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San Francisco Meeting Notes: October 2008 – Fashion Among Friends

Published on October 21, 2008 in San Francisco Events by Neal Gorenflo. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

The clothing swap we held in October was amazing from several perspectives. First, I was blown away by how much clothes showed up. Several people brought big rollie suitcases filled with clothes. And not the carry-on type! And one woman brought a two large backpacks of clothes…by bike. Talk about a low carbon approach to fashion!

Secondly, the turnout and amount of interaction was impressive. At least 30 people showed. And people exchanged a ton of friendly “fashion support” – folks suggesting pieces to each other, feedback on how pieces looked on, sharing of mirrors, etc. The vibe was 100% positive.
Kim Connector of Fashion Slave helped keep the whole thing moving. She brought a huge amount of clothes and was expertly hooking people up with the goods – one of her trademark superpowers for sure.

Lastly, everyone seemed to get something they were pleased with. One women brought some pieces back to her housemates, so the benefit extended beyond those who attended. I got two fun bold-patterned shirts.

In the end, we had several large bags of clothes leftover to donate. On our way out, we met an employee of Brainwash Cafe who has a big family. We gave her two bags of clothes including one with filled shoes. She was stoked! The rest went to Community Thrift on Valencia.

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Denver, You’re Invited: Tue 10/14 6:30pm – Dan Brazelton + non-confrontational mediation

Published on October 9, 2008 in Denver Events by Taj Moore. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

DENVER—The Abundance League meets this coming Tuesday, October 14 at Leela European Café again (this time no hammer drilling!). I’m very excited to bring everyone together again, especially because this month…

…we have a special guest speaker joining us the wilds of Seattle, the Bering Sea, and San Francisco: Dan Brazelton has been a volunteer community mediator for over ten years with the Burning Man organization as a Black Rock City Ranger. If you have ever been inspired by examples of people and communities living out their vision and principles, the Rangers are a sterling example.

Dan will tell us about the Rangers, and how their community extends the ethos of extraordinary generosity and community that Burning Man creates into our everyday life. Hearing Dan’s stories about the Rangers has been an inspiration for me over the years and one of the things that led me to bringing the Abundance League here in Colorado. Below is a little background on the Rangers; you won’t want to miss this event!

BTW, I strongly suggest bringing a friend to your next Abundance League meeting, and here’s why: how many times have you found out something new about a close friend by hearing them tell a story to someone else? What do you suppose your friends could learn about you? Bring them this Tuesday and find out!

Each year Burning Man attracts nearly 50,000 in the temporary community of Black Rock City, Nevada. During it’s one week peak, it’s the fifth most populous city in the state. “Black Rock City stands at the intersection of several legal jurisdictions represented on the playa by the Pershing County Sheriffs Department, the Washoe County Sheriffs Department, Bureau of Land Management Law enforcement, Nevada State Highway Patrol, and other Nevada state agencies.”

“As a non-confrontational mediating agency, the Rangers help to resolve disputes within [the] community, but they also bridge the gap between the ethos and the culture of our citizens and the needs and responsibilities of law enforcement. As first responders, [they] are often able to effectively mediate disputes and interpret [the] city’s rules in ways that avoid larger and sometimes negative results which might ordinarily result in more negative consequences for the individuals or groups involved.”  —Rangers website

You can find the Rangers on the Web at http://rangers.burningman.com/who.shtml

Dan is also a mariner and filmmaker. You can learn more about Dan Brazelton here.

And as always, please come prepared to spend a couple minutes briefly telling everyone about a couple of your passions/projects, what you need to pursue them, and  any gifts you offer to support each other in leading inspired lives.

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 
Leela European Café
820 15th St
Denver, CO 80202
(303) 534-2255
www.myspace.com/leelaeuropeancafe

AGENDA
6:30–7:00 pm — Mingle
7:00–7:45 pm — Member Announcements: Your Passions, Needs & Gifts
7:45–8:00 pm — Break, Eat, Mingle, Exchange Support
8:00–8:45 pm — Presentation & Discussion
8:45–9:30 pm — Eat, Mingle, Exchange Support, Clean Up, Clear Out

BRING 
– Yourself, friends! 
– Business cards, handouts, flyers 
– Share: books, CDs, DVDs or anything that you’d like to loan or gift at the meeting.

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San Francisco, You’re Invited: Thu 10/16 6pm – Clothing Swap Fundraiser

Published on September 25, 2008 in San Francisco Events by Neal Gorenflo. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

On Thursday October 16th from 6-10pm, Abundance League is hosting a clothing swap as a fundraiser for SoMa Creativity Center.

Bring a dish or drink, plus your favorite surplus hipster, vintage, or burning man fashion to swap. Music provided by whoever comes. Bring your laptop, iPod or CDs if you want to spin. Sound system provided.

Fashion Slave – which supports local designers, artists, and shop keepers – is sponsoring. Fashion Slave’s Kim Connector will be our fab hostess. She throws THE best clothing swaps and trunk shows swaps around.

Free your clothing…and clothe yourself for nearly free.  All the while supporting SoMa Creativity Center. $10 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.

WE”RE BACK AT SOMA CREATIVITY CENTER, YAY!

MEETING
What: The Abundance League
When: Thursday, Oct. 16th, 6:00-10:00pm
Where: The SOMA Creativity Center, 81 Langton Street, Suite 13, San Francisco, buzz yourself in

AGENDA                                                                                                                6:00 – 10:00 nonstop fashion swap, music, refreshments, and mingling.  Discuss you passion, needs and gifts while you mingle!  And you can type ‘em in the laptop.

Just in today (10/13), Swap Guidelines from Kim Connector.

What to bring:

  • Clothes, accessories or shoes and a bag to put your new goodies in
  • If you can’t remember the last time you wore it or it doesn’t fit, let it find a new happy home where it will be loved and used. Great chance to get rid of old Halloween Costumes.

What not to bring:

  • Stained, dirty, smelly, holey clothes or shoes
  • If you would not want your friend to be seen in it put it out on the street or cut it up for cleaning rags.
  • Sports Basement takes donations of old track shoes and crocs to send for recycling**

When you arrive:

  • Unpack your donations and sort into the piles with like articles (men’s shoes with men’s shoes, women’s shirts with women’s shirts… )
  • Let the searching begin, start going through all the stuff there and trying it on
  • Put articles that you are going to take in your take home bag and out of the main swap area, as not to be confused with available items.
  • Whatever is left over with be donated to Community Thrift.
  • The main thing to remember is that you take what you want and leave what you don’t.
  • Mingle and snack, have fun and encourage those around you. Sharing is nice! It is great to see and old favorite go to someone new who is excited to have it so enjoy, tell them a story about it.
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San Francisco Meeting Notes: September 2008

Published on September 20, 2008 in San Francisco Events by Neal Gorenflo. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

We had a pretty good turn out for an often unsettling topic like race. For something folks don’t often talk about, especially in mixed-race groups, leaguers handled it with ease and openness. Perhaps this is example of how the league tells a new story about people that sees them as generous, understanding, and helpful, and how people easily live into that story. Or maybe it’s because many of us are good friends by now. Whatever the case, it’s inspiring. Here’s a few of the lessons learned in discussion:

-Everyone’s experience with race is different and that can be about life history or it can be a thing that changes moment-to-moment.

-Our ideas about race are often subconscious. Sometimes we can do things that are embarrassing and harmful, even if we’re well intentioned.

-We should not become paralyzed by guild when this happens, but rather understand that we’re conditioned or trained by society and therefore can untrain ourselves.

-With increased awareness, we can avoid doing things that are harmful.

Big thanks goes out to Caren and Janet at UNtraining for facilitating a difficult topic and to SoMa Creativity Center for hosting us at their wonderful space. Thank you Pearl and Pam. You did a wonderful job of facilitating the overall meeting.

Our next meeting is Thursday, October 16th. Mark your calendars. We haven’t settled on a featured speaker, artist, or activity yet. Got an idea? Just let gorenflo [at] gmail dot com know.

We hope to see you then.

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MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS
Name:Pamela
Passions: arcane literature, politics, social process
Needs: good for now
Gifts: webstuff, research, connections
E-mail: palexb [at] stanford dot edu

Name: Michael Beutler
Passions: Sustainability, solving problems
Needs: funding for bio-tech start-up
Gifts: Business advice
E-mail: michael dot beutler [at] comcast dot net

Name: Kim Connector
Passions: san francisco culture, art, fashion and people
Needs: new local talent
Gifts: Great listener, brainstorming, organizing, cooking collaboration
Email: thebrainpoolconnector [at] gmail dot com

Name: ruth davis fyer
Passions: dreamwork, expressive arts
Needs: raise money to keep somacc open!
Gifts: artist, healer
E-mail: buddhamuse [at] gmail dot com

Name: Janet Carter
Passions: writing, sharing stories, anti-racism work, history
Needs: Check out our Untraining Racism work, publishing connections
Gifts: Communicating, (Listening, teaching, researching, writing, editing)
Email: info [at] untraining dot org; janetecarter [at] yahoo dot com

Name: Neal
Passions: people working together
Needs: inspiration, consulting gigs in research, strategy, business development, and project management for social enterprises
Gifts: hypermiling, google it on the web, way to drive that saves gas, that’s all I have today
E-mail: gorenflo [at] gmail dot com

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San Francisco, You’re Invited: Thu 9/18 6pm – Janet Carter from UNtraining + Abundance League Host Talk About Race

Published on September 12, 2008 in San Francisco Events by Neal Gorenflo. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

A discussion about race? As Pam, a fellow leaguer said, “how unsettling.” She later added this is why we should have the discussion. So let’s get unsettled out of patterns that may be keeping us from helping each other.

There’s arguably no better facilitator for this in the Bay Area than Janet Carter from UNtraining, an organization that works to undo white rascism. Here’s what to expect in Janet’s words:

“This year’s presidential election has brought the complex issue of race to the forefront of our collective awareness. Simplistic labels like “racist” and “non-racist” obscure the fact that all children who grow up in the United States are subject to cultural conditioning around race. This “training” is deeply personal, often unconscious, and subtly shapes the way we feel about ourselves and others.

Despite our basic goodness as human beings, we learn early our position in the social, political, and economic hierarchies we live in. If we are white, we can usually fit into the mainstream racial “norm.” Most of the time, whites don’t have to think about race. This invisible privilege can be an obstacle to connecting with others to create the social justice we all want to see. If we’re a person of color, we may bear the brunt of unconscious racism, even from well-meaning white friends and co-workers.

The UNtraining program is a compassionate and provocative approach to help white people investigate their racial conditioning in a white-normed culture. The principles and practices can be applied to any of the “isms” that separate us. This evening will be an opportunity for people of all colors to look at racism from a personal point of view and discuss how it affects our daily lives.”

As always, great care will be taken to create a safe and supportive place for discussion.

We hope to see you there for a great exchange. And come ready to talk about your passions, needs, and gifts during announcements so that we can help each other create the lives and communities of our dreams – right here in reality.

If you would like to be a volunteer facilitator of this meeting, just respond to this e-mail or volunteer at the meeting. Instructions for facilitating will be provided.

MEETING
What: The Abundance League
When: Thursday, Sept. 18th, 6:00-10:00pm (you can come and go anytime during the meeting)
Where: The SOMA Creativity Center, 81 Langton Street, Suite 13, San Francisco
Call 415.867.0429 if you have trouble finding the meeting. Learn more about the SOMA Creativity Center here: http://www.somacreativitycenter.org

AGENDA
6:00 – 6:30 – Mingle
6:30 – 7:15 – Member announcements (your passions, needs and gifts)
7:15 – 7:30 – Break – nosh, mingle, exchange support
7:30 – 8:30 – Presentation & discussion
8:30 – 10:00 Nosh, mingle, exchange support, clean up

Learn more about our meetings here:
http://www.theabundanceleague.org/2007/08/about- abundance-league-meetings.html

BRING
-Yourself, friends
-Healthy stuff for the potluck
-Shares: books, CDs, DVDs or anything that you’d like to loan or gift at the meeting

SITES
Check out a recent post at the league blog:

http://www.theabundanceleague.org/2008/08/ridesharing-website-under-fire-from-bus.html

And learn about our host, SOMA Creativity Center here:

http://www.somacreativitycenter.org

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San Francisco Meeting Notes: August 2008

Published on August 23, 2008 in San Francisco Events by Neal Gorenflo. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Wow, what a great meeting. First, everyone jumped in and really made the meeting happen. It’s easy to get stuff done when everyone does a little bit. Thank you for sharing your dreams…and then cleaning up. Our friendly yet firm facilitators Bonnie and Kim did a great job keeping the meeting on track too.

And then there was Chris Carlsson’s book talk and the discussion that followed. It’s important to highlight those citizen-powered social experiments that work. His new book Nowtopia does just that. It’s the good news about what’s going on in the world. The movements described in Nowtopia inspire hope and offer folks more constructive ways of relating to each other and the planet.

For those who couldn’t make it last night, you have another chance to see Chris 7pm tomorrow (Saturday Aug. 23rd) at Red Hill Books in Bernal Heights. Check here for more info.

Our next meeting is Thursday, September 18th. Janet Carter from Untraining is going to create an experience for us about race and white priviledge. This promises to be a liberating exploration. Details to follow.

We hope to see you then.

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Note: my computer died at the meeting, so I lost a number of announcements. Ugh. Sorry y’all! Below are the announcements of those that typed them again. If your announcement got erased, feel free to send it to me. I’ll add it to the below.

MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Name: Kim Connector
Passion: sf culture: art, music, fashion, food
Needs: need places, people and shops to visit in san francisco
Gifts: social skills, inimate knowledge of san francisco’s scene, organization and food
E-mail: thebrainpoolconnector@yahoo.com

Name: Neal
Passion: culture and culture change, bringing people together to live into constructive narratives
Needs: culture change projects
Gifts: two CDs of the Kooks, which Kim gave me, so I’m passing them on
E-mail: gorenflo@gmail.com

Name: Brian Castellani
Passion:yoga / video podcasting / traveling
Needs: apple help / final cut pro help
Gifts:networking / people / business relationships
E-mail: brian.castellani@gmail.com

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San Francisco, You’re Invited: Thu 8/21 6pm at ArtHouse – Chris Carlsson + Nowtopia

Published on August 12, 2008 in San Francisco Events by Neal Gorenflo. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Please join us Thursday, August 21st, as Chris Carlsson leads a discussion about his new book, Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardners Are Inventing the Future Today.

The many categories of Nowtopian activity, in Chris’ words, “are windows into a scarcely visible social transformation that challenges politics as we know it…In myriad ways, people are taking back their time and technological know-how from the market and in small under-the-radar ways, are making life better right now. In doing so, they also set the foundation—technically AND socially—for a genuine movement of liberation from market life…”

Chris is executive director of the multimedia history project Shaping San Francisco, as well as a writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer. His work over the last 25 years has focused on the themes of horizontal communications, organic communities, and public space. He’s one of the founders of the ground-breaking magazine Processed World, a co-instigator of the original Critical Mass rides, and author of the novel After the Deluge, a story about post-economic San Francisco in 2157. Learn more about Chris and his new book Nowtopia here.

We hope to see you there for a great discussion. And as always, come ready to talk about your passions, needs, and gifts (in about a minute) during announcements so that we can help each other create the lives and communities of our dreams – right here in reality.

If you would like to be a volunteer facilitator of this meeting, just respond to this e-mail or volunteer at the meeting. Instructions for facilitating will be provided. It’s fun and easy!

MEETING
What: The Abundance League
When: Thursday, August 21st, 6:00-10:00pm (you can come and go anytime during the meeting)
Where: ArtHouse, 1360 Mission Street, San Francisco (in the bottom floor this time) ArtHouse is located on Mission between 9th and 10th in the Civic Center area, two blocks South of Civic Center BART.
Cost: Donations are welcome to cover the space rental, which helps to support ArtHouse, but are not mandatory.

AGENDA
6:00 – 6:30 – Mingle
6:30 – 7:15 – Member announcements (your passions, needs and gifts)
7:15 – 7:30 – Break: nosh, mingle, exchange support
7:30 – 8:30 – Presentation & discussion
8:30 – 10:00 Mingle, exchange support, clean up

Learn more about our meetings here:
http://www.theabundanceleague.org/2007/08/about- abundance-league-meetings.html

BRING
-Yourself, your friends
-Healthy stuff for the potluck – finger foods recommended as kitchen facilities are limited.
-Shares: books, CDs, DVDs or anything that you’d like to loan or gift at the meeting.

SITES
Check out a recent post at the league blog:

http://www.theabundanceleague.org/2008/06/money-can-make-you-happyif-you-give-it.html

And learn about our host ArtHouse:

http://arthouseca.org

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San Francisco Upcoming Meeting … Thu 8/21 – Chris Carlsson + Nowtopia

Published on July 20, 2008 in San Francisco Events by Neal Gorenflo. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Chris has just confirmed he’s going to come talk about his new book – Nowtopia: How Pirate Programmers, Outlaw Bicyclists, and Vacant-lot Gardeners are Inventing the Future Today – at the next league meeting.

I’m pretty stoked. I consider Chris one of San Francisco’s cultural treasures. Chris is one of the founders of Critical Mass and executive director of Shaping San Francisco – a multimedia social history of San Francisco. Chris’ work reclaims public spaces, public memory, and public phenomenon and challenges a market-driven society gone mad with more sensible and humane possibilities. Chris stands for what we have and what we can make together – as ordinary citizens – whether it’s celebrating conviviality, making room for bicycles on our streets, exploring the DIY movement, or uncovering the lost social history of those who made San Francisco before us.

I’ll share more about the upcoming meeting soon.

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San Francisco Meeting Notes: July 2008

Published on July 20, 2008 in San Francisco Events by Neal Gorenflo. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Michael Vav lead a rich discussion about his social experiments and social creativity in general. Thank you Michael for inspiring us! Besides being a dynamic social innovator, he’s also a personal coach, and these passions get meshed in highly creative ways. To learn more about Michael’s work, go here.

Here’s a few takeaways from the discussion Michael facilitated:

-You can flip the script. If an interaction is heading in a direction you don’t like, you have the power to shape it differently. You can improvise and experiment while remaining respectful.

-Resist autopilot. Acknowledge the power of the social now. Try something different in interaction to open up new possibilities, whether on the bus, on the street, at work, or in the bedroom with your partner. Infuse your interactions with life.

-From elaborate events to everyday encounters, there endless ways to exercise your social creativity. It doesn’t have to be a big deal. Each day holds endless possibilities. Look for them.

-Small talk can be a prelude to instrumentalizing the relationship or some form of judgment. Be aware. And do something more fun and humane.

-That in being able to receive help or gifts is important to making your visions into reality. And just as important as giving in creating an abundant society where generosity is encouraged.

When you reflect on these points, you can see how oppression and psychological pathologies can be reinforced by our interactions if we aren’t careful to do something different, and that opening up new patterns of social expression can lead to new possibilities. And at a minimum, we can liberate ourselves – and hopefully others – from boredom.

Big thanks also goes out to Bosco and Kim Connector for a great job facilitating the meeting, and for everyone who participated and brought yummy food. Please check out member announcements below. Lots of great skills, offers and chances to help.

Our next meeting is Thursday, August 21st. We’re featuring Chris Carlsson, a writer, editor, and community organizer. Chris will talk about his new book Nowtopia, and lead a discussion about how pirate programmers, outlaw bicyclists, and vacant lot gardeners “are taking back their time and technological know-how from the market and in small under-the-radar ways, are making life better right now.” And how these Nowtopians are laying “the foundation for a genuine movement of liberation from market life.” Details of the meeting to follow. Learn more about Chris and his new book here.

We hope to see you then.

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MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Name: Kim Connector
Passion: sf culture: art, music, fashion, food
Needs: need places, people and shops to visit in san francisco
Gifts: social skills, inimate knowledge of san francisco’s scene, organization and food
E-mail: thebrainpoolconnector [at] yahoo dot com

Name:Lucci
Passion:studying life and its dimensions, and communication my observations artistically and through dialog; and helping cultivate the social cohesiveness that allows each temperament, personality, and perspective to nurture and develop in their own determinations and life roles. Needs:visioning allies to develop a resourcing enterprise for parallel culture lifestyles.
Gifts: 501(c)3 sponsorship of social cohesiveness ventures, east bay development space and forums
E-mail:lucci [at] well dot com

Name: Bosco
Passion: science, music, the written word
Needs: an iphone
Gifts: a mirror of ideas
E-mail: apposite [at] gmail dot com

Name: Ray
Passion: Changing our model of leadership from Machiavelli to Gandhi & Martin Luther King. I’m a full time volunteer for the Green Party.
Needs: Web developer for political campaign sites, volunteers for www.marksanchez.org
Gifts: I speak html, c++, asm, Graphic design with Illustrator & InDesign. I’ve got postal mailing machines. If you want to run a small city, I can arrange that.

Name: Xander
Passion: Trple-bottom-line business, social enterprise, effectively utilizing technology to empower change
Needs: Passionate, talent, social-minded web developers, green business contacts
Gifts: Strategic Planning, Creative Visioning, Group Facilitation
E-mail: xanderpage [at] gmail dot com

Name: Don Cadora
Passion:awareness, travel, communication,foods.
Needs:Job, music connections, musicians.
Gifts:mediation, health, healing, writing, music, teaching.
E-mail: doncadora [at] gmail dot com

Name: Michael Vav
Passion: To inspire awareness through adventure.
Needs: Work. Part time. Full time. Clients. Participants. Freelance. In general, external structure of time and income.
Gifts: Professional coaching; team-building program design and facilitation; event production; writing/editing; project management
E-mail: coach [at] michaelvav dot com

Name: Emily Shurr
Passion: you guys
Needs: a ride to & from these meetings
Gifts: i will inspire you to weird new directions
E-mail: egshurr [at] yahoo dot com

Name: Allison Quaid
Passion: being in SF; creativity, sustainability, art
Needs:re-integrate in SF social scene
Gifts: art therapy and visioning
E-mail: aquaid [at] gmail dot com

Name: Suzi Chang
Passion:”being” the change, the Pink Revolution, Calling for a “Tea party” at the white house, sustainability,inspiration, empowerment,paradigm shifting, love,love,love activism, adventure…
Needs:fund raising, awareness raising, organizing,grant writing, web designer
Gifts:Photography,Crisis managing,styling,strategizing,creative/artistic direction,event production/management,hugging
E-mail:worldsuzi [at] gmail dot com

Name:carrie flemming
Passion: creating, learning, becoming, challenging injustice
Needs:a creative, challenging job that financially sustains me, excites me and creates the opportunity to learn and grow & folks to artistically collaborate with
Gifts: sensitivity & vision, collaborating, bringing together seemingly disparate ideas/elements
E-mail: flemmica [at] gmail dot com

Name:jessica Lilga
Passion: Being Self-sustainable by gardening-grow your own!, cooking, natural health & healthy living and.. enjoying life and finding things to appreciate!! Yeah yeah!
Needs:More direction on what type of business to start, with so many passions where do I focus?
Gifts:niceness, listening, yummy snacky things, gardening knowledge, connecting needs and others… :)

Name: Katrina Zavalney (Kachina Katrina*)
Passion: Sustainability, organizational Development, Community Organizing, fun*, lots of magic, and clowning!
Needs: website, blog, new e-mail address, long term job (consulting agency for OD with organizations and city government tagged with sustainability is best*), most things have just
fallen into place- including short-term job with Allison Quaid
Gifts:facilitation, networking, deep sustainability knowledge, tarot readings, organizational development, event coordination and production + greening events, community organizing, being
with people, adventuresome*
E-mail:katrina [at] uas dot coop

Name:Josh Wilson
Passion: Stories, narrative, music, bicycles, banjo
Needs: Philanthropy (strategies and implementation) for nonprofit project, arts and culture projects, workshop leaders and exhibitors for Expo for Independent Arts
Gifts: Big free local arts expo on Sept. 27 in Dolores Park!!! Free news at Newsdesk.org!!!! banjo!!!!
E-mail: joshua [at] artsandmedia dot net

Name: Pearl Lee
Passion: connecting with others
Needs: All kinds of job searching and/or career building advice/where to network with different people; C++, Java,
and multi-media help to finish my school projects
Gifts: organizational skills, bilingual – Chinese and English
E-mail: sf.buddies [at] gmail dot com

Name: Neal
Passion: culture and culture change, bringing people together to live into constructive narratives
Needs: to be OK with whatever is happening, whatever i do
Gifts: books, perspective, strategy skills, listening to you
E-mail: gorenflo [at] gmail dot com

Name: Andrea
Passion: Educating and empowering families and children to optimize their health and maximize their potential
Needs: a nap, a gardener, a lead on a burning man camp
Gifts: concrete thinking and planning for all you dreamers, medical advice
E-mail: rudominer [at] hotmail dot com

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San Francisco, You’re Invited: Thu 7/17 6pm at ArtHouse – Michael Vav + Social Creativity

Published on July 15, 2008 in San Francisco Events by Neal Gorenflo. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Please join us this Thursday, July 17th, as Michael Vav leads a discussion about social creativity – in a new venue (see below for details).

Michael has designed and lead a hundred “social experiments” – from Funeral lotteries to Mobile Mystery Cabaret – that are “intentional interactions and awareness adventures that induce insight as an antidote to a life on autopilot.”

In his words:

“At the Abundance League, I’ll guide us in creating simple ways to unlock more connection, inspiration and playfulness with the people in our lives.

I’ll share about how people’s lives are enriched from participating in social experiments. Then we’ll co-create an intentional interaction or two. We’ll distill where these subtle shifts of what we’re doing, and how we’re being, unlock more connection, inspiration and playfulness than life on autopilot. Then we’ll discuss ways we can easily carry this spark from orchestrated scenarios and into real-time way-today interactions in any area of our lives.

Let’s take lil’ risks to yield lots of aliveness.
Let’s trade in small talk for inspired conversation.
Let’s swap out complacent patterns for fresh playfulness.
Let’s invent ways to get out of default mode, and choose something new in

our home lives
our work worlds
our lifestyles
our alone time.”

And as always, come ready to talk about your passions, needs, and gifts (in under two minutes) during announcements so that we can help each other create the lives and communities of our dreams – right here in reality.

Leaguers Kim Connector and Bosco will be facilitating.

Learn more about Michael here: http://michaelvav.com/events

MEETING
What: The Abundance League
When: Thursday, July 17th, 6:00-10:00pm (you can come and go anytime during the meeting)
Where: ArtHouse, 1360 Mission Street, Suite 200, San Francisco
ArtHouse is located on Mission between 9th and 10th in the Civic Center area, two blocks
South of Civic Center BART

AGENDA
6:00 – 6:30 – Mingle
6:30 – 7:15 – Member announcements (your passions, needs and gifts)
7:15 – 7:30 – Break, nosh, mingle, exchange support
7:30 – 8:30 – Presentation & discussion
8:30 – 10:00 Nosh, mingle, exchange support, clean up

Learn more about our meetings here:
http://www.theabundanceleague.org/2007/08/about- abundance-league-meetings.html

BRING
-Yourself, your friends!
-Healthy stuff for the potluck
-Shares: books, CDs, DVDs or anything that you’d like to loan or gift at the meeting.

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