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Saturday 3 March 2007: Advisory council Meeting

Themes-- An Advisory Council Group brainstorm on meeting themes

Present: James Cowan, Shannon Cowan, Jan Steinman, Carol Wagner, Candace Cowan, Candice Duchesse, Galaad Perrier, Dave Atkins.

Facilitator: Shannon Cowan

Action: Jan Steinman proposed at the Members meeting today, which you can read in the minutes, that EcoReality could have a monthly 'theme' around which to base its newsletter, activities, programming, workparties, education, communal meals, etc.

All the members agreed and we chose to involve the WWOOFers and visitors to EcoReality today in a group brainstorm on meeting themes. Shannon Cowan facilitated the session, and she split the group into two, gave each person a pack of sticky notes and a pen, and invited folks to write down their ideas one at a time on the notes. They discussed ideas with their group members, and some sought clarification and advice for wording, etc. Shannon mounted all the notes on the whiteboard and began to cluster them into categories as she did so. After 20 minutes of brainstorming, the entire group de-briefed on the results. Shannon removed doubles (ie. where more than one sticky note suggested nearly the same theme idea) and proceeded to describe the clusters and get whole group feedback. Each person then came to the whiteboard and ranked their top choices for themes by writing a number (anonymously) on the sticky notes (#1 being most important, up to #20 as least important).

Results: see Group brainstorm on meeting themes

"Respectfully submitted by Shan 14:11, 4 March 2007 (PST)