Council of Chiefs meeting

**AcuteEnigma** · 8th June 09, 09:40 PM

Anyone know what this will really be like? Will it be a discussion or several speakers and everyone else just listens?

**BEEDEE** · 9th June 09, 05:05 AM

Meeting where/when? Can you give us a link to more information so that we can respond appropriately?

Brian

**AcuteEnigma** · 10th June 09, 10:21 PM

http://www.clanchiefs.org/category/events/

I have seen a more extensive announcement, but I don't know the URL.

**JolyStNicholas** · 11th June 09, 04:02 AM

From my point of view, this will be as a meeting of Heads Of States. I don't imagine there will be an open forum.. They have to much to discuss when you consider the number of clans that will be represented there!

**BEEDEE** · 11th June 09, 04:05 AM

Hard to tell from the limited information what the meeting will be like, but it is obvious that it will not be open to the public.

Due to limited capacity only chiefs, clan commanders and leading clan representatives will be invited to attend by The Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs.

Brian

**ThistleDown** · 11th June 09, 02:41 PM

Originally Posted by BEEDEE

Hard to tell from the limited information what the meeting will be like, but it is obvious that it will not be open to the public.

Brian

Meetings of the Standing Council are not open to the public; for this one, however, Council has invited certain leading members of Clan Associations to attend. The full agenda has yet to be tabled, but there will be an opportunity for world thoughts on clanship to be expressed in one of the two main sessions. Remember that the Council is not some sort of association of associations, but an organisation comprised exclusively of hereditary heads of clans and families as acknowledged by Lord Lyon.

**Mael Coluim** · 11th June 09, 04:22 PM

Looks like that are taking advantage of The Gathering that weekend for a pow wow.

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 11th June 09, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by Mael Coluim

Looks like that are taking advantage of The Gathering that weekend for a pow wow.

The Standing Council has an AGM and luncheon, usually the same day as Her Majesty's Garden Party at Holyrood House. The ongoing work of the Council is conducted by various committees, and their efforts coordinated and recorded by the Secretary of the Standing Council.

**ThistleDown** · 11th June 09, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by Mael Coluim

Looks like that are taking advantage of The Gathering that weekend for a pow wow.

Yes, exactly. "Homecoming" is actually quite a commercial enterprise and there were many chiefly objections in the early days. There's no profit in what they do for the chiefs and many of them felt that they were being taken out of a closet and dusted off to someone else's benefit. That's no doubt still true to a large extent, but the chiefs have decided to take advantage of the largest ever assembly of themselves to see if something can be done for the concept of clanship in the 21C.