Visioning and Volunteering

Our New Beginnings Community Meeting included a survey of what you would like to see the Center offer, and in what new endeavors you would like to lead or volunteer your time. There were 5 large survey sheets on the wall, which are condensed below (pdf). This is just the beginning of an ongoing conversation.

” is a checkmark, representing additional persons who thought this a good idea.

Shambhala and Buddhist trainings and teachers I’m interested in.

  • Formal Dharma Art Foundational Classes
  • Dharma/Buddhist approach to finance/money
  • SG/MI training
  • Sunday AM Sit
  • Book Study of Gampopa’s “Jewel Ornament of Liberation”
  • Pass along my experience in the ST levels, SSBStudies (?author?)
  • Hang more thangkas in the Center (esp. replace the big pics of the horses in the Comm Rm. Where is the big red Buddha thangka that used to hang in the old shrine room?).

 
Non-Buddhist classes, trainings, events I’d like to participate in.

  • Regular (quarterly?) Inter-faith dialogue panel/talks
  • Japanese Tea Ceremony
  • Community yoga
  • Mindful hikes
  • Monthly potlucks (Doraine)
  • Enrichment Programs Community (Vincent)
  • Learning about our local watersheds (Anna) (?trainings with Bluegrass Greensource)

 
Community Connections/volunteering that I want to do

  • Contribute to Care and Conduct to convey materials that used to be called Kasung (Judith?) √
  • Inter-ethnic/socio-economic connections
  • Meditation in prison
  • LGBTQI (Frankye)
  • Habitat for Humanity building project
  • Presence at open-houses on UK Campus (eg., table at Freshman Orientation and Volunteer Fair)

 
Governance/organizational structure ideas

  • Dedicated responders/protocols for when someone in crisis contacts the center
  • Add an officially recognized “citizen voice” to some council meetings (a regular old meditator, the person who attends café/sits but not otherwise ‘political’ or ‘administrative’)
  • Interested in discussions of local governance models (Lucia, Frankye, Doraine, Craig)
  • Join/get listed in BG Commun Fdn KY Non-Profit Directory (bgcf.org)
  • Join the Good Giving Challenge for 2022 (registration 7/1-9/1, held 11/29/2022, bggives.org and www.bgcf.org
  • Create ‘caring circles’ for reaching out to our members

 
Wide-open thing I’d like o do at/with the Center

  • Depolarization skills training
  • Racial justice programs
  • Shrinking carbon footprint (Vincent)
  • Build environmental awareness into our purchases and facility management (Lucia)
  • More ikebana awareness and practice
  • Sound Baths
  • Movement Program
  • Intro to Mindfulness
  • Music
  • Improv
  • Death Café/end of life planning

 
Here are some roles we need to fill

  • Building Care-Lucia, Vincent, Anna S
  • Social media admins – Karl (M&M), Anna K (Instagram)
  • Leadership/Council – Arts – Karl;
  • Committees
    • Care and Conduct – Lucia (re: sacred space); Vincent
    • Finance – Lucia
    • Special Events – Sallie, Doraine
    • Practice and Education – Lucia, Gary S, Susan
    • AV
    • Arts – Karl (Chair); Vincent, Brooke, Anna S
    • Website Refresh – Doraine
    • Communication/marketing/newsletter – Sallie