Online Rd Two

for the TRCC 2015 Co-Project Roundtable

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Online Round Two takes place on this pad and runs between the two calls, from 10/10 through 10/13. Suggested time: about one hour.

Note: if you didn't participate in +Online Round One, we suggest that you complete that round first, or do so in lieu of this one.

Framing

What's resonating with each of us based on the first online round and the first live call?

We will consider points of resonance by category, with separate sections on this pad below for each:

Specific places/regions

Specific organizations

Specific issue areas and themes

Specific co-project ideas and approaches

Other points of resonance

We also want to make space for any doubts and reservations you might have.

However, we request that you not try to specifically answer, fix, or debate any of the concerns that are expressed. Rather, we trust that if we place them in the circle, and perhaps get curious about any of them that seem especially challenging, they will be reflected appropriately in our final decisions.

Instructions

Start by looking through the hackpad notes and postings from our work thus far

+Online Round One

+Call One Main Pad and breakout group notes (index at the top of the main pad).

Take a bit of time in silence to "let go and let come"

Let go of fear, cynicism, judgment, a focus on "problems"

Let come what calls to your heart, what inspires and energizes you, what you are curious about.

Post some brief reflections below in any section that you wish, including both the resonance sections and "doubts and reservations" at the bottom. The index on the right can help you to navigate the pad if it gets long.

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Specific places/regions

What's resonating for you based on the first online round and the first live call?

Richmond, CA & Oakland, CA

Salish Sea

Detroit

New England

choice of specific orgs could/should shape choice of places/regions, especially if those orgs/networks are national in scope, e.g., Climate Justice Alliance (could determine geographic priorities rather than having TRCC do so)

Northern California Region

Vancouver, WA/SW Washington-Portland, OR

Specific organizations

What's resonating for you based on the first online round and the first live call?

Transition US

Daily Acts

Movement Generation

BEA (Building Equity and Alignment for impact)

Climate Justice Alliance

New England Grassroots Environmental Fund (as much or more for access to its grassroots grantmaking model/expertise than for the region...)

WSU-V agroecology and WSU-Extenstion service/Heritage Farm

Specific issue areas and themes

What's resonating for you based on the first online round and the first live call?

Climate

Permaculture/"Agroecology"; related issue of resilience factors/risk management of small farms in rural-urban interface "foodsheds"

Front-line issues which may be as much about root causes/contributors to climate problems as "climate" alone

"just transition" for communities impacted by climate or its causes (e.g., polluting power plants, incinerators, refineries, chemical plants, ports, dumps, waste/disposal, etc.)

zero-waste

Finding common cause and shared action with significant impacts (ideally measureable) across diverse organizations and doing so in a way that supports the autonomy of local efforts on the ground, but achieves a collective impact (shared vision, language, measures...). This can strengthen individual efforts and our collaborative fiber while having a bigger influence on local and regional municipalities and other partners.

Two related pieces to this are the integration of frontline efforts with other community resilience work happening in non-frontline communities and looking at how some of these models can be fit together like Transition Streets, the Community Resilience Challenge, Resilience Indicators etc.

It seems that the TRCC group is pretty comfortable with complexity and emergent learning.

Playing with the principles and practices of applied improv along the lines of Patricia Madson's book, Improv Wisdom

Specific co-project ideas and approaches

What's resonating for you based on the first online round and the first live call?

Make sure that the work we fund fits in well with what is already in motion, and can be comfortably accomplished with the funding available.

Support something real that is happening on the ground in at least one locality, if not several (or even a whole bioregion).

Something that offers lots of opportunities for people to connect across organizations.

Connecting oppositional and resistance oriented work with constructive programs.

Working across differences in race class and age.

Consider this co-project as a model for a) activist-led grassroots grantmaking and b) giving front line communities/groups/leaders the opportunity to articulate and advance their vision of thriving, resilient community/economy on an equal footing with others who may be doing great community-building work in the absence of the same kinds of more immediate struggles

+TransLocal Campaign Mashup has seemed popular so far. Just added a new +Translocal Peer Learning/Research Idea based on the Pay to Collaborate! theme from Call 1.

Key staffers, and board members from a number of organizations spending time in retreat and sharing "collaboration learning skills , why not include some donors and willing simpatico foundation program people (and/or) foundation board members

Expanding the Community Resilience Challenge to serve more diverse communities; exploring the possibility of a collaborative training or series of trainings that shares some of the above-mentioned models (Resilience Indicators, Transition Streets, Community Resilience Challenge...) to see how they may fit together programmatically or to be serve partner organizations in moving their mission forward.

Play to the TRCC's strengths and focus on creating more retreats, gatherings, etc. to cultivate complexity and emerge learning. For those who can't afford to pay their own way, use the money to pay people to attend. Get different voices in the same room. Don't focus on outcomes a much stewarding an emergent learning process. Take a long term view by investing in a process for a few years and see how it goes.

Other points of resonance

The challenge of complexity. Wanting to keep things simple and clear, yet also recognizing that the greatest opportunities may only emerge once we welcome (or at least risk) chaos, uncertainty and discomfort.

If the funded effort ends up incorporating a grassroots grantmaking component, keep available funds as easy to access and as free from funding restrictions as possible while still maintaining the overall vision/intent.

It seems that funding the TRCC as a project of New Stories is a good way to act out a new story.

What doubts and reservations do you have?

Note: we request that you not try to specifically answer, fix, or debate any of the concerns that are expressed here!

I'm concerned about the amount of time it takes to really think well as a group about what is possible here. It's important to me that our process allow for many people to participate, which means setting a fairly low bar in terms of initial time commitment. At the same time I think we need a core group beyond Leslie, Mateo, Sarah, Max and myself that will dig deeply into the ideas that are emerging, find patterns and deep resonance, and frame a set of specific choices that can be the subject of future deliberation. Will that group emerge?

On a related note, it may be that some work needs to happen between the end of the round table and our gathering in Oakland on November 10th. For example conversations in smaller groups that explore specific co-project possibilities more deeply. But do we have the collective bandwidth to do that? Could we pay people to do that and would that make a difference?

Clarifying desired outcomes beyond the organizations, out in the community

I wouldn't say they are doubts or concerns, but just a recognition that there's a fair bit of complexity in all of this. Add to that immensely busy schedules in the fall and evolving structures and tools that are new to many. I'm getting more clear as I'm more engaged, but I know I'm still getting grounded in this whole vibrant paella of evolving processness!

Does the TRCC have enough diversity?