It sounds like this kind of feedback might be harder to give than feedback on a visual/physical activity like martial arts, but some new groups would probably still benefit.
Even if a group’s members aren’t all open to having a session recorded, it can be valuable to put together “postmortem” writeups on events. Some of my favorite writing about EA groups is on-the-ground reporting from leaders who wanted to improve (e.g. EA Berkeley’s retrospectives, EA Yale’s fellowship writeup).
Postmortem writeups don’t need to be anywhere this detailed, of course; even comments on the level of “someone talked a lot and kept going off-topic, and we couldn’t figure out how to handle it gracefully” give groups the opportunity to receive a lot of advice.
This is an interesting idea!
It sounds like this kind of feedback might be harder to give than feedback on a visual/physical activity like martial arts, but some new groups would probably still benefit.
Even if a group’s members aren’t all open to having a session recorded, it can be valuable to put together “postmortem” writeups on events. Some of my favorite writing about EA groups is on-the-ground reporting from leaders who wanted to improve (e.g. EA Berkeley’s retrospectives, EA Yale’s fellowship writeup).
Postmortem writeups don’t need to be anywhere this detailed, of course; even comments on the level of “someone talked a lot and kept going off-topic, and we couldn’t figure out how to handle it gracefully” give groups the opportunity to receive a lot of advice.