CGW Call #26 - Sunday June 20, 9am Pacific

[colonel]

Hey all!

I'm happy to announce tomorrow's CGW call:

Sunday, June 20th, 9 am - 11 am Pacific (UTC-7)
(= 12 pm Eastern / 6 pm Berlin time)
I know that there have been ideas to move the call to 8 am Pacific, but as it's relatively short notice we'll better keep it at 9 am and if it's better then to end at 10 am that'll be fine, too!

We'll meet up on Skype as we always did except for last week, and if the Skype limit should be exceeded once again, we'll switch to a different technology -- but my guess is that we'll be fine with Skype for now.

So just get on Skype - 5 minutes early if you can so we can figure out whether we can stay on Skype or not - add user 'denisandrejew' to your contacts and message me that you'd like to join the CGW call. If you arrive late, it's alright, we'll get you on the call anyway

That's it for the organizational part, here's a bit of a background story...

Today it's me instead of Matty announcing the call because he asked me whether I'd like to take over, at least for a while. He's quite busy with getting his business going and getting his life organized in the new city, and he felt like it would benefit the call and all the participants if we brought in a few new ideas and fresh leadership. So he asked me if I'd like to take responsibility of the organization and leadership and I happily accepted!
He's still going to join the calls if he can make them, which is great because I think he's an important part of the group, bringing in some great energy every time he's there, whether sharing serious life stories or jokes

I think most of you know me already, but for those who don't:
I've been part of the CGW calls since February or so and I've attended this past CGW #3 and enjoyed it a lot. Personal growth is definitely a passion of mine and at the moment I feel very drawn to "organizing stuff" around that. The CGW Skype call is what inspired me to get a similar thing started for the German-speaking personal development community and it's working out really well so far. We've learned a few things there that could benefit the English CGW call as well.

My mission then with the weekly CGW calls is to organize them, provide leadership and guide the implementation of some improvements to the call's format!
If you want to know more about this, I'll talk about this briefly at the beginning of tomorrow's call and maybe we can already start gathering some feedback about what you like and would like to see improved in the CGW calls and go from that

Looking forward to a wonderful call tomorrow, it'll definitely be fun and a little different from what you've been used to in the previous ones

Talk to you tomorrow!

Hugs,
Denis

[mattyblu]

True story. Denis has some awesome ideas and is going to do a great job with the calls and keeping the band together.

Now let's have some more fun!

[Gene]

Was there a Skype CGW meeting today? I came in about 12:00 PM and there was no one in the chat that I could see. I do have the user name for Denis in my Skype contacts.

[colonel]

Hey Gene,

my bad, I wasn't sure if you wanted to join, I expected you'd message me if you did -- sorry about that, would have loved to have you on the call, Gene!

Next time I'll add all the CGW folks who are online and whoever doesn't want to participate can leave again. I guess that'll be a better way of handling this.

[colonel]

And as information for those who haven't been on the call today:

We collected some feedback about the CGW Skype meetups in general, what the benefits and expectations are to everyone so we can understand better how to do more of the good stuff in future calls

And then we did a segment where we introduced ourselves to the others, which was great for getting to know each other better and understanding where everyone's coming from and moving towards. I just love the atmosphere this creates

So thanks everybody for joining and participating, I enjoyed the session and it seems that you did, too!

For next week:

If someone has a good, relatively short guided meditation that they'd like to share, please bring it! We may include a 5-10 minute segment of relaxation, group intention and meditation at the end of the call to set ourselves up for a wonderful next week!

Also - Eloy, let's share ideas about setting one of Steve's principles as a theme for one of the following calls. I really like that suggestion you made, I believe it would be a very interesting format to experiment with!
Care to share a few words about your idea so far?