Over a hundred friends gathered for the first session. Counselor Miller-Kleinhenz opened by describing the study as a continuation of an ongoing conversation — one begun at the Conference of the Counselors in December to launch the second phase of the nine-year plan, and carried forward through national gatherings around the world. Those of us joining the study, she said, were part of that same conversation, so that all might hold one vision and, sharing what we had been learning, advance together in unison.