LA Moishe Has big huvos

After a long but quite enjoyable month, I would like to sit back open a lambic and spill my guts to you bloggers out there. I wanted to write something off the wall but I think Morris said it all. This month was filled with celeb sightings, parties and raising toys for tots along with a threepeat for good old me at poker. That's right I won three times in a row and lets just say rent was on moishe this month. All in all we had a well rounded month for those of you keeping tally not to name names. (Isaac, Morris, Dave, Levi) It looks like thats just things to come. As the new year comes so too continues debauchery, so stay tuned for the next events to come and for your enjoyment hannah gets it on with nate and the gang.

Love ya all a little,

Lee Levin

Da Visioning Meeting...

Thought I'd post the agenda of the house visioning meeting we're having with about 20 key leaders from our community here in Boston tomorrow. Not as much fun as Borat, I admit, but with smoothies beforehand and kosher Chinese food for dinner afterwards (sandwiching a solid meeting of big ideas), we should still have some fun.

Any feedback on the agenda we've got planned...?

MEETING GOALS: not process but substance-oriented; not committee-building but team-building; articulating shared vision & concrete objectives...

4pm -- warm-up & smoothie time
4:15 -- intros
4:25 -- a bit of learning
4:35 -- different visions for the house (a few individuals' perspectives)
4:45 -- initial "dreamstorming" session: what's the kind of community we want to build? what's an ideal month with the moishe/kavod house community look like? where would we want to be at this time next year?
5:05 -- "world cafes" {the "world cafe" is a unique form of small group break-out/rotation that allows for increased dialogue with a broader group of participants that Ben will introduce} around various core themes
5:45 -- reconvene, focus in on core themes, discuss team creation
6pm -- eat dinner/discuss next steps informally

For us, the internal goals are to develop new leaders, expand the number of those involved in planning/organizing events, lessen our own workload over time, and give more people ownership over the sort of community we're building.

Feel free to comment with any thoughts on this, and I'll definitely report back to let everyone know how this baby goes down...!