Deliverables
- Process for workshops – This rose as priority number one
- For example – who is a part of the group? Who has voice? Who has say? How do we know when we have reached a decision?
- Code of behavior / Personal responsibilities
- Framework for community to govern itself
- Set of rules and regulations
- Rules of empowerment
- “Do” Policy
- Hours / Access proposal
- Plan for/against membership
- Plan for programming/Entertainment
- Revisiting teams?
- Community center purposes – we kind of started working on this one – see below
- Should we have an emphasis on homelessness?
- Possibility of monthly meetings 2nd Thursday of the month
- Community meeting Thursday Aug 9 (after dinner)
Tensions
- Homeless Folks / Everyone
- Everyone welcome and chaos/Disrespect
- Mercy of Christ and Rules/Tough love
- Send People Out to the world with skills to survive on their own/ Build Community
- Christian / Everyone Welcome
Places where everyone
is welcome…
- Wal-mart, Public Library, AA, Church, and OCP
- How is this relevant to OCP?
- Each place has a focus, rules and consequences for certain behaviors, people are generally there for the same cause (which makes for cooperation), staff to uphold the rules
- What makes these organizations run smoothly and what it is that has helped to make OCP a success?
- Set hours
- More focus
- More staff present during operating hours
OCP seeks…
- To accommodate, foster and provide activities and programs related to personal growth and community well being
- To be a resource in the community for individuals seeking information or services already provided by other organizations
- To educate and empower individuals towards self-sufficiency, thus creating social capital for the community at large
- To nurture a community that appreciates diversity and sees differences and conflict as opportunities for spiritual growth
There was a consensus around the power of the
statement: Personal Growth and Community Well-Being. This sounds right.
This is the purpose
of OCP: To accommodate, foster and
provide activities and programs related to personal growth and community well
being
The other purposes
seem to be bullets points off of this idea.
Number 3 seems to simply repeat number 1.
Seems like more bullet points could simply be added . . . to
number 1
OCP’s Vision
“We seek to build an atmosphere of love, safety, education,
spiritual awareness, healing and fun – a community center where anyone in the
world is welcome to help or participate. OCP is dedicated to breaking down
barriers that tend to separate humans from the joys to be experienced in loving
community, and particularly dedicated to including in its activities those
struggling with poverty and difficult life circumstances. Over the years,
experience has revealed that incredible healing potential, for all parties,
exists in the simple act of sitting down and eating or socializing together
across social barriers.
Somebody said
something was missing here – what was it?
Cooperation? Not sure.
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