Volunteers Social & Idea Lab -- Golden Hour over Shoreline Lake, MV

So we just did probably our biggest group volunteering so far, in Mountain VIew's Art & Wine festival, with close to 50 sign ups. We each served in our own shift, haven't got much chance to see or say hello to each other.

And before that, we also did the volunteering with Grassroots Ecologies, with State Parks, with local and SF festivals, in gardens & kitchens, on beaches & trails, with our sister orgs like VOCAL etc..

By volunteers, we also intend to include all those that have volunteered in those places, not necessarily with us. Also our hosts and all those that helped in our events. Invite your shift mates, and other volunteer friends you know, including to-bes.

It looks Oct. would be another big group volunteering season, with several Oktoberfests, Harvest festivals etc.. Before that, let's find a lull time to meet each other first, see who is who, exchange anecdotes we saw in the festivals, may try out different venues we each chanced upon, or other social occasions. We volunteer to socialize with each other, so here it is.

Of course being people with community hearts, enjoy the camaraderie from volunteering together isn't the only thing we have in mind. By observing what happened in the golden hour walk dinner and the social mixer happened around the festival, we came up a few interesting ways as to how to maximize people's participation in events, and keep the good-will generated in an event in continuity.

Who else would make better people to try out these ideas that may benefit future people? Of course it is our volunteers :).

We also notice our Golden Hour walk format is catching on. Our goal on it is to create social neighborhoods, so interested people can attend similar events in towns around, once a week in rotation. So we plan to do some mini-hosting role playing in the event, you can come to try it out if interested, and lead walks in the future. Great chance to meet your social neighbors.

Location: Shoreline Lake Boathouse, Mountain View
Date: Sep 26th Sat.
5 - 5:15pm Meet & Greet
5:15 - 5:30 Explain the new tricks we have in mind, people trying out.
5:30 - 6:30 Role playing in the walk by the lake.
6:30 - 7:30 Back at the lake house, group coffee, social,
Review and improve, make plans, enjoy the sunset over the lake.

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