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Looking to the future -
Connecting with the past
by Paul Chippendale
The Minessence Group's website is undergoing another
transformation. The Survey has been reactivated.
The Minessence Group's Values, Vision
& Missionare now on a separate page. The article ACCL (Acceptance,
Commitment, & Conscious Living) has been updated and added to
the site.
You may also have noticed, that since I was at Waiheke Island for
the launch of Michael Henderson, Dougal Thompson, an Shar
Henderson's excellent new book, Leading through Values, the
Minessence Group's website has broadened its focus from values to
ACCL. This is because, at our planning meetings on the Island, it
became clear ACCL better encapsulated our philosophy.
Looking to the future
- The Minessence Group's website will become more and more a
collaborative effort of all Minessence Group members. That is to
say, members will be able to log on to MissionControl (the support
site for AVI Accredited consultants) and add their own content to
the publicly assessable website: www.minessence.net. Already
accredited consultants can alter their contact details, add
upcoming events, and change the look of their AVI (A Values
Inventory) site - all with no intervention required by anyone
else. Blog, photo album and forums will all be added so members
can share their own values stories. In short, the desire is to
enhance the Minessence Group's sense of community.
- The most sophisticated reports produced, after a person
completes the AVI online, are still produced by downloading the
responses to a PC and then processing them. This is gradually
changing, with the intention that, eventually, all reports will be
produced by software at the website.
- The people who provided our online shop (http://shop.minessence.net)
have ceased trading, so I am in the process of producing a
replacement online shop, developing it from scratch with VB.NET
and SQL. We have been in existence since 1988. Since that time,
I've had the inconvenience of re-doing our website from scratch
when One.Tel /One.Net ceased trading, re-doing the credit-card
processing facility when our ISP ceased supporting the third party
software, etc. In the long run, I'm finding it far more productive
to develop my own software for our web.
The immediate past
We proudly supported the Youth Enterprise
Trust's recent event: An
Afternoon At Woodstock. Below are some photos from the
event:
To the right is the veranda where
the concert was staged. In the
mid-background is the tent
from which a sumptuous lunch was served.
The choir
YET Staff Competing in a Woodchop
Competition
Coming Events
Please check our events
page for upcoming events conducted, or sponsored, by Minessence
Group Members.
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