Facilitation Call Tomorrow 12noon PST, 3pm EST (30 minutes Early for Advanced Check in)

[Jay/ Global Assemblies]

Hey Everyone,

Tomorrow is the next Facilitation Call. At 12noon PST, 3pm EST:

Link to Register: http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/RB4H0UMXFIX40SI

Pad: http://bit.ly/eco-agenda-notes

I want to help clarify the name by calling it the "Facilitation Training / GA Process Call" or the "Facilitation / GA Process Call", to make it clear that this call is not a "Class" or "Lecture", that it is a participatory call to collaborate with facilitators to talk about our GA Process as well as educate people about participatory democracy and trouble shoot our problems.  So if you have any ideas on good names let us know.

On the call we can propose the best names, and decide on one while going over proposal processes to build consensus for those who don't know.

There is a question about Scheduling, so I have gone ahead and created a new Scheduling form for the Facilitation Training / GA Process Calls which are currently on Thursdays at 12noon PST, 3pm EST.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGhlZnhDWnBMQ2EtbUQ2dEZ1alg0eWc6MA

Also we are going to be starting the Advanced Facilitation Training Calls ASAP as well.  Currently only 3 people have voted on the Advanced Facilitation Training Scheduling Form, which looks like we may do Wednesdays, but there is still no definitive answer, so for those who want to do Advanced Facilitation, please get on the call early tomorrow.  I am thinking that we could get on 30 minutes early and it should be possible to start the call at that time.  We can finalize our decision for when we will have our Advanced Facilitation Training Calls, and announce it on the Call.

So we will be doing a quick Advanced Check in tomorrow at 11:30am PST, 2:30pm EST using hte same maestro link as above.

Here is the link for Scheduling the Advanced Facilitation Training:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHp3TnNFMVhkLTJsc21Qd2VMUlYzcmc6MA

Here is the link for the Advanced Email List:

http://wc.tc/mailman/listinfo/advancedfacilitation_unitedstates.generalassemblies.info

Advanced Facilitation Training will be more "Lecture" and less participatory.  Advanced Training is for people who know the basic process and don't need it shown by example, and instead we will go over different advanced techniques, as well as make decisions about coordinating the Facilitation / GA Process calls, and train people how to train facilitators on calls as well as in person at GA's etc...

Lastly I want to make it really clear that the Facilitation Training/ GA Process Calls are NOT InterOccupy "IO" calls.  We are independently autonomous and we have the ability to decide ourselves what we want to do and how we want to associate or not associate with other groups.  For example, maybe we want to be Global in focus instead of National, in which case we may want to use a different service than Maestro for our calls which has access globally.

That doesn't mean that there aren't important IO calls that people should know about.

It is important for facilitators facilitating call on the Maestro system to get Training:

The IO Basic Maestro Training Class is specifically for learning the Maestro back end is on Every Wed Night at 6pm PST 9pm EST: 

The IO Advanced Maestro Training Class also is available Every Friday Night at 6pm EST:

Here is a link with all the information: http://interoccupy.org/join-the-call-team/

I am also pursuing the possibility of setting up a IO Basic Facilitation Training Class.  This will give the basics of facilitating using the Maestro System, and be a crash course for people to jump into running conference calls and allow for flexibility, agenda creation, decision-making (as needed), Time keeping and Wrapping up meetings while having good next steps and tasks to that things don't fall through the cracks and people leave the meeting feeling as if it was productive.

Let me know if a class like that would be helpful.

Talk to you all soon,

Jay

Jay Blas Jacob Cabrera

(415) 323-5833

http://GeneralAssemblies.info

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[Jay/ Global Assemblies]

Hey Everyone,

I'm trying to start the call early, but Maestro doesn't allow anyone on the call until 15 minutes prior.   So if you still want to talk about Advanced Facilitation, then it starts in 5 minutes at 11:45 PST, 2:45 EST.  sorry for the confusion.

I made a Advanced Facilitation Pad you can get to from the titan pad.

The normal facilitation/ GA Process call will start at the normal time.

Jay