2013 Summer (in Chatham, NY)+Goals and Accomplishments
+week 2+Accomplishments
Group Accomplishments
- Linoleum down in the kitchen & washable/whiteboard walls
- Flower of life in the yellow room / Yellow room
- Weeding & gleaning at Common Hands Farm
- built trust & vulnerability and fun
- project slams
- Ruben's crazy dance
- MetaMapping ELL ecosystem
- Came up with the menu plan, roles, delicious & healthy food
- Established connection with Quaker community (Friday potluck)
- Celebrated FOUR birthdays
- Shifted toward co-creative responsibility for generating ELL
- Accomplished a lot in upgrading the space
- Have an outdoor washing (triple) sink
- Upgraded electricity in building to 150 amps
- We're using metamaps and finding the connections between our projects
Individual Accomplishements
Eric
- Got a streamscapes workspace and whiteboard set up
Ishan
- Getting here and setling in
- Able to fit in the work I needed to do for projects outside of ELL
- Maintained connection and communication with the people from home
Sean
- Confident in direction I'm headed
- Resolved my issues about when I could be here and when I couldn't
- Telling a positive story :)
- Happy to go weeding and gleaning
Rob
- Realization: I have more value to share than I give myself credit for
- Identified more of my role and gifts around metamaps
- Finished reading book Eric gave me
Claire
- Getting here across the country
- Got connected, related, settled in, restored to myself.
Charme
- Got in touch with coach, and have gotten much clearer about my projects and the work I need to do.
Maia
- Jumped to next level of building field with coaches
- I threw my first dance party AND YOU ALL CAME!!
- The non-monetary context of ELL is spilling blessings all over other aspects of my life, and relationships, and clients. And it's AWESOME!
Connor
- Had personal breakthrough from coaching conversations with an unparalleled depth of value
- Got a lot of programming progress done. Beginnings of JavaScript rewrite done.
Yana
- Found where support was needed and took care of those needs
- Was being present, open and honest
- Excellent conversation w/ Conner (coachee)
Ruben
- Got to recognize the ways I can contribute and a sense of my responsibility at ELL this year
- Got connected with everyone, especially support team members I'm supporting
Haiz
- Moved from not knowing how to start writing to accomplishing good, focused, thoughtful writings about ELL
Arthur
- Got a workspace set up (mostly)
- Supported collective breakthrough in vulnerability and restoring balance of facilitation to being generated by the group.
Jackie
- Made strong connection to metamaps and using it for assignments for Gaia U
- Surprising consequences from being here... job offer
Madison
- Clear up things from home so I could be here with integrity
- Breakthroughs with Eric B. in working around food.
- Created a system to manage the food needs and process
- Worked with Story Telling after Ben's presentation
Ryan
- Feel like I got a lot done on MFS... moved from not knowing what to do into much clearer action and role
- Practiced my "prospective parent pitch"
- Felt like I connected to the group through the physical play/dance/sharing
Tomis
- Got 2 weekly newsletters written and sent
- Had critical conversations about foundation of ALC
- used metamaps to map conversation and outline our IndieGoGo campaign
- Got comfortable with everyone and ready to rock with them
+week 3+Intention
Group Intentions
- Update GameShifting boards to one we'll use [That sounds great!]
- Implement a kanban board for our group work time [You may erase this note Kyle is happy about this since he has researched them some]
- Finish Kitchen
- Physical Play Session [ I remember 'I wish... why not?]
- Group Clean-up Slam
- Finish Yellow Room
- Continue to remove barriers to collective intelligence (shame, blame, ego, etc.)
- Increasing vulnerability and honesty
Individual Intentions
Ryan
- (my last week before leaving for Russia for two weeks)
- Get crowdfunding ready to launch. Support video process.
- Get un-blacklisted with NYC DOE
Madison
- Get the word out about Community Eats
- Implement a daily rhythm for myself and the support team about observations and needs
- Focused on growing and refining my new relationship to food
- I want to talk more with people... grappling with the balance of silence, listening, and speaking
Eric
- Start an implementation cycle on Streamscapes - getting tool chain up and running to build a virtual machine receptor
- Make the space beautiful -- Keep upgrading beauty, cleanliness and organization in the space
Connor
- Get a functional re-written iteration of JavaScript done
- The self-care and discipline required to accomplish that ^ goal
- Start an every 4 day cycle for a "what's missing meditation"
- Connect with Ishan personally early in the week
Jackie
- Explore implmentation of Gameshifting for my projects
- Refining my desktop kanban board
- Research grants
Haiz
- Move from stillness to thriving practices
- Break writing work into sections and start to structure what needs to be written
Yana
- Journal about this experience
- Find a way to support from afar
- Remain grounded
- Create a personal kanban board
Maia
- Extraordinary next-tier / new depth with coaching team
- Amazing gathering of women
- Preparation for studio voice session
Ishan
- Support Connor's focus on development
- See how I can manage workflow and support Robert in contributing from his strengths
- Review legal aspects / terms of service / terms of use
- Maintain consistent communication with the wider mm community and related opportunities
- Maintain connection with our other team members who aren't here
Sean
- Practice telling the story about ELL
- Connect with Chet
- 1 -2 weekly reflections
- Learn to post a video
- Support farm relationships
- Work on a web site for my Yoga Teaching / Garden Practice
- Feel more comfortable in the group setting / sitting and talking
Claire
- Connect with the support team
- Get social media stream flowing
- Collaborate with Haiz around writing
Arthur
- Support Eric in Streamscapes development
- Physical exercise 3x this week (dance, yoga, ultimate)
- Eat high protein breakfasts instead of cereal
- Finish getting workspace workable
Charme
- Proactive in my project development
- Meditate every morning and exercise every day
Tomis
- Make progress on launching crowdfunding campaign
- Conversations: interns (How to attract the right people and build long-term connection), pull together resources for increasing staffing and supporting interns, coaching (how to structure and develop our coaching program), recruitment (strategy and actions we can take to increase enrollment)
- Read more (at night and in the morning)
- Continue physical workouts in new ways
Ruben
- Explore with the support team how we can support better
- Martial arts bounce back to feet move
+week 3+Accomplishments
Kyle
- I got rid of what was holding up the space there (in other words this Accomplishments section/page here)... please continue the intentions, accomplishments and such. It's been a couple weeks now and nothing new has shown up on the site... could be due to me..
- An introduction to who I am: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIL5LnTEDxY Next Steps Talk (With Ben!)
- An Understanding of Game Architecture and coming to the fact that I am a Social (Game) Architect
- That GameShifting got implemented into the Agile Learning Centers and the Manhatten Free School
- Here is the link to my Facebook and Twitter and Google Plus About Me : I know its buried in the site. https://www.facebook.com/kyle.sykes.14 and https://twitter.com/ErgoFlows https://plus.google.com/u/0/101450272276894168819/about
- I made a PearlTree this year based on #DeepWealth It's dubbed #TheFreeSpace and based on #LiquidCurrencies such as the #DreamBank http://www.pearltrees.com/#/N-u=1_507861&N-fa=4194042&N-s=1_8821300&N-f=1_8821300&N-p=85654509 and I dub it the FreeSpace. A MakerLab that doesn't need a physical space, but encourages one. Or Many.
- http://prezi.com/e5zrfimyza4p/thefreespace4dream/ The Prezi that I made about the #FreeSpace4Dream.
- P.S. Keep at it. Don't Stop. Fail Better. Be Uncomfortable. Makers do! I might write some more (coherent) journals in the future as I am working on my Reportage skills. The Democratization of content and information is important to me. I also have this idea about A.R.T. talks aka Agile Resilience Talks. So it would come out like this.... A.R.T. Make things possible. Perhaps that is what the Vision Showcase was. I read the PR online. It was nice.
- P.S.S. Look up my Next Steps card in the website. Under Chronology or Kyle Sykes [Next Step]
-But please keep me posted and updated. I want to engage in correspondance with The Fellow Makers! That includes the other Founders. I'm still in this. I also hear your now designing a Fall Session. I want in. :D