Recently Michael helped us explore our vision for the reunion.  I am including his minutes.  Posts of separate categories with the comment option will follow.

Logistics - Mom plans to start working on it this week

• Thinking about chartering a plane or driving
• Finalize plans
• Share the vision of the trip with the family
• Invite participation in planning and identifying areas they want to help
• Have people feel the freedom to come forward with their ideas and let the structure emerge as people are willing to feel ownership of certain parts of the structure
• Establish categories of activities, things of interest
• Communicate needs for leadership and organization
• Help to create structure, not chaos
• Coordinate for different preferences around having a plan with no deviation vs insisting on deviation

Purposes

• Relationships
• Reinforce our good feelings for each other
• Renew connections and make connections
• Facilitate the kind of honesty of communication, trust, understanding and support that comes from spending time together
• Create lasting relationships
• Renew the genetic and spiritual connections we have from past experiences together and make then strong enough to help with the variables that happen in mortality
• Encourage a good family feeling
• Reinforce the value of time spent together
• Open our lives to include family
• Discover how much honesty and trust is in our relationships
• Help people discover relationships with family member who didn't grow up together

Activities and Plans

• Not having families isolate themselves
• An opportunity for cousins to be together and interact with each other
• Have activities involving different groups
• Encourage water time
• Get the most people involved
• Event-enough oriented that people can be attracted to group activities
• Family dinner (Maybe different families host a meal.  Maybe different groups. E.g. maybe the boys or the girls are in charge of a meal)
• Have planning and structure, and also spontaneity (e.g. golf simulator at the warehouse on Christmas Eve.
• Flexible enough to deal with anything that. haplpens