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Workshops - Children's Activities - Viking Games - Dinners - Heathen Auction |
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Religious Activities - Tribes, Families, & Solid Heathens - Regional Thing - Registration |
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REGIONAL MIDWEST THING At Lightning Across the Plains 2010, we held the first Regional Midwest Thing. Chieftains, Gothar, and Elders of 23 kindreds met and came to a consensus on how the Midwest Thing will work. Throughout the end of 2010 and 2011 these leaders and their kindreds will remain in communication with one another. They will visit each other at gatherings around the region. And they will return to Lightning Across the Plains for the Second Regional Midwest Thing. We feel the growth of heathenry is something that must happen...can only happen...at the grassroots level. Heathens find each other in their local area. Kindreds form, and grow. Regionally, kindreds begin to gather together and face-to-face connections and relationships form. Trust develops. |
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| Over time, the trust between tribes and tribal leaders becomes such...that a more formal structure of Thing is put in place. Those included in the Thing, all have connections and some level of trust between them. All the tribes represented are stable and of quality. The Thing is a meeting of equals. The Thing does not address matters that are internal to any tribe, those are matters left to that tribe. The Thing addresses external matters, communication, coordination. and those issues that make heathenry in the region better...and stronger. |
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| There is no "bureaucracy" or administration
of the Thing. The strength of the thing is in the sovereignty and strength
of the individual tribes involved. The Thing needs no website. The Thing
needs no email address, P.O. Box, budget, staff, board, or anything else
representing a modern organization. It is simply a way for strong Tru
tribes to come together, communicate, coordinate, and address regional
concerns.
For a more detailed description of how such a Thing would work and how it differs from a National Organization, click here. To visit the public Yahoo e-list for the Regional Midwest Thing, click here. |
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