Just heard from Elizabeth about the guest she’s bringing, and sent the below to the San Francisco list as an event update. Should be good!
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While travel may seem a luxury these days, it can be just what you need to find direction during turbulent times. This is not a new idea. Sabbaticals, walkabouts, pilgrimages, vision quests, and trips of all types are time-tested tools of personal transformation.
Our hosts this month, Elizabeth Becker and Todd Sotkiewicz, are well qualified to explore this with us. Elizabeth runs leadership adventure tours for this purpose. And Todd’s company, Lonely Planet, publishes books like “The Career Break Book” and “Volunteer: A Traveler’s Guide to Making a Difference Around the World” that are gems for those in transition.
And while Traveling on Purpose requires creating distance from your everyday world, you don’t need to spend a lot of money or go long distances to do this. Two guests will be joining our discussion who’ll add richly to this dimension of our talk – Doug McConnell, host of OpenRoad.TV, and Anthony Sandberg, who regularly sails all over the bay in the course of running his company OCSC Sailing.
So for this discussion about travel, we’ll have you covered by land as well as sea, local as well as global.
Denver, as always it was a wonderful confluence of the Abundance League. For this gathering we chose the more intimate environs of Susan’s home, and to focus our time just on member announcements and mingling. Because this meeting focused on passions, needs and gifts of all of us present, we devoted more time to the check-in portion and exchanged some quick feedback, saving the deeper conversations for mingling afterwards.
As a new approach to note-taking, we followed Susan’s idea of passing the laptop around so that each person who spoke took notes for the person speaking after them. This enabled each to transition from speaking to listening; it also ensured that nobody spent all their time typing and all could give their attention. I think it worked pretty darn well: we got good notes that required no very little editing, which allows us to be faster at posting to the blog!
While I have your attention, our next confluence will be Tuesday March 10, 2009 (location TBA) at Hooked on Colfax. Continue reading ‘Denver: February Meeting Notes’
The Abundance League meets this coming Tuesday, February 10th at Susan’s house. Join us as we rejoice in sharing our 2009 passions and projects, what you need to fulfill them, and the gifts you offer to support each other. Of course, please bring some food and/or drink for the potluck, too!
We start at 6:30 pm, and end around 9:30 pm, but you are always welcome to come and go at any time.
WHERE
Susan’s house
AGENDA
6:30–7:00 pm — Mingle and Eat
7:00–7:45 pm — Member Announcements: Your Passions, Needs & Gifts
7:45–8:45 pm — Break, Eat, Mingle, Exchange Support
8:45–9:30 pm — Eat, Mingle, Exchange Support, Clean Up, Clear Out
BRING
- Yourself, friends, and food! This is a potluck, so please bring something to share (food and/or drink) if you can. If you don’t have much time you can always stop at the Safeway on 21st and Clarkson St. for something at the deli, or the Whole Foods/Wild Oats on 11th and Ogden. (Of course, there’s also great soul food in the neighborhood at M & D’s or Tom’s!). We’ll supply plates, cups, and utensils.
- Business cards, handouts, flyers
- Share: books, CDs, DVDs or anything that you’d like to loan or gift at the meeting.
QUESTIONS? Call Susan at 303-455-0852.
Tags: abundance, abundance league, denver, museo de las americas
We all know travel can be transformative. A great stretch of road, a deserted beach, unfamiliar food and customs, that guy or gal in the bar…these have the power to change us.
