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Greetings everyone-
With a week and a half to go until our second session, I wanted to check in and ask you to begin thinking in your learning teams about how you want to share the information you have been gathering with the larger group. On Friday, Nov 2, each team will be allocated 30 minutes to report on what you have learned, followed by 15 minutes of plenary Q&A/discussion. I encourage each team to be as creative as possible in your report-outs. Keep in mind that most adults learn best experientially versus through straight information download. Thus, if you can find a way to invite the larger group to sample the learning experience that you had, these sessions will be all the more effective AND enjoyable. As an example, you could select two or three key moments -- from a meeting, interview or learning journey -- and re-enact them for the group. Or bring in any physical "artifacts" you might have gathered on your learning experiences. As I mentioned in our first session, the diversity learning team last year presented the play "Let's Talk" as their report-out. It was very effective as it allowed all members of the group to experience for just a few minutes the impact of discrimination and prejudice and moved us much very quickly to shared understanding of why this issue is so important on both a community and personal level, and why they wanted to do something about it. In these report-outs you don't need to cover every piece of information your team gathered. Focus on the things you believe will help the whole group in its decision making around what ACTION(S) you want to take to move Houston forward. In general, a good guide is to focus on the things you learned that surprised you and perhaps challenged your pre-existing assumptions. Remember that you have your chat rooms that Marilou organized as a great way to communicate. I am available to help in any way I can, so please don't hesitate to call if you have questions: 978/281-0744. We'll be sending out shortly a follow-up email with directions to the Tremont Hotel in Galveston and the agenda. I look forward to being with you all again very soon! Margaret Margaret C. Vaughan Generon Consulting 900 Cummings Center Suite 312U Beverly, MA 01915 USA 978/232-3500, ext. 37
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