Harvest/Thanksgiving/Fall/Council/Circle Notes

Harvest Counsel consensus report:
1. Spring Counsel will begin June 8, 2018.
2. In the interest of simplicity, Harvest Counsel declines to create or appoint banking (procrastinated to Spring Counsel).
3. There will be a scouting rendezvous on Saturday, April 7, 2018.
4. From this Harvest Counsel circle we carry the intention to help cocreate the most magical gathering possible for ourselves and all individuals.
5. Have morphun!

Harvest (Fall/Thanksgiving) Counsel (Council/Circle)

Updated 11/16/17 @ 11:30  a.m. PST

For information on what and why, read my post here.  The counsel/council/circle takes place over the four day Thanksgiving Weekend, which this year is November 23 - 26.

This evening, "11/05/2017" there was a conference call to discuss a location to have Harvest Counsel for the 2018 annual, & after a short discussion there was a consensus to have this year's Harvest Counsel near Clayton Georgia.

For all folks looking to fly in for counsel, Clayton Georgia, is a 2 1/2 drive from Atlanta, & a 3 hour drive from Asheville North Carolina.

Directions to Harvest Counsel site will be posted on the Atlanta light line 770~662~6112 a few days prior to counsel.

Counsel time will be... November 23rd ~26th.
Lovin y'all 🌞

P.S. As you drive to counsel, please drive legal..

More information will be posted here as it becomes available. Or you can call the Atlantic Lightline 770-662-6112 - please no collect calls.

Harvest Council Flyer

Fall/Thanksgiving/T-/Council/Counsel/Circle

The annual gathering of the tribes, which takes place over the 4th of July, has a cyclical process. While various regions in the USA often host a Thanksgiving get together, this blog deals with the annual gathering. In Oregon this summer, vision council on the land reached consensus that the 2018 gathering will take place in the southern Appalachian Mountains

But then what?

Because the Rainbow Gathering has no leaders, no board of directors, no staff and no one in charge of anything, we depend on people working together to do all the preparation for the gathering in the north east. So over the years a process has come together to make sure that planning is open to everyone who wants to be involved.

The year starts off with Fall Counsel / Thanks giving Council / T-Council or Circle, over the four day Thanksgiving holiday weekend of the same name. This is a time for people interested in plugging in, talking about visions for the gathering, discussing scouting, strategies about legal issues, etc. to get together. (see we don't even agree on the name). 

T-Council generally takes place in the state or region where we will be gathering although sometimes it happens in other areas not to far from the consensed upon areas. It's usually a camp, cook, council, share heart songs kinda of thing. Often but not always, the people at T-Council pick the dates for the Scout Rendezvous and Spring Council. Some times a PO box is established for snail mail and a banking council is formed to deal with any donations.

As with all things Rainbow, no experience is necessary, just a willingness to participate. Keep in mind this is not a gathering, it's a working council and the way this council unfolds sets the tone for the gathering.

I'm hoping that there will be a real mix of generations at T-Council. We need older people, we need younger people, we need more experienced gatherers and we need less experienced gatherers to come together to create a vision for a peaceful, healing and fun gathering in 2018. Be the change you want to see in this world.