​​Call One (10/10, 9:30-11:30am PT)
​​for the TRCC 2015 Co-Project Roundtable 
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​Breakout Pads: ​+Group 1​ | ​+Group 2​ | ​+Group 3​ | ​+Group 4​ | ​+Group 5​ | ​+Group 6​ | ​+Group 7​
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​​This is the main pad for the first Roundtable call, on 10/10, from 9:30-11:30am PDT.  It is OK to join the call for the first 90 mins only. If you have not done so already, please register here to receive your call-in information. 
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​Technical problems during the call? Press "5" on your phone keypad.
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​​Use the index in the right -hand margin to navigate through this pad more easily. We will work our way down this pad during the call, taking notes together here for plenary portions, and moving over to separate breakout pads when we are in small groups (see the group pad index above).
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​​Prior to the call, participants are requested to review the ​+Online Round One​ postings (~30 mins on this is fine--more as you desire) and to read the TRCF Google doc (~15 mins). 
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​​Note: you must sign into hackpad to edit this page, using either Facebook, Google, or an email and password you set up. More on how to use hackpad here.
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​​Chat while settling in: 
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​Welcome

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​What/Why/How We're Doing This:
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  • ​​This Roundtable is the start of a process to develop a "co-project"
  • ​​TRCF (Threshold Funding Circle) commitment of $50,000 for collaborative multi-partner “co-project” in March 2015
  • ​​TRCC (Thriving Resilient Communities Collaboratory) hosting process to develop up to three co-project proposals and select among them
  • ​​Other potential funders invited as experiment in collaborative funding, potentially increasing grant beyond $50K.
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  • ​​Purpose Statement:
  • ​​Through this co-project, we want to take the next big step in inclusive TRC movement-building by prototyping a democratic and collaborative process that might ultimately enable billions of dollars to flow into the Movement from philanthropists and investors. 
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  • ​​Participating in the online rounds and taking notes during the calls for this Roundtable will create a robust record of our collective thinking. That will set the stage for the TRCC Circle to decide which organizations will receive RFPs for the co-project at our in-person gathering on Nov. 9-10 in Oakland (Roundtable ppts are invited, details TBA). The Roundtable will also provide essential information to guide our design of that gathering, and the design of our proposal creation conversations and selection process, which will take place through February 2015. 
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​Questions?
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  • ​​ I lost you...don't hear anything and dialed in again-Hina
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​Today's Call Flow:
  • ​​Welcome
  • ​​Opening Circle (introductions)
  • ​​The context for this conversation
  • ​​Our calling question: "what possibilities inspire you and why?" 
  • ​​Invocation
  • ​​Breakout #1
  • ​​Silent Harvest (to hackpad, or other notes)
  • ​​Spoken Harvest (for those who are leaving the call at the 90 minute mark)
  • ​​Breakout #2 
  • ​​Closing Circle/Harvest
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​Opening Circle

​​One minute per person: 
  • ​​Who/Where are you?
  • ​​Did you participate in Online Round One?
  • ​​What hat(s) are you wearing here?
  • ​​Org representative (name of org)
  • ​​Funder/Potential Funder
  • ​​Potential contractor (in what capacity?)
  • ​​Thinking partner/observer (with what perspective?)
  • ​​What led you to accept the invitation to be here?
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​​Notes/Chat/Questions: 
  • ​​Sarah Stranahan: Massachusetts, N, TRCF, NEC board member - Ben & Leslie pinged me!
  • ​​Mike Toye: Quebec, Y, ED of Canadian Community Economic Development Network - NEC weaving
  • ​​Jeff Aitken: SF North Bay, Y, consultant/facilitator ArtofHosting, board chair Doing Democracy - happy observer
  • ​​Mateo Nube: SF East Bay, Y, Movement Generation - posted something on Ferguson today - TRCC past year
  • ​​Tricia Chirumbole: Y, mojocollaborative group dialogue/open space - living community/alternate economy, love circle
  • ​​Rich Robinson: SF East Bay, N, TRCF, at weaving earth in Santa Rosa pretty cool!
  • ​​Trathen Heckman: SF North Bay, N, Daily Acts and board chair of TransitionUS - excited about collaborative potential to move the needle in bigger ways
  • ​​Marissa Mommaerts: SF North Bay, Y, TRCC steward and TransitionUS and regional - NEC weaving heard demand for orgs and funders w/in the movement to change how it's happening
  • ​​Heather Tischbein: WA, N, retired local good governance/local food - observer, TRCC a year ago b4 new grandma time
  • ​​Jon Scott: NH, Y, multiple identity disorder like many of the call: Clean Water Action, Singing Field Foundation (potential partner) thinking partner - I was asked! would love to see process pull strands I shared on hackpad 
  • ​​Max Milton: Montana, N, TRCF, board chair of organic food company & regional AERO board, find best practices for small communities trying to become resilient communities, thrilled to see evolution into collaborative work, hard to keep up!
  • ​​Michael Nagler: SF North Bay, N, Metta Center for Nonviolence, pull entire movement of movements together around a common strategy roadmap,  invited by Ben who dangled funding possibility
  • ​​Bob Stilger: WA home office disaster area, ?, New Stories and TRCC, listener/thinking partner, something in the middle of all of this, somewhat confused about what we're doing so bringing listening/witness energy to see what wants to be born
  • ​​Kevin O'Brien: Philly PA, N, project consultant & thinking partner - potential for innovation in this space, see what arises
  • ​​Carolyne Stayton: SF North Bay, Y brilliant!, TransitionUS co-ED & finding elegant promising center thread that weaves thru the various pieces, not adding a lot new work, excited to find it together
  • ​​Leslie Meehan: SF SouthBay santa cruz mtns, on hackpad Rd1, TRCF AND TRCC instigator/movement weaver, synergy to go farther together
  • ​​Hina Pendle: SF SouthBay, N busy at Economics of Sustainability conference, Org Devel & participatory processes in communities, businesses, & NGOs, TRCC retreat 
  • ​​Ken White: SF East Bay near the Chevron plant, N, PostCarbon Institute host resilience.org & guides & expanding, early TRCC steward, 
  • ​​Gretchen Krampf: WA, N, New Stories director & Thriving Salish Sea project & TRCC steward, listening in to support projects contributing to TRCC orgs and expanding our reach, how can we help?
  • ​​Jackson Koeppel: Detroit MI, person invested in local solutions work & broad thinker about scale interested in collaborative funding approaches, GrandAspirations natl network of young people building just & sustainable economy, invited by Marissa, at least partially wondering if there's funding possible out of this but more interested in how this collab funding process is working and how to do more of this
  • ​​Ben Roberts: Newtown CT, Y!, TRCC stewards and potential contractor, accepted invite to host this which is what I do in weaving virtual and in-person dialogue, passionate about and honored to be here
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​The Context for this Conversation

  • ​​This is a flow that you can drop in and out of. The commitment is to one call and one online round, but the process will continue into January/February, and is emergent.
  • ​​Mix of old and new people--deepening and expanding relationships in the TRCC Community
  • ​​We're all wearing individual and collective hats--trust is essential. Assume good faith!
  • ​​Building on three years of experience as a community
  • ​​Starting from a wide open space. Bucky Fuller: "When you want to build something in your back yard, the first thing to do is invite in the Universe"
  • ​​Co-sensing to focus on what is most inspiring; We're in "the Complex domain"  trust our hearts and collective wisdom.
  • ​​Lots of wonderful possibilities are present & we can't make a "wrong" choice
  • ​​Prototyping--the meta story of what we're doing and how we're doing it may be more important that the co-project itself - the story may be the most powerful legacy
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​​Notes/Chat/Questions: 
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​Invocation/Breakouts/Silent Harvest

​​Poll: on a scale of 1-4, how much do you feel you are a part of the TRCC Community? 
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​​Breakout Pads: 
​​​+Group 1​: Ben Roberts
​​​+Group 2​: Ken White
​​​+Group 3​: Leslie Meehan
​​​+Group 4​: Carolyne Stayton
​​​+Group 5​: Heather Tischbein
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​​Please take all notes on the individual breakout pads above
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​TRCC Lodestone
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​​TRC mandala-in-progress...
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​Spoken Harvest/Closing

​​Please post silent harvest to your breakout group pad
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​​Following Breakout #1:
  • ​​surprising degree of consensus. 
  • ​​excitement about front-line communities getting resources and empowered in community building
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​​Following Breakout #2:
  • ​​Ken White: importance of connecting w/ frontline communities/ in struggle and with community building work
  • ​​we do all our fancy acronyms but what about the "Oh Shit" factor- what happens when people start facing destructive and crumbling reality? 
  • ​​Marissa: bringing more resilience to our orgs, work, the movement in general, instead of overstretching the groups doing the work already
  • ​​Carolyne: impressed in first conversation re what's the urgency? how can we leverage what we're doing to communicate the problem we're trying to solve collectively? find center intention & shout it out more clearly, where the strategists, conveners, etc are and leverage it all with a common focus
  • ​​Trathen: excited to flush out some details of how existing efforts can fit together better - what does that look like next?
  • ​​Leslie: Heard a lot of validation of colab process. listening to each other, working across difference with front line and non front line groups. skills and time needed for that.
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  • ​​Ben: complete confidence that we'll be able to sense in very clearly by the end of this process a set of things that are most resonant for us. if you haven't done online rounds yet, do round one, before round two. In 2nd round look for these convergent points of resonance; what issues to align around; what places, regions, what sort of processes, what particular orgs, what doubts and concerns do you have; setting the table as we move into the in person gathering. let's relax into the process. if you took notes elsewhere post here or email to leslie and ben.
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​​Jeff & Trathen: loved it! fun to "see" people. held container and went with the flow well. appreciated the blend of call and software. loved the design! 
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​​Following this call, we will move immediately to​+ Online Round Two​ 
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