Chapel Hill Salon
Discussions for
Community Building
About Chapel Hill Salon
Mission
To help people communicate across barriers of class, age, race,
gender and political persuasion to build communication and community
skills.
Goals of the Salon
- To bring diverse people together.
- To communicate things that are of importance and concern to all of us.
- To share a social event and meet new people.
Sub-goals
- To continually poll the group about what ideas will make a good three-hour topic.
- To develop communication skills, leadership and group process skills (speaking, questioning, summarizing, listening, paying attention to cues, conflict resolution…).
- To break down barriers between people, such as fear and anger.
- To recruit diversity for the group.
Volunteer Leadership Team
- Coordinators: Anna Washington and Whit Price
- Webmaster: Paul Nagy
- Godfather: Richard Zieger
- Leadership Team: Joy Hewett, Charlotte Hoffman, Mary Luckhardt, Rocco and Hatsy Nittoli, and Mort Zwick
- Photographer: Mike Hsu
Links to
- Photos from the Race Relations
Salon Slide ShowPolitics Lite Game Slide Show
- Let’s Talk Politics Questionnaire and Politics Group Photo
- List of Past Salons, Upcoming Salons: Topics and Dates
- Sample Invitations
- Invitation to Al Gore
- Invitation on Anger
- Invitation Happiness
- Invitation Katrina
- Invitation Let's Talk Politics
- Invitation Materialism
- Invitation Movie Salon
- Invitation New Year's Resolutions
- Invitation Right to Die
- Invitation US Imperialism
- Sample Questionnaires
- Sample Quotations
- Guidelines
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Testimonials