The Process Unfolding

This year the process is unfolding as it always does. We will meet at spring council on June 17 to discuss all the issues that those participating in council/counsel bring up. Your voice will be heard if you attend the council/counsel. As with all things rainbow, the process is open to all peaceful people.

My heart is breaking this year. There are tough and complex issues on the table with years of mistrust, oppression, and violence that brought us to this point. Wishing them away won't solve the problems, but then again neither will being mean to other human beings or this planet.  It's easy when attacked to want to attack back, but that just perpetuates the problems and does not work towards a solution. We all carry baggage with us. Can we try to acknowledge our baggage and set it aside as best we can when we try to communicate with each other?

If you are not familiar with the practice of active listening, please help us communicate more effectively by learning how to practice active listening.

If you are not familiar with our process, read the Council Mini Manual.

Please be patient as we work through the process. There are over five hundred years of problems on the table and some of the hurt and pain we are carrying may go back further than that. This is hard work folks.  Let us practice compassion with ourselves and each other as the process unfolds. Be the change you wish to see in this world.