Dear Shambhala Community,



This Shambhala Day marked the official first anniversary of the Shambhala Process Team (PT). We invite you to check out the PT website documenting our activities, including an in-depth document tracking our Journey over the past year.



This document, which reflects extensive feedback from across the Process Team, describes our accomplishments, challenges, and learning over our first year together, and outlines potential avenues for our collective work in the coming year. We hope you find it illuminating and helpful, and we welcome your comments and reflections via email or through our website.



We would also like to update you on our next steps, with reference to our founding documents (available here), excerpted below:



The term of the PT is one year. The one-year “term” of the PT indicates a time for review, not dissolution... One year is a checkpoint for assessing where the PT is and what needs to happen going forward. Several organizational experts say the work will take longer than one year.



As part of this review process, the Steering Committee (PTSC) is dissolving in order for a temporary transition team to guide the creation of a new coordinating body. The coordinating body will replace the PTSC for the work of the Process Team this coming year. Six of the original eleven members of the PTSC have stepped down from the PT entirely, while five will continue, either as members of specific Working Groups or making ourselves available on an advisory basis.



You may see updates about the ongoing work of PT Working Groups here.



The temporary transition team – Shel Sampa Fisher, Jim Fladmark, Nancy KapLon, Frederick Meyer, and Teri Rowe – will spend the next several weeks working to design the next coordinating body for the Process Team, based on input gathered from the PT and best practices that have emerged from our time together this year. The new coordinating body is expected to be seated by early May.



We want to offer our sincere thanks to the community members who have sent us feedback and suggestions, and who have participated in our activities in any way over this past year. In the coming year, we hope to invite you, the community, to engage more deeply with the processes we are setting in motion. Please find more information at our website, and be on the lookout for further announcements regarding community engagement.



Best regards,



The Process Team Steering Committee

Deborah Marshall

Dian Marie Hosking

Fredrick Meyer

Jim Fladmark

LaDawn Haglund

Paul Kelway

Susan Skjei



