1. What are IMCC’s strengths as a community?

2. What are IMCC’s leaders (board members and teachers) doing well? 

3. How well do IMCC’s current policies, practices, and culture align with the organization’s values? With Buddhist teachings? With diverse, inclusive, equitable, and just (DEIJ)* practices?

4. What changes would you like to see at IMCC?

5. What lessons can we learn from the sangha’s past and present that inform our vision for our sangha’s future?

6. What barriers are keeping you from regularly participating in any of IMCC’s programming (Tuesday nights, young adult sangha, noon sits, ecosattva gatherings, etc.)? Potential barriers may include timing of programs, child care, work schedule, sense of belonging, something else? 

7. What barriers are keeping you from contributing to IMCC in the ways that you would most like to, either by volunteering your time or making a financial contribution?

* Global Citizen, LLC’s Definitions of DEIJ:

• Diversity: Characteristics that make individuals and groups unique and different from each other, including identity markers, personalities, ways of thinking, ideas, and perspectives.

• Inclusion: Actions to create an environment in which everyone is and feels welcomed, respected, valued, and supported to fully participate.

• Equity: Fair treatment, access, opportunity, and advancement for all people, while identifying disparities, shifting power structures, eliminating systemic barriers, and providing needed resources to ensure the full agency, participation, and benefit of people who have experienced discrimination and oppression.

• Justice: Justice is dismantling barriers and ensuring equitable access to resources and opportunities in society so that all individuals and communities can thrive with dignity and well-being. Barriers include racism, sexism, classism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, and other forms of systemic oppression and discrimination.