Sunday, January 13, 2019

Columnea consanguinea: Governance at WUaS - Consensus-informed (Quaker), 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).


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) (Federation of Egalitarian Communities) informs 's open monthly business meeting's decision-making 2nd Sats 9am

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1084572571087953922


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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 unity -

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1084569909135237120


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Founder of Alpha Farm turns 90 Intentional community in Oregon coastal range, Caroline Estes & Alpha have used consensus process (Quaker informed) for decision-making since 1972. NontheisticallyFriendly mo. business meeting does similarly

https://twitter.com/HarbinBook/status/1084565160545550337


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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' MBM 2/9 ~

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1084568970101846016

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Founder of Alpha Farm turns 90 Intentional community in Oregon coastal range, Caroline Estes & Alpha have used consensus process (Quaker informed) for decision-making since 1972. NontheisticallyFriendly mo. business meeting does similarly

https://twitter.com/scottmacleod/status/1084564368346382336


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Governance at @WorldUnivAndSch: Consensus-informed (Quaker)
See, too, Alpha Farm's consensus decision-making, since '72 https://www.ic.org/directory/alpha-farm/ &



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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).

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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/cloud/new-haven-friends-meeting/resources/quaker-business-meeting-practice-role-clerk





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- World University and School

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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): 





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