a) people could fill out form w/ list of concepts they can/want explain several days earlier. They also had links to recommended articles for many of concepts offered.
b) during activity we projected on a screen list of groups (~3 people learning, one teaching) and what is their concept for this session.
c) after 15 minutes we hit the gong and projected list of new groups with new topics.
It seems to me that Circling and Hamming circles need the people to feel close and trusting each other. We thought about doing Hamming circles on Saturday evening but decided to do something else because the atmosphere was not right. How well it worked for you?
I only know about the feedback I already presented and the one hamming circle I myself participated in. In my circle all 3 of us were quite connected already. It may have helped but I’m not sure it was necessary. Both of them didn’t know what to do with their careers so it was like a mini career-coaching session. It felt productive.
oh, I didn’t notice that there was a question about circling as well. There are circling meetups where I did circling with strangers and it was great. So it’s not necessary to be close with people before, though the experience is quite different if you are. I imagine that many people will find circling awkward no matter what but in this case I think we simply did not have enough time to get into it. We only allocated 1 hour for it (and I’m not sure even that is enough) and then we decided to do it in the park but walking to the park took much more time than expected. It was the lowest rated activity (3.7) but I didn’t include it in the table of the article because I believe that it wasn’t given a fair chance.
Hi Saulius. CZEA retreat organizer here.
Thank you for this report.
We did “concept explaining somewhat differently:
a) people could fill out form w/ list of concepts they can/want explain several days earlier. They also had links to recommended articles for many of concepts offered.
b) during activity we projected on a screen list of groups (~3 people learning, one teaching) and what is their concept for this session.
c) after 15 minutes we hit the gong and projected list of new groups with new topics.
It seems to me that Circling and Hamming circles need the people to feel close and trusting each other. We thought about doing Hamming circles on Saturday evening but decided to do something else because the atmosphere was not right. How well it worked for you?
I didn’t attend, but someone told me the circling thing was awkward.
I see, that is very different.
I only know about the feedback I already presented and the one hamming circle I myself participated in. In my circle all 3 of us were quite connected already. It may have helped but I’m not sure it was necessary. Both of them didn’t know what to do with their careers so it was like a mini career-coaching session. It felt productive.
oh, I didn’t notice that there was a question about circling as well. There are circling meetups where I did circling with strangers and it was great. So it’s not necessary to be close with people before, though the experience is quite different if you are. I imagine that many people will find circling awkward no matter what but in this case I think we simply did not have enough time to get into it. We only allocated 1 hour for it (and I’m not sure even that is enough) and then we decided to do it in the park but walking to the park took much more time than expected. It was the lowest rated activity (3.7) but I didn’t include it in the table of the article because I believe that it wasn’t given a fair chance.