Participants: Lakshmi, Geet, Sandhya
IDEA 1:
Idea of Cooking in the iCenter. Have people come and eat. We could do it by calling someone as a speaker. Can call Binal, who is a naturopathy doctor and runs under the umbrella of CharityFocus (founder of KarmaClinic). In combination with food, we could host an event in the international center. We could occupy their kitchen from 5:30-7:30 PM- shouldn't be an issue with the iCenter.
But if we want do a fundraiser, not sure what the rules are. For example, if we are excited about a project for Kiva and want to raise money to microfinance someone, we could do it through food or individually. We could get people excited about ayurveda, healthy living, etc. and focus it. Important to attract the right kind of people. I feel if you say Ayurvedic food, people who are interested would show up. We can do this during the summer quarter, weekday evening
Target for early July. A lot of people will be gone for their internships. Most start work on the 15th of Jun.
IDEA 2: Pick the theme of conflict management and mediation, call speakers and open it up
Useful at home and outside. Potential Speaker:
Michael Nagler from the Metta Center. Pancho could be another speaker.
IDEA 3: Go on a tour of CharityFocus.
+ Go on a wednesday together
+ Meet with the Mehta family separately (maybe cook for them all on a Tuesday and help them prepare for the Wednesday) - this should be done after people have experienced a Wednesday
+ Go to Karma Kitchen - SUN
+ Volunteer in Karma Kitchen in a subsequent week - SUN
IDEA 4: Go to a soup kitchen nearby
IDEA 5: Second Harvest Food Bank - they have food distribution days, on Fri afternoons. We can go on one of them, if it fits people's schedules
IDEA 6: Maybe someone can collect compost from people's homes and dump it in the city composting center
IDEA 7: Create a forum to give space to women in spirituality. People we could invite:
+ Pavi Mehta (CharityFocus, Karma Kitchen, Filmmaker, Writer)
+ Guri Mehta (CharityFocus, Karma Kitchen, and she started us off..)
+ Binal (Naturopath, CharityFocus, Karma Kitchen)
+ Other women we meet in Wednesdays
+ Ask Nipun about lady monk who gave a talk on Tibetan Book of the Dead
+ Sue Ann McKean (Aikido, Vedanta)
+ Jane Poe (Ayurveda, Vedanta, Child Psychology)
+ Maheen Adamson (Sufi, Stanford Neuroscience)
+ Linda Hess (Buddhist, Nirguni (Kabir), Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford, Gandhi scholar) - screen the film on Linda and then have interactions with her
Those who didn't attend the meeting should feel free (are required ;) to add to this list. We look forward to your reactions, ideas, and plans to implement some of these.
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