spring equinox 07 Icarus Collective Call

check in:

(will joined in an hour late because he was busy in his time machine fighting off clusters of enormous blue and yellow octupus-like monsters trying to feed off the psychic energy of an emotionally compromised and traumatized humanity)
ashley – feeling clear and capable, psyched about working on the drug guide
sascha – sees freaky visions while meditating, working on being grounded, not feeling much like an organizer, the grant report is coming along slowly.
madigan – this feels like a crutial time – dealing with flexability – collaboratively healthy – dealing with a finite time in new york – being on the west coast has felt very healing in contrast to new york which feels overwhelming – the magnitude of what i’m reaching for is overwhelming but no matter what happens this is a good track - -i have big dreams – lots of transitional stuff – really in touch with fierce healing center.

alicia and nyc icarus/european intern
reportback from training last week – went really well. ashley taught alicia/sarah/sascha – distro details, we mailed some important packages
ashley worked with alicia on basic office coordination: checks, mail, FJC, checking the v/m –, setting up systems for the office, refining the distro system, so it’ll be easy to pass along.
Alicia’s really excited about creating systems that will stay in place. We’re psyched about it
at the moment we’re at 5 hours a week/$16 an hour
If she wants up to 10 hours a week she can have it, we are happy for her energy and time
mads: coordinating distro for the tour is a priority
mads wants alex to be the nyc icarus/fountain house point person – and so it is
we made a bunch of keys last week and they’re sitting tacked to the wall

discussion about sharing decision making in new york: ashley and madigan discuss working with volunteers - the importance of delegating roles and then following through on making sure they know what to do.
amazing people show up and before we assign large amounts of responsibility to people we need to have a system in place to refer back to if we come up against difficulties
if we don’t already have a history of trust we have to come up with something so that disaster doesn’t strike midway
it’s time to put energy into a grivence policy: this is how we resolve conflicts – mediation process – go to the person you have the grievience with, conflict resolution circle,
asking for references (for volunteers?) – a big sketchy
having guiding principles – wellness policy – committment to
alternative healing opportunities for working together
this needs more love and time

the european intern – he needs to have a confirmed social worker by june – elliot maybe? madigan will talk to him about the possibility. we would need somebody from local and somebody from national in the fall. this seems problematic, maybe not realistic. though it’s an exciting prospect. but the tour is in the fall. potentially he can work more closely with people from fountain house. lets get more information and revisit it next week. how many hours a week is he expecting to be working with us? potential NYU connection, no? more thought.

the fall tour
eric – an experienced tour manager – wants to help organize the fall tour. as somebody who’s part of the workgroup – if he want to take on bookings

partricia  - she can come down at the end of the month to do a workshop for 3 hours. we think it’s a great idea. she wants $270. will’s a little iffy about the price, but it’s cool. we’ll do it. support your local shaman.
noon to 3pm in the icarus office at fountain house. it will be the four of us as the national collective work and potentially in may we’re do a related event that’s more open to the general icarus communty.
(post-meeting note from notetaker: in light of our conversation about working with other, building supportive community, and then seven’s email about stepping back at the end of the month i would suggest that we try to focus some of our collective energy while we’re in the same space to working on a shamanic vision of collective leadership, support, and building sustainable roots as a network. i don’t really know what the hell i’m talking about but i wanted to put the idea in there as a thought seed.) 

what’s up with the staff calender? ashley’s going to talk to will and take responsibility for it
what’s up with the CiviCRM? asks sascha. no one knows. ask will.

funding for will going to INTAR
conference may 4th through 9th
will is requesting $250 to go to INTAR and we’ll give it to him cause he rocks and it’s an important conference. he needs to get the hell out of northhampton and BC is lovely in the springtime.

drug guide –
will and ash have been working hard on it. will really wants to have something completed for INTAR
ash is going to have something mailed out by friday, will is going to respond by monday, sascha’s going to comment at the beginning of the week while he’s procrastinating about finishing the van am grant.

website content editor –we would stipened someone for $100-$150 a month to solicit articles and seed forum things and /manage blog posts . ash thinks rogue might be a good candidate.
will suggests seed grant proposals play into this but ash sez we should keep seed grants sepearate from national stuff cause the idea was they would be for seeding local projects.
lets table this for now

501c3 – orxy/financial stuff
will: orxy is a total party animal, watch out.
(this quote is taken totally out of context sheerly for the enjoyment of the notetaker)

madigan reportback from collective intitives meeting: with orxy taking over bookkeeping for icarus may 15th, including in his role is to work on collective inititives and the next steps of the 501c3. suggestion of him being on a staff and or collective call in the next month. where are we with the details for the filing? in the immediate collective initi. will be the   leah says we move forward with the ny law firm that has offered to work pro bono. orxy has freedom center as a dba account and. this is a more long term, ethically and principally . icarus has more
ashley: wants to start training oryx after may 1st
sorry guys, i tried.

reschedule april calls –
tuesday’s at 3pm whole month of april

monthly collective call – meeting was just mads and two new people. eric and zach. was more peer counseling than organizing. mads feels like she’s putting more energy into it than is coming back. it’s fluid and flexible, sometimes 10 people sometimes 2, feeling a little taxed. after discussion it’s decided that it’s important though slow right now. madigan’s awesome for holding it down. one of us will take over for awhile beginning in may.

van am report – sascha will have something rough to folks by friday, will is going to put time into it. it’s due at the end of the month. sascha will call eleanor sypher in the morning to find out exactly when and to check in. madigan plays an important role in this one because of her van am connection.

dats all she wrote     happy spring!!