There will be little tolerance for anything casual. In the end, the conversation must produce something that works in the world outside the meeting. Last summer I attended a gathering sponsored by the Christian Johnson Foundation. Its topic was the uses of education in a democracy. The insight governing the meeting was that democracy is not static and never exists as a stable entity.
Democracy is created in the continuing effort to achieve it.
Similarly, authentic education is provided only by those who gather continually with the intention to create what is necessary to provide it. My thanks to my colleagues and our trustees. I enjoyed our meetings.