My Learning Journal Extracts are integrated throughout by Natural Association.

Links on a separate website I created for this purpose have some surprises to lure you further into my heart.

Evaluation Spreadsheets are Podapo Excel forms that literally challenge vision.

Guild meeting minutes- 4 meetings with Arianne Burgess, shamanist labyrinthista, our collaborative notes lie here.

Coco 9-27-11 Buddy call  2 hours 8-10am

Arianne: will review my OP7- delayed
on account of organize the Jon Todd visit in 2 weeks.
 
Arianne up first:

What’s going well?
Reviewing OP7 with Ethan
recommended an online business,
get an assistant
list things to do-  action learning & outputting
feels good moving towards hiring an assistant
have the funds & opportunity
in very sweet relationship in Holland pick up 2 touring bikes
Scotland tours to eco places
stack functions -can learn things
 
What challenges?
Computer time too much one thing
designed a series of outputs related with online business
computer Needs to get under belt
stuck in throat get at bottom of it
did writing around computer time when doing regenerative culture 2007,8,9 learned enough
was a stillbirth - on the hard disk
learned a lot burned out by it not being alive –
put all on website-
that’s important piece -social working -people come & look
Input of the reflective output
Notion of Need to ask for permission
Coaching leaders
nailed the waiting for permission from mommy day or God
fascinating for giving away my power
 
Coco thought: Can do Ree Morton way, will explain later
 
Long term vision & goal
re-emerging living on land to
make a full size labyrinth shamanist way-
work energy
soil fertility
be a retreat for others
experience in regenerative practice-
Coco thought: Sulis (Sara Firman <mailto:sara.firman@yahoo.com <mailto:sara.firman@yahoo.com>

Under-water healing work & labyrinth in Ozarks, now lives elsewhere
 
Next steps:
output 8 -list of all does on computer
what wants to do & what others can do
has a web person & an admin person
Posted one project on Gaia U- hire my-- like (a girl on a mac)
women who left day jobs to be Moms I like
look for a longer term person to work with over time, regenerative,
to do projects as elves ready for assistance
put on GEL site for job- no response-
Mahara may work better than GEL site-
 
Where will you be in 6 months?
Still in Scotland completing OP 10
1st chapter of labyrynth publishing deal
haven’t looked yet for publisher
looked at Bear & Co
could get a deal, marketable
Battery Park connected to big event
 
Coco thought: Chelsea Green?
 
45 minutes OP work time:
Notes to post on websites
back at ten to hour to share-
 
Coco thought:
I took too much time talking about Ree Morton & SuperSkyWoman
modes of publishing my own & collab work
Venice Biennale as SSW & 5 other Biennale group projects 1999-2005
WasteWaterTreatmentPlant Jon Todd
town Commissions
built up perm-certified commissoners
too slow for global warming needs
till consciousness opens to register & in actions. 
 
I get an epiphany: 
action teaching becomes action learning
there is a lag understood by saying where I want to be in 6 months
artists in touch with me after disappearing
also burn out, not enough sleep
how SSW mode helps strength for decisions going forward
Assembling Water Mark Press hand done pubications
work for others + being published
didn’t slip out of my own self to be published- do both
more my own
gone fallow without my studio.
 
What’s going well with me:
Content missing in my Projects now
using Todd Jones’s need countering right brain work with more left brain made it the report part of my OP 7
feel comfortable doing that
need to learn more IT & get people to work for me
group of artists want me to lead them in workshops
work for me as helpers-
realization-write about my process
how to get through -cut out work
paying assistants
make it collaborative
add to the equation of ASK SSW
& blog can be part again
I did pay assistants for many years
didn’t get many gigs to pay off in NYC
only Europe shows paid off
2008 residency in Italy back to life
but lost my clientele doing caregiving.
till I do more recruiting work
to the OOPS & LAST through my Home
home is part of the puzzle
put a skin around the home for larger roof, perimeter,2nd story
meeting room & studio Loft.
*Incorporate into my Home part of OP7
prediction for capstone year
get other elves involved
I did put out feelers & 2 more accepted- Tom & Toby Russel
another feeler for person to be outside advisor
Kathy Jacobsen
I hired Diane Dandeneau for learning budget
put into GU for learning budget money
as documented into my OP7
 
after our work time: Coco
Notes on changes: color coded what is added.
decided to not have so many new options going
select the few that are working well
website design will have fewer extra COCO art brain designed pages
more left brain for this OP
prove to myself can be balanced this way
not symmetrical but asymmetrical
vindicating my elf Loretta- tell her she had a gold nugget idea
go with my own way
balance my 2 brains
not react to other’s brains
let Todd know he influenced my becoming more left brained
& make it work

Coco Buddy call 2 hours 8-10am 28 September 2011

From: Ariane Burgess <labyrintista@caminodepaz.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 11:05:46 +0100
To: Coco Gordon <cocogord@mindspring.com>
Subject: notes from 28 September 2011 call
Thanks for a great session on Wednesday. Here are your notes.
xxAriane


What's going well?
Sustainable Futures Commission invited Jonathan Todd (son of John) to the community to educate about waste water facility a la living machine.
People on the committee are getting on board and the committee is working by itself more.
Super sky woman gives CG  the power to do things: listening, proactive, don't get into arguments, always on defensive.
Economic localization -
liaison for Economic development council.
Getting other people to take the power
3 hr conversation with engineer on win-win
Receiving acknowledgement from people - discovering who's "getting it"

What's challenging?
Mother will be 99 and is loosing health - now in a home - time to visit her is taking time from time to work on projects.
Getting people to stay with the sustainability rather than slip back into the old way of doing things.
Developing good relationships with community members.
Up against Monsanto person who's blocking sustainability approach.
Hands filled with town stuff - now also on big box campaign too.
Having to go into people's consciousness and change it.

What's your long term vision and goals?
Getting other people to take up the town sustainability projects so I can do my art work.

What's your next step?
getting into permaculture teaching to get certification going - will do it for a year to year and a half - to work with the new town board.
starting a large scale watershed group.
working on Home - enlarging - new skin - bigger roof and perimeter and 2nd level - studio, business and meeting room.

and 6 months from now?
get the architect to do outer skin.  FINIS

10-5-11 Coco Arianne Buddy Mtg

Check in- 5 min each

What’s going well?

One thing of Output & regenerative soil importance

health of selves continuing

Bulking(?) liver detox & cleanse

starting month long program super healthy prep for winter

will make it without a cold

didn’t go down when partner got cold

working well

Assistant stuff together yet not posted

Soil fertility getting all tools together for first (kiln)?

Piece of work Friday with person re: regenerative soil

biked & a dance pc with river + stones

breakthrough movement within nature g

Good

Found info for writing project, course, foundation workshop

retreats offered, will be writing

Good

Learning toastmasters speech

speared contest went well received compliments as good organizer

general comments show their capability for feedback

have done so much of baby steps

good to calibrate experience based on the feedback

What’s Challenging:

wiggling through part time job

Co-housing forcing computer

not connected enough with plants

this job though ecovillages yet needs to prioritize time within nature

will be departing 

this Relationship enchanting

can balance relationship

but time limits eco generator

those on spiritual path have tendency to say it’s all Maya & why bother

if on own be more immersed in mushrooms this time of year

with him one degree back after bike ride to river

nature’s over there- a dance

appreciate he’s wonderful

Longterm Goals:

land food growing garden

retreat space for main society who need time for retreat

Next steps:

get more active on website blogging with much material at Findhorn

time’s up -sounds like

Monkey on tropical island

Coco:

What’s going well:

JTED

Garden harvest

Raw Cooking ready to do

Challenging:

Long term vision

Next steps:

Arianne writes all:

Work-Break time: hour & ten minutes

WHAT WE WILL DO: work on our OPs

Coco will work on the longer parts to make concise  (worked on not finished)

reorder the contents page   (completed)

move the info around to proper places on web pp (some completed)

Arianne will Design OP8 END RESULT

Like Pictures made to be result

Set up coaching appointments to talk to 2 people

What we did:

Edges - Did good

didn’t to everything

wrote emails -work with coach strategist

proposed how work together + dates

OP 8 design bubble

think what it will look like-

be a video a pc of excel a photo

not quite out to world to see yet - not sensible for GU

gets into the output that way

Visuals how fit together

digiphon will be same as OP7

can knock out

put red pencil around

need to create &  make elements on large paper -not vue mindmap 

already did mindmap as contents page & project output specification

what to look at first

roadmap + arrows to read it 

non linear contents page main category & sub categories-

+ some left brain shapes-

World dominated by left brain thinking

Communicating with left brain people

not good to start out with right brain a-to B-to c

Genius happens in right brain

brings synthesis- more intuitive sensitive way of being

get stuck in left brain challenges linear

wont help get out of it-

find a solution- Educational context -

Composing music is left brain-

Coco thought: sound is abstract-

Did OP 8 design assistant work & made 2 emails

Reflection:

How does it work with others?

Note GU-piece is holding time to focus on something specific

& coming back is instant reflection

noticed we wanted a certain yield in time

neither accomplished that in the time-

unrealistic in time managements-

need to work on

Coco asked re: Living machine at Findhorn –

Arianne: Michael Shaw biometrics-water - was part of the team.

End of session a few minutes allowed to go over. Next session

Wed same time 8-19am Oct 12th

Thanks again for this format, it worked well.

ooma-oo

From: Ariane Burgess <labyrintista@caminodepaz.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 11:05:46 +0100
To: Coco Gordon <cocogord@mindspring.com>
Subject: notes from 28 September 2011 call

Thanks for a great session on Wednesday. Here are your notes.
xxAriane

Coco Gordon 28 September 2011

What's going well?
Sustainable Futures Commission invited Jonathan Todd (son of John) to the community to educate about waste water facility a la living machine.
People on the committee are getting on board and the committee is working by itself more.
Super sky woman gives CG  the power to do things: listening, proactive, don't get into arguments, always on defensive.
Economic localization -
liaison for Economic development council.
Getting other people to take the power
3 hr conversation with engineer on win-win
Receiving acknowledgement from people - discovering who's "getting it"

What's challenging?
Mother will be 99 and is loosing health - now in a home - time to visit her is taking time from time to work on projects.
Getting people to stay with the sustainability rather than slip back into the old way of doing things.
Developing good relationships with community members.
Up against Monsanto person who's blocking sustainability approach.
Hands filled with town stuff - now also on big box campaign too.
Having to go into people's consciousness and change it.

What's your long term vision and goals?
Getting other people to take up the town sustainability projects so I can do my art work.

What's your next step?
getting into permaculture teaching to get certification going - will do it for a year to year and a half - to work with the new town board.
starting a large scale watershed group.
working on Home - enlarging - new skin - bigger roof and perimeter and 2nd level - studio, business and meeting room.

and 6 months from now?
get the architect to do outer skin

9-2-11 buddy notes

A & I Decided not to do the 4 questions: but get into what we both need to work collaboratively on our Ops to get them done

Ariane: Europe guild call with: What’s challenging -help each other stay on track:

•A. needs more exploration in deeper support

grading communicating work to other knowledge commons can  go, Oh, a way in & her peer review & main advisor -how reflects back, has balance been a problem?

A. was in process in major project in NYC off the ground- never wrote the report one piece;

The other piece missed something in 1st orientation, now getting it in the capstone year

put OPs too much into orientation?

want to function with action learning

scientific experiment the yields am looking for then go into action learning journey then do report have I met my yields have I learned fertile land framing me  giving direction

something event to start

lead into a timely pace

process & artmaking enthusiasm

brilliant inspired by that

experiencing

Arianne lived on lower east side 21 years, I lived in Tribeca 25 years.

living in city powerful magical city:

changing patterns & realizing no longer in the city whole world out here be into as much as possible resistance to computer is challenging for GU TANGIBLE WITH HAND & NATURAL WORLD AM BREATHING ALIVE KIND OF TIGHTENING EXPERIENCE

Coco: do some CELLULAR BREATHING

meta theme is fertile imagination main piece is fertility touches many things: creativity new seeds literally fertile soil giving birth to children new areas-

another thread of pathway labyrinth- made own living now in Scotland need to find economic thread all GU work geared to finding work again social regeneration people would pay for more into business track:

we have a parallel missing  I myself- the wild bit-

I have that for you

drive my bare bones in coming year OP talk about meta pathways to regenerate myself to make it through the work Ops embrace online business web presence people can find me & pay you for it-

you can help me here taking me the whole story of making labyrinths need to write it that people can know about in BOOK version- do outline proposal

I can help you there (publishing & making own books) I talked about how I began publishing others to then start another press to publish my own when needed.

OP 11 is soil fertility project piece is we’ve managed to destroy soil need to start making it

I can help you here Inoculum, sheet mulch, practices with worms

Ties w labyrinth symbolizing wound degenerative rebirth & transformation inviting into that space now go further to create soil

Do that for selves healing earth creating the soil outwardly the internal thing going on

I can help with all that Sheetmulching worms

Times checking that action learning is happening & actual reporting time maybe helping to bookmark time

Time slips, say make apt we’ll meet in this time we will do output work-

Ecovillage design money systems

Here as me we need to be doing the new systems, we have to pay the bills, project based labyrinth retreat to be funded:

We’re in the cracking apart but need to interact with it build up the new systems-

Vibrant LETS scheme: Bernard Laetier there’s a high level of people in mainstream with no inkling value things by paying for them:

PDC’s challenge price is weird how expensive it is yet they are barely covering costs generosity & inviting in audience complain about the cost of it

Whole other set wouldn’t dream if it  doesn’t cost enough

Putting together in NY a design course here are the things we need to have a Sust Future

Course index page for big book sampling of stuff

This is where you can go here, A pc of cheese now, the whole meal next

Course that would touch the people, to pay for something like that

I am doing that on Community commission govt local basis-

Edges, find that schizophrenic

Pc of online business not about making $ about reaching mainstream middle America making choices: power to make changes

Regenerative project leadership training program living in executive bungalows now are good comrades colleagues of mine ho entwined they are in consumer culture almost not a choice

They have back gardens can be gardened & children as future:

My same parallel those who have goats- I do one to one

 

A. Marketing to women in late 40’s succeeded in business & have children

Comraderie across the world

Love my totally high energy vitality tenacity

That is my SuperSkyWoman kicking in, deals with timelessness of origins into future, Is indefatigable she came from the 1st , 1st world & made it through to now-

Send Todd Jones collaboration process name to Arianne- DONE 9-5-11

Asked Arianne to coach me on working outputs together: not getting output done

Time arranged once a week getting things done

We meet & speak briefly 3 hours accomplish check back in & get back in someone there

Am willing to try this approach think n listen.

Matrix –A will exchange with me - get to action learning part & be free of the OP to discuss.

Set date for Sept 9th fri noon-2pm

Brilliant - Coco

10-12-11 Buddy Guild Skype call notes by Coco for A. - Skype- Breaking up voice

Is Rebooting computer - full hard drive couldn’t type or speak

25 min used so far-

Arianne:

What’s going well:

Clear about output 8 online marketing business

It’s a thing don’t want to do

haven’t been doing it

folks to dinner great conversation

realized heart’s not in that way of promoting in the world

OP11 a link to organization called Community Woodlands Association

seeding projects on edible forest garden & biochar 

good to converse with women

is Scottish based

teach them all

OP9 coaching strategy working with people who want to create communities

have two potential clients

need Qs for package for one,

2nd is  Gaia associate-perhaps was too confident to be able to help him out

OP10 is the book

Arven Foundations -they do writing  & retreats writing about your life

mix non fiction with fiction

is full - on waiting list  -can pay for the course -they give grants -is doable

going well

Loving my bicycle went with partner Chantille going on highest path in Britain,

What’s challenging?

challenge offset cold Scottish autumn not camping

stay in B&B

Work part time for co-housing

don’t see how it fits into being a social regenerator

designing departure- no contract but want to do formally

yet He’s holding on to her

Managing time is challenging

Online social marketing was a cork stopping everything else moving forward

rethinking decision feels good

Since 2006 spread in different ways

a lot of knowledge -expertise

not clear how want to come out end of year

Longterm visions & goals

a piece about Val -she has a good perception

seeing what capacities & interest are, shaping & forming

use as skilflex advisor

living on land beautiful simple foodhasn’t changed

labyrinth retreat to regenerate

Next steps:

OP8 part of speech club, stacking functions

making speech for outputs

“The virtues of being virtual”

talk about realizations that it is not where I wish to go

be embodied in-my-body meetings

A will have me review her OP- Send email invites to 3-4 videos later today

+password for portfolio on GEl

Report on this past hour of stated goal:

Arianne: Love of the Toastmasters organization

Parallel to PDC’S

Teach to speak in front of people

for those doing great ecosocial work & need to speak confidently.

is on 4TH project of 10, taking what you learn from previous speeches

then take it to next

one syllable  word  short sentence  paragraph

meant for the ear

is reading through the manual getting main points in

formulaic way of speech writing:

“tell them what you are going to tell them”

“tell them”

“then tell them you told them”

with 3 main points , then conclude

Orally have to be repetitious

opposite of writing

In oral tradition especially with new material

Exciting because of what all we Gaians do in shifting consciousness

be a bridge to the language or want to live this way

Coco: Avant Garde poetry circles back to the oral traditions

Shaking the Pumpkin by Jerome Rothenberg collection of indigenous oral poetry

Alice Kidd from BC & her work with the St’At’imc people using the St’at’imcets language

Arianne: Many situations realize oral tradition

Meet in 2 weeks Oct 26th same time 8-10am

Good work.

Arianne notes for Coco: Gaia Buddy notes for 12 October 2011

What's going well?
Chamber of Commerce meeting - getting info for setting up business.  Met woman with silkscreen company.
Great health - thyroid pills giving energy
Respect from committee members - and more members running with the work that needs to be done.
Abundant garden.
Permacutlure 101 taking shape

What's challenging?
Lots of challenges - cumulative effect of many initiatives that are all coming to head at same time:
- BioCouncil -
- Commission appointed to
- 3 other's liaison to - and need to be aware of what they are all up to. Economic Dev Council, Engineering Utilities Board, Ecology Board (Trees, Weeds and ///)
Mom needing a lot  of attention.
OP7 - everything planning to do has shifted.

Long term vision and goals:

Invisible structure for next 3 permaculture courses.
keeping activist stuff going and bring in art

Next Step:

get back to art projects.
What I want to do in this work session
Work on OP7 to get it ready for Peer Review.

What I did in this work session:

Learned something from Ariane in check in - Key word  – Embodied – put attention to embodying – feeling centered. Being more present to everything.
and managed to fit breakfast into the process.
Edited OP7 – sorted out conflicting information and making links.
Only 2 things to do – photos of 4 projects and evaluation and can then send it to Ariane.