Inclusive decision making

How does an inclusive community with open margins make decisions? At 6.30am!

Anyone can come to a Waiters Union meeting and help make decisions but expect to get up early on a Monday morning! That's not the end of it though, once the meeting (5 - 10 people on average) has come to a decision, it's circulated to everyone else via a newsletter for further feedback.

The Waiters Union

A nice explanation of what this place is all about:

We decided to call ourselves the West End Waiters Union because we wanted to be waiters in West End. We didn't want to set agendas for people. We just wanted to be available, like waiters, to take people's orders, and to do what we could do, to help them. We particularly wanted to help to develop a sense of hospitality in the locality, so that all people, especially people who are usually displaced in areas like ours, could really begin to feel at home in the community.

http://www.waitersunion.org/waitersunion.htm 

Brisbane

I'm off to do a community course in Brisbane. First up, three days to check the place out.

Brissy from Southbank

 

Ex flattie Rodney and I reminisce on the sunshine coast

A solid tree downtown.

Brissy

Up the top of this rock face (part of the glasshouse mountains) is Rodders.
He was a lot keener to climb this than I!