Effective Meetings Meet Needs Effectively

Circle Meeting Facilitation for NVC Practitioners
A Telecourse with Greg Rouillard, Jerry Koch-Gonzalez, and John Buck

Registration is limited to 25 to increase learning, and participant involvement.

Learn to facilitate effective and efficient meetings that: nurture connection, equivalence and mutuality produce decisions everyone can live with leave participants feeling energized and excited

Overview

Participants throughout the globe may participate over the internet through VoIP or Skype! Timing of the class is specifically intended for people in time zones GMT+7 through GMT+12 and GMT-3 through GMT-12: the Americas, Oceania, and Pacific Asian countries.

How do you feel about your business meetings?

Do you ever feel frustrated about making decisions and getting things done, and long for a way to work together in connection AND achieve effective outcomes?

You are invited to join John Buck, Greg Rouillard, and CNVC Certified Trainer Jerry Koch-Gonzalez for this six-week teleclass to learn how to transform your method of meeting facilitation.

Circle meetings are one component of an integrated governance method known as the Sociocratic Circle-Organization Method or Sociocracy (also known as Dynamic Governance). Many NVC organizations have begun using sociocratic tools, including circle meetings and decision making by consent, with satisfying results.

This highly interactive class begins with a basic grounding in sociocratic organization, contains a strong focus on specific skills for facilitating circle meetings and consent decision making, and concludes with some ideas for implementing sociocratic tools in your group or organization. Prior experience with sociocratic organization or consent decision-making is not required.

During this online class, you will learn and practice the following skills for effective meeting facilitation:

• Setting the stage for an effective meeting through careful preparation
• Creating ease for all participants by maintaining precise awareness of the stages of the meeting and steps in the decision making process
• Responding to facilitation challenges 'in the moment' with clarity, competence, and compassion
• Balancing chaos and order to produce creative results with full participation
• Selecting people for tasks and positions with mutuality, joy, and ease
• Measuring meeting results to improve the quality of future meetings

Session Topics:

1. NVC, Organizational Structure, and Leadership
2. Circle meetings and double-linking
3. Facilitation formats
4. Facilitating elections
5. Proposals
6. Applying the concepts to your practice group, your office, your family

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Greg, Jerry, and John will be working as a team to teach dynamic governance and how it can support your NVC-related activities. Greg will be the lead instructor and Jerry and John will join the classes depending on the topics for the day. John is certified as a dynamic governance consultant by the Sociocratisch Centrum, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Jerry is a CNVC certified trainer and is being mentored by John toward dynamic governance certification. Greg is deeply involved in NVC activities and is also being mentored by John toward dynamic governance.

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Class Schedule:

Monday, August 30, 2010 • 5:00 - 7:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM GMT / 8/31)—My Time Zone?
Monday, September 13, 2010 • 5:00 - 7:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM GMT/ 9/14)—My Time Zone?
Monday, September 20, 2010 • 5:00 - 7:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM GMT/ 9/21)—My Time Zone?
Monday, September 27, 2010 • 5:00 - 7:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM GMT/ 9/28)—My Time Zone?
Monday, October 4, 2010 • 5:00 - 7:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM GMT/ 10/5)—My Time Zone?
Monday, October 11, 2010 • 5:00 - 7:00 PM PDT (12:00 AM GMT / 10/12)—My Time Zone?

Requested NVC Experience: Participation in an NVC practice group. The basics of NVC will not be covered in this course.

Fee: $175.00 USD

Registration is limited to 25 to increase learning, and participant involvement.

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