Today’s meeting was a great overview of what we’ve accomplished as a group in the past year but also what we’re going to be doing in the next year.
Our next meeting (29th January) will feature DNA training, focusing on what XR is, who we are and what that means for us as a local group.
The meeting after that (5th February) will be a working group meeting so get ready with those big ideas.
Continue reading “Meeting notes for 22nd January”
Here’s a message from James:
XR weekly meeting is at The Old Convent again today.
6:30 pm food (which Jane has volunteered to prepare for us) and gathering 7:00 pm start.
Red and Kat will facilitate the meeting which will be in two parts with Senan, reflecting on the huge impact XR has had on the climate debate during its first year, and look at where we are now in building a new structure for impact.
Kat and Red will follow this by drawing strength and inspiration from the Regenerative Action Cycle as we reflect on our own place in the movement and connect with others where they are at
See you there,
James
Thank you to all of you to came to our meeting, we now have some firmer plans for 2020 which is exciting, more on that after the announcements.
The consultation on the next rebellion date has concluded. We’re waiting on the results on this. More news in our upcoming meetings when we have confirmed dates.
Broke out into working groups to discuss the ideas from last weeks meeting. The idea being to agree what we’d like to progress and start up working groups for Stroud. Here are the areas of focus that we agreed:
Fossil fuel divestment (targeting banks, education, arts, pension funds etc)
Transport (inc expansions of roads and airports and car free cities)
Media (tell the truth, highlighting media bias, targetting distribution centres, climate column)
Community Outreach – (inc earthstrike, urban farming, working with other groups)
Strategy Change – Constructive not disruptive (connected to community outreach, positive community engagement}
Happy new year to all of you. We had a lovely first meeting after the Christmas break, thank you to all of our new and returning rebels. It was lovely to see you.
We started with sharing a word about 2019, and then another word summarising 2020 as a warm up activity, shared throughout our circle.
Here’s how the rest of the meeting went and what we did.
Continue reading “Meeting notes for 8th january”Jeannie has an upcoming Solstice party on 22nd December at Scout hut. Energy and ideas welcome. Please contact us if you are able to help.
We had a successful evening at Goodwill Evening in Stroud yesterday. There was printing, food and goodwill at the Beacon. Please send in some pictures if you have them.
There was a discussion around an XR soup kitchen, some people already want to help with this. It would be good to get clarification on whether we are going to be helping other initiatives that are already established in the town or are we going to do this solo as Stroud XR. What do you think about this?
One group also discussed ideas for an alternative Xmas, and another discussed what an XR social meeting could involve.
An idea that is taking shape (but which remains as yet not fully formed) is that we develop two meeting formats.
One type of meeting could be centred around Working Group Co-ordinators and during which work is imagined, discussed, agreed and planned. The purpose of suggesting this is to reduce time and work commitments for co-ordinators, who presently need to devote two evenings a week. The main output of these meetings will be a list of things to do and names of people who have agreed to do them will be.
Another type of meeting will be more relaxed in format would be centred on the rest of the crew. There is a growing consensus that it might deliver training and discussion. It will have fewer to dos than the Action meeting. It can be a space in which we talk to develop culture, understanding and paths towards adaptation.
