Charlie Fleetham's Flip Chart

Name the Challenge

• * Affluenza
• Contraction Nation
• New Kind of Growth
• Discontinuity
• Living with your Means
• * Attitude Adjustment
• Modifying Xpectations
• Perfect Storm
• Back to Basics

Sheet 2

• ↑ Police 2%
• ↑ Fire 3%
• [Illustration of alligator teeth being enlarged]

Small Group Flip Chart

Table A

• Reframe deficits as opportunities!
• Rethink happiness
• Positive thinking
• Better redistribute the wealth we have
• Reduce our volume of consumable goods
• Regional planning & cooperation
  • Advocating policies encouraging centralized spaces (reduce sprawl)
  • Rethink land-use
  • Eliminate townships (redundant)
• Policies encouraging communities
• Media: Capitalize on new forms of communication
  • Use more strategically
  • Civility in governance
  • Balancing domains of interaction
• Create chaos
  • Make new connections
  • Generate new ideas
• Taxes as a "self-investment" or tithe
• Advocate a sense of the commons and service

Table D

• Patient Urgency - need to believe in something
• From the midst of crisis, Invite people to the table
• Courage to do new things
• Create environment that is not afraid of failure
• Create spaces, Place making
  • Networking
  • Storytelling success
  • Collaboration
  • Smaller scale, smaller groups
• Team building
  • Building leadership

Large Group Flip Chart

Next Steps/Generating an agenda for catalyzing mindset change

• Coming together to talk
• Facebook group to advance the agenda
• Fieldtrip to Detroit
• Michigan Social Forum
• "Our Michigan Ave" site
• WKAR to facilitate connections
• Mandela's Center for Memory & Dialogue
• Conference call/webinar vyew.com

Why?

• Hear success stories, continuing struggles, new ideas
• Spread the energy