Business plenary - Day One (October 30)

After a short break, members gathered again for the business plenary. The 'official' UCA delegation is made up of these lovely 5 people, but there are loads of other UCA folk at the Assembly including Ann Connan, Rev Ken Sumner, Rev Anne Hewitt, Marie Wilson. 

Charity, Chris Walker, Emily Evans, Terence Corkin Andrew Dutney

The usual preliminaries for the opening business meeting (approving list of members etc etc). Interesting to see how the consensus method is used. I thought perhaps not as nuanced at the UCA’s use of the orange and blue cards but will be interesting to see how its used when there are more deliberative and decision making sessions. I was intrigued that people’s comments at the microphones did not receive a response but were simply noted. I found that interesting and expedient in terms of time, but look forward to the response when it may be educative for us all, rather than actioned by a small group that would meet after the session. But I’ll wait to see how it unfolds. Time to head back to the hotel for some rest. Been a long day (12 hours!).