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.