Event: Workshop: Intro to Compassionate Listening (4 session series)
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Workshop: Intro to Compassionate Listening (4 session series)
When:
Thursday, 2 April 2020
1:00pm to 3:30pm
(UTC-07:00) America/Los Angeles
Repeats: Weekly on Thursday, through Thursday, 23 April 2020
Where:
zoom link sent when you register here: https://bpt.me/4555098
Organizer: Susan Partnow
susanpartnow@...
2063101203
Description:
Come learn to open your heart, deepen your listening skills, and experience a sense of connection during these challenging days of 'social distancing'? in polarized times.? You will enjoy time for self-nurturing, spirit raising and communication skills building as well as connecting deeply with the other participants.? ?
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Masters throughout the ages recognize that listening is one of the most precious gifts we can give to another human being. The practice of Compassionate Listening builds trust, connection, understanding, respectful dialogue, and sustainable solutions. It is ideal for those involved in conflict transformation and peace-building in a professional or personal context, and for those who are passionate about building bridges and healing relationships in our world.?
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This four session series, led by Sr. Facilitator Susan Partnow, will introduce and strengthen the practices of:
-Cultivating compassion - towards ourselves and others.
-Developing the fair witness - honing our ability to go to the balcony during stressful interactions and combine cognitive awareness with the wisdom of the heart.
-Respecting self and others.
-Listening and speaking from the heart...as well as the opportunity to put these into practice within a safe environment.
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Cost:
This workshop is being offered for $95.? Scholarships may be available - contact susanpartnow@... to discuss your needs. We don't want anyone who earnestly wants to attend to miss out because of finances.??
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Dates and Time: Thursdays, 1:00 to 3:30 pm PST (4 to 6:30 CST)
FOUR sessions (this is a series:? each session builds on the prior sessions):
April 2, 9, 16 and 23
REGISTER HErE:??https://bpt.me/4555098
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Re: Is there an event on Wed April 1st at 8:00 AM Central
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On Mar 31, 2020, at 4:13 PM, Lotte Krisper-UIlyett <lotte@...> wrote:
?elana,?
you probably mean this:?
it is "sold out" (free but no more tickets left) ---- so you can relax and take a walk leaving your mobile phone switched off :-)
lotte?
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Event: Still Connected - Just Online - Saturday, 4 April 2020
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Still Connected - Just Online
When:
Saturday, 4 April 2020
12:30am to 10:30am
(UTC-07:00) America/Los Angeles
Where:
zoom link sent when you register ($10 to register) go here: https://bpt.me/4563537
Organizer: Susan Partnow
susanpartnow@...
2063101203
Description:
Are you feeling disconnected from co-workers, community and friends? Are you at a loss as to how to have a meaningful digital gathering?? Team meetings, book groups, action committees, coffee klatches... they can all happen with great satisfaction online with a platform like Zoom.? You don't need to feel disconnected during these challenging days of 'social distancing.'? Come experience how it works, and learn some key skills and practices? to make your online gatherings more interactive, connecting and even heartful.
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Join this highly interactive session, Saturday, April 4, 10:30 am to 12:30 pm PST (1:30 to 3:30 EST)
Register here:??
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Re: Workshop on gathering groups creatively on Zoom
"Still Connected - Just Online" - is a great interactive experience of many of the great possibilities for deepening connection and lively productivity on Zoom.? $10 to register.?
Saturday April 4 at 10:30 to 12:30 PST
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Re: Is there an event on Wed April 1st at 8:00 AM Central
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elana,?
you probably mean this:?
it is "sold out" (free but no more tickets left) ---- so you can relax and take a walk leaving your mobile phone switched off :-)
lotte?
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[I wanted to post this as a kind of example of a lot of backend operations and engineering effort supporting social process of people helping people.]
That's sort of how Frontline Foods got started in San Francisco a week or so ago. It's gone way past pizza. :-)
It's a cool twofer: donors give money, restaurants get the money to make meals, frontline workers at hospitals receive the meals.
website:
profile:
Donors feel good about helping. Restaurants get vital income to help them stay alive. Healthcare heroes get nutritious, varied meals without having to wrangle them up for themselves.
Today Frontline Foods is up to (lemme check Slack, it's growing every day) 190 or so volunteers across the US (international is starting up too). It's an emergent decentralized company, essentially, with all the various departments to make it work, running Slack, Zoom, Google Sheets, and now backend systems running on Coda (development spearheaded by Ross Mayfield, with a few great product developers and me).
Organizationally, it's a federated network of chapters (cities or regions), with a handful of people coordinating operations in that region, and a national organization working on branding, marketing, 501(c)3 connection with Jose Andres¡¯ World Central Kitchen, scaling systems, routing volunteers and national donations, etc.
I'm playing just a small part, but it's super energizing to see talented professionals self-assemble and get so much done so quickly.
Pete
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Is there an event on Wed April 1st at 8:00 AM Central
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It's on my calendar. It has Nancy White's name on it but no info. I've searched ?the group and I'm not seeing anything so I am just double checking if there is a great learning opportunity that I may be missing tomorrow because I don't know what it is.
I think it's been a long day. :)
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Re: Artifacts from DEConstruct/REConstruct event on March 27
And finally my blog post w/ hasty reflections?https://fullcirc.com/2020/03/31/moving-online-in-pandemic-5-this-is-the-time-of-creative-destruction/
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Hello!
I think there was a communication hiccup ?I and another person were on the call at 7AM pacific....but we were all by ourselves.
If that is the worst thing that happens today, it will be a great day.
Elana
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Re: Pairing / Supporting: Facilitators on the job
Hi all,? Thanks to those who came to the meeting yesterday; a blessing of experience and kindness. We kept notes in the notes column of the agenda. Anyone interested is welcome to look:?
Meeting outcome
Ed is not going to use Ecocycle - and is very grateful for the time and application of all the attendees - thank you!?
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The immediate need is to help the organisation take their administration process online safely and securely with confidence and reassurance. There are bound to be process changes to their pre-covid-19 practices, so although this is a transformational moment, it isn¡¯t quite the time for a full spring clean that Ecocycle would afford.?
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It feels more like a mix of clarifying the ¡®moving online¡¯ project¡¯s purpose and related organisational processes, and some socio-technical requirements gathering, which would lead into a period of desk research to map those to using O365. It feels like a mapping exercise, but something more operational/tactical than Ecocycle, mixed with gathering socio-technical requirements.?
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Alternative suggestions included?
(1) Strategic Knotworking, particularly around Purpose to gain clarity, then?
(2) Min specs to? determine what they do and don¡¯t proceed with.?
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Re: Pairing / Supporting: Facilitators on the job
Hi Meghan,?
I wonder if we could add a column to the google sheet with everyone's names on it??
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Re: Zoom questions: Shuffling small groups
Hi Eva,?
I don't think that you can create your specific break-out rooms with the currently available?features on Zoom WITHOUT manually reassigning participants.? How large is the group that you are thinking of? ? One of the workarounds could be to make everyone a co-host - that allows participants to see the break-out rooms and to move themselves to a different group. But this might cause huge chaos if everyone tries to find a new partner for a dyad-conversation...?
I have never before heard that it might make a difference whether someone has a Zoom account or not. Last weekend, I tech-hosted for a group of 90 - most of them were first-time Zoom users without accounts. Creating break-outs was pretty smooth.
What might make a difference (and that is maybe what you are referring to) is that participants need to use the Zoom Desktop client or app. When they are logged in through "join via your browser" - you cannot put them into a break-out.
Looking forward if there are creative solutions that I am not yet aware of.
Greetings, Michaela?
Hi all,
Could someone explain to me how to do the following on Zoom:?
- Move meeting participants into a consecutive string of pairs - they spend 5 minutes talking to the first person, reshuffle, 5 minutes with the next person, reshuffle, ect., but don't talk to the same person twice
- Move swiftly from pairs to groups of 4 to whole meeting, without having to manually reassign or bring people back into the main room in-between.
In these calls, not everyone has a zoom account (I read that that makes a difference) Thanks a lot for helping me learn how to crawl!
Best,
Eva
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Re: Zoom questions: Shuffling small groups
. Trying to show that on the backend.?
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Zoom questions: Shuffling small groups
Hi all, Could someone explain to me how to do the following on Zoom:?
- Move meeting participants into a consecutive string of pairs - they spend 5 minutes talking to the first person, reshuffle, 5 minutes with the next person, reshuffle, ect., but don't talk to the same person twice
- Move swiftly from pairs to groups of 4 to whole meeting, without having to manually reassign or bring people back into the main room in-between.
In these calls, not everyone has a zoom account (I read that that makes a difference) Thanks a lot for helping me learn how to crawl! Best, Eva
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Re: Running Multi-Lingual Virtual Sessions
Hi Dirk
Thanks for starting this thread, and for sharing the work-a-round. I am hosting a number of international events and have the same problem.?
Eager to learn if anyone has tried the Zoom live translation feature and other hacks for hosting multilingual online gatherings unfortunately I have nothing?much to share at the moment although in my case I host mostly Portuguese and Spanish meetings where there is a high level of mutual understanding due to language similarities,?not the same as with ENG and?ES or other Latin languages.
Best wishes and stay safe!
Paul Nunesdea | Paulo Nunes de Abreu?
+34 667 643 688 Twitter: @nunesdea
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 14:42, Dirk Slater < dirk@...> wrote: Hello,
I just subscribed to the list over the weekend and am already heartened by the amount of knowledge being shared here and am currently facing a major challenge which I¡¯m hoping I can get some advice/wisdom on.
Basically, I just want to know if people have been running sessions making use of translators/interpreters. If so what platforms have you used to support this? In particular getting different audio channels running with different languages for large group discussions and then organising small group breakouts based on participants languages?
The context:
I¡¯ve been co-hosting a series of workshops for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Society on sharing innovative responses across the national societies. A major goal is to get some real sharing across regions that won¡¯t be siloed by language.? We¡¯ve been running a couple a week over the last few weeks and are getting an enormous response - upwards of 80 participants - and it¡¯s been a blessing to be able to break people up easily in small groups on the fly.
However, we ran into a couple of bumps on our last call when we tried to expand beyond English and also include Spanish Language speakers. We had nearly 130 participants and had a major struggle just getting them into breakout rooms where everyone spoke the same language - we had tried to get people to register in advance and then assign them breakout groups - but as people logged in, we realised many of the people that had pre-registered didn¡¯t show up and we had lots of people that hadn¡¯t registered wanting to participate.? Our quick workaround was to get people to rename themselves with either EN or ES so we could manually organise the room quickly. ?
When we are in large group, we had translation happening while people were speaking, so one or two sentences, translation, then one or two sentences.? This was okay - and there was some key moments where people from Italy, Iran, Columbia and Ecuador were able to share some critical advice - but not optimal in terms of energy and flow. ? We are eyeing Zoom¡¯s language interpretation feature - which apparently allows you to set up separate audio channels by language.? It¡¯s an upgrade that we¡¯re thinking is probably worth the money (it¡¯s a 160GBP a month) but wondered if anyone has experience with it and could attest to its value (or not).
One thing that is working well is using a Google Doc with instructions for how to join/participation, what people should do in small groups and the agenda in multiple languages. ?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
- Dirk
Dirk Slater FabRider
Skype: dirkslater Wire: @FabRider Mobile/Signal: +447903932817 Join our Network on Designing Network Centric Resources:?
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Re: Running Multi-Lingual Virtual Sessions
Hi Dirk,?
Following with interest as we are keen to see how the functionality works, has anyone had positive feedback from Zoom, on their site this is needed as a prerequisite:
- Business, Education, or Enterprise Account; or?Webinar add-on plan
- Zoom Desktop Client
- Windows:?4.5.3261.0825?or higher
- macOS: 4.5.3261.0825?or higher
- Zoom Mobile App
- Android: 4.5.3261.0825 or higher
- iOS: 4.5.0 (3261.0825) or higher
with a minimum host of 10 each with a monthly fee.? how it works sounds really great.
Another one you could try and see whether there is an API for zoom and toasty.ai . We tested toasty this morning, a bit buggy but fabulous grouping and differentiation algorithms in the back end that might solve the how to cluster / group with those who are there (as opposed to those that registered but didn¡¯t manage to join).
hope this helps. there is another one called interprefy, but I struggle to reach them too, I think they are all inundated with requests and calls for help and input.?
if you find anything else on your side please share. thank you.
best wishes marion
Marion Adamson, Managing PartnerIngeniousPeoplesKnowledge Skype: mazadamson
Mobile: +27 (82) 923 7954
'Why not unleash ingenuity within systems?'
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On 31 Mar 2020, at 12:56, Dirk Slater < dirk@...> wrote:
Hello,
I just subscribed to the list over the weekend and am already heartened by the amount of knowledge being shared here and am currently facing a major challenge which I¡¯m hoping I can get some advice/wisdom on.
Basically, I just want to know if people have been running sessions making use of translators/interpreters. If so what platforms have you used to support this? In particular getting different audio channels running with different languages for large group discussions and then organising small group breakouts based on participants languages?
The context:
I¡¯ve been co-hosting a series of workshops for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Society on sharing innovative responses across the national societies. A major goal is to get some real sharing across regions that won¡¯t be siloed by language. ?We¡¯ve been running a couple a week over the last few weeks and are getting an enormous response - upwards of 80 participants - and it¡¯s been a blessing to be able to break people up easily in small groups on the fly.
However, we ran into a couple of bumps on our last call when we tried to expand beyond English and also include Spanish Language speakers. We had nearly 130 participants and had a major struggle just getting them into breakout rooms where everyone spoke the same language - we had tried to get people to register in advance and then assign them breakout groups - but as people logged in, we realised many of the people that had pre-registered didn¡¯t show up and we had lots of people that hadn¡¯t registered wanting to participate. ?Our quick workaround was to get people to rename themselves with either EN or ES so we could manually organise the room quickly. ?
When we are in large group, we had translation happening while people were speaking, so one or two sentences, translation, then one or two sentences. ?This was okay - and there was some key moments where people from Italy, Iran, Columbia and Ecuador were able to share some critical advice - but not optimal in terms of energy and flow. ? We are eyeing Zoom¡¯s language interpretation feature - which apparently allows you to set up separate audio channels by language. ?It¡¯s an upgrade that we¡¯re thinking is probably worth the money (it¡¯s a 160GBP a month) but wondered if anyone has experience with it and could attest to its value (or not).
One thing that is working well is using a Google Doc with instructions for how to join/participation, what people should do in small groups and the agenda in multiple languages. ?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
- Dirk
Dirk Slater FabRider
Skype: dirkslater Wire: @FabRider Mobile/Signal: +447903932817 Join our Network on Designing Network Centric Resources:?
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Running Multi-Lingual Virtual Sessions
Hello,
I just subscribed to the list over the weekend and am already heartened by the amount of knowledge being shared here and am currently facing a major challenge which I¡¯m hoping I can get some advice/wisdom on.
Basically, I just want to know if people have been running sessions making use of translators/interpreters. If so what platforms have you used to support this? In particular getting different audio channels running with different languages for large group discussions and then organising small group breakouts based on participants languages?
The context:
I¡¯ve been co-hosting a series of workshops for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Society on sharing innovative responses across the national societies. A major goal is to get some real sharing across regions that won¡¯t be siloed by language. ?We¡¯ve been running a couple a week over the last few weeks and are getting an enormous response - upwards of 80 participants - and it¡¯s been a blessing to be able to break people up easily in small groups on the fly.
However, we ran into a couple of bumps on our last call when we tried to expand beyond English and also include Spanish Language speakers. We had nearly 130 participants and had a major struggle just getting them into breakout rooms where everyone spoke the same language - we had tried to get people to register in advance and then assign them breakout groups - but as people logged in, we realised many of the people that had pre-registered didn¡¯t show up and we had lots of people that hadn¡¯t registered wanting to participate. ?Our quick workaround was to get people to rename themselves with either EN or ES so we could manually organise the room quickly. ?
When we are in large group, we had translation happening while people were speaking, so one or two sentences, translation, then one or two sentences. ?This was okay - and there was some key moments where people from Italy, Iran, Columbia and Ecuador were able to share some critical advice - but not optimal in terms of energy and flow. ? We are eyeing Zoom¡¯s language interpretation feature - which apparently allows you to set up separate audio channels by language. ?It¡¯s an upgrade that we¡¯re thinking is probably worth the money (it¡¯s a 160GBP a month) but wondered if anyone has experience with it and could attest to its value (or not).
One thing that is working well is using a Google Doc with instructions for how to join/participation, what people should do in small groups and the agenda in multiple languages. ?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
- Dirk
Dirk Slater FabRider
Skype: dirkslater Wire: @FabRider Mobile/Signal: +447903932817 Join our Network on Designing Network Centric Resources:?
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Hi folks
I have been watching people try to cram half or full day face-to-face workshops into 90 minute Zoom meetings - awful! I have been thinking about ways to build in processing time, individual reflection and smaller group practical work.
I thought I'd share the rough 're-design' I did of an climate activist strategy workshop:
* Review - replace SWOT or other workshopping with a survey that people can take their time to respond to, then summarise the results and share it back
* Training - get people together on a Zoom call to learn how to use some strategy tools, with worksheets emailed out or shared via Google Drive
* Small groups - From the large training people nominate to convene and participate in working groups using the tools, meeting via Zoom when works for those involved
* Report-back - Sharing completed worksheets with the broader group via a Google folder, capacity for people to add comments
* Action pitching - Send an action planning tool out to folks, set a deadline for developing action pitches using the worksheet. Run the pitching sessions in a dynamic way via Zoom, set time for each person to present, creativity encouraged in terms of costumes and props. Everyone rates each other's ideas according to the criteria in the planning tool. Loomio could also be a useful tool at this point.?
This is how I've been thinking about mixing synchronous and asynchronous and also slowing down the pace so people get to engage more deeply.
Many thanks to everyone for the great thinking and innovating you are doing at this time!
Holly Hammond
Plan to Win
Commons Social Change Library
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Here is the info from the Calendar entry: 7AM PDT tomorrow, March 31 (the calendar says 10-11am as a default time zone. Get an account and log in to get your time zone set!?
P.S. This is not my event... just passing it along! | Online Ice Breakers and EnergizersWhenTue, March 31, 10am ¨C 11am DescriptionLink:
Updated by Lucas Cioffi using QiqoChat.
Rachel Cardone: I'm working to adapt a F2F training I've designed around problem diagnosis / program design for a virtual audience. The F2F training has space for ice-breakers and energizers, some of which would translate but others not. I found this resource on line as a reference:
I also wonder if others have ideas for other resources, and/or would be interested to join a zoom call to practice a brainstorming method to adapt your favorite ice-breaker and/or energizer to a virtual format?
I realize there's a *lot* going on now, so I'd like to offer this zoom call at 7AM PST on Tuesday, March 31.
** Topic: Virtual Ice-Breakers & Energizers Practice Session Time: Mar 31, 2020 07:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +18333021536,,389175841# or +16507249799,,389175841# Or Telephone: Dial: +1 650 724 9799 (US, Canada, Caribbean Toll) or +1 833 302 1536 (US, Canada, Caribbean Toll Free) Meeting ID: 389 175 841 International numbers available: Meeting ID: 389 175 841 SIP: 389175841@... |
when is this and how do we get there?! Susan Partnow
she/her/hers
4425 Baker Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98107
tel. 206-310-1203 ?(use this for WhatsApp with +1) ?? Partnow Communications, Organizational Development & Workshops
Breathe deep.? Smell the roses.? Wash your hands!
?. Founder and Executive Director ? ?? Co-Founder ? Network Weaver and Sr. Certified Facilitator
Me too! Please do send through the details to join :-)
Sharan ? -- Sharan Jaswal?07939 537535
Educator - Facilitator - Changemaker Clore Social Leadership Fellow 2018 Pronouns: she/her
Hi all,
I'm also interested in joining tomorrow!
looking forward to it :)
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Sharan Jaswal?07939 537535
Educator - Facilitator - Changemaker Clore Social Leadership Fellow 2018 Pronouns: she/her
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when is this and how do we get there?! Susan Partnow
she/her/hers
4425 Baker Ave NW
Seattle, WA 98107
tel. 206-310-1203 ?(use this for WhatsApp with +1) ?? Partnow Communications, Organizational Development & Workshops
Breathe deep.? Smell the roses.? Wash your hands!
?. Founder and Executive Director ? ?? Co-Founder ? Network Weaver and Sr. Certified Facilitator
Me too! Please do send through the details to join :-)
Sharan ? -- Sharan Jaswal?07939 537535
Educator - Facilitator - Changemaker Clore Social Leadership Fellow 2018 Pronouns: she/her
Hi all,
I'm also interested in joining tomorrow!
looking forward to it :)
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Sharan Jaswal?07939 537535
Educator - Facilitator - Changemaker Clore Social Leadership Fellow 2018 Pronouns: she/her
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elana
Susan
Lotte Krisper-Ullyett
Nancy White
Ed Mitchell
Paul Nunesdea