Simha/Saskia 5/16/14

Agenda: 

Check-in: Exhausted.  Doing firewood all day, super tired.  FEeling good.  Took bee-keeping workshop this weekend.  Very amazing. Ross Conrad- organic bee-keeping.  First exposure to keeping bees.  Not sure when it will happen.  25 people, no one got stung.  Took a day off yesterday to be with mom and Grandma.  Went through Prezi and explained a bit about GU, they were very receptive and excited about it.  Worked 4 days over last few weeks planting trees for NRCS of Vermont- Trees for Streams, him and his friend got contract to plant trees- riparian buffer.  8 species of trees.  Life within community is a big experience.  Yoga and meditation together in morning.  Continuously doing check-ins  Very intense.  Work is also full-on both on farm, with GU, and other projects like trees.  Exhausted, doesn’t seem sustainable.  Hard to not do things that you see need to be done.  

End of Year presentation:  Feel very happy that it is done.  Pleasantly surprised.  Felt rushed but not stressed out.  Not totally prepared.  Took out a bunch of stuff to get it down to size.  Could see it was too long.  Could have pushed them oer to the side instead of deleting.  Felt relaxed even though he was rushing.  Knew it intimately.  Didn’t need notes at all.  Helpful to have taken notes, but didn’t use.  Grateful for the feedback, will be helpful for future presentations.  Can always be better.  Happy that he wasn’t flustered or stressed.  Wasn’t copy and paste from learning review.  Tried to get something more out of it, and did.  Happy with the whole process of the experience.  Good balance on focus between past, present, and future.

LIPD  Haven’t done any more work on this since learning review.  Thinking of taking another month pause so he can have two months to do LIPD.  About 3 weeks from when fee is paid he will find out if he can accelerate.  Also, very busy.  Is working on it by figuring out details of year: how he will fit into leadership training courses, oven course , Mark K, PINE.  How he can be more active and integrate into the mission.  So much to integrate.  Wants more time to plan adequately.  Will take more than 12 months to do capstone… write that into LIPD.  Considering advisor training.  Focus for this year is on teaching the design process.  

Has e-mailed Andrew several times to have a meeting with him and use up specialty advising hours.  Bouncing ideas off of him about pathway, etc.  Have not heard from him.  Could he use Meta-Earth to host workshops for GU.  Where is GU going?  No info.  Regional hubs are very important- where you can meet people face-to face.  Do a table for GU at PC convergences.  Would be a sacrifice, but could be very valuable for both Meta -Earth and GU. Feels frustrated because he has shown interest in helping but hasn’t gotten anything back.  If not now, when?  Can he reach out to Liora?  She feels off-limits.  

Put a shout-out on GU forum to find other associates in NE.  Has been all-out on ground running.  No meetings set-up with guild.  Needs to reach out.  Hard to sit down when things are full-on running.  

Teaching the design process: started as developing a pattern language for teaching PC.  Now narrowed it down to the design process through a PC lens.  Pulled out Pattern Language book.  Talked to teachers who have used pattern language.  How can he use it to prepare and when he is in the moment.  Now that presentation is done, he can move onto the next thing.  

Will decide whether he’s going on pause in June or July.  Will let Saskia know.  This time works well for both of us. 

Check-out- meeting went smooth and good!  Always good to get all thoughts out, about where he’s wanting to go.  Good to have someone on inside.  Even though no resolution comes, it feels one step closer.