Updating Together

Here are updates for Coming Together:

We have had the first two legit sessions. They were both wonderful. We now have 879 team spirit points, well on our way to our goal of over 9000 points. Well, how did we get here?

Session one on January 11, 2009 we got points as follows:

160 for attendance:
Chloe + 20
Kang + 10
Julia + 20
Zach + 10
Mike + 10
Al + 10
Marissa + 20
Steve + 10
Emily + 10
Lesley + 20
Jess + 20

15 for washing our feet, and Al and Jess not needing to because they are in love already and don't need to wash each others' feet before they touch them.

20 for trust flying

2 for Blue team vs. Red Team (went well, but there's a lot of room for growth)

10 for having first legit session

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS

2 for Mike for Gorilla Knucks
2 for Kang for Facing his ticklishness
3 for Toby (the cat) and our growing relationship with him

TOTAL: 214
RUNNING TOTAL: 619

Session two on January 18, 2009 we got points as following:

70 for attendance:
Kate + 10
Mike + 10
Al + 10
Lesley + 10
Marissa + 10
Jess + 10
Steve + 10

75 for a genuine laughing circle, and the evolution of that into other things

20 points for going through learning how to walk. It was not legit BMC because it was spur of the moment and I (steve) didn't remember exactly the process, but it got us up to walking, which was great. Marissa will get more involved with Body Mind Centering activities in later sessions, to the benefit of all.

35 for Al's Walking Magnets exercise, and bouncing

20 for Accumulation: the Accumulation is a sequence which we will build on. for every level we reach for the day, we will get X10 points. so today we got to level 2, so we got 20 points.

28 (14 X 2) for Extreme Value Composition exercise. (X 2 because it was buy one get one free for pistachio's at Jewel)

INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS

2 for Marissa for being involved and leading our party during the accumulation
10 for Mike for the accumulation being his first "Dance Class" experience

TOTAL: 260
RUNNING TOTAL: 879


MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We have developed a "lock box" system. Ok, so it's actually an Iron Man slurpee mug from 7-11. But it functions as a lock box. The new idea is for sessions to be $5 or however much you can pay (as opposed to the splitting the cost evenly idea). Money goes either directly to the people who run the space we are renting, or into the "lock box" fund. This fund will be used to pay in advance for space rental (because usually you need to pay at least a little in advance). This fund will also be used for setting up a fundraiser, eventually. And the money from that fundraiser will, likewise, go into this fund. Once we have enough money consistently in the fund, I (Steve) or a Treasurer, should anyone want to volunteer, will open a real bank account for The Dance Team. Then after a year maybe we can apply for 501(c)(3)?