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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?

Copyright © Gerald Dillenbeck | Year Posted 2022

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