Orientation Questions

What is your orientation to physical and mental and organizational and residential health care? Is it more about personal health or more embedded in Earth and EarthTribe organic health? asked our new Board Member 1. When you attend your final membership meeting, which has become a celebratory event engaging the school and residential families and neighboring allies, What do you most hope people will say, with full integrity, with transparent gratitude, about your service here on this Executive Board? 2. What is your most important unresolved issue while serving on our Board right now? Is that issue explicitly on the table or is it kept off the shared agenda? 3. Thinking about that particular issue, how have you supported an integrated, transparent win/win problem-solving dialogue? And, how have you contributed to a more competitive win/lose Me v Other debate-- heated or deadly silent? 4. When you think about your own leadership style, do you see your highest and best potential value as an Empowerer, an Enlightener-Educator, or as an experienced Professional providing an employment-related service? 5. Imagine that you live in your co-invested community with your gay black son in his last year at our Charter School, and your daughter, with cerebral palsy, who is in a preschool room at our next-door School. All three of you are having a perfect spring day. What does that day look and sound like? How does it feel? What calms your doubts and fears? How do your neighbors and your kids' classmates appropriately, compassionately, touch your lives, your hopes, your shared dreams? What indoor and outdoor smells and tastes do you gratefully experience? 6. As you reflect on how power and passion have been used in response to property issues, how has Board culture been informed by macroeconomic Earth-Cooperative investment opportunities, by nonviolent communication, by restorative justice for sustaining long-term environmental health and resilient well-being? 7. How has Board culture been influenced by microeconomic risks and competitions between residential unit owners and renters and non-residential investors and the diverse commercial school constituencies including the School Board, administrators, teachers, parents, older students, and younger students? 8. If you could change any one bad communication habit of Board Room culture by merely snapping your fingers, what would be the good communication practice that would thereby result?