•    Family
•    Commitment
•    Self-care
•    Work/life balance
•    Honesty
•    Love and nonviolence
•    Understanding
•    Relationships
•    Courage and family
•    Viewing someone as a full person
•    Self-care and humbleness
•    Openness and friendship
•    Family and self awareness
•    Maturity and courage
•    Family and ability to let go
•    Courage and humility

•    Flowers
•    Children playing
•    Neighbors talking
•    Complete families – moms and dads together
•    Calmness
•    Place where folks who need help can go – no shame involved
•    Community garden
•    Fields with tractors and neighbors working together
•    Open space
•    Rural space
•    Children being active playing and helping in fields – no TV or iPods
•    Quiet spot where people could go for solitude
•    Bike paths
•    Beautiful day
•    Sunny, warm
•    Happy people
•    Children laughing
•    Artists
•    Town hall setting where anyone could come to propose changes, not just politics but anything that goes on
•    All kinds of modes of transport
•    Families with pets
•    People helping people
•    Welcoming place that partnered new people with established people
•    People cooking together
•    Community markets – fresh veggies and fruit, abundance, with trade instead of buying things
•    Peace and quiet
•    Fresh clean air
o    Early morning, right after rain
•    Healthy people mixed community of health
•    Elderly without breathing devices, out interacting with others
•    People exercising as part of what they’re doing
•    Mountain biking (not in the gym)
•    All systems work together for common good
•    Fairness toward all families
•    Conducive for all types of creativity – more inventive
•    Combining spaces but not necessarily confined to space
•    End of greed
•    Inclusive
•    Not wasteful – using resources well
•    Shared goals
•    Leveraging resources instead of competing
o    Human and financial, etc.
•    Focus on need instead of the want
•    Focus on love instead of fear
•    Unconditional acceptance
•    Gay couples/lesbian couples able to hold hands
•    More relaxed and thoughtful, less instant gratification
•    Inclusive
•    Systems – everyone engaged in all systems
•    Social ethic – not thinking of others as separate – interdependent
•    More resourceful
•    Recalibrating bottom line with social ethics – values would be beyond money – valuing nature and neighbors
•    A not for profit sector
•    Pick up the phone to call someone when you need help
•    For the good of all and not just one
•    Work together
•    Communication
•    Cooperation
•    Leaders who show courage and collaboration
•    You have to have a vision
•    Food/beer
•    Plenty of water
•    More balance between rich and poor
•    People excited about spontaneous serving others
•    No neglect – solid family values, family responsibility
•    Less critical, more open and understanding
•    Acceptance for what people are, they don’t have to change anything
•    No sirens
•    In a grocery store – convenient, clean, a place where you see people you know, healthy food
•    A place where people come to fellowship together
•    People thinking with hearts rather than heads
•    Community center for spiritual quests, with books – kind of like a library
•    Peace and quiet
•    Equal distribution of wealth
•    No crime rate – peace and quiet
•    People living peacefully together
•    Community responsibility and ownership
•    People supporting each other
•    People communicating across cultural differences

•    Leaders emerge because they want to
•    Government (community) takes on fulfilling needs
•    Emerge because they have a passion
•    Do away with some nonprofits – needs are met by community
•    Nobody falls in the cracks
•    Leaders are the community
•    Leaders are from inside and outside community
o    Outsiders can bring fresh eyes
•    Communities work with other communities
•    If there is a true leader, you can feel it, you just know

•    Developing understanding of nonprofit
•    Focus on positive aspect of any family
•    Connect people in need with those who have wealth, acting as a hub for community
•    Capability of purpose
•    Welcoming people into community
•    Collapse government, business, and nonprofit
•    For social good
•    Instead of national, big bureaucracy

•    Different expectations
•    Power
•    Ideas are there, but putting it together is cumbersome
•    Lack of trust

•    Earth Force and PeaceJam working together
•    Northern and Southern Teller’s GED Program
•    Partnered with Aspen Mine Center

•    Being a leader – people want to help but don’t want to organize to get it going
•    Creating an art center
•    Be a part of something larger
•    Some people do not want to be part of a community
•    Balance between community and individuality
•    Sometimes there is energy but it gets lost when details/legal issues need to be dealt with
•    Supporter
•    Raise your voice, must be prophetic in some way
•    To be a better leader – need to be a strong advocate but be a better listener
•    Be aware of everything in the community

•    Executive director
•    Stems from need – prioritizing need
•    Needs identified by constituents
•    Part of the problem
•    How do you identify the biggest need to allocate resources
•    Forums for collective decision making – not top down – allowed to be messy
•    Starts at bottom and works its way up
•    Clients – staff – exec. Committee – excutive director – board
•    Funnel of information

•    Send it to congress
•    Share with like minded groups
•    Social networking through Piton
•    Compiling information and making a wiki