Dear Lynda & Fred,
I woke up thinking about Hope Springs, a retreat center in Adams County. I know the founder, Suzanne Stephens and a board member,but have never been there. It's close to some of the first people sites and I've heard is a nice facility. There is Grailville in Loveland; the Moye Center in N Ky,
Have not posted anything on the Ning site about our intention to follow up my description on Wed night's call, as I 'm uncertain how to proceed without gathering ourselves to share next steps.
If I were doing this alone, I'd want to be very quickly on the task of sketching out place, time and money and putting those things out along with the description of intention so colleagues can attach to something concrete---or not, and then we know this is not what is needed. Also because retreat sites schedule a year in advance at least.
You?
Am thinking to just do an informal query, first, on the ning site, of the PATs in general and the ones in our part of the country in particular. Could message all the members of the ning site re a retreat next year, and the ones in our region of the country, via a separate message.
ReplyDeleteFor the entire PAT community, just a query of if they would be interested and seriously consider coming to a retreat in southwest Ohio next June. If so, would they like to help with planning or to offer a topic, activity, etc for consideration?
For those closer to this part of the country (a day's drive, roughly), the query/invitation would be, are they interested in there being a Heartland Peace Ambassadors Hub (or whatever it may be called) in southwest Ohio, and if so, would they be willing to come to SW Ohio in late October/early November for a day gathering to get acquainted and explore how we might collaborate to birth that hub. Implicit in this would be that one of our initiatives as this hub would be to host the June 2012 retreat.
I don't think we need specifics beyond that, yet, to get a sense of whether there is energy around either of these initiatives.
As for when to make these inquiries, since we are currently in mercury retrograde (Aug 2 - 26), we may want to wait until the new moon, on the 28th, or in the first few days after that...
Fred, what are your thoughts?