Accepting the situation - the records were lost. If you were on a road trip and there was a landslide taking out the road, you don't sit there moaning for days, you find another path. You accept it and move on Regular re-assement of the situation - assess where you are and how that compares to your original plan. Is this still realistic?. How do the plans need to adapt to the current situation?. *We had to scale back from original plans, but that did not stop us working hard to ensure the Jubilee was celebrated and those in attendance had a great time. * With the loss of records we had to knuckle down and get members reaching out to contacts, people they knew were past members, searching for old agendas from meetings and ABM's, old evaluations, anything with names and/or numbers. Set up a facebook page for the project/event, along with eventfinder and events section on the district website and district facebook page. Then when that was done, accepting we had done our best at trying to reach out and contact past members and move on. Utilize the experience in our district - I was fortunate to have Paul Leong, BJ O'Leary and Murray Coutts on my guidance committee, but I also got a lot of advice from Mike Diggins and others, who were only to happy to help out. Sometimes the biggest help was not when they came up with the answers but when they just listened and let me vent my frustrations or alarm, then planted a seed and left me and my working committee to grow that seed into a plan or course of action. Listen - to the whole story not just someones highlights reel, where they tell you all about what went well, get the bad with the good. Sometimes it was the stories where everything went wrong and they had to dig deep to avoid the whole project/event falling flat on its face, were exactly what I needed to hear at the time, were the most reassuring and the best at raising my spirits, I was not alone!.

Spread the realisation that many of these projects can be applied to things that members were working on anyway, such as establishing hybrid formats, longer format speeches, and so on. To do this, I had to come to that realisation myself. The workshop series is working, but slow going.