Thank you for sending this, Sheila. As a total newbie to this, I am grateful for as many examples as I can look at. Even if what we do is totally different, it all adds up. Speaking of what we will do in Charleston, can we please include your formula for learning to listen? Tuck it in somewhere... maybe with the kazoos. I am expecting story circles - does that seem reasonable? I have been thinking a lot lately about how much more teachable I am if I am hearing a story rather than if somebody says, "Hey, I'm gonna teach you something." Happy New Moon (tomorrow) and Happy Monday! ; } Eleanor Sheila Kerrigan <kerrigan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Dear folks, Several people have asked me if they could see the agenda for our Charlotte event this weekend. I am attaching the still evolving agenda for the Charlotte Gathering at the Crossroads this weekend. It may get stripped, so I am pasting it below. I?m afraid the formatting below is messed up, but I haven?t the time to fix it. It?s in landscape, not portrait. (wide, not tall.) The two sidebars don?t line up with the central part. My discussions with Latonya and Omari lead me to believe that what we do in Charleston the following week will not look the same at all, because more of the Charleston people most likely to appear have more community arts-activism experience than the folks in Charlotte. In Charlotte, April Turner will lead the Strategic planning process on Friday night. We don?t know who is leading the listening session in Charleston for the strategic planning process. Omari has said he could do it, but, more importantly, what are the questions? Who can we contact to get the information we need to conduct the listening sessions? Could someone who knows please email me, April Turner, Jeff Mather, Omari Fox, Latonya Wallace, and Eleanor Brownfield what you know about the strategic planning process, and what we need to know? Thank you! Best, Sheila Kerrigan kerrigan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 2310 Stansbury Rd Chapel Hill NC 27516 919-929-1624 Crush defeatism! Insist on joy in spite of everything. Together we are stronger than greed and fear.