Leaving a Trail of Love and Goodness Wherever We Go
Additional Member Resources
Below is additional guides, as well as inspiration for the amazing opportunities that are our lives.
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~ Rumi
“Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.”~ Rumi
Vision
The vision of the Seattle and Sedona Ladies Underground Giving (SLUG) is to bring together a diverse group of women who help each other reach our highest potential through personal growth, fun activities and philanthropic efforts with the ultimate goal of creating a positive impact on all the lives we touch.
Value Statements
- Willingness to accept and provide assistance
- Ability to have fun
- Trust in, and loving acceptance of, the people we encounter internally and externally
- Embracing varied levels of commitment
- When commitments are made showing integrity through follow-through
- Willingness to bring your interests/goals to the group and make your needs known
- Passion for working toward your highest potential and nourishing your local community
How to Lead A Month (cont.)
Two Months Out:
Read through our SLUG mission statement for inspiration.
Select one SLUG member to either co-host the event or sponsor you. If a SLUG agrees to sponsor you they will support you with planning and sticking with the timeline.
Send out an email to the group via Facebook & email (the email mailing list is accessible in the docs folder on our group FB page) The event announcement should include:
Event title & Brief Description
Time/Date
Location (or TBD if you don't know yet)
A request for any SLUG help/involvement you may need to prep and any action items needed.
*It is important to determine what you need help with and employ other SLUGs as early as possible. Get them fired up and excited about your event! Remember we all love to help and this is an opportunity for others to help and feel good.
One Month Out:
Send out a detailed announcement about your event to the group via FB & email. Include all the same info above and more info about: Why this event is important to you? A description of the cause or organization you are supporting as well as any links to their sites FB page etc...
Write up a list/outline of all that needs to be done prior to the event.
Contact SLUGs that are helping you with the event and schedule a meet up to go over the needs and assign jobs.
Check in with any of the core SLUGs (Julie, Mandi, Kristi, Sheri or Lori) for support or to bounce ideas off of or figure out what your next steps are.
Two Weeks Out:
Send out another announcement about your event to the group via FB & email. Include all the same info above and more info about: Why this event is important to you? A description of the cause or organization you are supporting as well as any links to their sites FB page etc..
Check in with your fellow event SLUGs to make sure everything isgetting done and to ask for more help or support. Remember, you need to ask for help and empower your fellow SLUGs to contribute to our group and this event.
One Week Out:
Send out email & FB blast to all SLUGs about your upcoming event. Take it up a notch and really get everyone fired up and excited to attend. THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME! Include all the same info above and more info about: Why this event is important to you? A description of the cause or organization you are supporting as well as any links to their sites FB page etc..
Make a master list of all that still needs to be done. Break this up by timeline, stuff that needs to be done now, stuff that needs to get done two days before, the night before and day of.
Check in with your support SLUGs to delegate anything that you think you need to take off your plate. Share your master list with these ladies and get their help and support.
Three Days Before:
Refine your master list.
Send out another email & FB blast about the event.
Work through any logistics with your support SLUGs.
Morning Of Event:
Make a new list of what needs to be done chronologically for the day.
Send out another email & FB blast about the event TONIGHT!
Work through any logistics with your support SLUGs.
One Hour Before Your Event:
Read through our mission statement to remind yourself of why you did this!
Enjoy and be proud of yourself. You are awesome!
Mission Statement
Seattle Ladies Underground giving (SLUG) is a diverse group of women devoted to growing ourselves and dedicated to nourishing our local community. We do so through embracing the collective power of women, acceptance, support of one another and our strong commitment to giving. Through educating each other on uplifting and social activities in combination with outreach programs that revolve around our local community we leave a trail of love and goodness wherever we go.
How to Build a Community (cont.)
Dance in the street
Talk to the mail carrier
Listen to the birds
Put up a swing
Help carry something heavy
Barter for your goods
Start a tradition
Ask a question
Hire young people for odd jobs
Organize a block party
Bake extra and share
Ask for help when you need it
Open your shades
Sing together
Share your skills
Take back the night
Turn up the music
Turn down the music
Listen before you react to anger
Mediate a conflict
Seek to understand
Learn from new and uncomfortable angles
Know that no one is silent though many are not heard. Work to change this.
Desiderata
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul. With all its shams, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.
~Max Ehrmann, Desiderata (1927)
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