Circle council practise number 3 Thurs 25th October.

Write up by Sue - from memory:

Well, our start time was a little earlier than last time so we are moving in the right direction !  It was good to welcome Rona to the group and Evie’s son was a welcome visitor. We appreciated that Bill came despite little sleep.

We reviewed the agreements in the circle and all noted them to increase our ownership of them.

Ruth again prepared for the centre, so it would still be good if the rest of us put thought into bringing something to it.

I read my poem ‘It’s Criminal’ and felt the circle was an appropriate and  sufficiently supportive group to read it to for the first time. I appreciate the comments that people made.

We all talked about our recollections of the previous discussion of the book.

The Introduction (pt 1)

Ruth invited us to talk about our own personal relationship to money, which we did. Louis is highlighting concepts which are not new. There was a general agreement that it is the intention behind the use of money that is important.  

There was discussion about companies that use sustainability as a marketing ploy and fail to live up to the principles of a love economy.

The personal journey

Gave opinions about whether the love economy principles are likely to ripple out from a local to a global institutional level. Heart –warming examples were given on a local level and there was discussion about how doubting the ripple  effect can feed into creating failure/self-fulfilling prophecies.

There was discussion about the language in which the book is written, and the personal spiritual experience which informed the direction of his theories. We agreed that we could read for the content regardless of feelings which the language may evoke, and talked about what->

Next

We agreed to continue discussion of our reading next week.  Louis will come to the  following meeting and we thought that we may want to invite him back again later when we are further through the book.

When hosting a chapter we agreed to invite people to think about .

1.     What facts have you learned?
2.    What are your feelings about this chapter?
3.   What action might you take as a result?

Hosts for next session on the 8^th of November – as far as we remember right now – were to be:

Intro revisited            Iain or Ruth?

Chapter 1                  Christopher

Ch. 2                          Bill

Ch. 3                          Evie

Ch. 4                          Rona

In general: we wish to progress a bit faster now through the chapters, to get ready for Louis!