We Came, We Convened, We Created.
Last Friday night a good number of Violets came together to play, converse, eat and sleep. We then woke up to eat some more before getting down to the business of creating our Mission and planning for the celebration of our first year together. Violet member Jane Silver offered up a cozy place for us to stay. We gathered around the fireplace taking turns indulging in one of the two massage chairs, snacked on pizza, played a silly picture game, laughed, chatted and finished the evening up with a hot tub followed by a sauna. After a surprisingly good sleep (in true slumber party style most of us slept on the floor) we created a full spread of breakfast delights including pumpkin waffles, fresh fruits, cheeses and more.
All that socializing proved to be great inspiration for our Mission-statement-brainstorming-session because we ended up crafting a statement that we all were excited about in less than an hour! With only a few more hours before we would tie things up we decided to focus our attention on planning for our First Annual Event where we plan to celebrate our first year together and vote in our newly proposed Mission Statement. We pulled together the main details and timeline of our event and assigned roles to those present. Other items we had originally wanted to discuss like better ways to streamline our communications or what other events we might host in 2010 were put on hold as we decided it made more sense to do this after our annual event so that new members could be included.
Please take a look at the notes from our retreat (click on link in page) and please, please don’t feel shy about letting us know if you would like to participate in any way. We will be meeting at Atticus Coffee House at 10:00am tomorrow morning before Ladies Who Lunch to discuss merchandise and the party; we would love to have more people join us.
I’ll end by sharing the Mission Statement we created and will be presenting for a vote at our Annual Event:
The Shrinking Violet Society is a Dynamic Social Co-Op of Fresh-Minded Individuals Sustaining Creative Endeavors.
A Saucy Social Co-Op!
We are dedicated to:
- Promoting Localism
- Building Intentional Friendships
- Affirming Sass & Independence
- Nurturing Artistic Abundance
- And Circulating Our Passion
I couldn’t access the notes via the link–could someone email them to me?
Also, I dig Crystal’s princess Leah hat.
What a wonderful experience it was!
I love the term “social co-op”. I googled it and nothing came up, so I believe that makes you guys the inventor of the word! I will be so excited when it catches on and everyone knows what it means.
Brook, the link thing is kind of weird; you have to click on the link in the page you get to after you click on the link in the post. Hint: Click where it says, “2009SVSRetreat” underneath where it says, “2009SVSRetreat”.
So dorky I know but I couldn’t figure out how to get it to go straight to the doc.
btw… missed you girls and hope you’re feeling better!
And one more thing, I only spelled your name wrong Brooke because I work with a “Brook”. oops.