Colleagues, Steve Ediger wrote the Sojourn Overview on behalf of the ICA Global Archives Advisory Council to welcome folks to one of the largest sojourn gatherings in the history of the ICA Global Archives. People are participating in person and on-line. We want you to be aware of what is happening. As work gets your may receive requests for assistance. You will be kept up-to-date on sojourn work. Sojourn Overview This Sojourn will focus on three areas. - ICA is working with a consultant to register the Greenrise building on the National Register of Historic Places. In addition to getting credit for the important role that ICA/EI has played in Chicago, the USA and the world, this would open the possibility of getting historic tax credits to cover needed infrastructure maintenance and upgrades on the building. The Historic Role of the ICA Greenrise group will be doing the research and collect documents to begin telling this story, based on the Uptown 5 project (Chicago), Town Meetings (USA), and Human Development Projects (global). Team guides: Beret Griffith, beretgriffith@gmail.com, Global Archive Team & Jim Troxel, troxel49@gmail.com <jtroxel49@gmail.com> ICA Board - Karen Snyder, karen.snyder10@gmail.com will be heading up a key study on Training, Inc. The Training, Inc. group will take a look at this key Imaginal Education program with a historical review from the past, problem-solving units on present and future through the lens of the past. - Jack Gilles jackcgilles@gmail.com will facilitate the New Religious Mode group in curating NRM materials and bringing them forward to share with “Those Who Care”. Work will focus on sharing the NRM with Wesley Theological Seminary, in Washington DC. where there is an opening to build a relationship between the ICA Archives and J.W. Mathews files that are being curated by the seminary. Although some folks will be getting in the week before, our official launch will be at 8 am on Monday, September 21. At 10 am, Ted Wysocki will join us with some introductory remarks. By Monday afternoon, we will break out into teams and begin our work, with some participants in the GreenRise and Google Hangouts with those not able to attend physically. Every day will end at around 5 pm with a short wine and cheese and an opportunity to reconnect with each other and exchange gems from the day. On Thursday, we plan a special celebration after our work. By Friday morning, we’re asking teams to complete their work and a report on it. On Friday afternoon we’ll gather in the Bonhoeffer room at 1 pm to set up for final reports. At 2 pm we’ll hear final reports from each of the teams and have some dialogue. Both Monday’s and Friday’s plenaries will be broadcast via Google Hangouts on Air/Youtube to ensure the fullest possible participation. These will also be recorded for addition to the Archive’s materials. NOTE: If you have any questions about the work or if any of you are interested in being a part of the sojourn, please contact the people listed as team leadership. If you are interested in coming for the sojourn, please contact: Steve Ediger steveediger@gmail.com or Jean Long jean.long512@gmail.com As September 21st approaches and the participant list, on-site and virtual, is determined, we will let you know who is doing what and how work is progressing. On Behalf of the Archive Advisory Council, Beret Griffith, Jack Gilles