WhereToTakeAshokaHouse

Background

1. Sustainable: finacially viable and protecting privacy
2. Maintenance: Original vision and property maintenance
3. Past roles: community meetings, spiritual gatherings, examination of critical issues
4. What's not being done that needs to be done?

Options

1. No Option option

• Sell
• maintain status quo

2. Retreat for Rent

• Help create a critical mass of Bowen Island retreats
• strengths: dialogue centre away from the fray, yet close to Vancouver. Use the resources of the Island. Seperate the centre from the house.
• Someone to program
• Ashoka seperated as a revenue generator
• possible collaboration (rental), either as a simple rental or planned programs with a paid programmer to start

3. Collaboration with an educational institution or group

• Minimum breakeven budget to pay for all expenses including maintenance
• They program, Ashoka rental
• Possible benefactor (in their "dream" area eg. Clearwater/education peace)
• Recruit key person to make things happen

4. Applied Foresight Centre

Here's how it would work:

• start with a problem or critical issue to the future
• vision of a preferable vision for the future
• background understanding of the issue: what is the probable future without action?
• What steps can be taken to acheive the preferable future?
• Who is responsible for the steps and what is the timetable?

This then would be a think tank that takes a problem and stays with it long enough to get action and solve it.

Centre for Applied Foresight

1. Committment to idea
2. Continue to work with a small group of people