[Bay.area.icarus] [icarus-oakland] San Francisco Meeting

[Kate DeGraaf]

Hey,
So I did go to CIIS the other night. I'm feeling like a crazy person
right now because I showed up for 7 pm, and I came with notes for
facilitation and everything, showed up 5 minutes early and waited for
20 minutes for people to show up. I was so sad that I was all alone
and I went to the city for nothing. After getting these emails I
realized that I showed up too early and I am super embarrassed that I
spaced on a meeting time that I was supposedly organizing. Many
apologies. Just for the record, we have been meeting regularly and
usually there are other people besides me that have facilitated
meetings in the past. I really don't know how I spaced on the time
that badly, but it happened. Please bear with me. I really am an
organized person 90% of the time.

Kate

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Jessica Zane <jeszane at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm sending this out to both list serves because I'm not really sure who to
> send this note to.
>
> I went to the SF Icarus meeting tonight... and there were two other people,
> also new (it was their first meeting, my third, counting two Oakland meets I
> attended). No one else came. I shared with them how the format was in the
> Oakland meeting and we ended up doing a check-in with one another and then
> left early. I'm glad the three of us connected.
>
> I'm not angry or upset but I do think it's really bad form to organize a
> meeting and then not have anyone from the core group show up. Luckily none
> of us were particularly in immediate crisis, or anything like that.
>
> I really get that this is a grassroots sort of thing and shit happens. I'm
> also big on self-care and responsibility stuff so I hope this doesn't sound
> like a blaming thing. I'm just a little concerned about one person who came
> to the meeting, who had confirmed by email, someone who is brand new to
> Icarus, and also really new on "the journey."
>
> I would love to hear from the organizers of the SF meeting about what
> happened, it would be nice to know and I can communicate with the other two
> people - I want them to feel like they can connect again with Icarus. And in
> the future, maybe there's a way to put a note on the meeting room door that
> says something like "sorry but we had to cancel the meeting at the last
> moment." Something like that?
>
> Thanks -
>
> - Jessica
>
> ________________
> Jessica Zane
> 603/852-3498
> jeszane at gmail.com
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