Wise Democracy Meeting Dec. 1 2007
Attending: Caspar, Colin, Dan, George, Jan, Lorena, Philip, Sonya (& Arifin dropped in - see photo below!) Lorena facilitated! Jan prepared the notes!

Calendar:

• Tues. Dec 4, George’s radio interview with Jack Etkin on CFUV 101.9 FM 4:35 pm
• Tues. Dec 4, 7:00pm - Meeting with World Feds at Philip’s house to thank them and see what synergies might lie ahead
• Sat. Dec 15, Fern Street Meeting House: Meeting 10 am – 11, followed by Finger Food Pot Luck Christmas Social 11 – 12 noon
• Sat Jan 12 and 19th from 10 – 12pm, Fern St Meeting House - To co-ordinate Info Meeting for Jan 28th - “How are we going to remind people?”
• Jan. 15th – Wise Democracy article appearing in Village Vibe
• Monday Jan 28th Fernwood Inn WC Information Session. Thanks to Mike Colwill of the Fernwood Inn for offering his room for the “Greater Good”

Fernwood Community – We want to let residents know what we have to offer and take direction from them as to how we could assist

• George is keeping Trish of Neighbourhood Resource group (NRG) in the loop
• Dan will contact someone from the Fernwood Community Assoc (FCA
• Perhaps we could invite these folks to our next meeting & social?
• George has offered to have someone from our group Dynamically Facilitate (DF) the next step for Fernwood’s “Spaces to Places” project

WC Info Session for Fernwood Community, Jan 28th

• We’ve decided to hold a public two hour information session to raise awareness of DF and WC in the Fernwood community
• Dan has offered to spearhead facilitation for the Info Session but not the organizing. Do we have any volunteers to coordinate logistics for Jan 28th?

• Dan will facilitate with help from Colin, Caspar & George (any others?)
• Dan is preparing a “Gantt Chart” timeline for the organization
• Jan has organized for a room at the Fernwood Inn for Jan 28th, from 7 – 9 pm for 20 – 30 people

Still needed for WC Information Session

• How do we make our Info Session more enticing for people than staying at home? See discussion on http://groups.google.ca/group/wise-dem-vic?hl=en
• Promotion ideas? Another article for the 2nd Fernwood newsletter, Notice in Victoria news Fernwood Danielle?

Where do we put our energies?

Here are 5 potential “streams” of activity that appear to be emerging for our group of convenors to consider. We likely won’t have sufficient time and/ or energy for all of them, so we’ll see which ones you support through active participation.

WC Info Session Jan 28th	Wisdom Council	DF Session Targeted	DF Session Periodic/ Scheduled	Creative Insight Council
This is the public info session scheduled to take place at the Fernwood Inn. We are committed to this as the date and location will be appearing in the January issue of the Village Vibe	The plan appears to be that we would work towards a WC in March or April 2008. A random selection task-group will be looking at the best way to proceed with this aspect**	Our group would provide DF facilitation as a service to assist a community group in moving forward (e.g., Fernwood NRG group in their “spaces to places” initiative)	Members of our group would provide regular scheduled DF sessions on a drop-in basis, likely once or twice a month. The venue would likely be one of the cafés (e.g., Green Goddess, Cornerstone Café)	This would be like a WC but the group of randomly selected individuals would be given a topic to focus on.**

** Random Selection Task Group & Creative Insight Council exploration group – Philip will co-ordinate with Sonya assisting

Online Discussions

• NOTE: for online discussions, it helps to keep the discussion organized in one place and easier to follow if emails are sent using the WDV Google email group (just send emails to wise-dem-vic@googlegroups.com). If you ever want to refer to past emails, they are archived online at:
  http://groups.google.ca/group/wise-dem-vic?hl=en

Next Meeting:
Sat, December 15th, 10 am – 12 noon, 1831 Fern Street Meeting House.
Including Christmas Social – bring your finger food snackies and Santa hats!!