• Sustainable Transport
• Learning from our Elders (lost skills)
• Learning how to learn (languages, fluency)
• Taking care of yourself (herbs, etc.)
• Strengthening ourselves.
• Doing things with our hands (cooking, fixing,) DIY
• Folk Schools Northwest
• Sustainable arts and crafts
• Connect elders w/ children, archive knowledge
• Agriculture, wilderness skills
• Doing things ourselves
• teaching our children

• Restarting a sustainability masters program
• Permaculture, earth building, natural medicine
• Eco-village building, crisis management, earth/people restoration
• How to Teach
• Teaching in person
• best method
• People want to teach for free given the venue
• Hold a “DIY” series, provide the infrastructure
• Q:  How do we reach people that don’t come to “DIY” workshops.
• Family peer pressure
• Do things in the open so people can see it
• Reduce the physical and relationship distance
• Increase the relevance, accessible (obvious) language diverse audience

• Need apprenticeships, guilds, different levels of skills (not just entry level)
• We already have lost of community teaching resources.
• How to we track and map what’s out there?
• Database of what skill training already exists and then fill the gaps for missing classes
• Part of learning is teaching 5-10 additional people
• “Wherecamp”
• how to use maps
• Bright Neighbor
• skills inventory and locations
• Teach the skill and how to teach that skill to others.
• Fix the transmission of information (best practices)
• Different learning styles
• Learning styles will evolve
• Need a good balance between “design” and “emergence”
• First UU Church has a “First Share” program
• Churches are good for reaching out; leverage existing networks.
• SF regeneration project
• Reskilling is closely tied in with community gatherings (social)
• How do we reach out to people that [sic] can’t get out to community gatherings.
• Reaching out to elders in homes can be difficult
• Think about location when having people meet with teachers (some people can’t move as much)
• How do you get people to come, even if you do have teachers.
• Sunnyside has events with a premade events
• Get people interested, then teach them something real.
• There’s a model folk school (arts and crafts of sustainability living for the local region)
• Practical, not academic teachings.
• Tell people about tool lending libraries (kainning [sic] library)
• Have reskilling badges to motivate people
• As we mechanize, we’ve lost the artisan quality of our work.

-       NEXT STEP:  ASSESS WHAT’S OUT THERE AND MAP WHAT’S AVAILABLE

-       HUB Meeting October 14th to talk with groups.