We had no answers for these difficult questions. Instead, we recognized the commonalities in the three different pieces of work, applauded each other's efforts and made a wide variety of plans for the evening.

On Saturday morning we gathered into three somewhat different groups, much as possible we tried to provide space for women with similar political or philosophical perspectives to work together. Jenny Horsman and Michele Kuhlman facilitated one group of women who worked closely together using an informal discussion format. Frances facilitated women who began as one group, broke into smaller groups work with individual questions, and then share their responses. I facilitated women who spent some time in general discussion about the questions and then began a series of rounds answering each question in turn. The recorders typed women's words into the computers as the: spoke. Sometimes the flow of the discussion was recorded on flip chart pages as well.

We generated a lot of flip chart. paper on Saturday. Jenny Horseman tries to keep things straight in her group.

We had planned to have time to share the three groups' responses to the analysis question after lunch. However, we all decided we needed more time to complete our work. In the afternoon it became clear that the three groups wanted to move at their own pace. Two groups decided to continue with their recommendations, finishing before supper. The third decided to take a break and work on their recommendations in the evening. Everyone would post the results so we could review them in the morning.

After breakfast on Sunday we walked around the room reading the recommendations. Each group had a different style, but the focus and emphasis seemed remarkably clear. The recommendations addressed immediate, critical needs (such as stable, adequate funding; implementing sexual harassment and anti-racism policies)" long-term planning (such as coalition. building with community-based services; more effective training for literacy workers), and fundamental changes in understanding (such as acknowledging the devaluation of women's work, of adult literacy work, of social justice work). They formed an impressive vision of a woman-positive future.