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From EcoReality

Advisory Council Minutes, June 3, 2006

Present: four members, five advisors, one guest: Shannon Binns, Sean Clancy, Candace Cowan, James Cowan, Stacy Friedman, Tara MacKeigan, Jan Steinman, Marianne Samann-Wyss, Carol Wagner, Erica Wilson.
Facilitator: James
Recorder: Jan
Circle Check-In: presence level: 0-10 & a Value you hold dear
- Stacy: 8-9, glad to be here for James' birthday, graduated UBC & works on farm there, loves idea of community, values connection to food.
- Tara: 9.5, James' housemane 1.5 years, like EcoReality lite house, values safety to expand and grow in community.
- Shannon: 9, described "community" long ago in an art therapy session, values ecology
- Marianne: 10, shamanic practitioner, has no doubt that community living is what we have to do, values sacredness of ordinary life, doing the work on the land, sacred beings in a sacred place
- Candace: happy to be here, your community is something I've aspired to for a long time, community shifts energy of the earth to a more conscious place.
- Sienna: (burp)
- Sean: 7, not quite fully arrived, not ever quite there before stretch and exercise, values a large source of knowledge that helps you overcome any obstacle, and being in touch with cycle of growing things
- Erica: 7-8, getting back into island life, likes network of support in community, became teacher to find spot where people and community can come together
- James: 9.31, harsh to get started on an island, unles you work with other people, values having others around for knowledge
- Carol': 9, values communication, spoken and written, appreciates the four of us coming together
- Jan: 8.5, values integrity
James: introduction to EcoReality and Q&A session
Exercise: food production ideas
Check out: presence level, and what you learned or what you take with you from this meeting:
- Sean: 8, learned something about names of plants and crops
- Erica: 10, has arrived, great process, lots of possible ideas what to do with land
- Carol: 9.6, learned that it is just as much fun thinking about food as growing it, still fun to brainstorm
- Jan: 8.5, learned that scribe should grab flip chart before people start messing with it!
- James: 10, brain going 1,000,000 MPH with possibilities
- Tara: 8, seeing how process of brainstorming opens the mind, learned about new foods, excited about ideas, appreciates EcoReality "real-ness" on recycling, human waste, etc.
- Stacy: 9.31, really loves thinking about food, likes process of expanding without throwing things out, leaned that olives and figs can grow here
- Marianne: 10, Swiss Capricorn enjoyed being frivolous, importance of native plants, "You are a great bunch of people!"
- Candace: 10
- Shannon: 10, good day, importance of diversity of ideas, being open and listening, fun and humorous, yet useful, meaningful