Welcome to the first DA Facilitators email newsletter! This should be a more reliable way of sharing news, information than Facebook. We hope to send them at least once a month.
1. The hosts follow the DA Gatherings Principles.
2. The event furthers our mission: embodying and enabling loving responses to our predicament.
3. The event is announced to DA Forum members (or a subset of them).
4. People attending the event are typically all members of DA Forum and therefore collapse-aware.
A Community of Practice
We intend the facilitators to be a community of practice: a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. I have learned so much already from other facilitators by participating in their offerings. Amongst us is a wealth of knowledge and skill in a variety of fields: psychospiritual practices, structured dialogues, breath and bodywork, and more.
2. The event furthers our mission: embodying and enabling loving responses to our predicament.
3. The event is announced to DA Forum members (or a subset of them).
4. People attending the event are typically all members of DA Forum and therefore collapse-aware.
A Community of Practice
We intend the facilitators to be a community of practice: a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. I have learned so much already from other facilitators by participating in their offerings. Amongst us is a wealth of knowledge and skill in a variety of fields: psychospiritual practices, structured dialogues, breath and bodywork, and more.
Is there something you could share with the facilitators group and other space-holders to enhance our skills and experience, as we support others in their journeys of deep adaptation to climate breakdown? Email me to discuss your ideas.
Announcing new member of the DAF Holding Group!
The DAF Holding Group must always include four DA Forum volunteers, and a space became available earlier this year. In the monthly facilitators’ gatherings on 6th April, three members of our group were nominated to become the newest member of the DA Forum Holding Group. They were Kimberley Hare, Katelyn Dowling and Matthew Painton. Holding Group members voted, and chose to invite Matthew Painton to join. Matthew has been a volunteer with DAF for around two years. He hosts weekly ‘Wider Embraces" meditations for DAF members, he is a founder of DA Guidance, and a coach. We know that Matthew will bring great heart to his new role with the Holding Group.
Do you have an idea for a DA-wide event you’d like to facilitate?
Deep Listening, Deep Relating, and Death Cafés were our core offerings to the wider DA. We now have three weekly offerings: Songs of One Breath, Wider Embraces, and Earth Listening, each with a gifted, passionate facilitator and a following. Several other offerings recur on a monthly or occasional basis. This is what happens when people love what they do and want to share it for the benefit of our community.
Is there something you offer outside DA that you might like to facilitate for the whole of DA, once or on a regular basis? Talk to me if you have ideas.
What if not many people come?
It can be discouraging to work hard on an event and have a low turnout. While we are getting better at promoting events, summertime and some people being able to travel mean attendance may be low. We have found posting an invitation containing the event link on Facebook a week before the event and again a day before the event helps. Finally, choose to host events for which you won’t mind a modest attendance.
Upcoming Facilitator events:
Choose events that appeal to you, and try to join us at least once a month as your schedule allows.
About time zones: BST is “British Summer Time” - also known as “UTC+1” since that time zone is the most populated in our fellowship.
Deep Relating is a core practice of the DA Facilitators, promoting the self-awareness in relationship that is a vital skill for facilitation. In addition to practicing together, we would like a number of people to feel comfortable facilitating it, and this guide will help you. The last half hour is for facilitator discussion. If you are new, please try it!
Tuesday, May 4, Deep Relating for Facilitators, 16:00-18:30 BST
SIGN UP HERE: https://forms.gle/iVV2LwwXTWhPGEv48
What if not many people come?
It can be discouraging to work hard on an event and have a low turnout. While we are getting better at promoting events, summertime and some people being able to travel mean attendance may be low. We have found posting an invitation containing the event link on Facebook a week before the event and again a day before the event helps. Finally, choose to host events for which you won’t mind a modest attendance.
Upcoming Facilitator events:
Choose events that appeal to you, and try to join us at least once a month as your schedule allows.
About time zones: BST is “British Summer Time” - also known as “UTC+1” since that time zone is the most populated in our fellowship.
Deep Relating is a core practice of the DA Facilitators, promoting the self-awareness in relationship that is a vital skill for facilitation. In addition to practicing together, we would like a number of people to feel comfortable facilitating it, and this guide will help you. The last half hour is for facilitator discussion. If you are new, please try it!
Tuesday, May 4, Deep Relating for Facilitators, 16:00-18:30 BST
SIGN UP HERE: https://forms.gle/iVV2LwwXTWhPGEv48
Check your time here.
More here: https://www.facebook.com/events/915526105953300
Thursday May 6, Compassionate Communication (NVC) for Facilitators and Volunteers, 18:30-20:00 BST.
Check your time here: https://everytimezone.com/s/7fe8a5ae. More here. Register here.
Small, interactive practice using NVC tools for facilitation and life. Monthly drop-in, no prerequisite.
Thursday May 13, Embodying Wholeness, 18:00-19:30 BST. Registration TBA.
Please support our new (to DA) facilitator Constance Clare-Newman will pilot this embodiment for facing collapse series for the facilitators before taking it to the whole DA. Please come meet and support Constance!
Facilitators May Meeting,
Tuesday May 18, 8:00-10:00 BST (Europe/Asia) Check your time here. Register here.
and/or Tuesday May 18, 18:30-20:30 BST (Europe/Americas) Check your time here. Register here.
Our typical agenda: First hour– connecting, sharing notes, news, best practices. Second hour– sample a facilitation practice- to be a community of practice. Come when you can, leave when you must.
Any questions or feedback? Please email me at terry@opendoorcommunication.org.
See you around!
Terry LePage, Interim Facilitation Coordinator
with Katie Carr, Core Team, Senior Facilitator
More here: https://www.facebook.com/events/915526105953300
Thursday May 6, Compassionate Communication (NVC) for Facilitators and Volunteers, 18:30-20:00 BST.
Check your time here: https://everytimezone.com/s/7fe8a5ae. More here. Register here.
Small, interactive practice using NVC tools for facilitation and life. Monthly drop-in, no prerequisite.
Thursday May 13, Embodying Wholeness, 18:00-19:30 BST. Registration TBA.
Please support our new (to DA) facilitator Constance Clare-Newman will pilot this embodiment for facing collapse series for the facilitators before taking it to the whole DA. Please come meet and support Constance!
Facilitators May Meeting,
Tuesday May 18, 8:00-10:00 BST (Europe/Asia) Check your time here. Register here.
and/or Tuesday May 18, 18:30-20:30 BST (Europe/Americas) Check your time here. Register here.
Our typical agenda: First hour– connecting, sharing notes, news, best practices. Second hour– sample a facilitation practice- to be a community of practice. Come when you can, leave when you must.
Any questions or feedback? Please email me at terry@opendoorcommunication.org.
See you around!
Terry LePage, Interim Facilitation Coordinator
with Katie Carr, Core Team, Senior Facilitator
