Potential Questions, Topics and Outcomes
- What common challenges do we face, in our communities and beyond? What unique challenges?
- How can we advise policy makers on these challenges and opportunities?
- How can we facilitate experiments and allow successful ideas around sustainability to emerge and learn from them?
- How do our activities relate to each other and to the whole of the complex, self-organizing systems which are emerging?
- What capacities do we collectively need to build to create a sustainable future?
- What does it mean to build capacity?
- Why is it important (forces, trends, and pressures)
- Which sectors/areas of society are important?
- What is being done now?
- What are methods and techniques?
- What distinguishes an approach to building capacities from current processes?
- What process can we use to work together?
- If we decide on an ongoing relationship for the group, what should be the mission of our group?
- Should the group have a distinct name?
- How many people should be part of the core group?
- Which areas of expertise/representation should be included who aren't?
- What other organizing principles/elements are needed?
- What information do we need to further our goals and objectives?
- How do we collect, manage, distribute and share that information?
- How will we measure our success?
- What are the next steps?