| Calling
all Sub Group Leaders, Facilitators, or
Representatives:
an invitation to expanded community
Dear SeattleIntegral Group Leaders,
You are successfully running what would be, in most cities and countries
around this increasingly complex world, a
medium-sized integral salon. Your group might focus on integral
practice, action, cognitive activities, leadership, or a combination of
all of these. It must also be thrilling to know that you are
facilitating an integrally-informed group that is larger than most integral
salons around the world!
Therefore, the SeattleIntegral Core Group would like to invite you to
participate in the continuing creation and expansion of the
SeattleIntegral mission, which is:
"The mission
of SeattleIntegral is to work with integral models by turning Integral
Theory into Integral Action. From intention and knowledge, we are
committed to experiencing and espousing inner growth and outer
community. In our endeavors to transcend separateness and evolve beyond
our own views to a state of non-duality, we strive to provide support
for personal, communal, and global awareness, manifesting a more
integral consciousness."
To this end, we are creating a monthly newsletter, beginning in
September, designed to further unite the SeattleIntegral community by
keeping each other apprised of what is going on in our various groups.
Our request, and our offering to you and the community, is to provide a
space where you can talk about what is going on with your group, what
you're offering to the integral world, and how your participation is
making a difference in your lives, individually and collectively.
Our hope is that this newsletter will inform and inspire others to tread
the paths you are already walking, that it will help to spread integral
consciousness, and that your contributions will assist SeattleIntegral
in becoming an even larger doorway where others who are seeking to
differentiate from the structures they are questioning can find a new
direction, a more integral approach, and expanded ways of being.
We invite you and any other members of your group to write a short
monthly column about your activities. Perhaps just a couple of
paragraphs (or more, if you wish!) about the group, what it's doing,
stories about how the group has contributed to the lives of its
participants, what its value is to you, or anything else you'd like to
talk about.
If you don't have time to write a short column
about your group activities, ask others in your group if this is
something they'd like to be involved in. Perhaps you could even rotate
responsibility for the column on a month-to-month basis.
However much you feel moved to contribute is most welcome, and we'd love
to hear any ideas you might have for the newsletter that might make it
more successful, and more meaningful, to you.
Won't you join us?
The Core Group: consists of Gary
Stamper, Tom Mull, Venita Ramirez, Jake Werre, Blaine Snow, Nina
Pearson, Anita Manuel
Please limit subgroup columns to 500
words or less. Submittals for upcoming issues must be received by the
12th of the month
Articles related to integral matters
may be submitted to the editorial board (Gary, Jake, Venita, and
Blaine), who reserve the right to edit with the author's approval.
Articles should be limited to 1,000 words. Deadline for any month is
three weeks prior to the first of the month.
Newsletter Format
For now, this will be the format of
the Newsletter. The first group
columns will begin appearing in the newsletter in October, as the
September issue will introduce the newsletter concept to the general SI
group. An announcement will be sent to the group through the Yahoo! list
and a link will be provided to take people to the newsletter posted on
our soon-to-be launched website. If anyone knows how to send html
newsletters in emails without a subscription service, please let Gary
know.
New SI Website Launching soon!
We're hoping to get the new SI website
(www.seattleintegral.com) launched in September. Each subgroup will have
their website or their own page that tells about the group and a contact. If you already
have a website (like IOS 2 and Integral Spirituality), there can be a
link to that site.
We need you, or someone in your group
to write a description of your group as you'd like others to see it, and
Gary needs it within a couple weeks, please!!!
Thanks!!!
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