I plan to join but will be arriving around 12:30 or 12:45 after another meeting. As far as a creating a community-wide vision that can be put into action - that is precisely what I am aiming to do with National Park City and I am diligently doing my best to incorporate the principles of venture into all National Park City efforts. I welcome any and all input from you all. And I’m happy to field questions about what National Park City is and what it seems it’s becoming. Truthfully, it can be whatever we want it to be. And my commitment is to making sure National Park City benefits our entire community and empowers everyone from neighborhoods to non-profits to city-officials to be able to make a bigger impact and drive civic change in our region through collaboration. Personally I have benefited greatly from these venturing sessions and dialogues. But I have also heard similar feedback around not knowing what the outcome is meant to be. I have always felt like there could be some very clear ways that National Park City and Venturing could compliment each other and serve distinct and mutually beneficial roles. Perhaps we can have this conversation today. I appreciate all the passion and discussion and look forward to continuing the conversation. David On Monday, April 6, 2026, Greg Laudeman, Ed.D. <greg@eduity.net> wrote:
Agreed on all counts, Pam… and more! There are several other key lessons from Venture. Let’s put them into practice!
The three questions I suggest for “Community Confabs” are:
1. What do you see as the critical issues and major challenges for our community? 2. What is your vision for the future of our community? What would it look if we addressed those issues and challenges? Can you provide examples from other communities? 3. What key resources are required for our community to achieve that vision? What do we have and what do we need? 4. Bonus question: What are you able and willing to do achieve that vision? What actions can you take?
What do others think? This is a bit off-topic from our agenda but it's an important discussion, maybe we should start another thread… or move it online to venturing.chattanooga.digital. 😉
It’s also important to build capacity and have tools for this, which is where the Facilitator Bank comes in. More on that tomorrow!
On Apr 6, 2026, at 9:35 PM, Deconstruction Advisory Board < deconchatt@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes. I’m going to take what I have learned like Bob Corker - The Chattanooga Way Ron Littlefield- steal from other cities shamelessly Sally Robinson- Think BIG and don’t worry about the money And it was either you or Eleanor that said “engagement now, engagement tomorrow, engagement in the future I think it could maybe be helpful if there were 3 or 4 common questions for all of us to try and get responses to from the people we meet.
— GL