Preparing for your Practice Week:
Before:
- Consider lighting
- Consider Background
- Set Your Pronouns on Zoom
- Familiarize yourself with Zoom overall (mute, chat)
- Send Warm Welcome Note w/link to Participants
- Limit Your Own Distractions, Turn of Notifications
- Gather your tools: timer, paper, several good pens.
During Your Session:
- Join the Zoom meeting at 6:15pm MST for a little grounding before your session begins.
- Call to presence.
- Call the circle, inviting everyone to share their name, pronouns, and a brief reflection.
- Invite the Seven Agreements with a single sentence each.
- Offer Practice Instructions
- Invite a short list (optional)
- Offer a Poem and prompts and invite one round of Writing to Discover (7 minutes)
- Invite a 5 minute break. (You may wish to play a song.)
- After the break, share community announcements: Confluence, What's Up Next...
- Lead Second Round of Writing to Discover (5-9minutes, depending on time)
- If you have time, conclude with a blessing poem or a check-out with the circle.
- You will facilitate the entire session until approximately 8:15pm MST. (Nan & Tiffany will lead some reflection until we end at 8:30pm.)
- Plan to stay on the meeting with Nan & Tiffany for 30 minutes of post-session reflection.
Next Day: Send Follow up Letter. Examples in the Reservoir.