American Summer Festival

A proposed agenda for the first organizing call: (Feel free to edit it here, or contact John Abbe to offer input.)

• Silence

• Check-in:
  • whatever you need to say to help you be present, and
  • briefly why you're excited about this

• The vision/invitation: An American NVC Summer Festival, in a different part of the Americas each year, with a culture that is leaderful - using Open Space, no formal/paid NVC teachers, with people taking turns facilitating after the organizers 'hold' the first couple of days - and family-friendly, inviting both individuals and families to reach across nuclear family boundaries for community-building, support and connection.

• Questions and Answers about the vision, and people's experience at the European NVC Summer Festivals

• Who, Where & When:
  • do any of us want to be the main organizer(s) for a 2009 or 2010 summer festival?
  • if not, explore and decide on next steps toward finding such people

• What else?
  • other next steps if there's time & interest: who else to involve, money, etc.

• Scheduling next call(s)

• Check-out - celebration/mourning

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Related past/future gatherings:

Circles of Hope

New York Leaderful Gatherings

BayNVC Family Camp

NWCC Family Camps

Next European Summer Festival is Sweden, August 9-16, 2009