance League, sustainability, networking,
disseminating information on the web
Needs: more participation / links for my blog, http://wecanchangetheworld.wordpress.com
Gifts: research, writing, networking, sustainability
Name: JoAnn Saccato
Passion: meditation, living remotely, my dog Shylila, creating an environmental
education center for youth from a abandoned miniature golf course
Needs: networking w/ possible partners to create above passions, opportunities
to turn this project into a masters program
Gifts: writing, facilitating, Reiki masters, teacher
Name: Lucci
Passion: developing social environments that model harmonious living and nuture universal condition for thriving
Needs: progressive oriented real estate developer to consult with on urban land trust acquisition and find support for pursuing my passion
Gifts: visioning and strategic design, life mapping,
Name: Amber Bieg
Passion: trees, environment, mama gaia, technology, equity, balance
Needs: network analysis, scalability analysis for implementing tree maps, fundraising and support for film project
Gifts: video production, business planning, marketing consulting, networking, fundraising, public speaking
Name: Emily Utter
Passion: environment, bikes
Needs: web developer
Gifts: help you network with bay area enviro group
Name: Sharon Hoffman
Passion: connecting people, esp through art & media as expressions of people’s stories
Needs: knowledge of more like-minded people & orgs in addition to Abundance League
Gifts: help with how to tell your story or the story of your org.
Name: Matthew Blom
Passions/gifts: supporting people in having thriving relationship in every area of their lives. Helping organizations with internal communications.
Needs: information about how to set up credit card payment
communecology.com
Name: Tony Ricucci
Passion: environmental sustainability, social justice, spiritual fulfillment
Needs: professional collaboration opportunities fit for attorneys who have soul missions
Gifts: Awakening the Dream Symposium facilitator, bringing activism to causes, aligning purpose
with with creative visions
Name: Neal
Passion: fostering mutual support
Needs: foundation connections
Gifts: social science book recommendations
Name: dmenace
Passion/gifts: empower people who do not know what power they have. Healthcare – empower those who work in H/C and also who recieve healthcare
Needs: change my attitude about money, increase my income. Someone to teach me how to do this. to start my career as a health care consultant.
Name: Allison Quaid
Passion: art, sustainability, action for building a better world
Needs: good climate change ideas
Gifts: connection, collaboration, know environmental NGOs + city landscaper in Bay Area
Name: Bruce Tidwell
Passion: action against the machine, action to build a better world
Needs: I want to get with groups to take action
Gifts: jack of all trades, communication, healthcare
Name: Revi Schlesinger
Passion: business, sustainability, creativity, community
Needs: volunteers support to SOMAcreativitycenter.org for fundraising + technology
Gifts: capacity to figure out how to get it done and do it
Name: Seth Lepore
Passion: teaching body-based voice work, creating music, sustainable investments, performing, the labryinth, local economies
Needs: connections to assist in developing an organization for artists to live sustainably in all it’s dimensions
Gifts: voice lessons, a local sustainable investment club
Name: Liz Becker, Becker & Co., a strategy and leadership firm
Passion: Leadership, adventure, my children, community, poetry, sustainability
Needs: access to sustainability leaders for book and documentary
Gifts: connection to my network of women leaders, East Bay contacts, leadership consulting & organizational development folk
Name: Andrea Kallai
Passion: developing a TV channel with shows that make you feel good!
Needs: help cultivating my channel
Gifts: organizing closets and other things, pilates, yoga instruction
Name: Heather L. Salmon
Passion: inspiring greatness
Needs: spread the word the dangers of cell tower radiation
Gifts: teacher, priestess, healer, producer, activist
Name: Remi Tan
Passion: architecture & sustainability
Needs: looking for green developer and arts venue operator jazz venue project, good solar power
provider contact
Gifts: design, green building, knowledge
