I am a bit confused – are we still creating new vision statements? If so I would be concerned that a nine point vision statement does not work. If we are going into this level of detail in a mission and vision statement we need something more hierarchical. I gave that a shot with Peter and a few others, but was told that we were not re-creating the vision statement. (I do think it is a very important piece to come out of this)
Like everyone else I am so busy doing this work that I’m having a hard time keeping up with the thread. For my part I want to continue to ask (and re-ask) the question of the end-game: What are we hoping comes of all of this work we are doing? Perhaps selfishly I want the map, and I am willing to drop a few things to have a first session on creating the map. I would need three or four of you to join me for a first session of an hour to get started (min viable map-initiation session). Secondly I would like a mission statement that I can use. For it to be useful it needs to be succinct, inclusive, powerful, and progressive in its level of detail (needs the short paragraph version and the one page version). And most importantly it needs to explicitly represent the diversity of voices that are gathered here.
These two things (map and mission) would make my daily work - which is forests-and-wood-all-day-every-day - easier and more effective.