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MELA Interest Group - Minutes of the First Meet

MELA

MOM - 21st May,2016

Purpose 

was to create a community which reflections on the current state of Music, Entertainment, Literature and Art in our city, share their ideas of how MELA as an interest group be and create and make action plans for near future to bring awareness of MELA in the city. Meeting was organized by Jaipur Mera Shehar Facilitated by Mr. Shammi Nanda & Avinash Maurya. 

Brief of full meeting: 

1.Introduction of each participant 

2. Introduction to sociocracy 

3. Introduction to MELA 

4. Creation of Vision, Mission, Aim for MELA 

5. Election of Operatioanal Leader and Representative 

6. Closing

Vision · music : constructive tool to build communication · strengthening interconnections · access and exposure for art · creating nurturing systems for artists · awareness of traditional and contemporary art forms · art as therapy · art as integral part of policy making · tool to empowering youth

· celebration of humanness of expression and acceptance

· unlearning with art

Mission · making city walkable · art for stereotype and experiential art Aim · spaces invites to move · mapping mela spaces in city · workshops for awareness for art forms · bringing art to the street · safe spaces for artists · spaces for public performances · art camps in schools · spaces for exhibition · magzine/ newspaper · soundscaping Proposal to be made · find cafes with open mics and weekly jamming sessions. ( alternate space - home for arists ) · work with existing bookshops · assignments around art & craft workshops-hands-on. ( doodle pyaau ) · learn specific arts · artful family camps · kalaneri arts

Election

The group elected 

Avinash Maurya & Nimisha on the position of Operational Leader of the group for next 3 months

Kriti Gupta as Representative of the group for next 6 months

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Wholesome Living and Healing Interest Group - Minutes of the first meeting

Wholesome Living and Healing

MOM: 11-5-2016

We had our third meeting under the Umbrella of 'Jaipur Mera Shehar' project, where we talked about Wholesome Living & Healing, We discussed about what and how can we adopt a more wholesome state of being in our lives.

Initially all friends shared their thoughts and feelings about the idea of what can be Wholesome Living & Healing practices, many interesting things came out during this time.

Some shared that for wholesome living we can focus

● On the use of more and more of natural ways of daily living rather than just depending on the products that are not good for our health and even for the environment,

● Working towards waste management, how people and communities can manage waste and also how can they differentiate between different kinds of waste,

● How we can use alternate ways of healing

● Restore the natural water and air cycles.

● How can we be more conscious and balanced in our state of being, while taking care of our all sorts of emotions?

Based on these discussions we came to our vision, mission and aims, which will be to make a nature friendly system recognizing our interconnections with the whole universe, using and promoting alternate ways of healing for our health, nourishing and empowering communities and creating self sufficiency in ourselves.

Using Sociocracy, we also elected people from the group for five roles with full consent of the whole group. Operations Leader Shrey Srivastava, Facilitator Nitika Nadgar, Circle Administrator Piyush Bansal and Shrey Srivastava, Group Representative Rashmi and Vandana Nadgar and IT/Documentation Coordinator Piyush Bansal and Ashish Khandelwal.

 In case you want to know more about the group and join them you could contact them.

To know more about the Jaipur Mera Shehar Project go tohttps://goo.gl/I8JmKh

Meetings will be held in the coming days at Samarth School – C­26, Gulab Path, Gali number 2, Chomu House, Jaipur, from 5.30 to 8.30 pm.

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Learning City Interest Group - Minutes of the first meet

Learning City
MOM: 6-5-2016

Purpose was to create a community which helps to make city alive by joining hands together. Discussion about how we can solve problems goes around city which is demolishing our heritage, tradition, Culture, Mind, skills, art etc. Meeting was organized by Jaipur Mera Shehar Facilitated by Mr. Shammi Nanda.

Brief of full meeting:

1.Introduction of each participant

2. Introduction to sociocracy

3. Introduction to Learning city

4. Creation of Vision, Mission, Aim for learning city

5. Formation of team to lead learning city

6. Closing

Participants: Shammi Nanda (Facilitator of Meeting), Piyush Bansal, Vidisha Saini, Prakash Gurnani, Kapil Menghrani, Abhishek Gupta.
All were very excited and active to lead learning city.

Introduction to Sociocracy:  Shammi Nanda gave the idea about sociocracy, that how we can convert complexity into simplicity by having Equivalence, Effectiveness and Transparency in the system.

Introduction to Learning city: Introduction of making a city, a better place by sociocracy. How to connect people for making this city more enjoyable and learnable?

Vision so Far:

·        Grow with others growth

·        Symbiosis collaboration

·        Identifying needs of growing city

·       Co-design and co-create a solution for growing city

·        Life serving traditional values

·        Nurturing our creative potentials

·        Integrating and interconnection of human nature

·        Pluralism

·        Celebrating diversity

·        Equivalence

·        Acknowledging living history

Mission so Far:

·      Conservation of architectural heritage

·        Rural-urban connection

·        Working through commons

·        Medium to connect different skills people together

Aim so far:

·        Online directory of villages

·        Real time documentation workshops

·        Creating podcast & blogs

·        Webcast,offline Meet-ups

·        Street art

·        City walk

·        Mapping and making learning resources accessible

·        Creating sustainable gift economy cafe

Team of learning city: Group nominates people to lead learning city. These people will work for 6 months as a team to lead group.

Prakash Gurnani (Operation Lead)

Vidisha Saini (Representative)*

* In absence of Vidisha, Abhishek leads as a representative

Abhishek Gupta (Circle Administrator)

Kapil Menghrani (Facilitator)*

                * Piyush will support Kapil and can seek help from Shammi Nanda

Kapil Menghrani (Document and IT)*

                * Supported by Vidisha

Closing:

Everyone was ready to lead this group. Fixed next meet on
14-5-16 Sat at 5PM in JKK, Jaipur. Meet will all about Summaries the vision and making plans for future to lead this group. Contact sharing, making whats app group and other social group to get communicated.

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Jaipur Food and Farm - Minutes of the first meeting

Jaipur Food & Farm

MOM - 5-5-2016

Today the Food and Farm group of Jaipur Mera Shehar project met. We sat for almost four hours and framed our Vision, Mission and Aim. 
Using Sociocracy, we also elected people from the group for five roles with full consent of the whole group. Operations Leader Keshav Modi, Facilitator -Piyush Bansal, Circle Administrator - Mukul Choudhary, RepresentativeSangeeta Patni and IT/Documentation Coordinator. 
Am glad that people gave their time to it and talked about how the food systems for the city can be more nourishing. The group will be active and now announcing its programs. Coming soon could be a workshop on composting.
We now have series of meetings lined up for the coming days for different groups. Today we meet to talk about the design of the city and what all can we do to make the city more enriching for the people and life that lives there. Welcome to the meeting of
Learning City – Heritage, Architecture, Design today evening.

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Meeting Schedule of all Interest Groups

Here is an opportunity to walk in and meet face to face with people with shared interest to create a peer to peer support groups in the city over the next two weeks.

Together we will re-imagine our city so that we have the power to enrich and nourish the life of the people of this city in an autonomous as well as interdependent way.

These groups are from various areas of interest, and also connected to each other through a network. To know more about how the network will be organised see http://goo.gl/7Wjaiy

We will be conducting a series of meetings where we will call separate meeting of each interest group. Initially, the anchoring team for launching this network will also be with you and once the groups are formed it will strive to become a self operating system.

Agenda:
In the first meeting, by using Sociocracy (Consent Based Governance) we will together frame a statement of purpose specifying the vision, mission and activities of each group and nominate the representatives to join the larger network.

Meetings will be held at Samarth School – C-26, Gulab Path, Gali number 2, Chomu House, Jaipur.
The schedule is as follows.

Date	Day	Time	Interest Group	Venue
5th May	Thu	6:00-8:30pm	Jaipur Food & Farming	Samarth School
6th May	Fri	5:30-8:30pm	Learning City	Samarth School
11th May	Wed	5:30-8:30pm	Wholesome Living & Healing	Samarth School
12th May	Thu	5:30-8:30pm	Economics of Happiness	Samarth School
17th May	Tue	5:30-8:30pm	Learning Unlearning	Samarth School
18th May	Wed	5:30-8:30pm	Ecology	Samarth School
19th May	Thu	5:30-8:30pm	Gift culture & spirit of service	Samarth School
20th May	Fri	5:30-8:30pm	Communication & Counseling	Samarth School
21st May	Sat	5:30-8:30pm	MELA	Samarth School

If you have any suggestions please feel free to write to them at jaipurmerashehar@gmail.com.

Besides it will support us and the network if you can fill this form.

Shammi, Chintan, Piyush, Avinash and Aditya
Anchor Team
Jaipur Mera Shehar

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Interest Groups - Open Form

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Reimagin'g Jaipur - the way forward

Dear All,

After seeing the overwhelming response to the Jaipur Learning City unConference,  where we had more than 350 people from varied interest areas visit and participate in the one day event, we realized that there are many in our city who are desiring to collaborate with others to provide sustainable and restorative solutions for the challenges that we are facing in todays world at personal, local as well as global level. Some of us also have a desire to move to more community based social actions and entrepreneurship models rather than depending solely on Governments or Big Businesses to provide for our needs.

What is our Vision?

We are now reaching out to turn this desire for change into an actionable process by launching a project called ‘Re-imagine Jaipur’ or ‘Jaipur Mera Shehar’. We are planning to make a network of many themes (or interest groups) based on ‘peer to peer support groups’ in Jaipur. We are creating a transparent, equivalent and consent based system for running the network where we work in our individual group and also are interconnected to the other groups in the city.

How can you join more people of your areas of interest?

You are requested to share your areas of interest by filling this form...

Jaipur Mera Shehar - OPEN FORM

We will form groups based on these interest groups. These groups will come together to form a network of diverse sub-groups which can support each other and nurture the people of Jaipur. Each group will work as an autonomous unit, which working within the shared vision of the Network. Please check the peer support group/s that you would like to be part of and get updates in your inbox. Once we get the response we will send you more details about this program and schedule of the next meeting of the group.

What is the implementation method?

Those of us who are initiating the process have decided to run this network by Sociocracy, for first six months and review it with the whole network later on. Sociocracy is a consent based decision making and governance system and we will be offering knowledge of Sociocracy as we go along and want people who join the network to be willing to learn the basics of it so as to support the functioning of this network efficiently and inclusively.

This network is an interconnected web which will be steered by a council of representatives coming from each interest group. Here people from one group can connect or take support from other groups through their representatives who go to join the network council. Representatives will bring in inputs from their respective group to the council meeting where they have the opportunity to be part of framing the policy of the whole network. The reps will also take the thoughts/decisions/policies made by the council to their respective groups for consent. The council will be holding the larger picture and yet not be above any individual or a  group and decisions taken by the council will have to be consented by the group and vice versa.

We now want the groups to meet face to face and want you to select the specific group/s that you want to be part of from the broader group. We are sending you the form for the same.

Once we have formed various groups we will send you a calendar for the series of meetings where we will call a separate meeting of each group. Initially, the anchoring team for launching this network will also be with you and once the groups are formed they will be self operating.

In the first meeting, by using Sociocratic principles we will together frame a statement of purpose specifying the vision, mission and activities of  each group. This will be the identity of the group for the time being and will help people in future to understand the domain of the group so they can make the choice to be part of it or not.

Besides this, with a consent based election process we will elect four posts which will enable the smooth functioning of this group and the network.

A. Operations Leader - will be the anchoring person for ensuring that the agreed upon tasks are done and the team is willingly engaged in doing those tasks.

B. Facilitator - will facilitate meetings in a Socioractic process which ensures that each person has the space to speak and contribute in the decision making of the group.

C. Secretary or Circle Administrator, will announce the meetings, circulate the agenda before the meeting, ensure that minutes of all the meetings are written and shared in a place that it is accessible to member of each group as well as those of other groups, to  ensure total transparency.

D. Representative, who will take the inputs from the interest group to the network council and vice versa.

Once this process is done each group will work as a unit and also be part of the  interconnected web through its reps who will come to the network council. The groups will have their meetings, make their policies, plan their activities, make a calendar of events and share on their email groups, FB Page or whatsapp page or any other form they wish to choose to connect.

We will also launch a website for the network council and each group can have a page/s in it. The activities of the group will be announced and shared on this page. Even individuals can post their profiles on the page of the group if they wish to. Each group will also be requested to have people for documentation so they can update their pages on the website so the rest of the world can have access to our activities and be inspired by it.

In addition each group can make their blog or uses any other creative media to share their work with the larger community.

During the initial phases we need to have a Sociocracy implementation group which will provide support in implementing the governance process. The reps of this group will also be invited to the council.

Apart from this we will have a Board or Wisdom circle which is a  group formed of the well wishers of this community process. It could be people who bring outside inputs to this community and the rep from this Board or Wisdom Councli will also be part of the Network Council.

We look forward to seeing you on the meetings of your respective groups. If you have joined more than one group you will be requested to join meetings of all the groups that you have signed up for.

Look forward to see the magic unfold of the process re-imagining our city with you. If you have any queries please write to us.

Warmly

Shammi, Chintan, Piyush, Avinash and Aditya

Anchor Team

Jaipur Mera Shehar