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- - - - Meeting 1: Gather a mastermind meeting day to bring each of these specialist together. Start with icebreakers to introduce everyone. Share who you are and why you are here within 3 sentences. Ask them basically the same questions but sit back and mostly take notes and let them interact with each other while you act as a tangent lead and keep people on topic. The end goal deliverable of this meeting is to create a more definitive community map. Start by creating a list of bullet points of what the community includes. Make sure to go over the 12 sectors with everyone & go over the roadmap of the future meetings so they have context. this first meeting isn't about how or when, it's about WHY and WHAT. Print out a poster of the 12 spoke model & a poster of our core values. Also give people a pitch deck to prepare for the meeting so they can start brainstorming the agenda, core values, whole systems model
        
        Meeting 2: review what we went over last time and Based on the key points, write out the attributes you are looking for in a piece of land. then write out key steps to put those points into action. Prioritise those points based on what needs to happen in what order and create a phasing map. Use GIS to input the parameters of what you're looking for in land and let the database show you the best matches. get clear on min-max scale of vision in regards to number of people, amount and usage of land, buffer, and budget
        
        Meeting 3: Start delegating roles to implement that plan of action and create a standard of measuring whether or not we are meeting our goals.
        
        Meeting 4: report on each person's progress
        
        Infrastructure
        
        Realtor: Starts looking for land
        
        Looking for:
        
        Right climate
        
        South facing slope
        
        water flowing through
        
        good access
        
        close to a hospital
        
        Within 1hr of airport
        
        Agricultural tax exemption
        
        zoned for mixed use
        
        rolling hills (not steep hills)
        
        cell service
        
        Land Surveyor: (comes in a bit later) works with Civil Engineer to find property
        
        Civil Engineer :
        
        Land Planner
        
        Landscape Architect
        
        Environment
        
        Environmental consultant for Due diligence
        
        Phase 1 Environmental Site Assessment
        
        Archeologists
        
        Water Quality agency
        
        Endangered species agency
        
        GIS Specialist
        
        Food & Water
        
        Health & Wellness
        
        Education & Self Development
        
        Project Manager: Check in on each person and ask them how things are going and if there's anything they need help with
        
        Governance & Council
        
        Business
        
        Security & Justice
        
        Art & Culture
        
        Recreation & Entertainment
- - - - In-kind resources
      - Money based donations
- - - - Don’t be in a hurry, but do be persistent and persevering. - develop the culture of the Design Team, develop political and community support, enhance our track record, and attract resources for moving forward. It’s about process as much as place. So get your team geographically contiguous as quickly as practical, but don’t worry about it being your final location. The experience of interactive processes doing ecological, economic, and social work can go with you wherever you ultimately settle.
        
        Do not compromise your vision to acquire funding. Look for creative ways to solve potential funding problems that advance your vision. Often, the less money you have the more creative you are. Our movement is about doing more with less. Brag about it a lot.
        
        Keep educating all members of the group on the overview. Provide opportunities for members to learn in informal and exciting ways about all the major systems and sub-systems of an ecovillage: social, economic, ecological. Make the time to do it. Everyone won’t have the same understanding, no matter what you do, but they’ll bring fresh energy and help the founding core group to see things in new ways too.
        
        Institute story-telling as early as possible. You don’t have to wait 10 years to share memories. Begin your own rituals as early as possible. Let them flourish.
        
        once the ecovillage ideas “catch on” in your bioregion, go to the next phase of sustainability, e.g., developing curriculum for local schools, creating your own school, engaging in more public advocacy, writing the zoning codes, giving public talks, civic engagement, running for public office, etc.
        
        Do not use or exploit guilt to motivate people, but recognize that many people depend on guilt for their own self-motivation. Help people transcend guilt by keeping focused on the vision. Keep your doors open to fresh and exciting energy. Generate excitement through art, parties, issues-oriented dialogue, etc. Show a lot of appreciation for what others do to generate excitement.. Help others to overcome this tendency as well. Learn, teach, use an effective feedback method such as nonviolent communication.
        
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