SHEHAQUA FAMILY NEWS

Saturday, October 26, 2013

Shehaqua Summit Meeting Results in Change of Leadership Structure

Twenty-five Council members and Representatives gathered for a Shehaqua summit from October 11–13 at Camp Daddy Allen, right across the road from Camp Shehaqua. The purpose of the meeting was to evaluate this year’s programs and discuss ways they can be improved.

But another task was waiting for the summit participants as well: To continue the restructuring of the way the Shehaqua Family is organized, a process that started a year ago with the recruitment of Shehaqua Representatives and the formation of the Shehaqua Council. Executive Director Gregg Noll suggested that the current model of having an executive director and two executive assistant—who have to make a lot of decisions and are involved in many aspects of camp organization—might not be the most effective model. Instead, he suggested, it would be better to allow more people to connect and collaborate in areas that concern and interest them, and so get things done more quickly. Gregg proposed that the Shehaqua Family adopt a circle system, an idea based on the sociocracy model (a system of governance, using consent-based decision making among equivalent individuals; check out Wikipedia for more). A circle would consist of a small group of people (around 5–10) that is responsible for organizing one aspect of Shehaqua.

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