SOS Asheville

Write your story for Spirit in the Smokies!

Champion:  Raphael

www.spiritinthesmokies.com

“The Well”  

Arts for Empowerment

Champion:  Linda Metzner, Founder

 Future Action:  Performing artists bringing hands-on workshops to clients and staff of social services in Western North Carolina.

annelinde@hotmail.com

Center of Unlimited Possibilities

Champion:  Mary Silva

Interested People:  Christina Nelson

Steps:  Get Center Open & Running

SECURE SPACE

• Approval from City (CO)

• Insurance

• Bring in & Involve WNC Creatives

• Use Open Space to do this.

BEAUTY & Sustainability

Champion:  Laurel Reinhardt

Interested People:  Kerry, Liz, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Marston

Future Action:

Charlotte – Write article on intentionality for Spirit in the Smokies.  Include invitation to: website, intentionality re: BEAUTY

Connect with CLP/Schools to provide events for kids/families to explore BEAUTY

Elizabeth to begin working on developing a language of patterning/BEAUTY & living space, a la Christopher Alexander, specific to Asheville (with photos)

Next Steps:

• Develop email list

• Start blog/website

• Let participants know about the above.

Resources:

Christopher Alexander’s work

SOS Asheville – Leadership for Continuation

Champion:  Chris Weaver

Interested People:  The following people are interested in potentially serving on an SOS Asheville Leadership Council:  Karl, Rainer, Laurel, Kathy, Kerry, Sage, Michael, Brenda, Lynn, Janell

Future Action:  The FORM & METHODOLOGY of the SOS Leadership Council is in development.  When this work is complete, Chris will contact the folks above about how to proceed.

Next Steps:

• Work with OST/SOS Workshop community this week

• Chris:  use “Organizational Medicine Wheel” to articulate the form of the SOS Council

Resources:

www.genuinecontact.net

Changing the World with Sound: 

People making sound for its own sake and creating a body of music for seasonal celebrations, rites of passage, etc.

Champions / Heras  Lynn, Angela, Debby, Charlotte, Marston

Interested People:  Cheryl, Sage

Future Action:

1. Full Moon – gathering on the Hominy Creek, 8pm.  Contact Lynn for info – email preferred tho leave your phone nuber, might be easier for me to call you back:  earthsongwalker@hotmail.com, 232-4394 (vm only 9a-9p)

2. Song/energy gathering spiral for this gathering and beyond

Next Steps:

Meet and make music

Resources Required:

People, inspiration, willingness

Down to the mother

Growing Medicinal Plants

Champion:  Robert Eidus

Interested People:  Angela, Cheryl, Valeria, Lynn, Cathy, Christina Nelson

Future Action: 

• Make “good” dirt
• Get free pots
• Organize plant rescue for free plants
• Share with family & friends…free labor
• Start with 5 plants

www.ncgoldenseal.com

www.unitedplantsavers.org

www.ncnaturalproducts.org

Ashevillage Building Convergence

Champion:  Janell Kapoor

Interested People:

Future Action:

• Identifying guiding principles
• *** Identify organizing committee
• Develop business plan/proposal
• Develop presentation
• Brainstorm sites, resources, people, venues, organizations
• Develop outreach/PR/communications
• Identify action committees (ie:  donations committee, PR committee, project Center, etc.

Next Steps:

• Core organizing committee meetings in July, August, September
• Janell will talk & consult with Portland City Repair
• Identify big stakeholders and plan to meet with them

Resources Required:

• Funding / fundraisers
• Volunteers
• In-kind contributers/sponsors
• CPA
• Lawyer
• Organizing committee
• Key stake-holders

Green Burial

“Worms crawl in!”

Champion:  Brenda Chunn

Interested People:  Chris Weaver, Mountaine Jonas, Kathy Marth, Linda Metzner (sings, has group)

Future Action:  Already planned a 4-session Workshop on Death, Dying, & Taking care of the body after death.  Legal questions about Green Burial is a part of this.

Next Steps: 

Meeting in August to discuss possible public meeting

Research:

• A green burial place

Private Green Burial cemetery
Conservation Land

Resources Required:

A place to meet.

People interested.

Intentional Community Group

to Connect People and Visions

Champion: Sage Linden

Interested People: Cathy Holt, Michael Malone, Debby Cochran

Future Action: Yahoogroups: IntentionalCommunitiesofAsheville (listserv)

Already created and has links to FIC, etc.

* Get people to Post their visions!

Next Steps:

• Hold meeting in July (advertise) Craigs list
• Intentional Communities tour in fall (with carpools – ZimZam, Westwood Cohousing, Steve Arpin’s homestead) October?
• Diana Christian’s extended Earthaven tour
• Visioning potluck/meeting
• Talk to organizers of Green Guilding tour, etc, Twin Oaks Communities gathering
• ? of website

Resources Required:

None listed.