• Please fill this Doodle poll in order to choose the day for the next facilitators general meeting (the first one in the 2022). The timeslot is suitable for Europe, Asia, Australia, and Western Americas. It will be two hours including a little celebration process. Please contact Igor if you are ready to host or cohost it ; )
• We are happy to announce that “the Art of Listening” training with Katie Carr will happen between 9-11am UTC every Friday from January 14 to February 11. Check your start time here: https://everytimezone.com/s/cda0fbf4
This five week course will explore the lost art of deep listening, and is intended to support DA facilitators to deepen their skills and build their confidence in hosting ‘Deep Listening’ gatherings.
Deep Listening was the first hosted process within the DA Forum, offered on a weekly basis in different timezones. Some of you here were part of the original team of facilitators who offered this practice on a regular basis to members of the big DA Facebook group. You can read more about the principles of DA Gatherings here, and about the Deep Listening format here.
Previously, ‘training’ for facilitators involved participating in Deep Listening gatherings, becoming familiar with the format, before hosting or cohosting online. With this new training, you will be supported to explore more deeply the art of listening, in order to fully embody the principles and practice of deep listening.
Here is the application form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdAjIboEg1MtkxQMI-INVHjXB_YeMlBZ-VqPGG29iQxuBtz2A/viewform
Here is the description and donation page (scroll down to see the info): https://opencollective.com/deep-adaptation-forum/events/the-art-of-listening-training-for-da-facilitators-407182b5
FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1158564797883635
There are 23 places in the group.
It is also open to other members of the DAF volunteer community. We are welcoming people that are interested in DA Facilitation in general and in hosting Deep Listening processes in their communities and/or in DAF spaces.
This training will be offered on a ‘pay what you can’ basis. Participants are not required to commit to hosting Deep Listening gatherings in the future, but we hope that some will choose to join our team of volunteers so that we can re-launch regular and ongoing events for members of the DA Facebook group.
This programme will be offered again at times suitable for participants in the Americas.
DAF 2022 Global Countdown: Party like there's no tomorrow!
As things fall apart… How about a 24-hour New Year party?
On Dec.31, 2021, from midnight in the Line Islands (time zone UTC+14) to midnight in Niue (UTC-11), and every time zone in between, all participants in the Deep Adaptation Forum are invited to get together, have a drink, play some music, share what they're up to, and find out about what others are doing.
A Zoom call will be ongoing for this whole length of time. Anyone will be free to drop in at any time, and for any length of time, to connect with anyone else in the space. This event will also enable the various circles, task groups, crews and teams that exist around the DAF ecosystem to share (on an online slidedeck) a brief overview of what they're up to, who's in already... and perhaps invite others to join the fun?!
Check out this document to find out about the various ways you can join - be it as a party animal, a DJ, and/or a sharer!
New Events Calendar System in Use
Starting in January, new events will not be added as events in the Facebook Deep Adaptation group. The new events calendar, deepadaptation.info/events, will take its place to share event info in that Facebook group. The deepadaptation.ning.com/events system is also still in use for now. Advantages of the new system include:
A monthly calendar layout that makes it easy to read and find the events of your choice,
Ability to see list view and recurring events list view,
Short description in list view can be edited separately from main description,
Event creator and event hosts can be different; event host contact info can be listed in a secure way,
There is no “going” function to confuse people,
Links to events can be shared with people who do not use Facebook or who are not Ning members.
At some point (hopefully soon), hosts will be able to create their own events in this system. Terry will still happily take your feedback and regrets the inability to display events in the user’s local time zone.
https://dafacilitators.blogspot.com contains facilitators news archives.
Igor Polskiy, Facilitation Coordinator
Terry LePage, Facilitation Support
