Governance at WUaS - Consensus-informed (Quaker) ~
Governance at the intentional community, Alpha Farm (OR), re consensus (a Quaker-informed, yet secular, process used since '72) https://t.co/X7G4BiOXJT (Federation of Egalitarian Communities) informs @WorldUnivAndSch's open monthly business meeting's decision-making 2nd Sats 9am— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) January 13, 2019
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1084572571087953922
All decisions at Alpha are made by consensus, a 350-year-old process est by Quakers-Based on belief that each person has some part of the truth-Also based on assumption that everyone is trustworthy-So the group must work to achieve unityhttps://t.co/scKfeGuy26@WorldUnivAndSch -— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) January 13, 2019
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1084569909135237120
Founder of Alpha Farm turns 90https://t.co/uuiV5KZHzb Intentional community in Oregon coastal range, Caroline Estes & Alpha have used consensus process (Quaker informed) for decision-making since 1972. NontheisticallyFriendly @WorldUnivAndSch mo. business meeting does similarly— HarbinBook (@HarbinBook) January 13, 2019
https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1084565160545550337
What is consensus for Alpha Farm? Quaker-informed yet secular 'Consensus, our decision-making process, is also a metaphor for the ideal world we seek to create here–and so help create in the larger world'https://t.co/cErAqDw93X MBM @WorldUnivAndSch 2/9 https://t.co/HAVJ9k3G46 ~— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) January 13, 2019
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1084568970101846016
Founder of Alpha Farm turns 90https://t.co/1s5wG38iFu Intentional community in Oregon coastal range, Caroline Estes & Alpha have used consensus process (Quaker informed) for decision-making since 1972. NontheisticallyFriendly @WorldUnivAndSch mo. business meeting does similarly— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) January 13, 2019
https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1084564368346382336
Governance at @WorldUnivAndSch: Consensus-informed (Quaker)
See, too, Alpha Farm's consensus decision-making, since '72 https://www.ic.org/directory/alpha-farm/&
Governance at @WorldUnivAndSch: Consensus-informed (Quaker)— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 15, 2019
See, too, Alpha Farm's consensus decision-making, since '72 https://t.co/EwxZFUqWrE&
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Oregon coast in 2015 travels. Looks like the AlphaBit, Alpha Farm's cafe bookstore (is now closed, I just read)https://t.co/vXVH5Dbsbz#GooglePhotos A hippy vision moves on https://t.co/NeWxdN8t8b@WorldUnivAndSch— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) January 15, 2019
(See related recent Alpha Farm Tweets) Alpha Farm began in 1972
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Searched on:
'Quaker business meeting - how it works & in other contexts' (including conceptually re Nontheist Friends, and with regard too to inspirations from the 1970s/1980s about good ways to do business, Friendly-informed, Quaker-inspired, but re environmental activism, and in many other ways, where Alpha Farm's consensus decision-making was secular and Quaker-informed, and had a history; I visited Alpha Farm a number of times while studying at Reed College).
Found:
https://www.fgcquaker.org/
https://www.friendsjournal.
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Quaker business meeting - how it works & in other contexts - NtF? secular? consensus decision-making
Nontheist Quakers,
Am curious about developing Quaker consensus decision-making process, and thinking, in new directions, perhaps informed by NtF leadings. Appreciating Alpha Farm in the Oregon Coastal range in these regards, which has been using consensus decision-making (Quaker-informed, but secular), since 1972, when a group of Friends left the Philadelphia Quaker world to begin a sustainable Quaker community on a farm along Deadwood Creek, about 50 miles west of Eugene. Its founder, Caroline Estes, just turned 90. I've engaged consensus decision-making (Quaker-informed, but secular) in non-violent environmental activist groups in the early 1980s, for ex., in Portland, Oregon, while also attending Multnomah Monthly Meeting there (while a student at Reed College). Am amazed at how much thinking (and even consciousness) went into developing consensus-decision making as process toward peace and social justice goals. Thoughts about NtF Quaker-informed consensus decision-making among non-theist Friends?
Have blogged a bit about this here -
(World University and School has used a kind for Friendly-informed secular consensus decision-making, electronically-mediated for many years now).
Sincerely, Scott
Searched on Quaker business meeting, secular & in other contexts, and related, and found:
https://www.fgcquaker.org/
https://www.friendsjournal.
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Heliodoxa jacula (hummingbird): Minutes for WUaS monthly business meeting Jan 5, 2019 - A) World University & School Monthly Business Meeting, B) WUaS Corporation Board Meeting
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Looks like little butterflies or moths or beetles, as an evolutionary biological adaptation! What an amazing development: Columnea consanguinea evolves to attract hummingbirds to its brown spots on its leaves, and the hummingbirds then pollinate the even smaller flowers (my hypothesis):
Meet Columnea consanguinea, the most badass plant nature ever made.— Dario Taraborelli (@ReaderMeter) January 13, 2019
Using glowing red marks both as runway lights to guide pollinating hummingbirds and as eye spots to scare away herbivore insects. https://t.co/YaJshjYki0
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