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This is a great opener to use at community meetings who are meeting with the purpose of determining district vision. It's a simple exercise and it makes a good, quick training point.
Say: I'd like to have each of you please stand and create plenty of room between yourself and the people standing next to you. When I count to three, I'd like you to close your eyes and point to a spot on the wall you believe to be the direction of "due North." One, two, three...
Give a little time for pointing, and then continue...
Say: Please keep your fingers pointing toward the spot on the wall you believe to be the direction of "due North" and now open your eyes. Compare where you're pointing to where your neighbors are pointing. Are they all exactly the same direction?
With the assistance of a compass, identify "due North."
Say: Are you all pointing in exactly the same direction I am? OK—you can quit pointing. Please take your seats.
Provide this training point: Unless we all share an understanding of where we are going, we will have people ending up in different places. Even for those of us who were close in pointing to the same spot on the wall, we realize that the farther move toward where we pointed, the farther we get from each other. Some of you might end up in St. Paul, others in Milwaukee. You wouldn't be purposefully move farther apart, but without a clear, shared understanding of the destination, you would still end up in different places.
Our goal tonight is to share an understanding of our destination.
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