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

[Jessica Zane]

Hi Kate, Thanks so much for letting me know what happened!! I'm not sure why but I feel much better now that I've heard from you. In the grand scheme of things it's no biggie, so you can let yourself off the hook!

So, is the next meeting in SF on the 27th?? And it's supposed to start at 7:30? Confirm that for me if you can (or give me the correct info) -- I'll make sure the other two folks also know about it, and hopefully they will come again. 

Cheers - Jessica


On Mar 14, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Kate DeGraaf wrote:

> 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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Jessica Zane
603/852-3498
jeszane at gmail.com




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