How did your thinking change tonight?

“I think we surfaced some of the assumptions about ‘stepping up to the plate.’ I’m glad that people are starting to articulate what is risk-taking—and especially how this group can be more than a support group for those who have been doing the work.
I worry that the word student was not used much.”

“I began to look at myself and ask why am I here? I have a need/desire to learn more and to be around positive people. We are all faced with issues and handle them differently but being in a positive professional environment places a different view on where I am and what I want to be doing. My thinking led me to know and face the fact that I am indeed searching for more. What is it ???…”

“thinking change?
• really excited about the idea of moving the group forward
• hadn’t thought about observations in a long time—now think it would be exciting.
=> I think we need to acknowledge the importance of trust when talking about risk-taking—
=> What is leadership? I am not sure it is the same for everyone--?”

“I just want to say ‘so what’?
Will we do meaningful work?
Will we really impact the educational community?
Will we go beyond the walls of traditional CFG?
Can’t we use the processes to become something more?”

“I’m excited. I see big possibilities. I like Michaelann’s idea of leadership. We have to make ourselves public. It would be great to show how CFG facilitation works in a variety of settings.”

“My thinking changed because what I thought I valued (getting paid for the opportunities that being a part of this group brings through facilitating events) never came out during the exercise.” I truly value the networking, conversation, and collaboration of this group of people who truly want to be enriched mentally, spiritually and holistically.”

“My thinking has changed very little but I am processing more and I hope I will have a mind shift—very soon—
I want more rigor as Mary put and putting everyone’s talent center stage”

“Not necessarily changed, but allowed for a deeper reflection of why I come to these meetings and are my needs being met.
I enjoyed the conversation around discovering our vision. I was hoping to get an end result, but perhaps more time to reflect will be beneficial.”

“I moved from a focus on getting my own needs met to a focus on ‘growing’ our work in the ‘outside’ community. I saw more commonalities than differences among us today—for the first time.”

“Before, I thought of this group as a more inward looking entity. Now I have an idea that the work of this group could extend beyond ourselves. I didn’t know that this was a desire for this group to be known at all outside of itself. Is this a need for recognition which stems from the feeling that justification for existence needs to be external? I don’t know.”

“Not much—this conversation has come up before (in a smaller group, in a different format, similar ‘vision.’ I, like Michaelann, think that this group is on the verge. . . I also think that not much progress was heretofore because of the fluidity of the members of the group. We seem to be developing more of a ‘core’ group so that we can look to developing what we want to look like how we want to be, what we want to do.”