Gather Resources · The Introduction

Name one place.

The tour runs the line between Eugene and Bellingham. I know a fraction of what is on it, and between you all you know most of the rest. One name from each of you builds a map I could not build alone, which is the entire argument of the chapter this campaign comes from.

Naming a place is a Gather Resources rep. It costs you a minute and moves something I cannot move by working harder.

The line

Portland · Tacoma · Seattle are the anchors. Eugene, Salem, Vancouver, Olympia, Everett, Bellingham are on the same road and worth a stop when a real invitation appears there.

If nothing comes to mind

That is normal. “Who do you know in Seattle” returns a blank for almost everybody. These land better, because memory answers questions about events and goes silent on questions about categories. Read them until one catches.

Who has already had you speak, teach, or run a session — paid or not, however small?
Which bookstore do you actually shop at, and who behind the counter knows your face?
Who invited you to something in the last two years that you said yes to?
Which of the three hundred and seventy-one backers can you name without looking?
Who runs a space you have physically been inside — a studio, a hall, a shop after hours?
Who has a podcast, a newsletter, or a group chat with more than two hundred people in it?
Who did this work alongside you at Blue Sky, and where did they land afterward?
Which facilitator have you watched work and thought, they are already doing this?
Who asked you for a copy and never got a follow-up from you?
Who have you met exactly once, at a conference, and liked?
Which organization near you has already paid somebody for training like this?
Who owes you nothing and likes you anyway?

Wanting to help run a stop rather than name one? That is the other door.