The Road Ahead
Right now it’s a website, a set of draft governance documents, and a really wonderful idea.
The town hall filled eleven days out, with a waitlist, and the mailing list and following keep growing. Here’s the road to the first gatherings.
Where things stand
- Done: Early September The website goes up
- Done: Sep 16 Instagram and Facebook go live
- Done: Oct 15 The town hall, in a full room
- Done: Oct 30 Founding board interest closes
- Up next: Mid-November An initial board is confirmed
- To come: Late November The first working meeting
- To come: Then Incorporation, and the first gatherings
The longer view
Year 0 to 1
Getting started
- Incorporate as a BC society
- Essential governance, finance, conflict and safeguarding policies
- First gatherings, building to a dependable rhythm
- Decide how to welcome new members
- Avoid rushed growth
Years 1 to 3
Stable Bedrock
- A recognizable rhythm, and friendships beyond the gatherings
- Thick connections, and an organization that means something to people
- Volunteer teams, committees and mutual care, working in practice
- Community life no longer dependent on the founding board
Year 3 and beyond
Bigger dreams
Whatever the community chooses. Some of what we dream about is below.
Some big dreams
Not plans, just the kinds of things we’re thinking about for someday. Whether Bedrock achieves all or none of them, it will still be a worthwhile community.
A growing shared culture
Songs, stories, readings, rituals, and celebrations made and chosen by our own members, growing richer over time.
Guidance worth trusting
Resources shaped by experts and lived experience on the questions that matter: parenting, caring for aging parents, partnerships and the other big chapters of a life.
Programs for every stage of life
Kids and teens growing up here, young adults finding their footing, couples, parents, seniors staying connected and contributing.
Support that catches its people
Practical, organized, funded and offered without shame, when a hard stretch hits.
A voice for good
Organized and confident enough to show up in civic life for the things we believe in, and to help make things better.
Chapters in other cities
So a member who moves for work or school or love can walk into a gathering somewhere new and find familiar rhythms and people ready to know them.
Places of our own
Warm, welcoming buildings the community owns together, with a hall that can host a wedding or a celebration of life, a kitchen, a library, gardens to tend, rooms where kids can tumble and teenagers can hang out.
Cohousing
Homes clustered around shared spaces, where members who want to can live as neighbours.
Ethical businesses
Member-owned enterprises that create meaningful work, fund the community’s work, and model what it looks like to do business with values.
Recognized standing
The kind of civic recognition that could one day let us officiate our members’ weddings if they choose.
A community that lasts
Children who grow up here, one day choosing to raise their own children here.
As we grow into things, we’ll build whatever feels natural to the community we’re becoming.