I find that when I imagine the future of what I want to happen, it is more likely to come true. So I created an interview where I had my son role play the part of a talk show host, and we did this intereview together. Any thing that I talk about in this 4 part series that is about my past--is true. Any comments about what happened with the Future of Community Gatherings--is my dream of what could be.
--> --> Interviewer. Hello Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to the Daily Afternoon Show. I'm your host, Chris Mikkelson, I am pleased to present to you my mom, Patricia Mikkelson, who started the Community Gathering movement which is sweeping the world.
Interviewer: Patricia, thanks so much
for being on our show today. Please tell us what a Community Gathering is.
Patricia: Community Gatherings are exciting, festival-like events which include childcare, food, music, and meaningful conversations in order to help neighborhoods become thriving, self-reliant communities.
Interviewer: So I understand it has been exactly one year since you were hired by company xyz to promote the Community Gathering concept.
Patricia: Yes! It has been exactly one year now since company xyz decided to promote Community Gatherings, and the results have been amazing. Thousands of Community Gatherings have sprung up all over the world, and profound changes are happening in neighborhood, organizations, churches, non-profits and government because of the connections that are being made at Community Gatherings.
Interviewer: How are the sales of your book, HOW TO START A COMMUNITY GATHERING IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD going?
Patricia; HOW TO START A COMMUNITY GATHERING IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD has sold one billion copies and has been on the NY times best seller list for 11 straight months! Company xyz is getting a lot of publicity from the sale of this book, as well as a portion of the royalties. The step by step instructions make it easy for any one with passion to sponsor a Community Gathering so that it becomes a dynamic meeting place where neighbors make friends, get support, share knowledge, strengthen neighborhoods and families, and effect positive change.
Interviewer: I understand that these Community Gatherings had quite an effect on the presidential election.
Patricia: Yes, you are absolutely right. Because people were meeting face to face talking about the issues and the candidates, we were able to elect representatives that had integrity and were really the people we wanted to get elected--not who big monied interests wanted to be elected. It was so great to see people of all ages involved and come out of their apathy and hopelessness to both vote and campaign.
And best of all, even though people were campaigning for different candidates in the same Community Gathering, people were civil and respectful of differences because of the tone that is set in the gatherings with such influences as Non-violent Communication as taught by Marshall Rosenberg.