Let’s have a fresh thread for a renewed focus on the role of Team Facilitation with regard to making the Reef happen
Our priorities moving forward are:
Redefining the aim of the team
Researching, learning and implementing new facilitation methods
Engaging with the existing available training
Scheduling regular meetings for the rest of the year
I would also like to finish the hand signals proposal (which I am totally responsible for in terms of it not being done yet) and bring them into our regular team/plenary meeting practices (as Els highlighted recently).
In order to get the ball (re)rolling, here’s a poll to set up a meeting in the near future:
published the notes of today’s meeting.
I was just wandering if the ‘aim of Team Facilitation’ needs to be documented somewhere (and not only be somewhere in the notes of a meeting)? Is there such a thing as a ‘role description of a team’?
Here a list of the action points:
AP Els
hand signals: look for missing images
put the Facilitation meetings on nextcloud
research facilitation techniques: fish bowl
AP Chris:
hand signals: rewrite the part on hand signal for voting
There’s been a couple of occasions at plenary meetings where I noticed that it’s important to me that when something is said, it is said from a personal perspective rather than as a general statement.
There is a simple hack to that, which is to start sentences with “I”. So instead of saying “that’s annoying” one would say “I think that’s annoying”, or instead of saying “you’re such a good listener” one would say “I think you are a good listener”. It may seem like a little thing, but I notice in myself that these general statements leave much less space for people to disagree with.
We have a bit of text on this in the plenary meetings manual (section 7 on communication etiquette), but maybe it can be an idea to draw people’s attention to this at the beginning of a meeting?
Thanks for this info Lie !
At 350-700 euros per person, it would be a case of one Reefling attending and then running a workshop to share the info with the rest of us. As it is in French, that rules me out. The blurb specifically says that the 3-day training will not be about facilitation, but rather on shared governance (including sociocracy) and working with collective intelligence. So any French-speaking @reeflings with enough time and interest could be a viable candidate…
I find it a bit confusing to be honest. I had registered for the other training “facilitation: les clés de la posture”, but then in the description it again said that there would not be any facilitation practice.
For this one on the other hand it also says:
“Découvrir et pratiquer des outils et méthodes pour un fonctionnement en intelligence collective: outils de créativité, d’évaluation, de brainstorming, de décision, de débats… Trucs et astuces pour les réunions et la gestion de la parole en groupe.”
I developed a bit of a passion for all of this stuff, so I am considering participating on my own expense, but I’m a bit reluctant to spend three days indoors in May (not also that it takes place on week days).
Its really interesting stuff, and I would be super keen to do this, both for myself and in terms of the Reef. But if it’s not in English, I don’t think that I’d get the full benefit of it…
