Core Team Notes 9/17/17

core_team_notes_9-17-17.md

Todos/Commitments

• Jordan to email Ben about researching new places
• Men to review their Core Team roles and take appropriate actions

Team Checkins

Umoto:

• Core team met 4 times this year
• divided up the men among core team
  • checkins weekly
  • Doing MBA exercises with each man
• We created exercises to prepare men for the MBA program
• We want to make sure that every man has an MBA list that is inspiring, actionable, and measurable
• Core team aims for low drama
• Core team works hard to be unified in our plan with our voice
• Have themes for every single Wednesday
• Men seem bought in on the intra-week calls
• Sad that we can't take on any new men
• Merging circling 1.0 and 2.0

Logistics

• 16 men one night, 19 men second
• 4 men in HC
  • 3 existing
  • 1 second season

SF - Eclipse

• two groups combined into one big circle
• Minimal logistics, minimal overhead, maximum authenticity
• Not being the force that pushes men, but taking the time to really be together
• Intrepid came away with a really strong sense of circling
• Eclipse is trying to continue the circling tradition
• Trying to create a culture where men are not passengers
• Not because we have created structures
• Eclipse is trying and take as much HC bureaucracy offline
• Will be flexible with team size

  • Split up into two teams if enough/too many men
    

• MBA started a week late
• Pillars to be a "North Star"

###Logistics:

• Fairly good turnout

  • 15-16 men
    

  • 45% of total circle
    

• Big team:

  • 21 men + 3 in HC
    

• 3 men in HC

  • 2 new men
    

  • 1 repeating
    

• Locations:
  • First and Third at Chrissy
  • 2nd and 4th into the Presidio

Crucible

• Slocum: first time leading, exciting and challenging
• Core team:
  • Mo has one year on Core, but Slocum and Vav are new. Karim brings some experience
  • Change emotionally from Randy leading for two seasons
  • Want to bring in more of the sacred realm into the Circle
  • Focus on accountablility
  • Intention to gather in person
  • Pillar work:
    • In progess and will be a focus
  • Wariness over the bureaucracy of 2.0
• Direction
  • Focus on pillars
  • Riding wave of 2.0
  • Some pushback from men about wanting to Circle
  • Recognizing the foundational pieces that still work
  • Somewhere in between Umoto
• Health of team feels good
  • Good attendance
  • "Feels solid and 'juiced'"

Logisitics

• Turnout:
  • 5 visting
  • 3 mens stepped up
  • 2 new men in HC
• 15 men, 3 in HC
• David Ferrera and Shakiban have signed up for a seasonal engagement

Pillar check ins

• questions:
  • anybody need support for completing pillars?
  • What is the process of HO'ing a person
    • We imagine that each man will bring their list to Circle
• There is a Pillar list -- a spreadhseet doc

Initiation

• Because 2.0 has launched, we can make initiation look different
• Tilden vs. Ocean Beach/Tilden rotation?
  • May be a question for the entire circle
  • Our Votes:
    • Alex: Tradition
    • Ben: Tradition!
    • Slocum: Open to Tilden
    • Frank: Open
    • Alexander: Tradition
    • Mo: Tradition, but open
    • Vav: Privacy, but not attached to where
    • Jordan: Tilden
  • Possible solution is to find a different SF spot

Date Changes

• 2nd Wednesday of 4th month is to be pillar checkout night
  • All Core Team believed this was in the Circle's interest